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Newspaper
Monroe Weekly Times
Location
Monroe, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1900
Page
8
An illustrated plan for a low window used by a noted poultry fancier shows upper sash hinged at the top and the lower sash hinged at one side. The design allows entry from the yard through the pens, avoiding separate doors for each pen and enabling seasonal use in milder climates.
The article advises locating apiaries where honey plants are plentiful and reliable. It highlights white clover and basswood as strong nectar sources, favors long flowering sequences, and notes alfalfa as highly productive. Other key plants include millet, various clovers, tulip trees, willows, maples, buckwheat, asters, berries, and fruit trees, with emphasis on safe wintering and steady honey flow.
fragmentary text discusses old fashioned customs for water purity and poisoning warnings with references to Turin and priests. content is garbled and lacks clear person, place, or event to form a coherent news item.
A fragmentary passage discusses millet seed and worming as a plan to keep workers at work. It suggests seeds will sustain them, with claims of fatigue or satiation patterns and the idea that workers will search for food and eat slowly.
The Farmers Voice extols the American hog as a miracle worker in farms and kitchens. It credits the hog with stabilizing mortgages on Western farms, supporting New England homes, feeding hungry nations, and aiding education and charity, urging temperance in consumption and care for rural prosperity.
The item describes a combined farm structure with corn cribs and hog piggery, noting a 70 gallon feed cooker for heating water and cooking, a kettle for boiling vegetables, and a 14 ton post framed building of 20 by 10 feet with multiple rooms and a feeding platform. It mentions a yard for hog fattening, an upper room for seed and butchering, and stairs leading to storage and ground feed areas.
A Washington Star fragment recalls a chance encounter on a train with a well known Moura man. The narrator reflects on class, manners, and perception as the conversation drifts from people met on the journey to ideas about virtue and gossip.
In a Philadelphia Record account a man at a theater box office recalls a boy asking if tickets were valid. The boy’s father, upset over bills, tore and pasted back together the torn front row seats to avoid paying. The man gives the boy replacement tickets and plans to attend a later show with another party.
Discussion grows over rising stress and unhealthy living. The text urges using a stomach tonic to guard health. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for stomach ills and as a preventive for nervous breakdown and related ailments.
At a Hotitupdean dinner a scudemician claimed only two English words pronounced with a certain vowel sound are sugar and sumac. Rudyard Kipling reportedly replied from the far end of the table. The Chicago Chronicle quotes interest in the supposed discovery and questions the certainty.
An aged Chicago Evening News snippet touts Grain-O as a family friendly beverage replacing coffee. It claims no nerve upset, easy digestion, and pure grain content with strong taste and value. A brief train incident mentions a conductor dying of heart trouble after a cigar.
The text discusses why hens eat their pegs as a result of diet and feeding practices. It mentions nitrogenous foods, seed access, and the need for airmail fresh forage to prevent egg-eating behavior. Canadian experiments and station reports note Tape as a leading forage plant for supporting meat and fleece growth in production contexts.
An ad filled with varied items touts 81,000,000 potash seed money and seed samples from Salzer Seed Co and others. It promotes Missouri Pacific Trailway and Wisconsin Central trains with trips to the West and Southwest, low fare tickets, maps, and free pamphlets. Also cites health remedies and patent medicines with heavy promotional language.
A Chicago judge, Kersten Gea, credits Peruna with curing his nine year catarrh after 18 weeks. He claims permanent relief two and a half years later. The ad urges Peruna as a universal remedy and promotes a free winter catarrh book by Dr Martman in Columbus Ohio.
March and April round trip fares offered to major Tennessee Alabama and Florida points by Louisville and Nashville line. Map puzzle from Chicago Great Western Railway invites readers to assemble a dissected U S map for education and recreation, with a 10 cent request to H Lord G Po Chicago.
The notice describes travel details for the Pacific Express from Chicago to California with dining and library cars, departures at 6:20 P M, through excursions, and agent sales. It mentions the International and Great Northern Railway promoting a Texas map by D. Price of Palestine and urges request with seven cents in stamps. It also references Moxazine habit reform.
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