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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1895
Page
8
A detailed discussion from American Gardening explains drone traps designed to reduce drone numbers and protect the hive. The device allows worker bees to pass while capturing drones, with variants including a self-hiver to move swarms into a new hive. It emphasizes safety for the colony and practical use for beekeepers.
A Clark's Horse Review writer shares a cure for lockjaw in horses. He advises quickly removing the nail, then soaking the hoof in hot water with plenty of vinegar and salt. The mixture must be very hot for the horse to pull its foot out as necessary.
A man from White Rock, Goodhue County, recounts years of illness after childhood sickness and failed medical care. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring his health after twelve years of agony, noting improved mobility and daily ability after using six boxes. The advertisement promotes Pink Pills as a general tonic for blood and nerves and claims benefits for female and male health, with price details and mail order option.
A chemist shop scene in Holborn features an Irish customer choosing a scented or unscented soap lump. The exchange is brisk with humor as the assistant offers options and the customer purchases to take away. The fragmentary clipping also mentions a cranky patient and comic bits about doctors and petty anecdotes.
Fragmented clippings present jokes and quips from various papers such as the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph Chicago Record and Life. Snippets feature editors debating metaphors about windpips and necks, rubber footwear in dry weather, lawn sprinklers, coffee with a fly, and social teasing about money and brains.
A collected snippet of paradoxes and maxims from various authors. It juxtaposes prose on patience pride anger and action with names like Pope Seneca Hume and Emerson. The fragmentary list presents brief moral reflections and cautions about virtue and selfknowledge.
A man in New York pursued a thief and recovered the loot before the victimized pilferer was arrested and jailed. In Pittsfield Maine strange drinkings occur in a prohibition town as a taper faced embalming fluid by mistake and faced uncertain fate. An undertaker sought trolley car advertising but was denied.
Fall catalogue and free samples advertised by John A. Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin. Claims include six tons per acre grass and wheat yields of 60 to 90 bushels. A humorous needle about sponge cake appears from Mrs. Jackson and a cook in Truth.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as a pleasant laxative that prevents grippe colds and headaches. It urges buying the true California Fig Syrup Co. product, sold by druggists in 0c and $1 bottles, and ends with a playful Detroit Free Press exchange about summer plans.
An 19th century ad style paragraph extols Hostetter s Stomach Bitters to treat inflammatory rheumatism malaria kidney digestions and nervous debility. It also cites adoption services by the International Children s Home Society at 234 La Salle Street Chicago and a general manager Rev Dr Frank M Gregg.
A brief exchange notes a married man can live on half the income of a single man. He affirms this, and the reply implies a weekly consideration of budget realities.
The Louisville Evansville and St Louis Consolidated Railroad offers a special 1 percent to 1 3 percent rate for G H E A P National Encampment in Louisville Kentucky from September 8 to 11 1896 with return until October 5. Tickets should read via Air Line and are advertised as the shortest route by 53 miles between St Louis and Louisville with quick travel. R A Caupnect G P A St Louis Missouri notes the offer.
A marketing pitch touts a book Dont Tobacco Spit or Smoke Your Life Away promising cures with No-To-Back, claiming it restores vigor and vitality. The Sterling Remedy Co. advertises availability in New York City or Chicago with guaranteed results by druggists.
An old time advertisement item cites Hall's Cstarch Cure as a constitutional cure along with remedies like Glenn's Sulphur Soap Hill'n Hair and Whisker Dye and Piso's Cure for whooping cough. It lists prices and a Brooklyn address for the advertiser and includes a Bulwer quotation about disappointment before appreciating value.
A fragmented dialogue from Yonkers Statesman depicts CRIMSONBEAK's dinner scene about feathers in chicken soup and a bantering exchange on plans to go out. The overheard humor centers on a diary entry and a push to join the speaker in public.
In August the Bummer Reworks list over three hundred desirable locations across Wisconsin Iowa Minnesota South Dakota and the Peninsula of Michigan near lakes suitable for fishing and leisure. Rail access, varied attire from fall dress to flannel shirts, and ample shooting grounds along the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul lines feature prominently.September and October highlight northern hunting grounds with deer ducks geese and other game. game laws have been updated across western states with free information from Gro H Hearsonn Chicago.
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