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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1899
Page
8
A Maine experiment at Orono tests subirrigation on radishes and lettuce. Benches sealed with cement use porous drain tile or potsherd layers to deliver water to soil, reducing damp soil issues but increasing damping off and worm injury risks. Lettuce may benefit from reduced leaf rot and overall yield potential.
Prof Thomas Shaw outlines a starter feeding method for piglets not getting enough milk. Use skim milk in a low trough away from the sow, then offer a slop of shorts and milk once accepted, with corn or oats for variety. If skim milk is unavailable use a thin shorts and water slop. If space allows piglets may feed with the dam. keep troughs low with front planks and avoid coarse hulls. This method, though labor light, hinges on proper food quality for the sow and piglets.
The article explains that a sudden feed change alters milk quality temporarily due to the cow's health, not fat percentage directly. Once the cow adjusts, milk fat returns to normal, governed by the cow's inherent temperament.
The Russian engineer A Kotin unveils a topy upside down mansion for the Paris exhibition. Visitors enter via the roof and move through rooms staged upside down with mirrors and clever tricks to create the illusion of walking on the ceiling and floors. A roof garden offers a panoramic view of the fair.
The Obelisk once from Thermes III and Rameses II, brought by William H. Vanderbilt, is crumbling in New York after 20 years. A glass case is ineffective. relocation to the Metropolitan Museum of Art east wing is proposed to preserve the 3,000 year-old relic for posterity amid strong public interest.
A humorous excerpt recounts a Porto Rican merchant tossed onto a veranda by a bull in Ponce, with a sailorly remark on luck and a grain drink ad promoting Grain-O as a non stimulative coffee substitute. The Grain-O pitch highlights nervous folks and children, urging readers to try it at 15 or 25 cents.
Quotations from the Somerville Journal describe a stout caller awaiting Elvira as she prepares upstairs. The boy offers to relay messages to speed things along either upstairs or downstairs to shorten the waiting time.
Winter hand care advice recommends wearing gloves for housework and outdoor activities. Wash with tepid ivory soap, dry on a soft towel, and avoid excessive washing or extreme temperatures. The text includes a brief unrelated dialogue about Maude’s divorce and a cook’s threat to leave from the Philadelphia Record.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway now runs solid trains of palace sleeping cars, dining cars serving meals a la carte, and first class day coaches from Chicago to Calumet, Houghton, Hancock and other Copre Country points with street connections to Marquette, Negaunee, Ishpeming. Passengers from the East, South and Southwest will find this a desirable route. All coupon ticket agents sell tickets via the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway.
Advertisements boast top class service to California Arizona Texas and Mexico with Pullman and Tourist Sleepers and weekly escorted tours from multiple Midwestern cities. Contact W N Neimyer Western Agent at 238 Clark St Chicago for particulars and agent details. A separate humorous exchange highlights merchant pricing on cracked eggs and selling cracked wheat.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal treatment that reaches the disease’s seat, claims it purifies blood and acts on mucous surfaces. It notes endorsement by a physician, lists Toledo makers J Cheney & Co, and states 75 cents at druggists. Also mentions Hall's Family Pills and a separate jest about a court appearance in Chicago.
Brevity ad extols Gulf Coast spots between Mobile and New Orleans for mild winter climate and outdoor recreation. Highlights L&N Railroad through cars from Northern cities and Florida connections. Encourages readers to write Geo B. Horner in St Louis for folders and details.
A collage of quotations from Detroit Free Press and Ally Sloper jokes, praising agreeable companions at whist, and mock advertisements for Grove's Tasteless Tonic and Laxative Bromo Quinine. Ends with a quip on gratitude and a snappy pill ad.
Rev. D Buchmueller of Lexington Missouri reports Pino's Cure for Consumption relieves the stubborn cough. A Chicago Daily News note laments selfishness as the only barrier to happiness.
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