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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1915
Page
10
A fragmented recipe column outlines methods for rabbit dishes, breaded tongue, Hamburg spaghetti, cheese and tomato casserole, meat and apple casserole, and related culinary tips. It provides steps for breading, stuffing, simmering, and baking with ingredients like rabbit, tongue, beef, tomatoes, cheese, and spices, reflecting period cooking styles and measurements.
A long, wandering meditation on legendary claims that Napoleon Bonaparte visited London in the 1790s and other famous figures allegedly traveled or appeared in various places. The piece cites Irish, Georgian, and Boston anecdotes, noting how myths about Parnell, Ney, Louis XV, Nero, and others spread despite lack of evidence.
Consul Wesley Frost reports Irish climate makes American sugar unusually damp. He notes a dry sugar could sustain market after the war until beet sugar areas recover, urging refiners to extend processing to produce drier sugar.
Great Dresemaker an Englishman. The noted Parisian dreaswaker, Warth, owed his early success to Princess Pauline de Metternich. Her patronage created a sensation at Napoleon II’s court, enabling Worth to become a sought after world dressmaker. English-born Worth, born 1826 in Bourne, Hogland, died in Paris in 1859.
Fragmentary text mentions productive land and a mysterious Honduras related concept, describing green housing and broad edible growth but lacks coherent details or clear events. No identifiable people or organizations are discernible.
The Buffalo Commercial notes Canada’s slow start but predicts rapid expansion in agriculture mining and manufacturing. It highlights vast northern territory now seen as developable with Hudson Bay access via rail, and argues U S Canada cooperation will boost both nations as Canada becomes a major grain and cattle producer with untapped lands.
A puzzler mocks youth fashion with a line about a hat over ears in a dental chair and a dentist fearing gas to gauge unconsciousness. A Nashville Banner quip notes growing humanity by covering car engines, and a wry line claims a year heroine facing suffering in silence.
An advertisement touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as a ready to use tonic for darkening gray hair, covering dandruff, and stopping hair loss. Priced at 60 cents, it promises natural, even darkening with daily use and a youthful appearance.
Two men in New Street at the rear of the stock exchange discuss a scheme to exploit a broker and a counterfeit coin. Yustin aims to buy a stock for 60 after spotting a 56 price in the financial page, planning to return a bad half dollar if the seller delivers a good stock. The plan hinges on risk of receiving a pump stock.
An Ohio seed firm touts Henry Schroeder as the rich Potato King of the Red River Valley. The ad extols plant plenty Potatoes when cheap, claims 76 80 00 potatoes in summer and fall, and promotes ten bushels per acre at $15 seed stock. It offers seed catalogs for alfalfa, oats, grass, and vegetables, with mail order to John A. Salter Seed Co., La Crosse, Vic.
The dialogue brims with sharp phrases about a tightfisted man and a woman’s endless task of reforming him. A grievance becomes a pretext for airing issues, exposing social tensions in a compact, witty scene.
Outside the Pen Ebenezer Holcombe kept a 1200 pound hog in a tent at the falls charging ten cents admission. A traveler visiting the town paid a dime to peek and left claiming he had seen the prize hog. The piece includes two Pete Dailey racing stories as told by Harry Bulger and notes Frank Lane leaving acting for sheet writing with Kid Weller.
An old time advertisement touts Cuticura soaps and ointments as the best for cleansing and healing rough hands. It offers a free one night treatment by mail with a postcard to Cuticura Dept XY Beaton and notes the product is sold everywhere. A separate quip mocks a lawyer's remark and a boxing dog wag.
A fragmentary dialogue notes skepticism about a person’s diet and ethics. Mentions smoking cigars, a judge, and a reference to living wisely as a path to a ripe old age. The tone resembles a moral aphorism column from a Boston Evening Transcript style.
A testimonial from Mrs Fannin Coorge Bridgeton New Jersey extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a safe non narcotic remedy for female ills. The ad claims thirty years of use and invites letters for confidential advice from the Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts with responses from a woman.
A store keeper questions the farmer about his hammocks phonograph records and groceries. Corntonsel explains he aims to make his place attractive to persuade farm hands to linger and assist with the wheat crop.
A concise scene features a passenger entering a car and a conductor discussing fare. The exchange reveals limited funds and loose change as the only money. A minor dispute between towers and a small boy is resolved, followed by a moral about happiness through making others happy and a light dig at idealism before marriage.
A fragment from a humorous item contrasts a minstrel’s request for food before a tale with a housewife’s quip calling him an after dinner speaker. The page then pivots to assorted jokes and advertisement snippets about padlocks cold remedies and social remarks.
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