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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1905
Page
8
A 19th century instruction describes making smoke rings without smoking. Build a foot square pasteboard box with a round hole in the bottom, place tubes entering the box, heat bottles with a lamp to push fumes through, and tap to eject large white smoke rings. The New York Mail notes the method yields dense rings when heated and tapped.
A simple wooden box design to produce smoke rings from a handkerchief tap. With a two foot box, heavy muslin top, a three to four inch hole, and ammonia and hydrochloric acid bottles heated from below, you can blow smoke rings into a room and even extinguish a candle from across the room.
A historical description outlines volley ball as a mixed form of handball and tennis usable by many players. It specifies a 60 by 25 foot court, a 27 foot net, service rules including faults, no dribbling, ball size and weight, and scoring to twenty one with points earned on faults or outs. Net contact and ball out of bounds penalize players. serves alternate sides and points can favor the server or receiver depending on fault.
Advice from Our Fourfooted Friends on keeping dogs healthy and safe. Provide fresh water at all times, and raise kennels six inches off the ground to avoid rheumatism. Do not chain dogs, avoid letting them roam streets, and exercise house dogs twice daily to prevent fits and exhaustion.
Four players per table compete to remove the most peanuts in twenty minutes using candy tongs without disturbing other nuts. Two large bowls are placed centrally for each table, and participants remove peanuts one by one. The player with the highest count wins a small prize.
An 1890s style testimonial promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills for pale people as a tonic for post typhoid nerve weakness. The account by Charles Worth of East Vassalboro Maine claims rapid improvement after weeks of use and endorses the product as a nourishing nervous system aid. Pills are described as additive free with no opiates and available through druggists or the Schenectady company.
Lawrence sheriff Horatio Herrick, longtime Es sex county official, tells students at Saunders school a joke about what a statesman is. The exchange ends with a girl saying a statesman makes good speeches, prompting Herrick to reflect on what constitutes a statesman. Also includes brief, unrelated quotations about races and peace from various papers.
Monticello Mississippi September 4 Special report shows Lawrence County daily finding evidence of a cure for kidney troubles with Dodd's Kidney Pills. Mrs L I Baggett credits the remedy for curing dropsy and kidney distress with her urine passing normally again and health restored. The notice touts Dodd's pills as a great tonic and promotes a Book of Information while weaving in unrelated quotes about taxes and rent collection.
Four men entered Hotel Wendig with a large sack and tempted the German waiter. A dozen crabs escaped, scuttling around the cafe as patrons and staff chased them, while the crabapple joke rippled through the room and the breadmaker boasted about light bread.
In a medical record from India a physician leans to the patient’s chest and notes a swelling over the heart needing relief, while the patient warns the doctor not to reduce his pocket too much, turning the scene into a dry humor moment.
An advertisement promises Mull's Anti-Belch Wafers cure stomach troubles without drugs and offers two boxes for 75 cents or a free sample via coupon. It claims maladies like indigestion belch gas sour stomach and related pains are cured by absorption.
Doctor S G Brigham of Fitchburg Massachusetts testifies to the efficacy of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female difficulties. He notes his daughters use it and his practice supports its reliability for menstrual irregularities and uterine troubles. The ad urges women to seek Mrs Pinkham's free advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
Advertisement note offering a free box of Mull's Anti-Belch Waters for submitting a coupon with address and druggist name not selling it. Address Mull's Grapr Toxic Co. 147 Third Ave. Reel Island Tl. Coupon states 50c per box and druggists sell location. Also includes a humor exchange about a husband and fishing anecdote from Yonkers Statesman.
A home treatment promises a clear complexion for pimples black heads and rough skin. Apply Cuticura ointment wash with Cuticura Soap and hot water rinse morning and evening for best results. Use Cuticura Soap as a shampoo to cleanse the scalp and promote hair growth.
A photographer tells Mr Tyte-Phist he will take pictures at half his usual rates. He notes that the session is to be satisfactory, ending with the remark There, that will do nicely.
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