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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1900
Page
3
A Brooklyn Eagle excerpt recalls a ministers club bout with humor at a funeral and a punchline about a milkman of 25 years service in the community. The note follows other 1900 ads and quips, including Piso’s Cure, Putnam dyes, and a quip about a foafer making a case against an industrious man from the Atchison Globe.
Dr. Talmage preaches on Luke 23 from Munich's famed paintings, contrasting the right hand unbelief, the left hand repentance, and the middle cross Christ’s atonement. He portrays the crowd at Calvary, the thief’s plea, and the salvation won through Jesus, urging faith, deliverance, and triumph with heavenly rewards.
Bailiff Kendig, famed for wit, presided as William Ross faced vagrancy charges. Ross quipped in defense, then pleaded not guilty though evidence showed begging at the Baltimore & Ohio station. Judge Mills sentenced Ross to 60 days in the workhouse with $20 bond default.
A Sunday school teacher asks why Babylon fell and a freckled boy suggests it was because he stepped on a banana peel. The scene, narrated with humor, contrasts earnest inquiry with a child's simple, comic answer.
Dialogue fragment shows a character warning Alfred that the remedy is poison. A bottle marked poison becomes the sought item, with a suggestive exchange hinting at danger and reckless intent within a World newspaper context.
The item describes Grove's Tasteless Chill Medicine as iron and quinine in a tasteless form with a no cure no pay claim. A mock dialogue from Puck jokes about European hotel pricing and American charges.
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