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Newspaper

Troy Weekly Call

Location

Troy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Mar 13, 1914

Page

3

Build a Home on Monthly Payments Say Readers Should

William A Radford offers free advice on building a home and explains how monthly payments can equal rent, detailing a 26 by 53 foot design with a front porch, large living room, library, dining room, kitchen, and practical layout plus the benefit of equity if installments are missed. The article urges consulting a real estate agent to secure a lot and notes cash isn’t mandatory.

William A. Radford Chicago Jan

Eggs and Art at a Fresco Studio Tale

An artist recalls paying a penny per egg in a past era while working under Sir William Richmond at the New Bailey frescoes. He notes eggs were cheaper then and reflects on domestic habits tied to the artistic commission.

Sir William Richmond New Bailey Sir William

Lovers Across a Lifetime in Tender Devotion

A contemplation on enduring love between two people, praising tenderness sympathy and happiness born from a pure ideal. The piece argues love tests endure hardships and that true union comes after personal growth and spiritual fellowship. It urges selflessness in both friendship and romance.

Superior hog herd management and disease remedies described

State Farmers Bulletin 566 advises hog lot placement in sunlit areas with clean water and troughs. Emphasizes warm dry bedding, controlled sow feeding, and early pig care. Covers disinfection, worm prevention, lice control, tusk clipping, canker sore mouth treatment, and remedies for scours using charcoal, lime, salt, sulphur, and copperas with careful dosing and sanitation.

Department of Agriculture Animal Husbandry Division Bureau of Animal Industry

Good Dairy Ration For Cattle Farming Guidance

The text outlines a dairy ration using farm grown seeds in alfalfa, clover, or cowpea hay plus corn. It notes roughage allowances and suggests feeding corn fodder, cane, kafir, straw, or other roughage. It warns about lightning risks from fences and recommends grounding and moist earth connections every few rods to divert current.

Sleeper Train Wreck Ends With Slumbering Porter Found

A limited express plunged into midnight wreckage when brakes failed and carriages derailed. Sparks flew, lights went out, and wreckage trapped passengers. Passengers lit torches and uncovered a sleeping porter beneath twisted iron, surprised by the disaster.

Limited Gemmun Jackson

Watery Blisters on Face Prompt Cure with Cuticura

Mrs A K Wooden of Smithville Indiana describes a six month battle with a one year old girl’s facial eruptions. Watery blisters spread to fiery cracked skin causing severe itching. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment thrice daily, symptoms subsided in two days and clear skin returned within two weeks with no relapse eight months later. Cuticura advertised as sold worldwide with sample offers.

Smithville Ind A. K. Wooden Cuticura Dept. L Boston

Kids and Goats Greeting Causes Confusion

A Chicago newspaper man greets his children with Hello, kids. His daughter objects, noting kids are young goats. She challenges him to admit he is a goat, and he concedes.

Chicago

Price of a Distinction Leads to Asking for a Chairman

The persuasive phil anthropist asks Cassius Chex to chair a large meeting and inquires about the deficit his subscription would cover. Chex questions the amount, while the speaker presses for a financial commitment to fund the event.

Cassius Chex

Play's Astronomer Star Role Questioned

An astronomer in a play is asked if he plays the star part. The item notes a vague theatrical query amidst assorted health and matrimonial assertions with advertisements for Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets and a claim about a gifted singer.

Pierce

Expletive laced talk at smokefest shocks lawmakers

In a smoky gathering Congressman George White of Ohio defended coarse language at times. A Brown family auto adventure ends in mechanical ruin and a comic clash as father blames the car and protests Job’s patience, while wife urges restraint.

George White Ohio Brown Papa Henry Wifey Job Father

His Simple Plan

The farmer Hornbeak explains his plan to improve work comfort by sharpening stumps to allow the hired man to stand as easily as sit. He believes the extra effort will pay off in long run and ease daily labor.

America Hornbeak

Evolution of Usury Across Faiths and Nations

The excerpt traces ancient Jewish and Christian stances on charging interest. It notes Jewish allowances for Gentiles, 1341 English usury law, and the shift by the fifteenth century as money began to be seen as a producer. It highlights a global move away from prohibitions toward payment for lending.

What He Did In The Grace And Brother Exchange

Grace says she told him not to see her again. Her brother asks what he did. Grace explains the Dartmouth Jack o Lantern incident as the turning point of the confrontation.

Grace Dartmouth

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