23 Dec 1911
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Newspaper
Western Kansas World
Location
Wakeeney, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1911
Page
1
Peter Mondloch invites readers to celebrate Christmas with a joyous ring and a message of salvation. The piece urges all who have strayed to heed the Lord's invitation to His marriage feast and everlasting bliss in a peaceful, divine domain.
James S. Fike of Colby reports Northwest Kansas sown wheat acreage matches last year and stands in strong condition. He cites September October rains and cold fall moisture aiding subsoil. early sowing looks better than valley wheat. He notes non resident seed wheat help and expects over 5000 acres. he warns farming remains a gamble with variable yields. Chicago Tribune.
Kansas wheat king Jim Fike bets $20 000 that rain will fall in Thomas County between March 1 and May 1 next year. A sign of his weather gambling, he could net $200 000 if rain arrives, after years of bets and mixed results since 1903.
Washington reports a forecast of continental disturbance December 17 to 21 bringing warmth followed by a cold snap lasting five to six days. Snow excess in the north and rain in the south, except Texas and New England, with later Pacific and central valley movements. Warmer return expected, aiding winter wheat as spring growth begins early in April and prospects for a prosperous 1912 year.
A humorous scene at a drug store shows a customer insisting on ten dollars worth of Cascarets to feed a parlor goat that ate the family pictures, while the clerk Gibson reacts with disbelief. The piece shifts to a real estate pitch offering irrigated land in southwestern Idaho with high yields and long-term family-friendly terms, and ends with unrelated classified-style lines about loans and liver health products.
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