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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1899
Page
6
The article discusses the road movement led by the League of American Wheelmen urging investment in common roads as essential to transport, arguing highways rival railways for moving goods. It notes farmer support, impending political issue potential, and claims road improvements cut transport costs by about 20 percent where stone roads exist.
The New Smyrna Breeze argues the state could profit more from convict labor by using it on public works rows rather than other methods, suggesting retained imprisonment is less efficient and less profitable.
A feature notes dairy cows are highly sensitive to conditions, reacting to favorable or adverse factors with measurable effects on health and productivity. It stresses careful management and attentive care as essential to successful dairy farming.
A survey of curiosities including transparent seaweed paper for windshields, Prussian blue from horse hoof ash, Dr Palisa naming Slatin for a small planet discovered on March 9, and a 600 of 1,000 piano girls developing nervous troubles. Also notes on Gossamer iron, hydrogen light in hospitals, fire suppression nets, backbrain theory, and horizon illusion.
From American Gardening comes practical cautions for beekeepers. Do not let colonies run short of feed or rely on a single dealer for instant orders. Do not swarm imprudently or neglect weak queens. Do not expect extreme profits from every colony or overhaul brood nests with foundation. Avoid oversized moth traps and poor hives.
Advice on dairy care highlights clean cows reduce overfeeding and wind down feeding before calving. Emphasizes salting, early milking before calving, careful heat management, and timely warmth rather than medicine. Notes value of a temperate wife in butter quality and farm harmony.
A young Arkansas boy cut his throat after his mother forbade him from swimming. In another report, a Stroudsburg man hanged himself using an apple tree fork as a noose, amid a personal crisis.
A collage of poems from Chicago Daily News and Washington Star urges graduates to stay optimistic. It champions perseverance, honest work, and courage after exams, and critiques pessimism in journalism and fiction. A spider parable from the Washington Star adds a cautionary note about deceit and temptation.
An all-America War Panoramas album contains 160 half-tone engravings from U S Army in service Cuba Ha van Manila and more showing heroes Dewey Hobson Roosevelt Miles and others with scenes of officers troops ships and hospitals. Free postage 12 cents and limited edition order via Warren J. Lynch Big Four Route Cincinnati.
An old newspaper card features mock testimonials and ads for Pizo's Cure for Consumption and California Fig Syrup Co. laxative. It mocks medical claims while recalling the era's quack remedies and lists various locations and promotional lines.
Mrs Sunter writes from HigamsyitiE Missouri to Urs Pinkham praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She recounts near fatal ulceration of the womb last year, ten weeks bedridden, two months on the remedy with Liver Pills and Sanative Wash, weight rising from 138 to 155 pounds, and calls the medicine the best she ever used. She recommends it to friends.
A reader-letter testimonial from Banngagr New Castle Pa praises a medicine for curing long term ailments following seven years of marriage. The writer recounts multiple pregnancies miscarriages and chronic pains then reports relief and renewed vitality, crediting the treatment.
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