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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1906
Page
3
The Misses' Costume pattern set features a shirred waist and long yoke style with elbow length sleeves and a full skirt. Sizes 12 to 17 years offered for waist 5064 and skirt 5077 with 44 inch fabric. price ten cents each, order via the Pattern Department with size and pattern number.
White batiste lingerie blouse trimmed with Valen 'ciennes bands and fine tucks. Elbow length sleeves with straight cuff. Available fabrics include dotted Swiss muslin linen and China silk. Medium size uses 2 1/8 yards of 44 inch material. Sizes 32 through 42 inches.
An experienced gardener notes cucumber lice appear as blossoms fade, aided by ants. Dry weather increases their numbers. Lime and spraying fail to deter them. but dampened wood ashes with kerosene, applied around stems and leaves, prove most effective when stored dry. Exercise care to avoid harming blossoms.
A Rural New Yorker correspondent explains a homemade transplanter built with heavy brass components. The tool plants, uproots, and drops seedlings in one motion, claimed to reduce wilt on hot August days. The planter uses a 75 foot long layout with 18 inch spacing and rotating beds to maintain one two and three year old plants.
The article notes Jonathan apples are favored by western orchardists over Ben Davis and other varieties. It mentions higher profits in some sections due to price, but warns the variety doesn’t suit ary land. Also advises picking summer pears before ripe and storing in a cool dark place, and suggests early peas, turnips, snap beans, and lettuce can still be planted.
Mrs Charles N Preston of Elkland Pennsylvania recounts years of fatigue weight loss thirst and sugar in kidney secretions. After using Deans Kidney Pills her condition improved quickly and all sugar traces disappeared. She regained weight and declares herself well. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A Paris paper note says Empress Eugenie may seek a marriage link via Austria while a Defiance Starch ad touts a 16 oz package for 10 cents and claims superiority over competitors. An observer in Europe reports little waste except one rubbish heap in Carlsruhe.
E S Martin in Appleton's Magazine praises San Francisco as a unique literary hub. He notes the city’s vitality, adventurous population, and ample money fueling fresh, vigorous writing, while contrasting it with Boston Philadelphia Chicago and Indianapolis. San Francisco is portrayed as a world view starting and landing point.
Claude Johnson of Walnut, Kan, writes that two years of itchy skin eruption ceased after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills. He followed the Cuticura book’s guidance, bought the products, and saw relief from the first applications, attributing full cure to the regimen. June 15, 1905.
A dramatic public exchange recalls a woman of extraordinary nerve who faced staged trials and stunts. Despite gunfire, a distant explosion ruse, a liberated mouse wager, and a whispered hair mussing, she remained unmoved or collapsed only briefly, sparking reflections on perception and the past.
A Michigan woman recounts years of bilious colic headaches catarrh and dyspepsia linked to coffee usage. After quitting coffee and starting Postum Food Coffee her symptoms faded and her health improved quickly. She endorses Postum and cites doctors doubting coffee as cause. Read The Road to Wellville. There's a reason.
The note details a home care mix for painted surfaces using sperm oil vinegar oil bergamot and a brass cleaner with tripoil oil lubricants and gasoline. It suggests choosing a medium priced car from Buseck Maxwell Mitchell Reo Knox Franklin or Queen, priced from 750 to 2000 dollars, for hill and country driving.
The Episcopal Cathedral of St John the Divine on Morningside Heights is the largest and costliest project yet in New York. With a price tag of 10 million dollars, it aims to be the greatest church building in America and among the world’s most important structures.
Germany spent about 9.5 million dollars under workmen's sickness insurance on tuberculous patient treatment from 1901 to 1905. The figure reflects substantial government funded health coverage as reforms expanded.
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