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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1900
Page
2
The fragmentary verse recalls wandering past a shady lane to an old church by a silver brook. A reflective speaker longs for happiness and peace, praying for strength in sorrow and a quiet entrance to a worshiping space.
In the Mohawk valley a German American orphan Gottlieb Whitton, adopted by the Whittons, spies a late night conspiracy at their house near Fort Stanwix. As two men plan a dangerous action under a tree, Gottlieb hides, fearing for life and property amid the revolution.
In a Mohawk River episode, Gottlieb Whitton defies Tory attackers to protect Yankee powder hidden in Jonas Whitton's cellar. He fires on intruders, wounds a man, and with neighbors helps fortify the house. The powder reaches Fort Stanwix, earning the boy thanks from patriots and a place among forgotten Revolution heroes.
A collage of cheeky quips and social skits from Philadelphia papers. Snappy lines touch on love of enemies, singing limits, cornet wind, and a judge on death sentences. Vignettes include reminiscences of schooling, shopping, and domestic chatter, with a playful tone and clipped dialogue.
The piece traces eighteenth century England from a slow seventeenth century agrarian base to a period of rapid agricultural and industrial shifts. Noble landowners modernized farming, enclosure transformed open fields, and textile inventions late in the century presaged the nineteenth century.
An account from Detroit Prep Press recalls a lawyer’s encounter with contempt in a common pleas court. Agressive critique of a judge led to fines and jail risk, later remitted by the judge after a private audience. The anecdote reflects on courtroom decorum and lingering pride in legal reform.
A humorous quip contrasts a town’s past boast of a football team with an apology for its current status, reflecting local sports legacy in a brief World column snippet.
The text describes Mytilaspis Po monum, noting a female scale beneath with eggs, another from above on a twig infested by a ferale scale, and mentions the scale’s resemblance to a long ruler and an oyster, indicating insect illustration details.
The article outlines the scale insect’s development from late summer through September, with eggs over a hundred in number protected under scales. It notes a single slow brood that can cause severe damage when abundant, especially on walnut, butternut, apples, willow, and maple. The recommended remedy is kerosene emulsion spray during larval hatching.
A correspondent argues the best farmer blends judgment with diligence. He plans land prep, drains, and improvements, selects best breeds, maintains buildings and stock, studies agricultural literature, and includes family in plans. He avoids haste, values home life, and aims for high standards.
Western Montana ranchers have long faced surplus wild horses with no value for trade. A ranchman fed hogs with horseflesh after buying Indian horses at a dollar seventy five and selling hides for two dollars each. He reportedly disposed of about 400 horses to a buyer named Watsitua, turning a profit by feeding the rest to swine. Pinner shavings are noted as ideal for drying muddy poultry yards.
Farmers should learn feeding basics to optimize flock production. Key guidance covers nitrogen rich foods like meat and clover versus carbon rich items such as grains and fats. For egg production avoid overfat hens, use bulky food, and provide meat and oats, with grain at night for lean birds.
A ten dollar henhouse costs ten dollars for a 12 fowl coop built with 10 foot boards, tarred paper covered sides, and a south doorway. It warns heavy snows freeze large combed breeds like Leghorns and Minorcas. The piece also discusses turning under crops for green manure, praising legumes and options like cow peas soybeans and sand vetch, plus crops such as white beans. Agriculture in schools is encouraged with practical demonstrations to spark farming interest. Black poultry varieties remain unpopular due to consumer prejudice against dark legs skin and pin feathers, a bias considered unchanging.
A San Francisco turkey dealer, long dealing in live fowls, receives a dead turkey deduction notice. He replies that dressed birds must be pre notified and shipped in heated cars. mortality among dressed turkeys this year was high.
A late 19th century anecdote features tenor Sims Reeves stranded at a country junction in cold weather. An observant railway porter, recognizing the singer, quips about earnings. Reeves retorts with a song, declaring the porter’s wage as his yearly salary. The piece also touches on census data, railway excursion sleepers, and brief humorous vignettes.
Meadville, Pa November 26 1900 Special The loyalty of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers is shown when Frank J Zeller chief of No 143 fell ill and slept poorly He recovered after seven boxes of Dodd s Kidney Pills were taken and he credits the remedy with restoring his health He praises the pill as a life saver and notes its availability at 50 cents a box everywhere
A distressed woman describes nerve weakness heart palpitations and digestive trouble with backache weight loss and insomnia. The text cites Mrs Pinkham receiving thousands of such cases and links a inflamed cervix to a wide range of symptoms.
An advertisement touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a universal cure for female ailments. It claims Mrs. Williams of Englishtown New Jersey has recovered completely and urges women to request the medicine, write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts, and seek her free advice.
A string of fragmented quotes from Detroit Free Press, Atchison Globe, Smart Set, Tows Topics, and Brown quips shows a collage of humor and mild social jabs about manners, payment, appearance, and thrift amid scatterededitorial snatches.
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