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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1917
Page
7
A North Dakota Experiment Station series reviews the Federal Farm Loan Act. It outlines security requirements, mortgage caps, allowed uses, installment schedules, and interest limits. Analysts note a paradox: lowering rates while potentially raising land values, and ask how ownership may be affected.
Practical apple recipes for thrifty cooks show many tasty ways to use apples beyond pies and baked fruit. The article includes a Dutch Apple Cake and a leafy apple loaf, plus a feature on sharp kitchen scissors for cutting meat, citrus, and vegetables, with tips on care and use.
Guide to curing and smoking hams and bacon on the farm. Rub with salt, brine in a barrel for weeks, then smoke using maple or hardwood. If no smokehouse, improvise with maple, keep fire steady, smoke duration varies from two days to two weeks, wrap in waxed paper and burlap after smoking.
The Indianapolis News urges readers to remember St Valentine as more than window displays. It argues everyone should send valentines to loved ones, acknowledge affection, and avoid forgetting those who deserve a token of love.
A vintage menu describes a romantic supper with heart shaped foods. Dishes include first toast hearts with anchovy paste, creamed oysters in shells, cold beef tongue and ham hearts, sandwiches, and coffee. Desserts feature grape shells with pineapple and cherries, valentine cakes, and almonds.
The author details careful steps for hems in woolen fabrics and other fabrics that resist folds. Measure around the skirt, align seam to seam, baste the lower edge, turn under a quarter inch, and baste to set the fold. Then perform a busting stitch with long on the wrong side and short on the right to leave the stitch hidden, yielding an even hem.
The article explains a straightforward, minimal conflict poultry bookkeeping method. It outlines debit and credit sheets, monthly totals, and how to record purchases and egg sales to reveal profit or loss. It emphasizes simplicity, regular entries, and using a loose leaf binder for practical farm use.
Several mortgage foreclosures are announced for Williams and Ward counties in North Dakota. Notices detail defaults on loans from lenders including Williams County State Bank and Barnes Brothers Incorporated, with sale dates set at court houses in Williston, Kenmare, and other towns. Properties described include parcels within sections of townships and ranges, with the consolidated debt amounts listed and sums due on sale dates.
A 1917 Temple North Dakota reader letter thanks the paper for past editorials and encloses payment, praising the publication and noting appreciation amid high paper costs. The missive, dated January 1917, underscores the reader’s favorable view of the editor’s work and support.
Mortgage assignments from Roger Amable Marton to T L Belseker and Peter Jorgensen led to a public sale of the real estate in Williams County North Dakota on March 31 1917 for the amount due 4825 61 and interest. The williston graphic published notice of a hearing February 19 1917 for the estate of Spatford Hovey with C D Wheeler administrator seeking authority to sell several parcels including NE NW SE SW sections and townships in Williams County North Dakota.
M H Agen, Auditor of Williams County North Dakota, warns Harvey An Winhue owner of Lot Eight in Hanncroft Addition Williston that real estate sold for 1911 taxes on December 6 1912 may be redeemed within 90 days after service of this notice. Redemption requires eleven dollars and twelve cents plus publication costs. failure to redeem will trigger a tax deed.
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