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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1916
Page
8
The Home Circle column urges calm amid toil, warns that worry drains health, and promotes balance through work, rest, and faith. It argues for cheerful endurance, simple rules to avoid fret, and the value of companionship to sustain home life and education.
The article outlines pneumonia as a leading killer in the United States, noting ten percent mortality and rising cases in winter. It links predisposing illnesses, poor housing, crowding, and alcohol use to spread, and discusses age susceptibility, cold weather, and the impact of influenza on pneumonia rates. It also shifts to North Dakota stock and draft horse industry, detailing stallion statistics, breeding, and the wartime demand for horses and mules.
Grand Forks February meeting selects 1916 officers led by President Alex McDonald of Glencoe Emmons county and First Vice John Wild of Milton Cavalier county. Secretary Treasurer W H Peters Fargo and an eight member executive committee representing horse beef cattle dairy hogs and sheep. Next convention January 1917 in Bismarck. Banquet at Hotel Dacotah attended by about 200 stockmen with Asher L Burdick of Williston as toastmaster.
The speaker cites higher value and easier sale for draft horses, noting greater horsepower per unit, space efficiency, and cost savings on farms facing high land and labor costs. Prices show light horses at 110 to 150 dollars and draft horses at 200 to 300 dollars, with surplus stock enhancing cash returns.
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