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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1895
Page
8
A historical note describes a crude poultry raising technique using a barrel as a confinement device. Farmers drive a stake, tie the hen with cloth, and place straw and bricks to deter predators, letting fowls range but keeping them near the coop. The method aims to protect hens and broods while avoiding rats and cats.
Instructions from Farmers' Review describe converting a barrel into two animal coops. It explains splitting the barrel lengthwise, nailing hoops to staves, and sawing to form two end sections. Tips cover placement to shield from wind and cold, adjusting openings to deter rats, and using movable ends for sun or shade.
The history describes black sheep in America from 1648 to 1865, noting pure black wool used without dye, common in central Indiana flocks, with four to six pounds of wool per sheep. It explains recent price declines due to easy dyeing, leading to abandonment of black wool. Ohio Farmer.
A fragmented note discusses tracking eggs laid by hens, weighing fowls, and totaling pounds of poultry to assess losses and production. It mentions seasons, sales, and the need to know how many eggs were produced, sold, or burned in the family context.
Jefferson M. Clough once plagued by rheumatism and bedridden pain recovers after using Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. Once unable to rise, he now manages his Belchertown farm, viewing Grenadier Island and the St Lawrence River from his home. Pills are sold in boxes with the trademark and wrapper for 50 cents each or six for 2.50.
A Washington Star passage notes a youth's repeated heart failure as he struggled to obtain his father's consent for marriage. The fragment hints at a troubled engagement and concern over the heart condition affecting his actions and prospects.
Sage Reasoning and Miss Goodleigh discuss heaven marriages as per the Bible. Miss Up to date argues no marriages there due to no wedding gifts, citing the New York World. The scene shifts to a conversation where Esmerelda Longecoffin notes Birdie McGinnis’s pallor, humorously attributing it to dyspepsia and a drugstore box.
A fragment shows a club incident where Tommy fainted and a joke about kicking the bucket followed. The text references a misread cuff saw and a boy named Tommy, with a digressive exchange about fear and mortality.
A fragment from Chicago Record notes Maude and Mabelle Snubbs at an old lace counter with talk of heirlooms. A cartoonish exchange in Puck mocks clairvoyants and hair readings. Brooklyn Life quips a burned house leaving cigars as a brand.
The piece notes the British Museum housing 700 theological works on creation, 38 Endeavor societies in China with 1,060 members, and Bishop Coxe condemning Thanksgiving revelry. It cites Storrs church gifts topping $20,000, Baptist gains of 140,483 members, widespread street preaching, Salvation Army progress in India, and Methodism’s 45,000 edifices worth 168 million dollars with 28.41 million in benevolences for 1893.
A montage of imperial riches cites the king of Siam valued at over a million dollars, Loxpon's thirty earners above 500000 annually, and the sultan of Turkey spending 30000000 yearly. Rothschild wealth said to have doubled to 2000000000. A Boston man, Joshua Sears, pays 48019.03 in taxes on real estate assessed at 3751000. Bank of England notes worth twenty million exit daily as ledgers fill with a day’s records. An editorial jab promotes Hostetter's Stomach Hitters as a remedy for fatigue, malaria, and digestive ills, while a comic quip about a toothless baby ends with a dentist father. The Philadelphia Times notes dramatic companies drift where light and houses abound.
An editorial in the St Louis Journal of Agriculture promotes No-To-Bae, claiming many cured cases including a prominent architect after two boxes. The ad claims no cure, no pay, and lists Sterling Remedy Co. from New York or Chicago as purveyors.
A fragmentary historical notice catalogs Adirondack wilderness birds鯟 the Apsowrety Pore and their tameness around hunter camps. It also touts Dropsy treatment by H. H. Green & Bons of Atlante Georgia and promotes various ad-like quotes including Piso's Cane for Consumption and Glenn's Sulphur Soap with multiple dated references and stray aphorisms.
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