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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1899
Page
8
A homemade post driving system operated by a team man and a boy uses two self-made post drivers to drive posts nearly as fast as a horse team. The design features 4x6 inch cross pieces, long 4x6 inches, and mortised connections, with windlass and hammer cranked to set and trip hooks.
In Farm and Home Miller details a wooden post driver for wagons. The device uses 1x6 inch pieces forming runners and a hammer guided by grooves, with a windlass pulley and rope for hoisting. A 50 pound hammer can drive a post with two blows, operated by a team of three.
Article discusses Oxeye Daisy as a weed with value for home feeding but advises extermination. It notes that cutting during bloom ensures control, seed matures in about two weeks, and hay quality is affected. Compares oxeye to timothy in nutrition and palatability, and mentions a proposed mobile disk plow machine for rapid weed control.
A former master of Ely workhouse has been admitted as a pauper inmate at the institution he once presided over. The event is unprecedented in poor law history and echoes themes Dickens wrote about in Oliver Twist.
A Chicago Post quote discusses engagement versus marriage with a witty line about feminine ownership. The piece includes a governess teaching Tom an abstract noun with the example of a red hot poker from the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer item, George defends himself after Aunt Maria accuses him of saying she eats too much. He insists his remark referenced an appetite like a mud dredge, not her health or habit.
Cheshire cheese owes its excellence to the red sandstone and bewilder clay formations that shape the country’s soil. The immense sat deposits yield herbage suited for cheese production, a view quoted from the Sun and echoed by the Washington Democrat warning against lying.
A Chicago Times Herald extract touts Grain-O as a genuine food made from pure grains with the taste and appearance of coffee. It claims to be a long lasting, nerve friendly, digestion safe substitute that strengthens health and costs less than coffee.
Promotes mild climate and fishing hunting along the Gulf Coast between Mobile and New Orleans. Through cars from Northern cities on the Louisville and Nashville line. Readers urged to request folders from Geo B Horner D P A St Louis Mo.
Tama lauds self-made virtue while Cynicus praises responsibility in a short Philadelphia Record exchange about noble conduct.
A sworn affidavit from Frank J. Cheney senior partner of F D Cheney of Toledo Ohio claims firm will pay one hundred dollars for each catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notarized December 6 18 at the county seat. Henry Co Toledo advertise Hall's Pills as best. cure advertised with testimonials and price 75 cents.
A fragmented Beaumont era style exchange notes a cattle farmer bragging about his father’s expertise, a joke on a two headed calf, and a testimonial claiming Piso’s Cure for Consumption cures hemorrhage. The piece references Louisandaman Bethany Missouri and a Chicago Chronicle comment on a prize fight winner.
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