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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1902
Page
8
An ad for Allen’s Shoe Medicine promises relief for painful swollen feet and helps shoes fit. Sold by druggists and shoe stores with a warning against substitutes. Breezy, odd phrasing suggests a catalog blurb from a late 19th or early 20th century issue.
A letter from Congressman Botkin to Dr Hartman extols Peruna and Manglin for curing stomach catarrh and constipation. Real estate agent J F Verdery of Augusta Georgia also voices relief from dyspepsia after trying many physicians. The ad invites readers to write for free medical advice from Dr Hartman of Columbus Ohio.
Washington May 8 The weather bureau summary reports a week of favorable temperatures and abundant rain across the central valleys lake region and mid Atlantic with drought relief in the Ohio valley except southern Illinois. Heavy rains slow corn planting in parts of Missouri upper Mississippi and Ohio valleys while winter wheat and oats show mixed progress and local damage from frosts. Harvesting advances in several states. cotton fields mostly clean though grassy areas and boll weevil activity rise in Texas Oklahoma Alabama.
Wire netting is widely used by poultry keepers to fence fowls but has drawbacks. Chickens escape if the bottom is not blocked by a board along the full length or pegs are driven to restrain them.
Fred O. Sibley explains from Ohio Farmer that sturdy bottom bindings with good netting prevent birds from escaping and fighting. For yards separated by wire, use boards at the base or build a simple lath fence to create a neat division that looks good and walls off cockerels.
A veteran poultryman warns that egg eating is hard to cure but easier to prevent. Increase exercise and varied feed, gather eggs often, provide resting perches, and place porcelain eggs. Use dark nests and feed additives such as flour, mustard, and red pepper mixed with water to render eggs unpalatable. Place the mixture with shells on the floor to entice hens to eat the decoys. Continue until hens avoid real eggs. this method reportedly yields positive results.
A farmer questions whether plowing fresh manure under to soil depth loses nutrients and proposes alternatives. He cites grinding straw and litter, mixing cob meal, and running through stables, then applying and harrowing so nutrients stay in topsoil. He suggests applying manure to young grass to be plowed next year.
The southern uplands need humus and legumes in a short rotation provide better soil fertility than grasses in a longer cycle. About 11,000 acres of ender beet will be grown for the China factory, 4,000 acres more than ever planted for this factory.
A distorted clipping references Uncle Jerry praising the shovel fish of South America for its snout and bait digging. It also contains multiple vintage medical ads and quotes praising remedies like Bromo Quinine, Piso’s Cure, Honey and Tar, and Pike’s Toothache Drops, with dates and attributions mixed in fractured text.
The Burlington Route offers unmatched summer round trip fares to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo. From St Louis 21 dollars, from Kansas City 15 dollars, from Chicago 25 dollars, valid all summer. Other periods are one fare plus 2 dollars. Write L W Wakeley G P A Pine Street St Louis Mo for particulars.
David Warfield will stage Dinkelsniel next season. Beau Brummel paid Clyde Witch 1000 dollars while royalties from late plays reach 50000 dollars. Hazlitt writes weekly lectures on Authors. Amelia Earle will marry a western ranch owner and leave the stage. Writers and critics clash on historical novels. Ethel Knight Mollison joins Richard Mansfield's leading lady list after years with a Philadelphia stock company.
Star City Arkansas May 26. A man suffered two years with a head burning ache baffling doctors. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills the pain gradually vanished. A recent La Grippe illness kept him from work but the pills banished the trouble completely. His son George also benefited from the remaining pills.
Milwaukee readers share a testimonial praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female troubles. Mrs. Sadie E Koch recounts months of illness and nearly losing her health, crediting the remedy with restoring her well being for a year and urging women to seek Mrs Pinkham's free guidance in Lynn Massachusetts.
A brief dialogue reveals Papa Woa’s cautious approval of a marriage proposal. A bystander notes the father muttered something like Thank heaven, at Inez, suggesting guarded acceptance amid social scrutiny.Chicago Daily News comments on the phrase. Cleveland Plain Dealer quote hints at social expectations.
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