The Pokeric Sermonette on Fortune and Fortitude
A rough edged meditation using poker as life metaphor. It contrasts losers who curse fate with steadier players who keep courage and upright play. The piece praises perseverance, honesty, and clever resilience as paths to eventual winnings in a risky life.
Creamery folly warns farmers to plan before building
An aged western community sells a costly creamery bought for 4500 four years earlier at 800 after misjudged cow selection and feeding caused its collapse. The writer urges 500 cows in sight and expert creamery guidance before investing again to avoid similar losses.
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Chicago
Winter wheat success claimed in Oliver county
H A Clark from Nebraska settled in Oliver county and sowed six acres of winter wheat last fall with Nebraska seed. He reports the crop survived the winter as well as in Nebraska and believes winter wheat can be grown here, offering earlier spring growth and potential drought escape. Harris Bros. of this city assisted with land purchase and delivery.
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H. A. Clark
Nebraska
Oliver County
Messrs
Harris Bros
North Dakota
Bismarck Tribune
Death toll among Bert Pond's horses rises with mystery disease
The Sanborn Enterprise reports Bert Pond lost fourteen of his sixteen horses over the past winter. Veterinary opinions vary from rusted straw to heated oats and even spinal meningitis or horse diphtheria. The disease appears noncontagious, as nearby horses remained unaffected, yet the losses cripple Pond for the new season.
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Sanborn Enterprise
Bert Pond
Fargo
W. Wood
Mr. Pond
Future criminal law shifts toward life sentences for incurables
The piece argues future criminal justice will isolate and remove dangerous offenders, with indeterminate sentences, longer terms for habitual offenders, and life terms for incurables. It cites a brutal murder by Williams in St. Paul and discusses inherited insanity and moral idiocy as factors in culpability.
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Williams
St. Paul
Lan
Tribune
Tootin and Tracts on Advertising Reform and Hoosier Law
A collage of quips on advertising persistence and success contrasts with a satire on fatigue and a wedding night fairies claim. The piece ends noting Indiana passes an anti elopement law, signaling stricter family control in the Hoosier state.
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Indiana
Hoosier
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