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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1903
Page
2
Interview with Special Agent Boylan argues rural delivery boosts small towns by shifting focus to newspaper advertising. He says farmers still buy locally via ads and discounting freight costs, and that smaller merchants will adapt by courting rural customers through newspaper offers.
The New York Churchman argues that reduced church attendance stems from clergy losing touch with modern life. It urges preaching as a dialogue between equals, noting people respond differently over time to the eternal gospel. It warns against perfunctory services that fail to engage hearts and minds.
The speaker argues that true spiritual grasp ensures hearers, contrasting past hunger with present, noting listeners assume ignorance without recognizing genuine insight. The priest who has real spiritual grasp will always attract hearers, and never lack them.
A new state law tightens compulsory education for children aged 7 to 14, with penalties for nonattendance and fines for guardians. It requires schools to operate at least 110 days, allows exemptions, and assigns enforcement to local officials. Also covered are labor unrest in Greenville, Edison on storage batteries, and calls for railway passenger safety conventions.
Fragmentary statement urging self reliance and positive support for others. The text emphasizes boosting others and avoiding criticism as a way to aid personal progress and communal well being. No clear names, dates, places, or concrete events are identifiable.
The Washington letter from Sept 3, 1903, reports planned return of the President from Oyster Bay on Sept 26, with October Washington presence for Congress, plus renovations in the East Room and state dining room. It covers Roosevelt’s Syracuse trip for the New York State Fair and Letter Carriers convention, a New Jersey monument dedication, and a series of foreign dispatches about Beirut, Cottons fleet, and Beaupre’s Panama Canal talks. It also notes Secretary Hitchcock seeking an Indian Territory investigator and Secretary Wilson urging diversified tobacco farming and shift to Cuban types for higher prices.
Mr D P Daugherty of Mercer and Summers counties West Virginia narrowly escaped a fatal illness when a neighbor provided Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Two doctors offered little relief but the remedy cured him in under a day. Sold by S Kingston.
A fragment from Tid Bits in the Chicago Record Herald features a traveler exchange about a pleasant voyage and a joke about sharks at the New York custom house. Miss Gotham and Up-State voices appear in a brief, humorous exchange.
A brief note from the Philadelphia Press reflecting on aging and memory as the author recalls meeting Miss Sere at age 23 when she was 32, and contrasts it with being 32 years old now to emphasize the strange passage of years.
A stern woman asks John which great man wrote that women are heaven’s gift to man. John responds that the writer was no great man, calling him a chump.
From The Weekly Bulletin dated September 8 1878 list local items including N B Kinder of Blue Mound Ill visiting relatives Newton Cramer an older citizen dying aged 55 Uncle Joel Whiteside returning from Christian County Misses Billa Willoughby and Atnie Barnaback leaving for Green ville to attend Almira College a noonlight picnic near John G Jar ine Royal Purple Association regalia noted and William Donoho proprietor of a residence projectin was mentioned as deceased body found near the locale
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