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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1901
Page
2
Poem by T. CG. Marbaugh in Ledger Monthly describes winter scenes with bells and snow. A lover rides toward a beloved at night, bells ringing softly as December winds rest.
A humorous scene unfolds as Worth Brice pretends not to know who Christabel Love is engaged to. Chris confronts the rumor sparked by Miss Maltby and an unnamed informant, while Worth tries to disguise his excitement at the unfolding romantic confusion.
In a small town Worth Brice and Chris unravel gossip about Chris's engagement as they chase a rumor trail. Red hair shifts to golden brown revealing the name Chris as the intended partner, ending with the decision not to publicize the three day old engagement. Nearby a plantless patch in Indiana near Cedar Lake hints at local lore of a Cherokee torture grove.
American firms expand exports to New Zealand as hardware demand grows. They adopt a strategy to supply what the colonies want rather than force items on them, reflecting the base principle of successful export trade.
Women at a Hutchinson Kansas bathing pool recalled three strange thefts involving jewelry. A pocketbook, a sack of diamonds and a ring vanished or moved between dressing rooms, leading to speculation of somnambulism, buried ashes, and a hidden stash behind a tree.
The Boston Transcript questions the joy of easy laughter at old jokes and contemplates the psychology of the quick laugher. It notes a different delight in men like Edward Whymper, who at 100 plus sails for London with a scientific party to explore the Canadian Rockies starting from Calgary, aiming to map 500 miles of unknown terrain and report new discoveries.
A Rural New Yorker excerpt discusses cheap silos versus well built ones. It describes stave silos with air tight joints, foundation, roof design, and drainage, plus issues with solid iron rods and the rise of wire rope as a solution. It notes door design, dormers, weathering, and a caution about preservatives and butter imports.
A reader describes growing potato onions using goat manure soil preparation, 18 inch row spacing, six to seven inch onion spacing, six inch deep planting, and separate handling for large onions and sets. He notes early onions from Egyptian or Tree winter varieties and recommends Prizetaker sets and Gibraltar seedlings for green onions, with staggered sowing for continual green onions through late spring and summer.
Prof. Hayes Snyder from Minnesota Experiment Station analyzes tomato composition. Water forms the bulk, sugar is the largest nonwater constituent at about 3.83 percent, with ranges from under 1 percent to 4.5 percent. Protein and fat are each around 0.5 percent, while the article notes wide variation across samples.
Instructions to plant asparagus using one-year-old roots in rich, well drained ground. Suggests spring planting, trenching 12 inches deep, manure layers, spacing two feet between plants, and progressive hilling. Recommends annual manuring and deeper setting for white or branched varieties.
The postmaster general cites rural free delivery as a major postal advance begun years ago with minimal funding. He estimates broader expansion could cost about 20.5 million, urging economy to secure future appropriations while maintaining current free delivery at roughly 3.5 million annually. Potatoes show scab reduction with corrosive sublimate or formalin seed treatments, from Vermont tests, versus 41 percent scab in untreated crops, suggesting a potential 37 percent gain in first-class yield.
Britain turns out 300 million yards of linen yearly. Forty five alligators die of pneumonia in a Milwaukee show. A St. Louis man invents an elevator using a screw instead of weights. Filipinos fear exile more than imprisonment or death. The Michigan state penitentiary reports 720 inmates, lowest in 25 years. Eatonville Florida, 1200 residents with no white inhabitants and essential town services.
Moses B Crane of Odin Lodge and G A R Post No 5 Tacoma testifies that after heart disease exposure during the war and weight gain he found relief from Dodd's Kidney Pills. He reports improved eating and sleeping and renewed vigor and clarity. The testimonial notes strong local use and claims wide cure for heart disease kidney and bladder weakness and rheumatism.
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