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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1897
Page
4
Dakota Field and Farm outlines a dairy herd program from calf birth to first calf at 28 to 30 months. Emphasizes clean pens sun light and water, gradual milk feeding from birth, early oat feeding, corn in rations, and growing cattle into efficient milk producers. Heifers are housed separately and bred after two years to ensure strong bone and digestion for butter and milk production.
Howard Walton of Yamhill county Oregon designs a six post frame to lift hay racks from wagons automatically. The device uses crosspieces on two by eight lumber with greased bar tops and a team pulling through the roadway to lift the rack onto a frame, then rest on bolster ties to reattach and reload.
A new and valuable plant from Japan, Stachys Tuberifera, is claimed to yield twice as many bushels per acre as potatoes. It grows about 12 inches tall with tubers like small radishes, requires no peeling, stores well in winter, and a single plant can produce 200 tubers with a 300 bushel per acre crop. Exports of cheese show Canada leading, with US exports lower, signaling room for growth in the American cheese market.
Paderewski receives decoration from King Humbert while notes recounting public pledges and temperance campaigns surface. The piece lists Otis figures such as Gladstone, Murphy, Saunders, Irving, Rhodes and Kruger amid reflections on Bismarck’s waning interests and a rainy day ahead for Humbert's heirs.
Reports show British postal traffic to the United States last year reached 41.6 million letters while Europe totaled 65 million. A whale captured in Arctic waters bore a harpoon from a long‑out‑of‑service whaling vessel. In measurement, watches prove more accurate than locomotives in absolute terms. A captain’s wife is seeking a captain’s certificate after sailing with her husband for one year and holding second mate papers for seven years. Berlin employs a professional bird catcher supplying nests and eggs to scientific bodies, unique in the empire. Dublin scientists profiled bog‑slip near Hathmore, estimating 10,000,000 cubic yards of boggy material displaced.
The city’s religious facilities are limited to about 600 churches serving 300000. Wall Street and Broadway boast prime real estate, with 1.5 million paid for Broadway lots near Bowling Green. Over 76 percent of residents have foreign-born mothers, over 40 percent were born abroad. Peter Stuyvesant’s era had 1400 New Yorkers speaking 15 tongues. New York hosts varied eating places, clubs, and theaters, with Hebrew or Yiddish plays in Bowery venues.
An old promotional notice touts 64 bushels corn per acre and profits at 30 cents a bushel with figures like 264 bushels corn 520 bushels onts 173 bushels barley and 1600 bushels potatoes per acre. It invites readers to send 10 cents for seed samples worth 10 dollars and mentions Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin along with farm seed samples. It also includes snips on youth, spring cleaning methods using Ivory soap and a note about manners from Rev Edmund Hewitt and a quip about women being reminded of their superiority when a man removes his hat.
Winchester Repeating Arms Co of New Haven promotes its integrated product line, asserting shooters can rely on high quality guns and ammunition. The ad invites readers to request a large illustrated catalogue, tying brand prestige to ammunition standards and performance. A separate court exchange quote and a casual anecdote appear in the page clutter.
An old advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for catarrh cure and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials from Toledo druggists. Also publicizes The Crescent Hotel in Eureka Springs Arkansas opening March 1, 1807 with travel details and excursion tickets via Frisco Line.
A comic domestic exchange notes a father downstairs and fixing a bicycle. The page also features an old testimonial for Piso’s Cure for Consumption from Mrs. E C Moulton Needham Mass dated Oct 22, 1884, and a motivational line about friends knowing what they would do in your place from N. Weekly.
A fragment from a periodical notes March and April as the most disagreeable months in the north and pleasant in the south. It mentions rail travel sales for Pepico, Tennessee, Alabama, and West Florida, offering half-price round trips on first and third Tuesdays. Also includes miscellaneous quotes and ads from N Y Weekly and St Jacobs Oil pitches.
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