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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1903
Page
8
A New York Herald inspired guide describes using a flour barrel as a compact strawberry bed. Instructions include burning and painting the barrel, attaching rollers, drilling zigzag holes for plant crowns, placing a central wire netting, filling with rich manure, and planting nine to ten plants around the top to yield a fine berry crop and a novelty in gardening.
Fragmentary ad style text cites cementing a damp cellar with a shallow trench and cement layer to drain water. It mixes with farming notes on drying and threshing beans, feeding straw to livestock, and advice on a milk producing dairy herd. Includes price cues and a tip to buy a separator before summer.
A jumble of quoted lines from Chicago Daly News and Washington Star shows idle chatter about marriage, kissing in tunnels, and a man turning to drink. Fragmentary phrases mention Uncle Eben and luck with leaf clover, reflecting odd clipping style.
The article extols the New York Central Empire State Express as the swiftest rail service and likens Harvard football to its reliability with the Kampira State Express. It contrasts Yale’s 20th Century Limited for endurance and speed between New York and Chicago, noting routes and travel times. It also includes a quoted lawyer and prisoner exchange from Glasgow.
The Kansas City to Galveston excursion offers a healthful trip with special train service and sleeper berths at $2 for two. Tickets go on sale August 30 with travel allowed through September 12 1903. Reservations via F B Drew M K and T Ry Parsons KS.
A fragmentary item notes refreshing summer bath ideas using salt and Ivory soap. It references timing for bathing and contains a joke about fashion terms with Eleanor asking Harry about the difference between a gown and a creation.
An advertisement fragment promises attractive pamphlets on money making for a two cent stamp to Rosteg Katy Suite C 81 Louis Mo Sack mentions a social remark. Also includes a Louisville Times note and a dye product claim for Putnam Fadeless Dyes offering brighter colors with less work and Suntan use.
Eskimo language quip by Commander Peary during a Saratoga gathering. Estill Springs resident D Holt describes a dramatic back ailment recovery attributed to Dodd's Kidney Pills, claiming three boxes restored strength and mobility. The note cites local belief in the medicine's effectiveness.
The passage quotes a doctor advising two porous plasters for the stomach. Ruggiat asks the type, replied he cares little as long as it is easily digested. Catholic standard and times style reflects period dialogue.
Advertises Southeast Missouri Arkansas North East Louisiana and Texas lands for homeseekers. notes low prices from 2.50 to 15 per acre, including prairie and bottom lands with options for colonies 2000 acres plus, with offers of literature and excursion dates. Contact E W Labeaume G P T A Cotton Belt Route St Louis Mo.
An Egyptologist and an Assyriologist debated ancient progress. The Egyptologist cites remains of wires in Egypt as proof of early electricity, while the Assyriologist counters that lack of wires in Assyria implies advanced wireless telegraphy.
Idlenesa travels slowly and poverty soon overtakes her as Hunter notes the toll of stagnation. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets priced at 25 cents appear in the ad context. The line blends medicinal pricing with moralizing observation on hardship.
A fragmented ad style listing claims of kidney pills easing aching backs hip and back pains swelling limbs and dropsy signs. It asserts brick dust sediment cures, relieves pain in urination, dribbling and bed wetting while removing calenll and prayel and relieving heart perspiration headaches and nervous dizziness.
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