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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1899
Page
2
A fragmented verse piece laments a misread line from Shakespeare and blames the author for tragic outcomes. The speaker muses on stage lore and asserts that if the Bard had not penned that line, the speaker’s own fate might differ.
Babette, newlywed to Pierre Fontaine, faces secret meetings of a factory league seeking wealth redistribution. Pierre is arrested for embezzlement, and Babette, driven to desperate action, defuses a planned cathedral bombing by sacrificing herself, leaving Pierre a hopeless lunatic and Paul fatherless.
Professor John Bell Hatcher of Princeton sails again for Patagonia to search for fossils and study the interior. He plans a three year absence aided by two native guides, after last year’s halt at the coast. He introduced American wagons to Patagonia and collected fauna flora fossils, naming a lake Princeton.
A tip from Farm and Fireside explains saving split trees after windstorms. Use bolting to join halves with ropes, bore a center bolt, add washers, then seal with a wax mix of rosin beeswax and tallow. The method preserves fruiting and growth, as shown on a York Imperial apple tree.
Farmers' Review warns that milk pails act as disease carriers from infected homes to city customers. It urges scalding or steaming pails, thorough washing, and careful attire and hygiene for milkers to prevent scarlet fever germs spreading through dairy supply chains.
Dairymen are advised to warm milk to 140 degrees to extract more cream and improve butter yield. Do not exceed 140 degrees or butter will become soft. As milk cools, cream rises and should be skimmed before a crust forms. Store cream and stir daily to blend components.
The San Jose scale testing by the Department of Agriculture shows dried fruits from pears apples and peaches lose the scale during drying by sun evaporation sulphur or other methods. Experiments witnessed by German experts indicate no scale survives the drying process, undermining European embargo claims. The Swiss decree barring dried fruit prompted these tests and current results support lifting the embargo.
A compact device called theConvenient Thing for untending core and kite work is described. When in position the end is elevated to keep ears of corn from pulling down the foot, enabling easy transport to the field for use.
The article describes a simple contraption to ease corn husking by lifting the hind end to pass a block under the front and sliding it out easily. It requires no blacksmith work and can be made by any farmer to fit his wagon. It is praised as convenient during husking season and superior to using a board in the wagon bed.
The New York Sun reports girls in Minneapolis have entered the full three year agricultural program at the college of age significance, sharing classes with men, with dormitory housing and new instructors replacing prior limited summer study. The curriculum covers all branches and replaces male tasks with domestic subjects such as laundering, cooking, sewing, house management, saving and physical culture. Also notes counterfeit food products threaten public health and calls for dairy and food enforcement to curb counterfeiting, urging a robust, enforceable framework.
A Boston Globe piece along with items from the Chicago Chronicle and other papers sketches William Waldorf Astor, now expatriated in London, recounts his banquets and conversations with the Duchess of Cleveland. It juxtaposes Cliveden and Astor’s Thames embankment estate with jokes about knights, gardeners, and turf, amid various witticisms and anecdotes from newspaper clippings.
Fragmentary note cites Jamie-Pa and a phrase about a Latin style, calling the crowned head in a riddle a blamed chump. Mentions The king of Siam and a favored hymn noted as L and W, Bulletin.
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