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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1902
Page
8
An advertisement seeks a young man of high character and honesty to manage a branch for a large New York mercantile house. An ambitious daily worker with executive ability should apply with full particulars and references from respected community men. Financeal, P. O. Box 133, New York. P. O.
A collage notes fowl origins tracing a Chinese rat domestication to 1400 B C, claims the human voice travels 15 480 feet, lauds Panama hats from Jipijapas Montecristi Ecuador, and mentions a New York Omar Khayyam restaurant near the Waldorf Astoria with spicy rice curry dishes. Representative Babcock of Wisconsin shaved his black beard, delaying entry to the House floor until identification after 15 years unshaved.
Sarah E Rowe of Sheperd Illinois is 72 and in unusually good health after claiming Dodd s Kidney Pills cured her long standing kidney trouble. She says the remedy stopped bladder pain and scalding during urination and she feels better than in twenty years.
Samuel T. Brittain of Boston Massachusetts has designed a device to ease boat launches on feeble beaches. The system uses a motor geared by chains to rear gear wheels and a handle to steer the propeller. Pivoted blades on the propulsion wheel deploy during water movement to push the craft forward.
The article outlines two experimental schemes to tap tidal and wave energy. One uses tidal waterwheels in an inlet to extract energy from tides. The other deploys buoy systems anchored to compress air with wave action. Both projects are well funded and slated for thorough testing.
A farm near Scarborough raises butterflies and moths with an annual output of 20 000 over two seasons. The note mentions a contrast with medical treatment of two children, reflecting a sensational exchange between Dr Dosem and Mrs Gabb in a New York weekly excerpt.
A prospective suburban home is featured with a full cellar under the entire house, stone walls, a cement floor, and a hot air furnace that heats all rooms. Floor plans show room arrangements, and a front porch spans the entire width with an additional porch on the side leading to the dining room.
A two story cottage plan features 1x11 hall and 12x13.4 dining room on the first floor with a 10x12.6 kitchen. Second floor holds four bedrooms and a bath with compact sizes listed. Built with hemlock timber, plaster interiors, cypress woodwork, ash staircase, dark bronze hardware, and white painted exterior. Erection cost ranges 1600 to 2000 dollars depending on location. Architect Stanley A Dennis of 0 Broadway, New York City, designed the house.
A compact eight by five foot wooden poultry house with front doors and windows, plus interior wire doors, serves as brooder shelter, coop, and colony house for laying hens. It can house fifty chicks in summer and fall and supports roosts, nest boxes, and separate settings for setting hens or cockerels.
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