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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1910
Page
8
Ky Widtsoe of Utah presented findings at a Dry-Farming conference showing soil richness doubles crop growth efficiency with given water. He cited corn trials where manure reduced water needed per pound of yield from 908 to 4 pounds per unit, implying soil feeding boosts production across regions.
The article discusses the raised wreck of the USS Maine in Havana harbor and the blame for its sinking. Spain claims a defect or accident caused the loss, while the U S attributes it to a torpedo mine. Investigators will inspect armor and hull to determine the explosion source and recover crew remains held in the vessel.
Notice of pupils final examination for eighth grade pupils wishing to finish eighth grade studies. Examinations held on the third Friday and Friday of December at 9 a m. Places listed as Linton Hazelton Braddock Jat Jakker No 2 Westfield. Seventh grade pupils may take a nomination in physiology geography civil government writing or graphy and reading. Henry H Hanson County Superintendent Dec 1 15
The piece laments a rough homestead life where patched clothing and thatched roofs mark poverty. A printer’s disruption interrupts the poet as he laments farming hardship and the toil of homestead living.
Snow plows worn by Soo engines noted though no snow. Yearling pig dressed 335 lbs killed by Wm Baxter. Installation of Rev Alison at Swedish Lutheran church in Bismarck. Agent Edmunds shipped Minnesota & Western grain and closed the house. Several local visits and departures, plus weather remarks and community updates. Fire at Mike Wessel’s north of town. family burned, no insurance, relief fund started.
A. L. Geil returns from a Twin Cities business trip. Brace of Danbury visits Wisconsin relatives. W. L. Yeater returns from Lecoma Missouri visit. John Hoopes of Groton S D visits brother in law A E Klabunde. John Baker moves back to city residence from farm. Geo M McKenna and Dr Matthews of Napoleon visit John Wilde while deer hunting. Lenhart learns of brother’s death from Lemmon and burial in Bismarck.
At an informal tea, King George V recalls a child’s polite courtesy. A young girl, about eight, courtesied and proclaimed the king wonderful because her mother told her to.
In a Boston Transcriber excerpt a jocular exchange imagines a bride's coolness and a nervous groom. The punchline reveals the groom’s problem was a broken suspender, not guilt or nerves, delivering lighthearted social humor.
A gracious woman explains her ease with visitors. She says she treats the guest as the person she wishes to see, reflecting on the idea of mutual respect and hospitality.
A quotation from Haxeland in 1836's Physiology of Digestion extols laughter at meals as beneficial to digestion and blood quality. It urges cheerful companions at table and links mirth with better nourishment and health.
The Emmons County Auditor issues notice that all lands and lots with unpaid 1914 taxes will be sold at public auction on December 13 at 10 a.m. in the County Auditor’s office in Linton. Listing includes many land parcels and names officials and property owners.
The article describes early film trick effects including self-adjusting clothing and scaffold decapitations and explains a mining tale where Kersten invented a grease-based jig to separate diamonds from concentrates, replacing slow hand picking with machinery that saves labor and boosts profits.
Segregated field notes describe how workers, mainly Black laborers, blast and extract ore in Kimberley mines. Dirt is spread to season and later moved to washing machines where diamonds and other materials are separated from the ore.
A narrator recalls a summer conversation about selling land in a new cemetery. A native and others discuss fear of not recouping full value, mortality, and the odds of heirs losing money as investments fail.
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