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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1896
Page
8
An evocative guide to expanding dairy barn space at minimal cost. It describes adding a crosswise ell, silo placement in the hay bay, calf pens in stall angles, and a manure room with practical loading access. Tips include interior studding with boarding and paper, dead air space for warmth, and a movable feed car for ensilage and grain.
A Florida boy sheds his skin in a single piece resembling a perfect human form. San Antonio urges citywide dust reception measures as dust damages clothes. New Orleans residents lose taste for plantains. an old vender laments unsold stock. A Tampa Bay hotel quice kills a seven foot six inch rattlesnake with 14 rattles and a button, largest in the region. Capt Cosby and companions witness porpoises attack an octopus near Passa Grille, the squid fleeing to the shallows.
The note lists marching speeds of soldiers in various formations and defines Catholic cardinal classes. It reports President Buck of a Baptist female college declining a Washington university post and cites Moody being asked by a Northfield committee to consider leading a New York conference next fall for deeper spiritual life.
Russell Sage turns eighty. Sewall praised for Maine’s finest garden. Kate Field relics to Honolulu not county. Lord Sholto Douglas’ wife leaves Arizona for Oakland seeking fortune. She quit the stage at the marquis of Queensberry’s request. Elam Russell of Plainfield Indiana weighs 290 pounds and becomes father to a ten inch baby, birth weight 1% pounds, three weeks later 3 pounds. Mrs Russell weighs 150 pounds.
Railways worldwide carry over 40 million passengers weekly. The first street railway opened in New York in 1832 from city hall to Fourteenth street. The first American railroad began in 1836, a three mile line from Quincy to Neponset River.
A local testimonial from Barthol Wagner of Norborne Mo extols Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People as a cure for rheumatism claiming rapid relief and ongoing health. The note lists pills price and pharmacy details, with endorsements from Rev McMullen and others, plus side items about courage, poultry jokes, and Hostetter's Stomach Bitters.
The Chicago and Omaha fast mail trains boast modernized cars lit by Pintsch gas, new trucks, and improved couplings. Engine No. 590, built for trains 7 and 8, is in service, enabling Omaha trips in eleven and a half hours over 500 miles, with the flyer rarely late.
Advertises half rate round trips to southern points on the first and third Tuesday of each month through October. Tickets available via ticket agents. if sales are refused, write to the provided addresses in Louisville and St Louis. Also includes miscellaneous notes and ad snippets about cures and curiosities from period publications.
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