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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1899
Page
3
A masked agent under General Knyphausen outlines a dangerous assignment in Newport. The scene features Capt. Lounsbury questioned about past failures while a plan unfolds to abduct a key figure and cripple an underway vengeance plot.
In a tense session aboard a colonial hall, Gen Henry Clinton is faced by a defiant heiress Gertrude King and a conspirator narrator. A daring escape plan unfolds as political plots collide with personal risk, ending with a hasty flight and a warned exit.
For the Poultry Yard experts discuss three deeding contrivances to ease rearing. Readers may have difficulty in rearing chicks among hens as chicks are crowded out at meals and pecked by hens. An illustration shows a box where the chick can retreat, while hens cannot reach them.
A historic note explains making a chick coop from a 16 foot board cut into four four foot pieces nailed into a box with four sides and a lath covered top. The bottom is removed to enable mobility and prevent theft. A cheese box can serve as a small cheap coop for hens and a brood of young chicks.
The text describes a shallow box used during the first months of chicks, noting that when not deep enough two Gheut mms should be fastened to extend it. It emphasizes the box’s cooling benefit and wide design allowing alternating ventilation while preventing the hen from accessing the chicks. The aim is to provide a practical, temporary brood-rearing setup.
A quick method to prepare a coop for young chicks using a basket or box. Remove the bottom, cut entrance holes for chicks, and place feed so larger birds cannot access it while the youngsters feed unmolested.
A bee keeper recounts attempts to introduce queens from distant breeders. He describes methods of removing old queens, candy stripping, and five day confinement with cages. Success varied, with some queens accepted and others rejected or destroyed cells. He shares personal trials and endorses his own five day plan for introducing queens.
Weather and pasture advice on protecting grazing fields during storms. Notes cattle damage from trampling, value leaching of outdoors majures, and avoiding wasteful artificial fertilizers. Emphasizes dividing pastures and preserving good pasture across the region.
Studies disclose that cutting parts of the corn plant during growth fails to improve yields. Root pruning and top-cut practices have produced mixed or negative results, with some trials showing up to about 20 percent yield loss. Historical notes mention old methods that removed foliage and whole stalks, reducing grain production and fodder value.
Faymers urged dipping pigs after evaluating benefits from sheep dipping and disease control. Wallace's Farmer notes limited use in extreme cases, recounting a neighbor whose pigs improved after kerosene water dips and sheep dip used on piglets. A farmer later adopted dipping regularly for pigs eight to ten weeks old, linking skin cleansing and vermin removal to better thrift, mainly April to October.
For loading wagons, getting heavy boxes and other heavy articles into wagons, fund carts is a matter that often requires great effort. Needless lifting should be avoided, as the article stresses safer handling methods and proper posture to prevent strain.
A Tribune illustration shows a simple device to lift heavy loads into wagons. Two wide side pieces joined by cross bars hold rolling sleeves and nails act as bearings. An iron twisted hook rests on the end pieces to support the floor, allowing easy roll-in of goods from grand to wagon.
A Missouri man in Morgan County promotes a quail venture claiming hatch rate parity with chickens and high profits. He offers meat quail at four dollars per dozen or five dollars per pair for tame birds, argues eggs hatch well under quail or common stock, and asserts hardy, healthy bindings with little disease.
A smooth shaven man in a straw hat registers at Grunewald and leaves a wrapped bundle containing ten dollar bills. He asks the clerk to hold it for fifty five hundred dollars, then seals the package and departs toward the countryside as a local correspondent logs the event.
The article extols seasonal travel by New York Central and Grand Central Station highlighting four track age rapid transit and easy access to western and eastern destinations. It celebrates Niagara Falls as autumn sees its majesty and notes winter transforms views into a fairy land of ice and crystal scenery.
A collage of clipped texts includes a mock Latin etymology tale about cabraetse, Roman history snippets, a humorous Q&A with references to Burke and Burdock, and a Detroit Free Press mention. Also appears are ads for Allen’s Foot Ease powder, a travel-missionary anecdote, and a note about an elopement in Philadelphia North American.
A garbled OCR snippet mentions cash or stamps, a church, and a Michigan address, with stray names and phrases about mortgages, a Philadelphia college, laxatives, and a Washington Democrat reference. The text also hints at a public notice or bulletin style clipping from Atchison Globe era sources.
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