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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1912
Page
8
Guidance on feeding vegetables to livestock covers beets potatoes carrots turnips and mangels. Roots should be shredded sliced or cooked to form a mash with hay. Feeding residues from sugar beets proves more profitable than whole beets. Mangels suit dairy cows and sheep. quantities given for different animals. Storing roots in twenty bushel piles with straw and earth preserves winter feed.
Instructions describe building a sheep trough from four by four posts and twelve inch boards forming a one foot high trough with bevel top pieces to feed hay and grain. It details slat spacing for fourteen inches feeding space per sheep and capacity for about thirty sheep on a sixteen foot trough.
fragmentary dialogue shows Mr Meektonh and a speaker discussing an abstruse economic issue. The exchange hints at interest and possible outcomes, including sleep or wakefulness, without clear factual details or context. No concrete event, date, or named entities are evident.
J K Anderson of New Orleans recounts his father’s Civil War wound that erased memory of a Placer County gold claim near Newcastle and Auburn. The elder miner buried treasure beneath an old adobe tavern and memory returned at death, prompting a search in the Long Valley area between Newcastle and Auburn aided by the tavern’s current occupants. Anderson, a civil engineer, seeks the cache with a share for the tavern’s owners.
A general superintendent famed for scientific management visits a cold yard shanty. A switchman recalls tales about the man, including at a funeral when he suggested the pallbearers could do without two of them, illustrating his stern efficiency ethos.
A middle aged globe trotter recalls watching a royal changing of the guard ceremony at Ruskinghem Palace. He remarks on his wife's homemaking praised yet awkwardly flaunted amid visitors and soldiers. Also noted are retail lines promoting baby shoes at a local shop.
Bert bursts in demanding bread gingerbread and pie while recounting a chalk prank at school led by Fred Gunkle. The teacher confronts the class about the misdeed and praises Fred for not telling, though she fails to name him. The tale ends with a long moralizing recitation.
A boy recalls after school mischief with a friend and his mother’s reproach, noting the contrast with a tale about a banquet gift in New Orleans. An old advertisement touts Dr King’s New Life Pills for digestive and kidney problems at local price points.
Terrifying winds lash the far north causing chapped hands and lips. Bucklen's Arnica Salve claimed to heal rough skin, soothe burns and sores, and soften the skin. Sold at Kingston's for 25 cents.
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