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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
7
How to prepare several pudding sauces with butter sugar and egg whites. Recipes include hard sauce fluffy sauce fruit sauce and a few flavor variations with vanilla lemon nutmeg and whipped cream. Useful notes on serving puddings with warm sauces.
Naturalists note no animal exceeds the speed of the famous racehorse Sysbonby. Instantaneous photographs show a full stride about 26 feet. Descriptions compare hind quarters elevation, stride length, and foot placement to avoid fore leg interference. The dog is slower than the horse, the giraffe about 15 meters per second in favorable conditions, and the elephant moves roughly two yards per second.
The text praises desert inhabitants for force and originality and links irrigation to progress. It argues arid regions foster democratic ideals, literacy, and reform, claiming irrigation creates life from death and spurs advanced agricultural production and distribution. It compares Arabs and Babylonians as examples and notes irrigation regions lead in reforms.
McClure’s essay by Hugh Mearns argues American speech diverges from written English, noting hustling consonants and vowel shifts. It compares English and American vernacular, highlighting altered letters, phrases, and borrowed sounds shaping a distinct national patois.
A Trinidad planter has produced a paper equal in quality to top wood pulp using sugar cane refuse and bamboo fibers. An automobile wheel reel enables faster wire handling by humans. A French professor develops electromagnetism resistant surgical tools from a secret steel alloy. An auger bit design thick at edges and thin at center aims to push chips inward to avoid clogging. European practice adds asphalt plates in wall slots to block ground dampness. A Wisconsin boy invents portable gear to connect with telephone or telegraph lines for speaking or signaling.
Dr Dixon warns that weight above forty and five feet eight inches or less signals danger. Overweight indicates poor appetite control or inadequate exercise and diet. Seek expert advice, begin remedies, and avoid complacency to protect liver and kidneys and preserve self-respect and clarity of thought.
An old Revolutionary War veteran runs for Congress against a younger, warless rival. The veteran recounts hardships from battle, cold, and bloodied feet. A tearful voter interrupts, confirms the soldier’s tales, and declares he will vote for the opponent, saying the veteran has done enough for his country.
Dr J Mitchell Bruce, consulting physician to Charing Cross hospital, told students at the winter session that child inquisitiveness drives the desire to know for its own sake. He compared it to a hunger for food, noting no need to link learning to physiological use.
This lesson review outlines Paul's conduct and teachings during years 58 to 63 AD within Acts chapters 1 through 12 and 13 to 28, tracing home church growth, persecution, and the spread of the gospel through Paul and Barnabas. It emphasizes Paul's character traits across lessons, including calmness in persecution, tact in witnessing, scriptural faith, fearlessness, humility, and peacemaking.
An article in Popular Science Monthly details an electric dog invented by John Hays Hammond Jr and B F Meister. The device follows a light source via selenium cells and relays, steering toward the light and able to back away when commanded. A Chicago theater demonstration showed light direction guiding its movement.
A terse exchange from the Boston Evening Transcript shows a visitor challenging Jimmy about identity, with Jimmy denying knowledge and the visitor asserting recognition in a clipped dialogue format.
In Rournals military policy, service is compulsory for all men aged twenty one to forty two. Infantry men serve for two years while other arms serve three years, after which draftees join the first and second reserve forces.
The University of Nebraska will begin using its new telescope this year, completed after seven years of student effort. More than 390 patterns were drafted and produced in campus shops. The 18 by 26 foot structure houses a 12 inch lens donated, with total value over 87 500 but student work cut the cost by about one daily.
A large American steel company uses three magnets with 4500 pound lift to unload pig iron from freight holds. They unloaded 4,000,000 pounds in ten hours at a cost of $100, saving about $500 versus longshoremen. The device halves labor costs and speeds operations.
The speaker urges farmers to seize their pivotal role as world food providers after the war. Western Canada lands offer cheap, productive options with free homesteads in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta. Prices may rise 20 to 50 percent as demand sustains high grain and livestock values.
A marketing line touts La Creole Hair Dressing claiming to restore beauty and lustre to gray or harsh hair. The ad notes Price $1.00 and is placed in Missouri. It also mentions labor unions in Missouri numbering 110,412 members.
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