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Newspaper

Weekly Call

Location

Troy, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jun 14, 1902

Page

8

The Sunday School Lesson on Romans Lays Love as Law

A 1902 Sunday School note on Romans 13 8 14 urges owe no one but love one another. It describes the law fulfilled by love and the call to awaken cast off darkness and clothe oneself with the armor of light. The piece outlines Pauls view of rhe Roman churchs makeup and the practical duties of sincerity kindness honesty and brotherly love.

Jesus Christ Corinth Ann Paul Christ Rome Chricé

Shady Resting Place Description for Summer Shade

A country gentleman describes a wooden shaded shelter with white duck or striped awning cloth. It features a dry floor, a hammock setup between opposite corners, and braced frame supports ensuring a clean surface for children to play and for weather comfort.

Farmers Voice: Profit by Smart Planting and Irrigation

Facts for farmers urge cultivating broom corn until two feet high with frequent passes then skip unless moisture needs return. If crop area exceeds handling capacity, abandon some fields and focus on thorough cultivation. Irrigation promises high returns, suggesting farmers invest in personal systems, especially in arid regions.

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Brome Grass Outperforms Timothy in North Dakota Study

Researchers compared brome grass and timothy at a North Dakota station across five cuttings. Brome yielded 6,537.6 pounds of green grass and 1,628.3 pounds dry matter per acre, while timothy produced 4,681.6 pounds green forage and 1,422.8 pounds dry matter. Brome grass shows greater potential for permanent pasture and provides about double the protein of timothy, with similar fiber. its larger root system also suggests stronger humus production and soil improvement.

North Dakota

Ration for Young Turkeys and Hen Dusting Tips

Guidance on feeding young turkeys using stale wheat and corn bread with hard boiled eggs, salt and pepper. Emphasizes grit in feed and lice prevention with ash dusting of the hen and chicks, greasing with butter or lard and coal oil, and notes poverty among farmers.

Breeding for a Class Dominates Modern Horse Market

C. L. Petters argues in Prairie Farmer that revived horse breeding requires selecting a market class such as road or coach horse, cab horse, draft horse, or American trotter. Farmers should breed for a specific type, discard mixed virtues, and aim for high prices by excelling in one usable class rather than producing general-purpose horses.

C. L. Petters Prairie Farmer

Strong Whiffletree and Hog Care Tips From Farm and Home

A three quarter inch steel strong whiffletree for cultivators shown to avoid crop injury. Also tips on hog care from Farm and Home advise clean pens, ample water, charcoal, air slaked lime for disinfectant, and disease prevention. An Iowa farmer shares a potato feeding method for hogs to speed market weight, plus cautions on starting, and Prof. Curtis recommends a slop mix of corn shorts soy beans for sows with pigs.

Willard Sheaf Iowa Lelean C. F. Curtis Iowa Experiment Station

Practical Household Hints From A.R. Column

MERE SUGGESTIONS. The text offers simple at home tips on food handling cleaning and preservation. Advice covers milk and acids handling poultry timing after killing sponges sponges cleaning white marble washstands steel ornaments storage starch for shine egg whites beating with salt weekly hairbrush cleaning with cloudy ammonia and proper rinsing and drying methods.

Industrial Items and Miscellaneous Notes from 1902

The season 1901-2 beet sugar output for Germany Austria and France is estimated at 4 815 000 tons. A day's work by an average man would produce enough heat to raise 63 pounds of water from freezing to boiling. Consul Haynes reports American men’s shoes superior in appearance and comfort to French shoes. Raw beet sugar costs $2 02 per centner in Germany while cane sugar costs $1 47 per centner in Cuba Hawaii and the Philippines. A record large steel safe nearing completion for a life insurance company at Wartford will cost $185 000 and weigh 42 000 pounds. England forms a company to use Edison’s iron ore patent to exploit deposits on Norway’s west coast.

Germany Austria France Consul Haynes Rotten Cuba Hawaii Philippines Wartford England Mr. Edison Norway

Electrical progress and world lighting in the late 19th century

The text notes Sparks and flashes as heat and electricity conductors with Silver as best, copper next. It cites Mexico City's 50 miles of electric street railroad and being highly lighted. It recalls the first telephone wire Boston to Somerville in 1877, and predicts near complete electric rail from New York to Buffalo by year’s end. It mentions a cable project linking Britain and Belgium under the North Sea and explains incandescent lamps waste 94 percent as heat.

Mexico City Boston Somerville New York State Buffalo Belgium North Sea

An ounce of prevention no. Celery and vegetables claim cures

A brief list suggests celery promotes sleep asparagus cleanses blood tomatoes affect the liver and spinach and dandelion leaves aid the kidneys. The tone resembles a column recommending natural remedies with emphasis on plant foods for health.

Odds and Ends Ad Snippet Focuses On Remedies

An assortment of medical ad copy items cites Allen's foot base for swollen feet, 2 cent price at druggists, and assertive testimonials. Also included are quips about professions, a cough remedy claim for Piso’s Cure, and a Chicago Daily News ad line. Ends with a dated testimonial from Wm. O. Endsley in Van Buren Indiana.

Allen Olmsted

Interesting Little Bits From The Scene

Tobacco was grown last year at 28 different places in Ireland. A Bristol Channel title record rise reached seventy feet. For a quarter century Swindon in Sussex has seen no new houses built. Europe hosts 587 languages yet 90 percent speak the seven principal tongues. A transatlantic steamer with a full mail brings about 200000 letters and 300 sacks of newspapers for London plus about 500 sacks for other ports.

Ireland Bristol Channel Sussex England Swindon Europe London

After Twenty Years In Lusks Springs Ind

William Catterson of Lusks Springs reports his wife, long ill with neuralgia, rheumatism, and a failing constitution, improved dramatically after using Dodd’s Kidney Pills. From the start she improved and is nearly well, and he praises the tablets for the recovery.

Lusks Springs Ind William Catterson Mr. Catterson Dodd

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