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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1900
Page
8
The article laments chickens dirtying feed and water when left to their own devices. It argues cleanliness matters, paralleling the saying cleanliness is next to godliness, and suggests dirt should be discouraged in poultry keeping.
An 1880s Farm and Fireside description details a ten to twelve inch high feed rack with hinged lid and wire slats for clean access. It supports watering vessels and various feeds like cabbage, turnips, and beets, keeping contents sanitary and elevating stock access.
This excerpt advises beekeepers that bees tolerate dry cold but fear dampness. Overheating honey injures color while poor ventilation causes damp hives. Winter losses exceed those from disease, fall-hatched bees endure to spring, and trading honey stores better than comb honey. Regulations advise winter work on warm days, drone removal to favor worker bees, and combining beekeeping with fruit growing for dual yields.
Advice on siting and design of Lucate Henhouses stresses avoiding northward placement behind evergreens or building blocks that block sun. Ensure sunlit windows on the south side to keep air dry and reduce moisture from the fowls, with sunshine valuable in winter and less needed in summer.
A fat steer of 1900 pounds holds about 500 pounds of water and small amounts of nitrogen, phosphoric acid, and potash. Fertilizer costs for nitrogen and phosphoric acid total roughly $4. The article notes farm economics of cattle feed versus selling hay and grain. It also discusses poultry housing, nest placement under roosts, and the use of absorbents like dry earth or kaolin to manage droppings without a droppings board.
Viola Tree eldest daughter of Boer Holm Tree appears on the London stage in amateur theatricals while not yet 16. Lotta pays $9,000 in taxes in Boston, still a millionaire. Gordon Craig, Ellen Terry’s son, leaves acting for graphic art and publishes The Page in London. Ndith designs Robespierre dresses and enters the costume business. A 50,000 stock company in Milan plans to perform church music and buys Santa Maria dello Pueni Church for 19,000 to convert into a music hall. Devonshire’s singeing tradition continues as James Parsons the hedger is dead, nicknamed The Singing Machine for all-night performances without repeating a piece.
The article notes electric lighting at Windsor’s Albert Memorial chapel and the opening of China’s first electric railway linking Peking Station with the capital’s south gate. It mentions a London burglar with an electric light set and uses in a Michigan insane asylum, plus a six year history of a hot electric boat on a Venetian canal aiding electric launches between the Lido and Piazzetta.
A Liverpool physician claims discovery of pink-ore bacillus. Coaching by rail cost five to six pounds York to London. Ten year rise of 2,000 annually cited. Insane numbers noted in Britain with milkmaids fearing cows will go dry unless hands are washed during tanking. Frozen kangaroo tails sold in London meat market for soup. Since 1558 Britain’s vast empire and population noted, with a bungled financial figure. A London physician was sentenced to twelve months for stealing letters, losing a pension and £200 to the Post Office Benefit society.
A letter from Minnesota farmer Alex Cameron to Canadian Agent Benj Davis recounts Western Canada as a growing, hopeful wheat region. He notes rapid settlement near Dale sboro and Assa, with many new homes, a planned church, and improving prospects for crops, while sharing anecdotes of land seekers and local tensions. Cameron mentions Arthur Pinney planning to move in March and asks for assistance to ease the transition.
A fragmented OCR style clipping shows a professor of English at a Kansas university mocked by students with garbled whispers. It wanders through citations from Chicago Chronicde and Detroit Free Press style jokes, Grain-O ads, and travel notes for rail lines to Florida and Porto Rico. The item mirrors varied period notices, humorous quips, and product pitches from the era.
A passenger demanded the conductor stop where he wished, leading to the motorman ringing the yell cord and the trolley’s lever snapping to motion. The result left the agitated rider stranded in the street as the car moved on, the clash captured by the New York Sun.
The New York Sun notes spruce is undervalued as a costly wood used for tops of stringed instruments where finer grain adds desirability. Rosewood value depends on color and quality, priced from 1.25 to 10 cents a pound. Adirondack spruce from thirty grain would exceed even the finest rosewood, yet such a log may be unseen in a thousand.
A collage of fragmentary aphorisms and advertisements from a late 19th or early 20th century page. Items include a mocked insult about jewelry durability, a baptismal sponsorship story, a battle over military immunity humor, Niagara power history notes, a pondsmith-like product ad, a Holmes quote, patent medicine lines, and assorted local blurbs.
Readers describe relief from change of life symptoms after using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. Mrs Gro from Brooklyn reports nine years of bladder and liver trouble improved, Mrs Prikuam notes rapid relief and renewed strength, and Mrs Burner in Illinois credits lasting health gains and repeated recommendations. A Bradford woman also endorses benefits.
John Evans of South Wabash Indiana reports his wife Polly J Evans fully cured of systemic catarrh after using Peruna. He notes twelve years earlier it cured la grippe and claims Peruna treats chronic catarrh by cleansing mucous membranes and restoring health. He urges others afflicted to try the remedy and says free books on catarrh are available.
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