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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1907
Page
7
A crystal wedding features glassware, mirrors, and white chrysanthemums as room decorations. The menu includes Oyster Cocktail and Ancestral Pancakes with rich milk, rye flour pancakes, and Chicken with Macaroni. Quince storage tips advise gathering quinces before full color and preserving via marmalade and jelly.
A Boston Globe writer advises washing a dirty white fur robe used as a rug. He suggests soaking in soapy water with plenty of soap powder, rubbing the fur, then beating and drying on a windy sunlit day for best results.
Settlers flock to the Prairie provinces citing free homesteads, rich soils, and strong markets aided by rapid railway expansion. Wheat and other cereals yield large harvests while a solid school system and orderly law foster family welfare. Also described is a proposed suspension bridge over Colorado’s Arkansas River, set to be the world’s highest at 267 feet, with plate glass flooring and steel railings as part of an electric railway project.
A balloonist describes a peril called a hole in the air where sudden downward surges threaten travelers, noting holes are rare and carrying power is usually uniform. In Odessa harbor a sunken rock will host a giant Christ lighthouse, with a bright central light in the cross, guiding mariners to safety.
Ingenuity of collectors finds a new field in gathering forged or spurious art works, described as a potentially fascinating hobby rivaling the pursuit of genuine art. The article notes gas engines on canal boats in Germany, where boats use gas produced from coal on board, suitable for moderate capacity craft.
A Chicago woman Mrs Frances Gardner writes that after five years of kidney troubles she used five boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills and experienced full recovery. She reports improved appetite digestion and sleep and credits the pills sold by all dealers for 60 cents a box from Foster Mulburn Co Buffalo New York.
A Milan woman Lazzaroni dreamt her son John that Leopold, her other son, was dead. At dawn Leopold Lazzaroni, a dairy owner, was found murdered at three o clock. Doctors confirmed the murder time. suspects were arrested next day. The vision’s authenticity sparks endless discussion. The piece also notes southern farming advantages and a quirky Thanksgiving squirrel act by Fisk Goodyear.
An old advertisement claims Brandreth's Pills remain a trusted laxative and blood purifier after over a century of use. The piece contrasts pills with other cathartics, notes safety of the same dose over time, and mentions availability in plain or sugar-coated forms. It also includes a humorous juror exchange from a Philadelphia ice trial and a Louisville memoirs note from Mary Anderson De Navarro.
A Hamburg labor group head accused a city hospital of large scale corpse trafficking. Reports say cloned coffins with only ashes were sent to families, bodies altered before relatives, and heads or arms sold for profit. A former employee testified to amputation and replacement of limbs and parts. Coins containing body fragments were buried in two cases.
Mrs Mary Metzger of Sweetwater Oklahoma describes a severe eczema ordeal with intense itching all over her body for four months. She used Cuticura Remedies per instructions and soon found great relief, recommending them to others after recovery on June 28, 1905.
Thomas Dyke, unarmed, faced a wildcat on Locust mountain south of Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. After a brief struggle he delivered a decisive swing breaking the animal’s back, with a physician treating facial scratches. Dyke escaped unharmed.
Prices on poultry dressed and living. Fur and hide listings from Minneapolis firm plus a circular No 9. The ad mentions 11 female workers in the US and a woman signer. Beer consumption in Munich has dropped. Holiday excursion rates from Minneapolis & St Louis to Jan 1907. Mrs Ellen M McClellan arrives in New York for Gen McClellan statue unveiling next April. Gen Rucker aging in Washington at 95, former friend of Sherman and Kit Carson.
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