Harvest Time In North Dakota Theme In Poetry And Local Notes
A fragment from Valley City Times-Record reflects harvest imagery in North Dakota poetry, plus local notes on newspaper exchanges, editor anniversaries, and social commentary. The piece notes community readers in Barnes County and Wahpeton, with remarks on printing, subscriptions, and the evolution of newsroom equipment and transport logistics.
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Valley City Times-Record
Valley City
North Dakota
R. J. Hughes
Dress Suit Annals
Wahpeton Globe-Gazette
Times-Record
Bob
Wahpeton
North Dakota Press Association
Setting an Example for Civic Pride in North Dakota
A rambling editorial urges residents of Valley City and surrounding areas to beautify and tidy their towns. It urges lawn care, gardening, window boxes, and trash disposal as civic duties, praising proactive neighborly acts and community clubs to boost the region’s image in the Sheyenne valley.
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Sheyenne Valley
Valley City
North Dakota
Provident
Small Town Success and the Mayo Brothers
Small towns can birth national reputations and wealth, as Rochester Minnesota’s Mayo brothers prove. The piece argues that ambitious people can reach prominence by focusing on local excellence, living in a prairie town, and earning opportunity rather than seeking glamour in big cities.
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Mayo Brothers
Rochester
Minn
Away Out in the Country Verse and Verseberries Recount
A compilation of verses contrasts rural life with city sights. It paints country living as peaceful and hopeful, with lilacs in bloom and simple pleasures, while noting villagers’ resilience and pride amid economic worries. A second piece sketches domestic family dynamics highlighting a quarrelsome father and patient mother.
Not Worth While Says Nesbit Poem About Hope
A Wilbur D Nesbit verse urges readers to forget troubles and look ahead for laughter. It counsels shaking off sadness, mixing sunshine with song, and letting the heart beat for gladness despite blue days and woes.
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Wilbur D. Nesbit
Notice of hunt allowed in Noltimler township area
Hunters are notified that hunting is allowed in Noltimler township 141-67 without landowner written permission. By order of the township board Jobn Ravling, weal Clerk.
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Noltimler
Jobn Raveling
Weal
North Dakota
E. B. McCutcheon
Bill Hoke and the steady outflow of progress
A long vignette shows Bill Hoke, a prosperous farmer, pride in his wife’s hard work and his son Tom’s praised calves, yet he remains silent at the table. The piece then urges cooperative threshing among several farmers, outlining shared engines and labor to cut costs and weather risks, followed by a public safety notice on hunting licenses and a health bulletin on rats.
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Bill Hoke
Bill
Tom
More for the Money and Better Highways In Focus
Editorial discusses public praise to uplift civic spirit and urges thanking loved ones. It notes rising demand for durable road material and critiques highway spending. Acknowledges past overstatements in funding and calls for reform to ensure taxpayers get value from pavement improvements.
Cooperation in Threshing by Prof Thus Shaw
Threshing in the West is costly as farmers hire machines with crews and pay by the bushel or sack. In the Dakotas and Montana the per bushel cost remains high, and long hauls add to the burden. When crops are abundant the current system lacks enough machines, delaying threshing and risking spoilage. weather and stacking practices affect losses and threshing charges.
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Shaw
West
Far West
Dakotan
Aetana
Rat offspring growth projection under humane conditions
The excerpt presents a mathematical model of rat litters totaling about three per year with ten young per litter. It projects that in five years all offspring survive and rise arithmetically to 940,369,962,162 rats, noting most live because humans supply food and shelter.
Colonel Roosevelt Praises Campaign At New York Luncheon
A luncheon crowd in New York applauded Colonel Roosevelt for the final stages of his race death by own action campaign. He declared it one of his best efforts and noted it should have always been seen as such. The remarks were followed by a light joke about married life and a family anecdote involving the Smiths and a rocking cradle. Mr and Mrs Gunnard Larsen welcomed a baby boy this week.
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Roosevelt
New York
Meteor misidentified as a hail event shot by farm mortar
A supposed meteor near Lari more was traced to a mortar charge from the Gilbreath farm aimed at disrupting a suspected hail storm. University experts at Grand Forks reviewed the reports. the secret reveal came when mortar operators confessed. Separately, bids sought by School District No. 83 for a central schoolhouse project with heating and plumbing contracts, due September 13, 1915, plus a summons in Barnes County District Court seeking to quiet title on a described tract in section one, township one hundred forty three, north range fifty nine west.
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Larimore
Frank Gilbreath
Grand Forks
Martin Gresvold
County Superintendent of
Valley City
N. D
Enderlin
Farmers’ State Bank
Nome
Raritan Township
Hans Skramstad
N.D
North Dakota
Barnes
Fifth Judicial District
Wishue
F. W. Ames
Mayville
District Court
Barnes County
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Cornell
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Rockford Transcript
Pat
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Jin Town
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Georgia
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Taft
Castoria
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Chicago Herald
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Aj List
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Cleopatra
Tom and Jerry
Cohan
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Scylla
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Ebb
Flow
Russia
Retreat
Mia
Christian Endeavor World
Wei
J. G. Hurty
Indiana
J. 8. Grumbee
Kansas State Board of Health
United States Public Health Service
Kodaks
Dakota Drag Co
Spencer D. Reed
D.C
City Drug Store
Mrs. Gunnard
Larsen
Mart Mason
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