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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1903
Page
3
A stone foundation seven room house design for a 25 foot front lot measures 18 by 46 feet with a one story kitchen. Features include 9 foot ceilings on upper floors, 7 foot basement, built in china closet, porcelain kitchen sink, two by four framing, open arches between living spaces, fireplaces with mantels, two coat pine finish, green and white exterior, cedar shingle gables, and a stone cap chimney.
The article explains building a DIY brooder using an oil stove or lamp to heat a small platform, with iron pipes and heated sheet iron to warm chicks. It advises keeping chicks indoors at night for up to three weeks, then outdoors in a netted run, and stresses cleanliness to control lice. It cites a Rhode Island poultry school feed plan with four daily feeds including cracked grains, millet seed, soft feed, and beef scrap, plus daily green food and ample animal matter for rapid growth.
Advertorial letters from New York and Minneapolis endorse Peruna as a cure for la grippe and catarrh. Officials and businessmen recount rapid recovery after using Peruna, contrasting it with slower results from doctors. Testimonials urge Board of Health recognition and offer free medical advice from Dr. Hartman in Columbus.
The Eldorado Republican reports that Wahoo tribe leader Abe Matheney described arrowhead manufacture. Squaws broke flint rock in fire heated pieces, cooled with water, and chipped off bits to shape each head, a slow process leaving rough surfaces.
This item warns farmers to avoid changing food for ewes near lambing, use elover hay and avoid corn, limit feeding young pigs to prevent indigestion and scours, milk heifers late into pregnancy, and ease cows off heavy feed three weeks before calving, noting wheat bran as optimal during that period.
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