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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1900
Page
6
In a Rural World feature J F Atkinson notes Belgian hares as clean, quiet, and docile stock. He argues their meat, skins, and fur have value, with prices around 18 to 20 cents a pound dressed and production costs about 2 cents per pound. The piece urges farmers to integrate hare and poultry ventures amid rising meat demand.
A Farmers' Review piece argues goats are superior browsers to sheep, thriving where few sheep hold, and can control weeds, brush, burdocks, mullein, and thistles on waste hillsides. It notes sheep density and suggests a million goats could be distributed on farms without impacting other stock.
The article notes a Russian trophy of empress initials in gold awarded in schools and a push to expand free kindergartens in Russia led by Mme Kilokof. It cites university athletic expenditures totaling 204243 dollars and praises American athletes. Atlanta University builds a model housekeeping house with 18 bedrooms. seven thousand dollars grant received, three thousand more needed. Canadian schools integrate Maxim gun drills and cadet corps across all levels, with Canada’s medical field service ready to aid England.
A Chicago funeral notice ends with Please attend. A Tennessee train stops for a bear to alight in Coffee County. The Johnsons of Chicago lead the Smiths by 1 350 in the city directory. Oceanic funnels could let two tram cars pass side by side. Seabirds strip New York Bay dumps twice daily to aid city health. A rubber tongue pivots between teeth lets a New Yorker speak clearly while eating. Mayor Carter Harrison recalls NY sending a two cent stamp with a Chicago directory copy request.
The article notes St Louis producing more street cars than anywhere else. A French inventor named Dufour claims a method to melt and mold quartz like glass. Georgia's coast region will gain the state's first sugar refinery, to be built in Baxley.
The piece argues that a universally popular product deserves trust and warns against store clerks who push substitutes for profit. It cautions buyers to distrust fake offers, noting authentic Cascarets come in metal boxes with a long tailed C and each tablet stamped 2 LU.
An English officer in Malta stops to ask a local for directions. The man answers with a shrug and No speak English. The officer calls him a fool, but the man quizzes the officer back about Maltese Arabic Italian Greek and declares I only one.
The Fine Arts Journal praises St. Mary's Academy Notre Dame for its 46th year starting September 4, 900. It notes strong curriculum comparable to Vascar and Bryn Mawr, dedicated teachers, and superior classrooms laboratories food and climate. It frames education as Christian service in a favored setting.
In a Baltimore American vignette the new wedding reporter defends using stretched to describe decorations. The city editor suggests alternatives like nodded or twined, but the reporter insists six rubber plants required the stretch to reach the church door.
The article pitches Marinette county Wisconsin as ideal for farming with cheap land, long terms, good crops, markets, climate, and soft water. It contrasts the wrong approach to solving large puzzles with the wrong home location choices and invites readers to contact land agent C. E. Rollina in Chicago. A fragment from a Detroit Journal item follows about a wife’s dramatic Paris expedition remark.
Promotional note lists Grand Trenk Railway for travel to Canada and the East. Provides booking contact J Hi Burgis ity Passenger and Ticket Rent 249 Clark St Chicago. Includes scattered ad snippets for various merchants and a humorous classroom exchange.
A distressed agent calls a boy backward in lessons and a strict pedagogue replies that he will make him smart. The fragment reflects harsh attitudes toward education and parenting.
A brief Chicago Evening News item contrasts optimism and pessimism with a playful quote about perception. The snippet notes a perceived gap between hopeful and doubtful outlooks in daily life. The text presents a short, reflective exchange without additional details.
Mrs Gates of Johns P. O. Miss wrote of feeble health for years after childbirth. After following Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound advice she reports renewed strength and being her old self again. Miss Clara Gates also praises the remedy after prior physician failure and a motherly letter from Pinkham.
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