Seven Cows Boost Farmer's Income More Than Land
A Minot farmer, Jacob Frost, credits seven milking cows with supporting his large family and paying bills, claiming two years of milk profits surpassed income from a section of land. He plans to expand to twenty four cows after growing twenty acres of feed and praising a record corn year in North Dakota. The note ends with a warning that diversified farming could lift land values.
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Jacob Frost
Jessup
Iowa
North Dakota
Straight Salary Adopted for New Sheriff in Wahpeton
Wahpeton March 28 a new policy sets the sheriff on a straight salary rather than fees. The legislature passed a law to place the sheriff’s office on a salary basis like other offices, effective after terms in office expire, with exceptions for death or resignation starting January 1912. Sheriff Robbins will receive 2400 dollars per year and remit all collected fees to the county, reporting monthly.
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Robbins
McCanna Firm Plans Paper Mill From Flax Straw
A McCanna company organized to manufacture paper from flax straw with J Dexter Pierce S A McCanna and Chas Thomas J M Melcher as incorporators. Melcher will run the plant. Expected investment about 50000 dollars with strong confidence in success.
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McCanna
J. Dexter Pierce
Larimore
S. A. McCanna
Chas, Thomas
J. M. Melcher
Melcher
Brick Making Plant Proposed for Valley City
Valley City officials, aided by Secretary Zetterberg of the Commercial club, expect a brick plant to be established soon. Mr Gilbertson of Pelican Rapids has visited the site and expresses favorable impressions about locating the facility here.
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Valley City
Zetterberg
Commercial Club
Gilbertson
Pelican Rapids
Wheat surplus piles in Morse street markets
Fifty thousand bushels of wheat lie in Morse Saskatchewan streets, some hauled seventy five miles, with no buyers. The reader notes the great country for farming and mentions North Dakotans moving to Manitoba to farm.
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Morse
Saskatchewan
North
Senator Ellsworth Davis Weds Helen Louise Wilson
Senator Ellsworth Davis of Goodrich North Dakota married Miss Helen Louise Wilson of Mineapolis at the bride’s home on Saturday December 28. Davis, a well known state senator, has been mentioned for prominent offices. The Inter Ocean extends best wishes to the couple.
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Ellsworth Davis
Goodrich
N. D
Helen Louise Wilson
Mineapolis
Davis
Inter-Ocean
Sheditan
North Dakota corn gains promise in first farming year
W H Tomlinson of Courtenay reports 6000 reports from N D corn. flax 18.5 bushels per acre, wheat ten. ten acres yield good corn. He planted late April to early May, cultivated seven times, sees corn and hogs as a new twin staple alongside wheat. A Grand Forks butcher bought a carload of home grown corn fed cattle, first shipment from the joint, signaling a shift in the western stock industry.
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W. H. Tomlinson
Courtenay
North Dakota
Indiana
Bismarck
Mixed Booze in Dishpan Death in North Carolina
John Kurtz died after a protracted spree of acute alcoholism. He drank a mixture of alcohol and water from a dishpan using a dipper, dying from overindulgence. The deceased was a transient laborer. TAXICAB SERVICE ad copy appears amid the obituary note and Grand Forks contact references for Dakota Auto Company and taxi service.
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New Rockford, N. C
John Kurtz
Grand Forks
Dakota Auto Company
Bruce Ave
Pioneer Walton Chooses St Petersburg Florida for Winter
Luther L Walton and his wife, longtime Foster county pioneers, relocate to St Petersburg Florida for the winter. He reports the town is pretty but he is not impressed with Florida’s agricultural prospects, saying he would not trade his Dakota farm for the state based on what he has seen so far.
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Florida
Luther L.’ Walton
Foster Conty
St. Petersburg
Accounting of Secretary Treasurer in Grand Harbor Suit
W. Powell formerly of Grand Harbor now a Montana resident is defendant in a suit by Grand Harbor Elevator Co. seeking an accounting of the elevator business when Powell was secretary treasurer in 1919 before he went west.
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W. ©. Powell
Grand Harbor
Montana
Grand Harbor Elevator Company
Powell
Sperry to Seek Change of Venue in Nelson County Murder Case
Clyde Sperry faces trial for the murder of Kenneth McKenzie in Nelson County with a Prosecution plan to petition for a change of venue at the January term. The prior Nelson trial ended with a hung jury. A claimed full confession is disputed by the defense as coerced by third degree methods.
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Clyde Sperry
Kenneth McKenzie
Nelson County
Sperry
Bay
North Dakota regulates cattle testing and admission rules
The State Livestock Sanitary Board issues regulations for tuberculosis testing reimbursements and carrier indemnity, requiring herd testing thresholds and owner agreements. It also mandates health certificates for cattle entering North Dakota from Illinois, penalties for violations, and program checkpoints at the state line with U S inspectors.
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State Livestock Sanitary Board OF
North Dakota
State OF North Dakota Livestock Sanitary Board
U. S. Bureau of Animal Industry
U. S. Burean of
Live Stock i Sanitary Board
Live Stock Sanitary Board
Typhoid Serum Reported Successful at Bel Garfield Hospital
Washington December 22 Medical men report typhoid serum curing the disease at Bel Garfield hospital in the National capital. A 16 year old patient showed a 105 degree fever by day four, with results described as most satisfactory. The treatment is used as a cure rather than a preventive.
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Washington, D. C
Bel Garfield Hospital
National Capital
City Council to Discuss Street Car Franchise
The council meets Tuesday with the first reading planned for granting an eight street car franchise to the Star Investment Co. The January meeting shifts to Tuesday due to New Year’s Day. The franchise action is expected to be the main business.
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Statlar Investment Co
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Chas
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Mooers Agency
Geo
W. Mooers Bangs
Devils Lake Inter-Ocean
Stevens Grain & Fuel Co
N.D Corn
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Ask Acconting
Devils Lake
N. Dak
United States Department of Agriculture
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Dr. EB
J. Walsh
Andrew Veitch
J. W. Robinson
W. L. Richards
T. B. Dawson
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BE. J. Walab
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