05 Dec 1913
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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1913
Page
1
A detailed look at Maine Aroostook County potato farming covers market demands for oval, dry mealy potatoes, soil types, and crop rotation. It discusses seed preparation, scab prevention, fertilization, spraying schedules, and the rising land values tied to a thriving potato industry.
The notice details revised departure times from Louis to Collinsville and Maryville, with hourly runs from early morning to late evening. Southbound and northbound connections at Lanadowne East St. Louis and O'Fallon Lebanon divisions are noted, plus a final car at 11:09 p.m. and service through to St. Louis. General superintendent Ransomrole signs as Pass Dept.
Mr. L. R. Peebles of Crawfordsville Indiana cites nine local farmers who averaged 15.9 bushels more per acre on fertilized land than unfertilized plots. They used about 175 pounds of complete fertilizer per acre at 2.60 dollars per acre. Top dressing of 100 to 200 pounds per acre in spring with 3 to 5 percent ammonia and 5 to 7 percent potash aided early growth, reduced disease risk, maturing via phosphoric acid, and strengthened stalks. Proper plant food improves yield and kernel quality across grains.
Morgan and a newspaper boy share a brief moment as the financier attempts to pay for papers with the wrong change. The exchange unfolds with humor and a wary warning about street tricks.
An ad touts Pilot Outdoor Acetylene as safe for rural homes, offering home made gas via an outdoor unit with no gas company, low cost, and cooking use. It contrasts indoor models, cites low accident rates, and highlights simple operation, storage in steel drums, and automatic residue drainage.
The document extols acetylene as the world’s most beautiful light source and compares its use to city gas ranges. It notes instant ignition and the ability to cook a perfect ham and eggs breakfast in under ten minutes, highlighting advantages for greenhouse lighting and night use.
The article argues that maturity determines vigor in offspring and crops. It cites dairymen, horsemen, and Ontario experiments showing fully matured kernels and grain yield stronger crops. It stresses growing locally suitable varieties, adequate soil nutrients, and timing to avoid immature harvests, with notes on corn, wheat, oats, and phosphoric acid. It also includes an unrelated 1880s legal notice and medical ad text.
A pasted ad urges readers that 95 percent of businesses fail and 84 percent of failures are non advertising merchants. It promotes advertising as the solution and invites readers to write for details. the piece also recounts a Paris purse-snatching by an American woman briefly.
To ease a pinch in a shoe, place a drop of sweet oil on the stocking at the pinch and apply a drop to the outside of the boot at the same spot. The oil softens the leather and aids stretching. Outdoor live for mentally deficient. Cleveland may send mentally deficient children to study classes at the city pauper farm.
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