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Newspaper
The Ward County Independent
Location
Minot, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1908
Page
1
In Grand Forks a county farmer faced arrest after selling nine dozen eggs wrongly labeled as fresh. An inspecting government official broke the rotten remaining eggs in the shop, and the farmer paid $75 to settle the matter. The Herald warns merchants that egg marking laws are enforceable and inspectors may appear unexpectedly.
A discussion of President Roosevelt and secret service use against congressmen, debates on whether such disclosures should be public or suppressed, plus political tension with Hearst's tactics and calls for ethical conduct during Christmas. The piece also covers wheat import rulings, legislative payroll waste, and reflections on improving country living.
The report covers a music and health lecture by Prof Putnam with performances by Prof Froyssa Miss Gratse and Miss Johnson, plus a farmers institute schedule and notes on clover seed yields from Bathgate. It also describes the new greenhouse complex at the horticultural department with three houses for class work forcing propagation and decorative plants, including automated temperature controls and durable construction. The piece ends with legal notices about the Skinner-Dynneson dispute and a government defrauding case involving Frederick Nurenberger, with details of prior actions and outcomes.
Roosevelt's Country Life Commission is urged to push residents of school districts to organize meetings to discuss rural education efficiency farm labor roads farmers' organizations post office facilities and related topics and report conclusions to the commission in Washington. Also reports two horses killed on the Soo line near Eckman and the Tuttle divorce case in North Dakota awaiting affidavits before final action, plus Missouri River Valley Milling considering ending bleaching of flour at site Marck and Mandan.
A fragmented local report covers Ward and Williams counties with notes on op shopping holidays, a postponed Supreme Court argument, a smallpox mention in neighboring towns, Kenmare and Bowbells county matters, disturbances, entertainment apologies, legislative interest calls, a village incident over a torn citation, a deputy auditor's move to California, and a serious house fire where Mrs. Phelps was badly burned by exploding lamp oil.
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