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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1904
Page
8
A child recalls the Fussing Place as a place of punishment used by a mother to enforce good behavior. The poem depicts the boy’s reluctance, pained feelings, and eventual resolve to smile and be loving, recognizing that the place is not the location but the approach to being good. The piece appears in Youth's Companion, attributed to Annie Willis McCulough.
A step by step guide to building and playing Battery a handmade game for two to four players. It describes crafting a board with four wedge blocks two to each side and brass curtain rings acting as bomb shells. Players flick rings onto pegs to score points and continue until a preset total is reached.
Seven years ago I built a combined hotbed cold frame and winter storage pit described as the only successful integration for these uses. The design converts to storage by replacing sash with a door in the end, allowing access without disturbing the cover. It uses timber walls, portable framing, and a ridgepole with rafters, detailing post size, drainage, and construction.
A collage of quotes and snippets featuring a Third Avenue Elevated debate over the name Mikado and McAdoo, a physician's praise for Dodd's Kidney Pills with a Philadelphia Press aside, farm seed promotions, and a humorous Washington Star quip about folks who think they know it all.
An advertisement touts Cuticura Soap and Ointment as the great skin cure for preserving purifying and beautifying skin cleansing the scalp softening whitening and soothing hands and aiding baby rashes irritations and ulcers. It also notes other antiseptic uses for toilet bath and nursery. The page includes a joke about heat and cold and an ad for Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
The article argues climate and especially subsoil determine profitable orcharding. It urges testing the land by digging across many spots, notes fertile sand deposits like the Icesa formation, gravelly shale and red clay shale as valuable, and warns poor subsoil leads to failure. It emphasizes choosing porous, fertile soil or relocating to land that has it.
Farmers and dealers may not know that horse hides from slaughtered or fallen stock have market value. Hides free of holes and blemishes are selling in Milwaukee for 93 to 8.76 dollars, offering a profitable outlet for fallen stock.
Miss Amanda Johnson of Fairchild Wisconsin recounts years of head pain near the eyes blamed on eyes but found cured by Peruna. After trying glasses with no relief she used Peruna and within four weeks reports eye condition improved general health better and catarrh gone.
Miss Flora Hauser of Indianapolis writes that she suffered chronic catarrh since youth and worsened last winter. After four weeks using Paruna her head and nose cleared, and she reports no further trouble, crediting Peruma with the cure.
BR CARTMAN credits Peruna with helping vast numbers of women overcome chronic catarrh affecting eyes nose breath and lips. He portrays catarrh as widespread with Peruna described as the nation’s most famous remedy and claims extensive cures across the United States.
An ad touts Peruna as restoring faded beauty and extending youth by cleansing mucous membranes. It claims preventive use against catarrh and quick, beneficial action on body membranes. Readers are invited to write Dr. Hartman in Columbus, Ohio for free advice.
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