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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1901
Page
8
A compact four foot high smokehouse box with a three by five footprint and side door supports smoking meat for home consumption. The design uses sloped ground, a stovepipe oven, corncob fuel, and a metal top to redirect smoke, enabling several hundred pounds of meat to be smoked safely on a farm.
Describes plumage markers for bronze turkeys to indicate breed purity. Details include rich bronze color, black bands on feather ends, black or dark flight feathers, bronzy wing bows and centers, black tails with light brown bands, and leg color shifting from dark to pinkish purple with age.
A Salvation Army captain notes a zealous member missing meetings. She replies that a bad cold and a runny nose ruin her enjoyment of prayer, declaring she is all right spiritually but cannot attend because her nose “runa and spoile all youre enjoyment.”
A humorous anecdote contrasts wit and humor from a Detroit Free Press piece. It mentions the Lackawanna route from New York to Buffalo, praising exclusive coal-fired passenger service and scenic mountain travel as a luxury, with a light jab at the flat plains.
A brief exchange from the Boston Timea noting a man as the most sensible of animals. One speaker claims that he thinks he is, making it easy for two women to fool him, illustrating wit over gender.
Johnny Wize delivers a hand written piece listing internal organs and foods like stomach lungs heart liver two apples pie and a stick of lemon candy after a teacher admonishes against flights of fancy. The Baltimore American notes the humorous result as a lesson in authenticity.
A dialogue frames a young dry goods clerk as a traveler stopping at a Seaside hotel. The ad urges East West travelers to seek Nickel Plate Road for lowest rates, attentive service, first and second class comfort, and dining car meals priced between thirty five and one dollar, with semi weekly transcontinental tourist cars linking Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
A physician notes the patient dies very calmly while the prospective widow recalls his easygoing nature. The Baltimore American source frames the death with a quiet, personal reflection on the deceased.
The speaker, a farmer voice, argues against taxing raw sugar to protect beet growers. He notes the current beet price, questions the tax’s benefit to most farmers, and calls for repealing the duty to lower sugar costs. He urges farmers to write to their congressman and push for repeal for cheaper sugar and broader public benefit.
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