Mid-Winter Fair in Devils Lake frames farming as a science
The Devils Lake Mid-Winter Fair is hailed as a major regional educational gathering focusing on applying science to farming for better business and living. It urges farmers to be generalists with broad knowledge in finance, chemistry, and multiple stock lines, while inspiring growth and future work.
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Devils Lake
Northwest
Herever
Lake
North Dakota
Gram Construction
Gram Construction Company
English aristocracy and the ruling class
The piece critiques Britain's hereditary elites noting that wealth and power trace to plunderers and pirates in the past. It describes biannual royal honors on the king’s birthday and New Year, mentioning five new peers, six baronets, and forty knights, highlighting dilution of noble distinction.
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England
Seed Standardization and Rural Social Centers Plan
State seed commissioner Menace H. L. Bolley describes seed sealing under the pure seed laboratory and a plan to standardize pedigreed seed. He notes spring 1913 sealing of about 2500 bushels and growing farmer interest in plot inspections. The piece links seed quality to broader rural betterment via community centers, libraries, dances, and educational travel talks.
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Lana
Seed Testing Urged To Improve Spring Grain Yields
The Better Farming association backs extensive seed testing for small grain next spring. Schools, local experiments, and county ag experts should collect samples to evaluate germination, weed contamination, and disease. The North Dakota Federation offers help, with Rev. Morrison and Rev. Torbet noted at the Presbyterian church in Grand Forks.
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Better Farming Association
Jsmut
North Dakota Federation of Commercial Clubs
North Dakota Federation of Commercial Clutf
Grand Forks
North Dakota
Sore heads marked meeting of Progressive Republican League
The Aneta Panorama notes a Fargo meeting of the Progressive Republican League as filled with political sore heads. The paper recalls only one clearly irritated figure, the Panorama editor, while others stayed away or remained silent throughout the gathering.
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Aneta
Progressive Republican League
Fargo
Panorama
Fargo Meeting Backs Usher L Burwick For Governor
A Fargo gathering of over a hundred men pledged support to Usher L Burwick should he enter the race for North Dakota governor. The press seized on the story as evidence of interest in state politics and possible violations of political reform laws.
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Fargo
L. Bur- Wick
North Dakota
Success Of Seed Law Sees Seed Auction Net Nice Sum
The seed law success section notes germination and purity analysis linked buyers and growers by correspondence. On closing day an auction sold high scoring seed samples with grain pecks priced 30 cents to 2.10 dollars. Proceeds fund the seed growers association treasury as plots will be planted under the pure seed laboratory program with expert visits.
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Seed Growers Association
Pure Seed Laboratory
North Dakota to Use Lignite Coal for Briquets
Dean E J Babacock of Grand Forks announces a state led effort to convert lignite coal into briquets. The Northern Briquetting plant in Minot now produces 60 to 80 tons daily with hundreds more ready for shipment. Briquets priced at $10 a ton compete with $12.50 anthracite, signaling a new industrial path for Minot and the state.
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E. J. Babacock
Grand Forks
State University
North Dakota
Northern
Minot
United States
Union
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