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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1899
Page
8
Advice from Agricultural Epitomist on saving and preparing corn stover. Choose early maturing varieties, cut before frost, husk and crib ears promptly, and store stover under cover or on a raised frame. Use a corn shredder to avoid waste, bale for market, and ensure proper field curing to prevent spoilage.
Lean pork is favored in foreign markets and rising demand at home. Hogs fed with corn plus skim milk, bran, shorts, linseed meal, beans, peas, clover and other nitrogenous foods grow faster and heavier than corn alone, cutting costs and boosting weight. Prairie Farmer notes the method promotes growth and weight.
Prairie Farmer argues cattle gains rely on beef-breed bulls and better feeding. It predicts fewer cattle west of the Mississippi and notes steers can reach market four years earlier with quality stock, boosting weight by about 50 percent.
In Mankville a D A R secretary notes Mrs Foraigne seeks membership, causing consternation as English-born but charming and helpful, the group weighs admitting her or disbanding to form a progressive supper club. They choose disbanding and reorganizing to accommodate her. Foot-Ease suit upholds trademark rights in Buffalo court.
Fragmentary clipping notes a wedding scene with a laugh about newspapers exposing the count and a line about the bride being given away by her father Platt. The piece includes ad-like snippets for Lane's Family Medicine and Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic and a quip from the Washington Democrat.
A summary of the New York Central and leased lines mileage east of Buffalo totaling 6,114.81 miles. It lists line segments including New York Central and branches 819.45 miles, New York & Harlem 735.90, Spuyten Duyvil & Port Morris 6.04, New York & Putnam 61.21, and other lines with notes on branches and siding totals. The piece mentions passenger traffic volume in densely populated states and notes the Nickel Plate Road service to New York City and Boston with three fast express trains daily and through routes with sleeping and dining cars.
A brief quote from the Picayune runs about spendthrifts wasting wealth and misers counting every cent, echoing a moral view on money and restraint. The line emphasizes constant struggle with wealth and thrift.
Texans urged to send a dollar to D J Price for a copy of Illustrator and General Narrator an attractive publication about the Empire State of the Southwest. Include a postage stamp for delivery. Also contains short notices about Piso's Cure for Consumption and a Town Topics quip.
W H B Williams of Columbus writes to Dr Hartman praising Pe-ru-Na as a family medicine after years of trying other remedies and noting its relief for his own catarrh and for his wife. He claims Pe-ru-Na benefits children in climatic illnesses and requests a free family medicine book from Dr Hartman in Columbus Ohio.
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