Old Northwestern Agriculturist reveals 1902 farm life
Eighty-year-old farmer Bill Batterton pores over a 1902 issue of the Northwestern Agriculturist from Minneapolis. The 24 page paper features cartoons about oleomargarine versus butter, a long piece on hand cream separators, letters about a three legged pig, and ads showing how farm life offered big buys in earlier times.
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Reading ads and contests in the Northwestern Agriculturist
The issue lists bargains and ads from the Northwestern Agriculturist including $64.75 items such as a piano and a wood stove, travel tickets, salaries, plows, a scale, a Studebaker wagon, and Diamond Crystal Salt. It also features a contest offering a John Deere sulky plow as first prize or $50 cash, and a Minneapolis land company’s offer: a 160 acre farm free with the other at $2 per acre, rising to $3 per acre after May 1, with free coal for two years for buyers of 160 acres, plus a glowing letter from a prior buyer and a note that the land is in Sentinel Butte area with underlaying coal.
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Northwestern Agriculturist ad promises cheap coal and rail travel
In 1902 issue locals read about vast lignite coal deposits in North Dakota and a mild climate with good soil. It touts six-inch to three-foot topsoil, moisture holding subsoil, and abundant water twelve to twenty five feet deep. Train rides from Minneapolis cost $20 and Pullman cars offered meals. Subscriptions cost 50 cents for 26 copies or 30 cents for six months with cash in advance.
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