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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1901
Page
7
A critique of excessive quotation marks lowering readers. The essay warns that marks mislead, overemphasize light terms, and insult prose. It lambasts illiterate writers and ad writers for overquoting colloquialisms and stage language, urging restraint and context.
John Morley in the Century notes the 1645 execution of Archbishop Laud as a stark example of the era’s harsh temper. Laud, over 70, imprisoned for five years in the Tower, faces a fate seen as unnecessary revenge rather than political necessity. The piece contrasts Laud with Stafford and Charles I, urging caution against sanctifying the Roundhead era.
A surgeon’s imported Python nearly bit a visitor in a greenhouse, grabbing his arm before he wrestled the creature free. The tale shifts to medical cures as Electric Bitters and Buckeye Pile Ointment are praised for digestion, liver and piles relief.
Rev A A Power of Emporia Kan reports a severe attack of billous colic cured by Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after two doses. He says a neighbor with weeks of illness found relief after using the remedy, contrasting it with doctors' limited results. For sale by S Kingston.
A collage of short items including humorous exchanges about art patronage and literary theory. It notes a claim on Bacon authoring Shakespeare with quoted ideas, a playful scene of a child in a mock store, a diaristic cure for a sick baby using Chamberlain’s remedy, and a testimonial praising Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for facial sores and general skin ailments.
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