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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1910
Page
3
A historical guide explains the boomerang as a curved hardwood weapon from Australia with two illustrated types. It details dimensions for a T shaped and a cross shaped boomerang, assembly steps, shaping, and finishing with linseed oil, plus throwing technique and practice needed to become proficient.
A brief quoted line notes a classical adage about prosperity and folly from Aeschylus suggesting a wealthy fool bears a heavy burden.
A reader friendly page of witty questions and punchlines about doctors, friends, winter, gas bills, defeated armies, gravity, endings, age, wealth and policemen. Short quips include Chin chilly, capital fellow and composing draught as playful puns.
Players sit in a circle and whisper questions to neighbors while answers pass to the next person. Each participant must remember the question asked and the answer received, so that at the end everyone recites their own question and the corresponding answer. The chain moves until all have participated, then each reveals the paired question and answer aloud.
A compiled list traces common foods and their origins: rye from Siberia peas from Egypt citron from Greece onion from Egypt chestnut from Italy celery from Germany sunflower from Peru tobacco from Virginia oats from North Africa parsley from Siberia spinach from Arabia cucumbers from the East Indies mulberry from Persia walnuts peaches from China horse chestnut from Tibet.
A human hair can bear about 0.06 ounces, with roughly 30,000 hairs on a head. Woman’s hair can collectively exceed five tons in tensile strength and twisting adds about one third. Ancient Romans used hair cords for catapults, and legends say free women's hair was offered during sieges.
A fragment notes a peculiar Chinese housing practice where rent is not openly advertised. Owners allegedly display a covert message about residence permissions and payments, with warnings that tenants may be punished for faults or forced to negotiate terms privately.
Springfield reports a new state factory law now in effect. It requires guarding dangerous machinery, fencing openings, and ensuring at least 500 cubic feet of air per worker with fresh air, enforced by the Department of Factory Inspection under Ed gar T. Davis. The law, drafted by Gov. Deneen’s commission, aims to raise Illinois to the front ranks in worker protection.
The article notes Ohio State plans a wireless course next year while Damascus features 4000 street lamps and Paris reports 190 million annual electric rail passengers. It highlights tungsten lamps, an electric kaleidoscope design, Boston’s 1852 fire alarm, and moves toward railway electrification in Italy. It also mentions early electricity studies and a novelty teddy bear with lighted features.
Massachusetts inventor creates artificial skylight apparatus for photographers. An electric light behind a hinged glass partition, with adjustable screens, allows precise control of light angle to mimic bright sun or cloudy shadows.
R H Marriott of Brooklyn designs the fogphone combining wireless telephony with fog bell and submarine bell. Sound through air travels about 1000 feet per second while wireless equals near instantaneous transmission. A pilot in the wheelhouse times bell sound with a stop watch style instrument to show travel distance, warning if collision risk grows or declines at sea.
The article describes a new electrical miner’s lamp shown with a cap containing a rechargeable battery. A small incandescent bulb provides light via a visor-mounted unit, operated by a push button under the cap. The system aims to replace oil lamps to reduce gas explosion hazards while keeping weight and movement practical and maintenance cheap.
A discussion on wireless telegraphy interference by amateurs near Boston disrupts messages to naval stations. The piece notes licensing likely and current call signals used by Marconi and the US Navy, plus obstacles to publishing an updated official directory of wireless calls.
An invention introduces a transformer that removes the need for batteries in annunciator and bell-ringing systems. The device requires no moving parts after installation and operates on circuits from 100 to 130 volts. It includes taps for 6, 12, and 18 volts to suit different bells and buzzers.
A new instrument records hoist activity in a South African mine. An electric hoisting mechanism logs trip times by a moving disk and perforated paper, with each bell ring perforating the paper to show signal adherence.
The text presents a fragmentary quotation about healing past hurts and enduring grief, contrasting cured wounds with torments that never arrived and the endurance of suffering. The source reads like a reflective, literary snippet rather than a complete article.
The guide explains making lye from hardwood ashes to husk corn, boil until hulls detach, rinse to remove lye, and obtain ready to cook hulled corn. Use for dinner as hominy with butter, cream, salt and pepper or fry as cakes. breakfast pairs with cream or milk. Market hominy requires long slow cooking to soften.
To make orange creams take fondant and flavor with grated orange rind. If patties are wanted add a touch of orange juice and melt fondant over hot water. Drop spoonfuls on buttered sheets and shape quickly. Chill soft fondant and work in small portions to finish.
A wholesome breakfast dish uses wheat fresh from the granary or bought at the mill soaked overnight and cooked all day on the back range. A bowl of wheat with rich milk makes a nutritious breakfast for a growing child and a favorite among those served.
Cut out a sole slightly smaller than the shoe by tracing around its outline. Use heavy trousers cloth soles slipped into rubbers for cold protection. Paste a sole into a baby shoe using ordinary library paste.
A historical cooking note explains making waffles from cold boiled rice as a base. Mix rice with three beaten eggs one tablespoon sugar three cups flour two teaspoons baking powder two tablespoons melted butter and enough milk to form a batter. Fine hominy may be used instead of rice.
Cake notes advise browns sugar molasses or chocolate cakes bake in a moderate oven while fruit cakes require a slow oven. When filling leaf cake pans leave a low mood at center to accommodate natural rise and avoid an unsightly loaf.
Describes making peppermint and wintergreen fondant candies. Peppermint patty uses peppermint oil in fondant melted over water and dropped onto a buttered sheet. Wintergreen patties colored pink and flavored with wintergreen. cinnamon and sassafras can be colored and flavored. orange common for sassafras.
Olive will remove tar stains after applying wash in soap suds. When washing pongee do not wring. hang to dry and iron before thoroughly dry. Iron with moderate heat. Use corn starch for starching fine lingerie two to three tablespoons per six cups of water.
Blanch a pint of chestnuts, brown in olive oil, salt and red pepper added. Shake pan for even browning. Serve hot or cold.
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