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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1915
Page
6
A Chicago expert extols two story corn cribs with modern elevating machinery. The design uses a concrete foundation, a central strong driveway, ventilated wings, and heavy center walls to support grain load. It notes benefits of ventilation, lighter exterior wings, and the value of permanent, high appearance farm structures.
In Eldon Missouri a woman suffering from displacement inflammation and female weakness reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She describes severe pain nervousness poor appetite and fatigue prior to treatment and credits the remedy with restoring strength and health. The ad touts widespread use and urges other troubled women to try it.
A man by default, whose wife had secured a divorce, visited court stenographer William M. McKay seeking his wife's testimony transcript. McKay offered the tablet. the man struggled with the shorthand, muttered about the “ivorsh an nulled,” and left, seemingly enlightened by the notes.
A vintage advertisement promotes Cuticura products for skin scalp hair and hands with promises of clearing pimples blotches redness dandruff and chapping. It offers a free 32 page Skin Book by mail and asks readers to address a postcard to Cuticura Dept V Boston. The section includes a humor comic exchange about a daughter's engagement and a mother’s witty revenge plan.
A fragmentary quote questions a horse's survival with automobiles while joking about speed law enforcement. A woman envies another, suggesting vanity and empty effort in social rivalry. The text preserves odd witticisms without full context.
The Prairie provinces show an 15 to 35 percent rise in wheat area with better than average moisture and rains aiding early sowing. Reports from Denholm, North Battleford, Prince Albert and others note good growing conditions, occasional cutworms, and widespread optimism for a record crop despite higher feed prices and strong export demand.
The wheat has been sown at the Merit time not so early as to risk frost but early enough to insure ripening in the fall, as stated in the advertisement.
Gouverneur Morris derides American society as exclusive while recounting a writer's failed invitation to Mrs. Van Astercordt. The anecdote notes the writer’s past work in a teapot making plant and highlights social barriers for authors.
Two speakers joke about a new toothbrush and the oddity of language. They test phrases like teethbrush and shoesbrush to explore how terms form from everyday objects. The exchange plays on pronunciation and unexpected wordplay.
A sister writes to her brother at the front and recalls a vexing London incident. Father recalls a Garman waiter who shortchanged them after a modest dinner, a memory shared to steady the mind amid distant duties.
An advertisement promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a general tonic containing quinine and iron. It claims liver action, malaria defense, blood enrichment, and overall system strengthening, priced at five cents.
In a quip from Puck dated era, a father previously gained robes furs cattle in exchange for a daughter. The modern response questions how the old man fares now with modest offerings like cheap cigars.
An advertisement urges careful examination of every bottle of Sastoria for infants and children, claiming over 80 years of use and the signature CALix. A playful hotel room joke about an airy room follows the mock product note.
An old newspaper snippet touts Murine eye remedy from The Murine Eye Remedy Co. of Chicago. It claims relief for red watery eyes and granulated eyelids with no smarting, urging readers to consult the product in a period voice. A stray ad line questions marriage on fifteen dollars a week, mentioning a girl.
An elderly man and his nephew discuss a fire engine in a rustic, humorous exchange. The old man expresses awe at the machine used for putting out fires, insisting he would not have believed it without seeing. A vulgar aside about the device’s power follows, with mention of wanting to try a strong vigor.
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