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Newspaper
Weekly Call
Location
Troy, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1895
Page
8
An Ohio farmer's illustration shows a hand cutting knife with a serrated edge produced by corrugated crimping. The blade is ground on one side, offering a sharp knife edge that binds and cuts better than smooth blades, requiring about half the effort to cut a batch of corn.
The illustration labels a rooster with numbered parts and names: comb face wattle deaf ears or earlobe hackle breast back saddle hackles tail coverts true tail feathers wing bow wing coverts bar secondaries primaries point of breast bone thighs hocks legs or shanks spur toes or claws. N. E. Homestead.
Rye sown early can be safely pastured in fall and helps kill weeds. The orchard should be cleared of brush to prevent insects. Rubbish should be fixed on premises to avoid litter. Dry seed ears kept from rats. Discusses slaughterhouses near Chicago and Oregon and dairy expansion in Wisconsin. Minnesota law requires destruction of Russian thistles or face fines. County commissioners set a date to enforce the weed control.
The mutton breeds Oxford Downs Shropshires and Hampshire Downs show rapid growth under high feeding. Tests indicate lambs can reach 100 pounds live weight by 100 days old and some animals weighing 426 pounds were exhibited at the Centenary show, illustrating potential gains for meat production.
The Boston auctioneer Frank T. Ware recounts a six year struggle with paralysis linked to a hereditary condition. After failing many remedies he attributes recovery to Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. Ware, now over seventy, remains active and credits the pills for restoring strength and vitality. He notes his grandfather and father died of paralysis and suggests earlier access to the pills might have saved them.
A fragmentary dialogue notes a $5,000 life policy taken last week prior to a killing. Speakers comment on luck and premiums, with grim humor about a man who has paid twenty five years without returns. The piece reflects column gossip and opinion from the Chicago Record and Washington Star.
A brief comedic item from Philadelphia about a trolley car conductor demanding fare. The conductor and passenger exchange lines over the thirty or sixpence fare, highlighting city transit manners and street theater of daily life.
A Chicago man injured his throat by potash at age eight and has survived on milk for sixteen years. A folding chair severed Floyd Rhinehardt’s right-hand fingers at the joints in Mana wa. Frans Rogers, disguising as a ghost, was killed when a pitchfork stabbed his eye and brain. Yale Professor Wayland cites eight million habitual criminals in the U S not in prison. A needle under a microscope seems inch wide. Kansas has towns with no inhabitants and a $30,000 theater in Saratoga. A Sebree man found $500 in a ground jug after striking a ramrod. A large cave with rich geology was found near Big Meadow Oregon, four miles explored. Local savants will study it.
Arx in Provence erects a Peirese statue dating to the 1600s for introducing Angora cat oleander and large-leaved myrtle to France. Kandahar’s Lorp Roserts will receive a brass monument in Calcutta while alive. London shipped eleven antique cannon to India for monuments. A Siemens Helmholtz statue is planned in Charlottenburg near Berlin. A Louis Philippe fresco resurfaced in Paris after being hidden during 1543. The British Museum buys Malcolm’s nine hundred old master drawings for 125000 dollars, valued by experts at twice that. Sir William Harcourt’s late act approved the grant.
A four four-oared race at Deal England saw crews of boatmen over sixty compete with the winners averaging seventy and their coxswain aged eighty five. The event highlighted enduring athleticism in veteran rowers across the aged competitors.
A Daily Telegraph based study shows 3% of judges who died in the past five to six years left $215,000 on average, 20 barristers $458,000, and 44 solicitors $585,000 each, totaling $425,000 per lawyer. Some had family fortunes and others inherited business, with only eight at or above a million. A German statistician challenges the Friday superstition, suggesting Monday is the deadlier day. Also promoted is Syrup of Figs as a spring remedy.
A fragmentary report notes intense discussion after a man’s attempted suicide and alleged lynching rumors. The source quotes Quick Drop Dan questioning the motive, and locals claim they do not condone selfish acts. The exchange reflects harsh attitudes and rural tensions.
A jumble of ad copy and quotes critiques tobacco harm and promotes No-To-Bac as a cure all. It references Druggists endorsements and cautions against imitation bitters, noting Hastings signatures and St. George motifs. The piece also interjects literary quotes about virtue and passion to frame the message.
Hall's Caterrh Cure marketed as a constitutional cure and private remedy. The message quotes lines about reading works to mend them and references Piso a Cure for Consumption. A quotation from Rev. DB Bucu and Mueller, Lexington, February 24, and Uncle Eben echoes dialect about wisdom.
A collage of cheeky dialogue from old papers includes a wife rebuking a husband about truth in marriage, a trolley hat joke, a dig at a woman’s late lodge visit, a Beetle-Brooklyn quip about a man leading a fast life by driving a trolley, and a kitchen staff mix up at an intelligence office.
A collage of brief miscellaneous lines includes quips about temper, comfort, and vanity, interwoven with stray names and fragments. It features references to Miss, Jack, William the Conqueror, and Texas Siftings, plus small ad blurbs for Beecham’s Pints, Hale’s Honey of Horehound, Pike’s Toothache Drops, and other product lines.
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