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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1895
Page
8
A dairy counter speaker recalls childhood life tending bees and swarms. He describes avoiding stings for years, the thrill of handling swarms, multiple stings from a bee lodging near his eye, and the shift away from bee keeping after leaving the farm. The account reflects differing attitudes to bees from different people.
J. A. Craig in Colman’s Rural World advises beginners to study farm conditions, start small with purebred ram first, select healthy strong animals, avoid ill performing sheep, and prioritize uniformity and quality. The best time to buy is usually in the fall with savvy seller arrangements to extend ram use.
A practical chicken coop can be built in minutes from a dry goods box. The roof uses light boards with slatted ends for ventilation, a board door on one roof side provides access, and interior cleaning is simple by scraping waste out through a corner door.
A Dover family describes paralysis and facial deformity cured by Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People after doctors failed. The mother credits the pills with restoring function and vitality and offers to testify to the truth of her statements. The article notes the pills’ sale by druggists or by mail from Dr Williams Medicine Co.
The Stage notes Tsents plans to supervise a New York production of Tis Excellency, while Mrs Patrick Casturee and Forbes Robertson will open London's Lyceum season next September with Romeo and Juliet. A Paris court fines Sanay Bermanner 3 francs for employing two underage children after 9 PM at the Renaissance theater. Loxpoax may soon see the Earl of Rosslyn as a professional actor. The Earl earned his title through service as lord high chancellor under William I. When Henry Irving was knighted, the Comedie Francaise sent a congratulatory address signed by Jules Claretie Mounet Sully and the secretaries. At ten performances of Tigmi Vierges at the Gymnase 59,724 francs were taken, a figure only exceeded in 1887 by L Albbe Constanten, a noted French comedy.
In a clipped fashion column snippet, the Eskimos are described with no chairs or stools and a habit of men sitting cross legged in huts while women sit flat. A reader named Mrs Snaces comments on yellow as a future fashion color and Mr Shaggs jokes about their baby being in style as yellow.
Galesburg track owner C W Williams reports a month of advance work for the summer meeting from August 26 to September 7. A 152000 item advertising car will push statewide promotion as 1000+ horses enter and the grand purse tops any previous meet. The city readies 5000 seats, improved stands, and ample lodging as fans anticipate 188 races over eight weeks with $14000 purses and a strong fall meeting setup. George Redfield’s pacing dog Sport returns from Denver to boost excitement.
The excerpt cites Alphonse Dandet belittling English women in crude terms and contrasting Parisian women with English ideals. It also notes Ammioria’s first analysis by Joseph Priestley in 1774, recounting alchemists’ attributing powers and superstition to its pungency.
An ad style snippet extols Salter's Monster Rye as a top paying crop with winter rye yields of 60 bushels per acre and 40 to 60 bushels for winter wheat. It mentions fall seeding grasses and clovers and invites readers to request catalogues and samples from John A. Salter Seed Co. La Crosse Wisconsin.
An ad for No-To-Buc by Sterling Remedy Co claims tobacco use causes sore throat and consumption and promises a cure through Druggists. It offers a free book and markets the product as a life change aid, referencing a Fielding quote about joy and silence.
An aged reader notes that infirmities lessen with age but remain, and endorses Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy. The tonic is praised as invigorating, antirheumatic, and restorative, with claims it relieves dyspepsia constipation biliousness and kidney trouble and suits the delicate.
A reflective line notes the quiet tenderness in Chaucer, suggesting the reader can hear hot tears and simple words sobbed out, as Lowell captures a fragile, emotional moment.
A curious glossary note explains Prasco as a bottle or flagk and recounts colonial areas: British 8,000,000 sq mi. French 3,000,000. Dutch 160,000. Portuguese 200,000. Spanish 170,000. German 99,000. Danish 74,000. Palmists say the thumb signals truth, while gunpowder grains are hexagonal prisms with slow ignition similar to wood.
In London the flower trade is estimated at 25000 dollars per day. In Southwark the Crossed Keys inn, once owned by John Harvard in 1637, is slated for demolition. The Improved Industrial Dwelling Company claims London’s death rate fell from forty to eleven per thousand due to its work.
A jumble of old advertisements and snippets references true remedies like Syrup of Figs and Piso's Cure for Consumption, along with product pitches for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Glenn's Sulphur Soap. The text includes stray quotes, a legal phrase about a writ of attachment, and miscellaneous commentary.
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