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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1912
Page
8
D C Bartos cautions early chick losses in poultry is greatest at hatching and care. Eggs must be clean and handled gently. Incubator management and following maker instructions are essential for vigorous hatch and proper sanitation.
The article argues clothing serves protection decoration and modesty with hygiene as core. It discusses fabric warmth air ventilation moisture absorption and fit. It warns against tight garments and excessive layers while endorsing layered comfortable wear like sweaters and union suits for safety and cleanliness.
A Jersey City man Thomas Bruno writes of dramatic skin relief after four months of pimples and blackheads. He details trying remedies, then using Resinol Soap and Ointment to clear his face in about three weeks and credits the products with curing a friend’s barber’s itch. He urges druggists to stock and offers samples from Resinol Chemical Co. Baltimore.
A Colorado Springs mother recalls her three week old son’s eczema and teething boils. After doctors failed, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and reports rapid improvement, with no further symptoms by age two. The note promotes Cuticura products and free samples.
New York Times notes eight shiploads of European immigrants bound for Canada as labor troubles prompt outward flow. It cites a 99 million dollar surplus and 38 million in rail and canal credits, enabling expanded railway work and a push to recruit 50 000 workers. A St Paul dispatch adds two thousand carloads of farm animals and machinery heading north.
Chicago women form a six member club owning an electric vacuum cleaner washing machine irons and a drying fan. Dues cover upkeep about three cents weekly with initiation shared among members. A boy delivers the equipment house to house within one neighborhood to reduce domestic labor and the servant problem amidst practical, easily explained plans.
A London patent to C Milton covers combining a phonograph with a moving picture machine to run in absolute harmony. Once marketed, moving picture shows may bring phonographs into homes and reproduce the actors’ songs or words as the film projects.
An advertisement claims the Paxtine Antigentic toilet preparation cleans and germicidal effects, offering a free large trial box upon request to women. It promotes relief from burning and itching and lists sample requests to J W Cole & Co of Black River Falls Wis. The text also quips about perseverance and mentions various remedies and humorous asides amid product pitches.
The tuberculosis death rate in the United States fell from 1969 to 160.3 per 106,000 from 1901 to 1910, an 18.7 percent drop, while overall mortality declined 9.7 percent. Figures from the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis cite data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The TB decline since 1904 shows steady improvement, with a projected saving of about 27,000 lives in the present era.
A writer in Country Gentleman notes few outside maple districts truly know genuine maple sugar’s taste and links superior flavor to vine ripened berries and tree ripened cherries. The piece also blames wholesale dealers and mixers for poorer commercial maple sugar flavor.
A minister and his deacon banter over a golf miscue as the deacon explains his exclamation Gatun refers to the largest dam he knows. The exchange blends humor with a nod to engineering feat.
A playful quotation contrasts global conflict with everyday life and praises Garfield Tea for its persuasive calm. It jokes that men rarely fight despite many with “chips on their shoulders” and notes a man never complains about a wife’s relatives if there are none.
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