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Newspaper

Troy Weekly Call

Location

Troy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Oct 02, 1914

Page

3

Plan for Constructing Concrete Silo

United States Department of Agriculture Farmers Bulletin 589 outlines a home made concrete silo plan. It covers cost ranges, airtight walls, smooth plumb surfaces, round shape, outdoor placement, and optimal depth. It includes a sizing table linking herd size to silo diameter and notes to remove surface silage daily for preservation.

United States Department of Agriculture Farmers’ Bulletin 589 Wisconsin Py & A

Neluences Touching Soil In Roots Work Beneath Surface

A fragment notes soil life and plant roots doing a greater underground work after soil lifts. It mentions bacteria and soil vitality below the surface, contrasting with topsoil, suggesting long-term soil restoration impacts.

Gain From Use of Manure on Farm Crops

The Ohio experiment station reports the net return from a ton of yard manure depends on soil, cultivation, and crops. An eight ton per acre application in a five year corn oats wheat clover timothy rotation yields $4.60 per ton, with four tons to corn and four to wheat. Across all tests with rotations, the average return is $2.97 per ton.

Ohio Experiment

Alfalfa Excelg Boosts Forage Value for Producers

A terse note reports alfalfa excelg as a superior forage crop boosting feed value for producers. Despite fragmented wording, the core claim highlights alfalfa's superior performance in forage potential.

Meant for the Fall Street Costume in Fashionable Materials

The article describes versatile fall street costumes using tailored jackets with basques, bolero styles, and tunic skirts. It highlights fabrics such as Saxe blue Deauville cloth and black taffeta, soutache trims, and delicate details like braided pockets and cross bust guimpes. The outfits are presented as practical for afternoon wear and adaptable to crepe de chine.

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Schoolgirls Embrace Practical Bobbed Hair Style

The fashion of bobbing hair is less popular now but remains a practical and becoming way to wear hair short. Young girls prefer long hair tied with a large ribbon bow at the back, using about a yard and a quarter of six inch taffeta ribbon.

Washing guide for tucked bosom shirts

Launder shirts with tucked bosoms by wringing, folding in a Turkish towel, and rolling to set. Iron the shirt body while the bosom is pinned to a bosom board and dried separately to restore its appearance.

Black Net Roses Fashion Note From The Era

A fragment notes a black net rose used as trimming in a white net dress. The single black rose is described as an effective decoration, reflecting the era's vogue for black detailing in women's fashion.

Gts Ular

Round Shoulders and Defect Describe Posture Fault

The article explains round shoulders and flat chest in children, noting forward head posture, protruding abdomen, and hollow back. It lists three types, cites growth and activity as corrective, but warns many become permanently set without adequate play and exercise. Causes include growth, illness, poor air, overwork, and weak will.

Rucksacke, a denim travel bag with handy access

The article defines a rucksacke as a denim or heavy cloth bag used by travelers. It has one or two back pockets for quick access to essentials, a cord top, and resembles a meat sack in appearance. Khaki is noted as a suitable color and material, with advantages over a knapsack due to easy opening.

Europe

Simple frock of tub silk in violet shade

A brief description of a delicate violet tub silk dress with a white silk collar, pointed shoulder detailing, and pleated sleeve ruffles. The tunic hangs from the hip over an underskirt, with fullness and decorative folds evident in the design.

Hie Tate

Salads and verse mingle in a dining room reflection

A playful meditation contrasts cooking with poetry as a cook contemplates salad making and verses. The speaker muses on sentiment, hunger, and the art of preparing meals, suggesting culinary craft as a path to the heart.

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Household tips from old text on hygiene and comfort

The article lists practical household hints including boric acid as a disinfectant for mouth eyes burns and wounds a Graham mush dessert with raisins and cream and a fresh air scented sachet powder as a deodorizer It suggests rotating absorbent cotton for eye care and using a coal with powder as a simple incense It also notes a reforming idea about a single uncomfortable rocking chair in sick rooms and advises adding sugar to oatmeal during cooking for improvement.

Traveler finds benediction in the afr near sweetness

A traveler pauses with forehead bare and owns a grateful sense of sweetness near, uncertain of its exact source yet feeling its benediction in the afr.

Seasonal Dishes From Old Cookery Fragments

A collection of recipe fragments detailing methods for preparing eggplant with slicing and frying, an apple or coffee cake using bread sponge, cottage pudding with raisin sauce, and fresh fish balls shaped, breaded, and fried. The tone reflects a vintage household guide with practical steps and measurements.

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound praised for female health

A Lackawanna New York reader attests the remedy restored her strength after childbirth and helped with nerves and appetite. The ad touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as standard for female ills including displacements inflammation and irregularities, offering confidential advice from the Lydia Pinkham Medicine Co.

Lydia E. Pinkham Mia A. F. Kreamer Electric Avenue Lackawanna N. Y Lydia B. Pinkham Lydia B. Pinkham Medicine Co Lyon Mass

Try One Of These Cigar Suggestions Near The Industry

A fragment notes an old man touting cigars as the best choice. The exchange questions the effect on the theatre industry if such products gain popularity, implying tension between viewing habits and cigar use.

BromO Quinine Contains Ailments And Remedies

Fragmentary text references Bromo Quinine and cold remedies. Mentions Grove and various garbled phrases about headaches aches and distance between something. Source is unreadable and partially nonsensical.

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