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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1896
Page
8
A collage of recipes and culinary notes from Farmer's Vice to Housekeeper, detailing ginger cake, molasses-based bakes, Glucinum notes, fried hominy cakes, pudding sauce, and steamed pudding. Includes measurements, substitutions, and a brief chemistry mention of beryllium from the Chicago Record and Blanch L. Macdonell notes.
A Western lawyer recalls defending a Missouri preacher charged with stealing railroad wood. He notes the prosecutor brought strong evidence and 20 business witnesses on character. The lawyer exposed kleptomania as a defense, physicians testified, and the defendant was acquitted, afterward stealing with impunity.
Modern Critlelym a sturdy five year old boy joins a fin de siecle suburb kindergarten. He rebels at books and mocks the school with two elder brothers in advanced study. On returning home he declares his school is where you do not learn anything. The Rio Grande del Norte border region is noted as lengthy and walkable in dry seasons.
A travel writer recounts a Georgia chain gang building roads near Fort Valley and Hall's peach orchard. He describes armed guards, striped uniforms, and iron balls, noting the work's efficiency and low county cost, while praising convict labor over jail confinement and calling for broader use.
The snippet discusses planting trees with cost phrases and emphasizes preparing wide holes filled with loamy soil for a strong start. It contrasts thorough hole preparation with poor basins in hard soil, urging careful timing and proper preng e planting to ensure vigorous healthy trees.
The editor urges readers to grow early vegetables and Salzer's Seeds are promoted as the best for early yields. Claims Salzer is the largest grower of vegetables and seeds, with radishes cabbages peas beets cucumbers lettuce corn and more. Send 10c postage to John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wisconsin for a sample Early Bird Radish and catalog.
A brief reflection notes that pride causes uneasiness and mental disquiet, while humility offers remedy. Mrs. Sigourney emphasizes humility as a guiding virtue over boasting.
An advertisement claims deafness cannot be cured by local applications, attributing it to inflammation of the Eustachian tube and catarrh. It offers 100 dollars for a case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, invites requests for circulars, and promotes Hall's Family Pills. The item includes a comic exchange about advertising timing.
Tickets from northern cities to Louisville & Nashville routes in Tennessee Alabama Mississippi Florida and part of Kentucky cost a single round trip fare. Valid return within thirty days with southbound stopovers. For details contact agents C P Atmore Lewisville Ky Jackson Smith Cincinnati J K Ridgely Chicago Geo Horder St Louis.
A fragmentary excerpt presents quotes attributed to Diogenes and Bacon on friendship liberty and fortune. It mentions relieving Turvar Diszasea and Covess and suggests using Brown's Bronchial Traches for health relief.
An ad touts Syrup of Figs as a pure liquid laxative that cleanses the system and aids kidneys liver and bowels without weakening them. It claims wide medical approval, pleasant taste, and relief from colds headaches fevers and constipation, sold in 50¢ and $1 bottles by druggists, manufactured only by the California Fig Syrup Co.
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