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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1903
Page
8
W. Hutt argues at the Ontario Farmers Institute that farmers neglect woodlots as unproductive. Proper systematic forestry can turn coppice into a growing source of fuel and merchantable timber, increasing permanent value over years.
A Farm era s Review excerpt by W. J. Fraser advises dairy barn placement with gentle slopes for natural drainage. It details grading and graveling parts of the yard yearly, mixing clay to harden top layers, and bedding the yard to keep cows out of mud.
A collection of short notes on humane cow handling and milking setup. It warns against dumping milk into a basement spout to avoid filthy chutes, suggests a pail lowering system or a slide, and recounts a punchy tale of a patient Irish milker. It highlights calm voices, patience, and kindness to cows as financially prudent. A note from Rural World ends with a curious butter as fuel anecdote and a California creamery fire saved by using butter to power a pump.
An old physics professor explains why a hot house stays warm. Sunlight enters through glass and becomes heat when striking objects inside, yet long heat waves cannot pass back out. The result is heat accumulation, making the hothouse warm even on cold winter days.
A table or chute for sorting apples to keep them off the ground is described, with guidance to place fruit on a sorting table and quickly barrel and head away. The piece notes chestnut cultivation can succeed under proper gate and moisture, and that chestnuts offer valuable annual income while timber harvests await. It emphasizes planting trees for future generations and comments on suitability for waste areas.
A humorous anecdote from Chicago Post about a wife joking that her ledgers showed eight dollars and fifteen cents more than she had, and she felt free to spend the excess. Her husband argues it proves a shortfall, she counters the balance proved the extra. He now urges giving up bookkeeping.
An Arkansas merchant, E J Hicks, reports chronic pain and fatigue after the Civil War, claiming improvement after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He states he began with three pills daily, increased to six, and now sleeps and eats well with no lingering aches. He urges others to use the remedy.
An irate passenger confronts a railway inspector over line service. The inspector retorts that service is improving, noting last year the train was consistently 50 minutes late. The exchange captures tensions over punctuality and progress.
An assortment of old advertisements and quotes about remedies for coughs colds and illnesses. It promotes Stopa Bromo Quinine tablets Piso's Cure for Consumption and various medical claims from the era. Includes brief lines about doctors and cures with dated references and a few humorous snippets.
Miss Marie Armitage of Detroit explains how a six month Peruna course relieved five years of uterine irregularities and hysteria. She asserts the remedy cured her catarrh and restored health, urging other women to try it as a cure for female ailments caused by catarrh.
The text warns that pelvic catarrh causes widespread weakness and nervousness in women, urging that catarrh progresses harms the body. It promotes Perma as a permanent cure, claims to fix chronic cases, and directs readers to write to Dr. Hartman of the Hartman Sanitarium in Columbus, Ohio for guidance.
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