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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1905
Page
3
A collage of anecdotal humor spans Mme de Maintenon’s fish metaphor and a poor man’s egg remark. A boarding school teacher tests locution of blood while a student quips about empty feet. Yale Prof Bailey notes women’s strength versus men’s weakness in a club swap.
Chicago packers dispatch traveling agents to South America and Asia to sell meat products. They will trade for cowries or elephant tusks and other items, carrying samples into distant lands including deserts and Brazil. The effort aims to expand markets, boost prices, and stabilize revenue in all product stages.
A playful exchange from Tit-Bits features a man asking why Miss Antique never married and her coy reply as she offers her hand, capturing a flirtatious moment in a period excerpt.
Joseph A Goulden member of Congress for New York 18th District also a Bath Sol diers' Home trustee endorses Doan's Kidney Pills claiming cure for kidney and bladder troubles based on personal relief by the second day. The letter appears signed and notes Buffalo distributor Keen’s.
Washington October 11 The agricultural department issued a crop bulletin. Corn condition on October 1 was 92. The report tabulates October 1 conditions versus ten year averages for nine principal corn states including Nebraska Kansas Iowa Missouri Tennessee Kentucky and others. It notes spring wheat yield preliminarily at 14.7 bushels per acre with state variations and a national average around 29.2 bushels per acre for oats and barley.
Attorney General Stead's report on Cook County inheritance tax shows M W Pinckney has collected 4901484 76 since March with one Supreme Court case pending adding about 8000. The prior estimate of 500000 yearly is nearly doubled, and reforms Pinckney pursued are credited.
The Eldorado Coal and Coke Co transferred its Eldorado mines to Ogara Coal Co of Chicago for 160000, the ninth Latine county mine purchased in recent months. Charles Ashmore died by suicide at Mansfield, stabbing himself with a butcher knife after losing property to fire, in a state of insanity.
Harry Wesser sought in Little Rock for alleged theft of jewelry worth 8000 dollars. after a two week evasion, he was captured near Ellsworth by authorities.
Editor Williamson of the Murphysboro Republican Era marries Miss Bonnie Kepner at her parents home in Pinckneyville. The ceremony was held in a family setting with local attendees and newspaper circles noting the union.
L. E. Emmons Sr. a Quincy lawyer was assaulted by Lorenzo Grosch whom he had defeated in a suit. Grosch was arrested. A Greenup hotel and restaurant run by H. S. Allerthorp was nearly destroyed by fire. Mrs Gladys Cooks millinery shop was damaged. Loss estimated at 1500 dollars. After a week long trial in Adama county criminal court William Stuckenholt was found guilty of wife murder and sentenced to life in prison.
Mr and Mrs James Jeffries celebrated the sixty third anniversary of their marriage at the home of their daughter Mrs J K Rardin in Charleston.
A Rural New Yorker correspondent describes constructing a smokehouse with an oven three feet square, a ten inch pipe to the smokehouse, a blue stone deflector, a 12 inch ventilator with damper, and a brick basement set below frost. The design uses dry hickory and careful pipe hanging to cure large quantities of meat without touching.
The author describes a smokehouse design using movable pipes and hooks, comparing it to stationary nails in cross beams. He notes pork smoked to proper color, claims low heat, and suggests underground options for those wary of conspicuous structures, including placement on a private home in keeping with other buildings.
Raymond New Hampshire resident Charles H Porter testifies that Dr Williams Pink Pills eased two years of neuralgia pain and sleeplessness after using six boxes, noting improvement began with the first box and cure has lasted. The ad says the pills also aid sciatica partial paralysis and locomotor ataxia and are sold by druggists or the Dr Williams Medicine Co. in Schenectady New York.
A minister questions a milkman about milk quality and insists the milk is used for dietary purposes only, not for christening. The milkman responds uneasily, acknowledging the odd request in this stray dialogue excerpt.
Dialogue from Stray Stories in which Porter confirms the picture was shown to the exhibition crowd and that the men laughed heartily though offered no explicit comments. The exchange highlights a humorous reaction to the artist presented as just laughter rather than critique.
A brief quotation notes the health impact of golf on a husband. The line asks if playing golf improved his health, answers yes, and adds that unless he learns to play better it will spoil his disposition.
Fragmentary note advises heavy molting implies winter laying, suggesting alfalfa or red clover feeding for chicks, and contrasts private family trade with broader market shipping, indicating value differences and farm context.
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