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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1911
Page
4
Advertising rates listed include fifteen cents per line per insertion unless on contract, with twelve and a half cents per line per insertion for 1200 inches yearly. Reading notices priced 63.6 per 1,000 lines when used within a year. Professional cards at 75 cents per inch, or 2.00 yearly if paid in advance. Yearly rate for rant advertisements at one cent per word per month.
A fragmentary article blends biblical imagery with scholarly discussion from Dr Mendel Harris at Westminster College. It cites his claim that music in the prodigal story may reflect symphony, possibly bagpipes, with Welsh terms like crwth or harp implied. The piece shifts to social concerns about suffragist meetings and a blithe hotel clerk aiding women travelers.
An Enfield reader recalls an incident witnessed by his son on a highway. A red backed shrike seized and carried off a small bird as a sparrow-like flock watched. The tale also notes an ancient oak marking Indian Creek with carved figures and over a dozen arrows embedded in the trunk, a relic of historic hunts.
Miss Nellie LaDell arrived Saturday from Valley City Normal and will spend vacation time with friends in this city and at Bonetraill.
The piece argues for a national network of nine to twelve foot roads linking markets, rail hubs, and towns. It criticizes grandiose transcontinental schemes, cites cost ranges from 700 to 5000 dollars per mile, and notes economic gains for farmers and communities when main highways are well built and maintained.
In Pittsburg Mrs Katherine Maxon Smith Baumgardner said to be Louisville wealthiest woman at eighty three near eighty three, wed Carl Neumeyer of Loula ville. Simultaneously Mrs Albert Clifford Barney of Washington, sixty one winters, worth about five million, marries Christian Hemmick, twenty six, in Washington.
A humorous quip recalls Juneton Pratt describing a man who matched a fiancée by clothing style. He explains the odd situation where the first fiancée wore a hobble gown and was dismissed after a wardrobe mismatch, now courting a woman in a harem shirt and attempting to keep pace.
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