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Newspaper
Troy Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1913
Page
8
An adapted guide to starting hog farming stresses that hogs function as individuals, not machines. It advises choosing a strong boar with excellent conformation to influence offspring, matching sire to dam traits, and selecting provenance from prolific, uniform lines to avoid small weak litters.
C B Miller advises on caponizing timing as cockerels reach ideal age for January to March markets. Remove drone hens and robber cows, use Babcock test, and ensure sunny, movable housing for disease response. Dry-picked fowl look better. geese need grain daily and vegetable matter to thrive. add bugs and stagnant water for quick growth. start poultry plans now.
A garbled OCR item mentions strawberries beds and a few bushes with vines and apples. It includes unclear phrases like KOI prenhla and mentions a large number 197,695 tones during an event. no coherent context or dates are identifiable.
Florists fill window boxes with soil sterilized to destroy all plant and animal life, preventing weeds and worms. A large bin with steam pipes heats soil for about half an hour. excessive heat can ruin essential elements, says a greenhouse man.
An early 20th century article by Jackson Taylor describes killing gophers using parsnip bait laced with strychnine. The method involves filling fresh holes with bait and covering, baiting until the gopher emerges to feed. The piece reflects period pest control practices with dangerous poison.
Quebec correspondent reports Robert Rowley of Laurentide preserves in Lake Halyward started a low cost black fox farm. In Roberval a man with four young pups sold for around ten dollars above cost. Lieutenant Governor Wood’s ranch manager offered Rowley several thousand dollars, but Rowley refused. Rowley plans to breed pure black dog fox with his cheap stock and expects a litter of pure black foxes next spring.
Frederick the Great, a major musical patron of his era, set rules for operatic writing. He prescribed varied arias for principal singers, adagio and allegro forms to showcase voices, duets, and large forms for male leads, with lighter minuette for secondary roles and avoidance of minor keys for mournful effect.
Advertising copy promotes Cuticura ointment and soap as the best treatment for itching scalps dandruff and thinning hair. It describes applying ointment in scalp partings, covering hair, then shampooing with Cuticura Soap, and notes availability worldwide with a free sample offer and a 82 page Skin Book from Cuticura Dept L Boston.
A fragment quotes a man asking a woman to marry him, she pauses and retorts with a fierce Life magazine style defense of feminism. She denounces his conventional views and calls herself an independent seeker of high self expression in art, embracing no pre set standards.
Mrs Exe explains her daughter formerly Jassie has renamed herself Jessica while Mrs Wye and Mrs Hxe express mixed feelings. The Boston Transcript note highlights tension over a child adopting a new given name.
A Better Giles remarks on the paradox of happiness in card play quoting, “Don't you think a man must be happy when he takes his queen by the hand” and contrasting with “not ae happy aa the man who takes four queens in his.”
Hall's Journal of Health cites strong physician and medical authority support for Castoria. It emphasizes harmlessness, stomach comfort, nerve relief, and food assimilation while noting it contains no opiates or narcotics. The piece argues against harmful substitutes and urges informed, safe use.
A traveling salesman recounts a global journey with seven world rounds. He recalls a night when heat drove the crew to take turns descending to the hold to find cooler air, ending the gathering without further stories.
An advertisement extols Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a quinine and iron tonic for malaria chills fever weakness and debility. It claims energy for nursing mothers and pale children, purging biliousness without purge, and liver stimulation. Also notes Tyree's antiseptic powder and a cheeky line about apartment marriage failure.
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