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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1903
Page
6
Aloysius Coll writes of an old automobile left to rust in a heat and snow filled yard. The poem recalls a ghostly vehicle, children’s play, a crow, and a former chauffeur, contrasting past speed with current decay and the narrator’s aging.
Walter Jaynes learns his father died a convict exonerating a bank scandal by sacrificing his name for another. He then confesses a hidden family truth to his fiancée Gertrude, who, moved by pride and mercy, chooses love over stigma. The tale frames disgrace, sacrifice, and enduring devotion.
A 1863 recruit known as Thurston entertains the Third regiment with constant laughter. His gleeful recollection of farm chores spurs ridicule, guards, and finally discharge for general disability. The tale ends with his belt of laughter echoing as he returns to Connecticut.
A Minor's Hill Virginia camp diary recounts an 1861 62 winter misfire swapping buck and ball muskets for Enfield rifles. Boxes mispacked, a funerallike escort, loud gun antics, and a whisky theft mystery ensued as details dispersed and some men drank.
Senator Benjamin Starr of Richmond Indiana sent a solid silver roving cap and other pieces to baby Benjamin Starr Reid in Charleston Missouri, a gift rooted in wartime ties with the Wardlaw family that began during Starrs service with the Second Indiana Cavalry. The piece highlights a long cross state friendship and remembrances across generations.
A portable hog house provides temporary shelter for pigs kept in orchards or fields away from their usual quarters. It serves as sleeping quarters and protection during stormy or wet weather. The article notes several forms, highlighting one that is in use.
An illustration shows a portable house design for an agricultural college. Professor Curtiss describes construction with an 8 by 8 foot frame, four 2.23 foot posts per side, 2x4 sleepers, four plates, rafters cut to five feet, an 8 2-3 foot ridge board, flooring of 4 by 12x16 inch boards, eight inch siding, 10x12 roof boards, a end window of 2.42 by 21 inches, a roof window of 2x6 feet, and a door of 2 1/2 by 2 2/3 feet.
The excerpt urges farmers to eradicate hog lice with dipping tanks and clean pens, warning against trading or selling lousy hogs. It stresses vigilance on brood stock, breeder integrity, and the profit of using poultry waste as feed, plus notes on beans for horses and sheep breeding.
A Prairie Farmer excerpt notes hog feeding affects rooting behavior. Forrest Henry of Minnesota claims his hogs never root, citing long-term pastures. The piece explains rooting stems from diet and stomach needs, urges charcoal and oil meal for prevention, and links short-nosed breeding to reduced rooting ability.
A Pennsylvania style cattle feeding rack is described with log cornerpieces ten inches in diameter five feet long and boards five inches wide by one and a quarter inches thick. The rack braces for durability allow four head to feed at once and prevent feed loss in wet weather.
The article advises uniform lambing for flocks, selective culling of ewes, and fattening pens for lambs and wethers to improve flock value. It notes pasture quality for swine, experiences with rape pasture, and water access. It discusses horse feeding variability, suggesting oats as standard plus linseed meal and corn fodder, with hay and fodder preferred to hay alone.
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