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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1916
Page
3
Newspaper cautions readers about the fad of drinking hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to “bathe” the internal organs. It warns of potential health risks, touting the practice as a crank-worthy cure-all while noting possible headaches bilious attacks and impure blood from internal cleansing.
A farmer explains he must read seven volumes of agricultural reports before tackling other tasks. A congressman sent the material and a salesman promotes Knowitalke encyclopedias to him as a time saver.
Ordinary readers are presented with an advertisement claiming Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer darkens gray hair without dyes. It promises gradual full coverage after a week of daily use, improved scalp health, and lustrous hair, sold 50 cents or prepaid by mail with a money back guarantee.
A fragmentary exchange shows a student labeled the brightest in class now a motorman on a streetcar. A joking jab asks about the stupidest man, a resident of the road, as the speaker presses the conductor.
An old ads copy extols Cuticura Ointment and Soap as superior for itching rashes irritations pimples and rough hands. The notice offers free samples by mail and promotes the products as purer and cleaner than others, with a postal address and department reference.
Fragmentary ad copy touts La Creole Hair Dress for restoring beauty with a price of $1.00. Includes brief lines about hair care remedies and a Pierce’s Pills product claim. Text is garbled with stray questions and promotional phrases, reflecting an old newspaper classifieds fragment.
United States Department of Agriculture outlines seed selection and disinfection, hotbed sanitation, and crop rotation to control stem rot black root and foot rot in sweet potatoes. It notes disease persistence in soil and advises avoiding planting on infected ground for several years and using clean soil and disinfected implements.
A detailed guide describes an iceless refrigerator or milk cooler devised by Prof M T Fullan at Alabama Polytechnic Institute. It explains a screened wooden frame with canton flannel covering, water-wicked cooling, and steps to assemble a three and a half foot high unit with shelves, pans, and a drip pan, noting indoor use and cost under 85 cents.
A tomato wilt caused by a fungus infects key tomato areas by growing in water channels of stems. It overwinters in soil and enters through roots, wilting plants until death. A resistant strain through selection shows promise, while spraying fails as the fungus grows inside the plant.
The passage lists numerous locations for properly curing seed corn including a special corn curing house kitchen attic furnace room tool or wagon shed any dry well ventilated building on south side of building on windmill or fence under a porch in the stable over bins of grain in the granary and cautions about damp poorly ventilated places.
A grain mixture of oats, corn, wheat bran and meal plus bright mixed hay is described as the best grain ration to put flesh on horses.
The article offers practical home methods to protect dye colors in fabrics. It suggests cold water with baking powder for mauve, lukewarm washing with pure soap, and shade drying. For blue use muriatic acid, for green alum, and salt can fix colors. Emphasizes quick shade drying and careful hanging to avoid color loss.
The article notes fluting irons among sewing tools in an old Virginia family mansion. It highlights a spring catalog of fashion models needing fluting and recalls a recipe from a bygone era using rain water and gum arabic starch strained through a babinet frame to stiffen tuckers organdic skirts and breakfast caps.
Colored as well as black straw is used for bands and bows instead of ribbon. In fact, this idea is already so overworked that we shall be tired of it before spring comes. All these novelties are quickly run to ground, especially when they start so early in the season.
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