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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1899
Page
8
A detailed description of a Knoll farm fruit and vegetable cellar with a milk room, including an excavation, timber frame, wall construction, and sawdust insulation. Notes on separate fruit storage, summer milk room use, stone floors, drainage, and temperature control, plus frost history and outside cellar ideas.
A French plan to sell peeled sliced and dried potatoes to prevent decay and ease transport. Slices are salted, drained, dried at 194F, then steeped 12 to 15 hours before use to regain freshness. Other notes discuss four feet in dairy cows and whey used to fatten hogs at a Canadian cheese factory to keep milk clean.
scattered items note diverse topics from coast surveys to nutrition and travel. A Vermont town reports Mrs Mary M Gale with her daughter granddaughter and great granddaughter walking to church. Also listed are mountains of the Philippines and treasury auditors ruling on tips for sleeping car porters.
Educational news notes Western Reserve University receives gifts totaling 125000 dollars in the past year. Bonn University gains a windfall as Otto Sovelterhoff leaves about 1,000,000 marks to endow the institution in memory of his wife, daughter of Trrof Bocking. Prague’s science scene is described as chauvinistic, with two botanical gardens run by rival universities. Pittsburgh public schools plan a large swimming pool and showers for pupil use amid city education developments. Harvard Divinity School is discussed as a Unitarians and orthodox Congregationalists mix, with faculty varied beliefs and graduates preaching in traditional vestments.
A collection of short proverbial lines appears in the fragment, including Herbert Wroten, wisdom about bark and bite, divine visitations, steady mills, laborers and tools, cake and eating, the wearer and shoe, and the mill not grinding with wasted water, reflecting rustic moral maxims.
The piece details a travel plan for veterans attending the 61st and 5th annual encampment in Philadelphia in September. It favors the Big Four line with connections through Chicago, Peoria, and St. Louis, then Indianapolis or Cincinnati to the Chesapeake and Ohio route along the Ohio River to Huntington West Virginia, through the Alleghanies to Staunton and Washington, then via the Pennsylvania Line to Philadelphia. Three fare options are listed, including continuous passage, one stopover each way, and a circuitous route with one stopover. For routes and rates, address J C Tucker G N A, 234 Clark St., Chicago.
Chicago Times-Herald quotes describe a man named Jimcox claiming a return from the Klondike. A garden encounter reveals him boasting about distant lands and persuading friends to indulge in a better life with modest cash handed for a new start.
An odd fragment from a Detroit Free Press page captures a caustic exchange about the circus. The dialogue mocks physical feats and recalls a performer named John, suggesting the act has declined while the narrator defends the circus as fine.
A collage of vintage ad blurbs and quips cites Lane’s Family Medicine promising daily bowel movement health, a Golf motto about futile boys, a Chicago Evening News quip on bad words, cure claims for a cold in one day with fake laxative tablets, a Globe remark on ill will and success, Piso’s Cure for Consumption testimonial, and a Philadelphia Times joke about a servant breaking a glass.
Advertising copy promotes Ball's Catarrh Care as an internal remedy priced at 75 cents. The repeated line emphasizes the product and price while the Chicago Daily News quote adds a vague slogan about truth. The readable fragment presents an old time medical ad style.
A letter from Mrs Con E P Richardson of Buulnelander Wisconsin credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with saving her life after eighteen months of illness including leucorrhoea and ovarian inflammation. She stopped pain, became strong, resumed activities, and urges others to seek the remedy.
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