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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1914
Page
3
A U S Department of Agriculture piece urges farmers to treat wood lots as a crop. It warns neglect reduces value, stresses fire, stock, and selective cutting controls, and calls for market knowledge and cooperative selling to raise profitability.
Roots provide excellent feed for dairy cows and are especially valuable in fall and early winter because they are palatable easy to digest and stimulate milk flow. Transition from roots to grain should be gradual adding one pound of grain for every ten pounds of roots withdrawn.
The article stresses that a sturdy fence requires time and money to build and to rebuild a rundown one. It emphasizes that corner and gate posts determine stability, and investing in solid post setting is essential for lasting structure.
The text discusses employing a disinterested person to tie pack fruit baskets with burlap for protection, notes on worm holes and eye sight in packing, and contrasts high headed versus jowled trees for easier cultivation and fruiting. It advises pruning to prevent cross branches, describes bushel boxes for family use, and mentions pruning unsightly trees with rotted crotches. It also covers packing preferences of fruit commission men, cabbage storage guidance, sow and pig feeding, and stance on pasture adequacy.
Fashion notes describe heavy lustrous royal blue taffeta, resembling twisted grosgrain with body, used in street and afternoon costumes. A featured illustration shows a royal blue taffeta dress with fox furs, blue velvet hat, and elaborate embroidery. Detailing includes a plain surplice blouse, white batiste accents, net trimming, a hip yoke and self-covered cords, with optional transparent sleeves.
A simple to make tea table cozy uses two paper serviettes over a foundation pad. Select serviettes matching the tea service color and wrap, fix each side, trim excess bottom, and add a paper or silk cord for a finished look. The cozy lasts well and suits nursery teas parties and other occasions.
Advice targets married women with grown daughters urging to abandon frumpy black gowns. Recommends cream or string colors near the face to counter color, adds brightness with red accents like a rose, sunshade, or piping. Cautions against sport shirts with turn-over collars and gaiter-knots for matrons.
A useful inexpensive gift for any reader is an embroidered bookmark bearing the recipient’s name. Using wide or narrow ribbon and papier mache initials, a young maker can craft an attractive mark. For slim books, a long, narrow satin ribbon nine to twelve inches long with small initials at one end is recommended.
The note lists WDM costs from five to eight cents. Three small paper mache initials cost five cents and a skein of embroidery floss four cents. It suggests arranging the initials on ribbon, basting, using good floss on white satin ribbon, and fringing the ribbon ends.
A buyer who brought Beckoff-David designs to America notes skirts in the new line are very short. Evening tracks feature many trains hanging from these short skirts. The skirt often slopes from a short front to a long train, or a long pointed train hangs from a skirt that stays short all around, creating a novel effect.
A cracked dialogue from a 19th century column shows a boy Harry recounting his first Sunday school visit. His mother asks what the teacher said. He recalls being welcomed and invited to return, then being asked if their family belonged to that abomination.
Dialogue style quip about salt and time. A speaker jokes that affinities belong in theory but not in cooking. They remark time works wonders and some people would if tireless as time for improving. The exchange plays on language and wit rather than events.
Miss Anna Morgan Miss Elizabeth Marbury and Miss Elsie De Wolfe drove into rural France to help with the grain harvest at the minister of agriculture's request. Morgan praised the French women for their swift and inspired response to the call for aid.
A Welcome Lake resident, F C Case, writes of relieving back ache kidney trouble and fatigue after using Dodds Kidney Pills. He claims improved sleep and clarity, urges publication for sufferers. Advertisement notes price 50c per box and invites requests for household hints and music.
In a moving picture showing of Quo Vadis Mrs McCarthy observed the dramatic scenes with awe and curiosity. She finally turned to a neighbor and asked which scene represented Quo Vadis, expressing impatience after watching and waiting.
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