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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1902
Page
2
A fragmented verse promising relief from trouble and sorrow through a perpetual song of gladness. The lines urge courage, sunshine after gloom, and a hopeful future, mentioning Los Angeles Times and scattered phrases about evil trials.
In a defiant town a newspaper editor hires a talking skeleton as city editor amid murders and threats. When Ralph Hicks arrives, the Dispatch gains courage and readers, transforming from danger to stability as Hicks prints the news and wins Lelane’s heart.
A historical account explains the evolution of safe-breaking, detailing how nitroglycerine and simple tools enable burglars to pry open safes. It describes the wedge and putty method, the creation of a nitro glycerine cup, and the angled flow that forces the door to fail, exposing the contents.
The Chicago Record-Merald reports on relics in St Peter's including skulls and teeth of apostles, blood in crystal globes, a finger of Saint Peter, Mary hair, Lazarus arm, and a crystal bread relic. notes widespread belief and church display. A Philadelphia Press item shows a tailor offering three pairs of trousers for ten dollars in a customer exchange.
The article notes a Brazilian Ceamm wax derived from palm leaves in Coari and its varied uses in phonograph cylinders hats fabrics and polished floors. It describes harvest methods and processing from September to March yielding wax from dried leaves. Also mentions the wood and other byproducts, plus a weather prophet and Switzerland's new president.
The article promotes cheap pig feeding and poultry root meals, describing a small, affordable cooking setup. It explains mixing three parts mangels or turnips to one part distillers grain with barley or pea meal, and details building a wooden feed box with a sheet metal bottom costing about 1.40 dollars, then constructing an arch.
A practical design for a homemade feed cooker built into brick or stone with a six inch margin for the pan. It describes laying mortar to shield sides, using old basins for support, iron sheets to guard ends, and a chimney from stovepipe. The furnace should be sixteen to eighteen inches high and positioned near a well for water trough use.
The Farmers' Review reports improved demand for horses at Chicago stockyards with better prices for exportable stock and rising interest in farm-use horses. Prices for medium to good horses range 55 to 90 dollars, select chunks up to 120, and mules for farm work also strong from 85 to 170 dollars for large animals.
Practical guidance on livestock care urging nitrogen and bone meal for brood stock and proper feeding. Notes on horse and mule feeding with cotton seed meal, Angora goats as a cheap valuable addition, and the self renewing dog crop. Emphasizes sheep, ground corn and oats as economical stock foods, good forage for swine, and clean dry quarters for pigs.
The United States held about 12.5 million horses valued near 600 million dollars with 3.06 million males aside from mares. Texas led with 1.23 million horses. Milwaukee and Iowa each around one million. Rhode Island average price 300. Nevada about 17. Exports reached 64,472 horses in 1900. Transportation to cross Atlantic cost about 40 dollars. Britain bought 40,000 for Transvaal. Germany 6,000 for China. Belgium 4,500 cavalry at 10 dollars. Flesh exported to Norway, Sweden and Germany for food.
Farmers planning fattening hogs for market should tailor feeding to desired lean or mixed pork. Begin with whey and a grain mix three times daily, remove trough waste, then switch to heavier grain during fattening, feeding until September or October, and kill when market ready. Milk feeding boosts fat by about a third. adjust grain and milk as seasons shift. Pigs are started young, fed warm mash and bran mixtures, kept dry in clean pens with drainage, and treated for lice with grease or lime washing.
An Illinois correspondent describes a self-feeder for cattle with a long trough-like floor and replenishment from a wagon in fine weather. The piece reports oat exports for the year, with New York and Baltimore leading shipments, and notes the entabaga turnip as a preferred sheep root feeding 75 to 100 pound lambs consuming daily.
Tour and excursion notices advertise circulars to Pacific Coast points with tourist sleeping cars daily from Chicago and New York area routes. Special round trip fares, settlers tickets to Montana Idaho Washington Oregon and British Columbia, plus express mail pamphlets from Chicago and St Paul managers.
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