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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1914
Page
3
Advertisement by William A. Radford offering free advice on Dulking and home ownership. He promotes his expertise as ex-editor, author, and manufacturer and explains renters’ potential to buy a home through buying used houses or new suburbs, urging readers to act and save.
The text notes skilled architects who specialize in dwelling house design offer ready plans for modest sums. A design can be chosen to fit family needs, providing a complete house complete in every detail and arranged for efficient household work.
An inexpensive brick veneer house design offers a dignified, homelike residence for a substantial family. Priced at 4500 to 5000 dollars, it features a broad veranda, a 15 by 32 foot living room, four large second-floor bedrooms, a sewing room, and a convenient dining area. The plan emphasizes customization for owner needs and modern efficient layouts.
A sermon on Luke 16 1 12 contrasts the unjust steward with faithful stewardship and warns against covetousness Money is to be used wisely to aid the needy and advance eternal rewards The text links stewardship to the Pharisees and the call to heavenward values and true riches
Agricultural notes describe a brine circulation system using natural ice and salt to refrigerate storage, with an attic ice crusher, insulated tanks, and coiled piping in cooling rooms. It warns engineers should calculate piping and stresses separate from dairy storage, and highlights masonry ice houses as permanent structures.
A nine year old white boy returns from walnut hunting with stained hands after a yard quarrel with a colored boy over nuts. His three year old sister witnesses the fight and reports it to their mother noting the black staining on his hands. The boy denies the fight while the sister insists he was involved.
A school composition on American Indians notes their free life and observes with a boyish twist that Indians had few laws to begin with but they were often broken, reflecting a humorous take on cultural customs.
Orpha Turner of 431 S Wayne St Piqua Ohio reports relief from organic weakness with Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after severe symptoms last winter Backache lip pains kidney pains headache dizziness fatigue and low energy eased She endorses the product and invites women to seek advice from the company via confidential letters to Lynn Massachusetts
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