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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1905
Page
9
A collage of clipped remarks and dopey punchlines. The piece parodies literary pretension withRobert W Chambers and a New York music controversy. It drifts into a crime gag about smuggling and a medicinal ad for Dodd's Kidney Pills. The tone is mock newsroom whimsy and partisan chatter.
A jumbled collage of patent medicine pitches, mining prospectus notices, trade ads, and miscellaneous items dominates the segment. Claims for Cuticura Soap promise scalp relief, alongside investor prospectus from Mining Investments and Arbuckle Goode. Also present are Peruna Almanac promos, Puck quips, and Grove’s Laxative Bromo Quinine touts.
Mrs P Branzel of Everett Washington reports fifteen years of back pain relief after using five boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills. She says night rest returned and daily fatigue faded promptly with the medicine, distributed by Foater Milburn Co Buffalo NY, price six cents per box, available from all druggists.
A reader reports widespread yellowing and tree death in Altoona due to scurfy bark louse, Chio paspis furfurus Fitch, not San Jose scale. Experts describe identification, lifecycle, and control using winter sprays and lime sulfur washes to kill pests under protective scales.
Edward Bobn of Round Prairie Eldora reports a well used as a barometer that reliably signals approaching storms. The eight foot deep waters stay clear until within hours of a storm when they turn roily, indicating storm violence. Experts at Paris Pasteur Institute claim radish can be converted into potato by glucose solution, a finding reported to the Academy of Sciences.
U S forest service bulletin No 52 endorses strategic tree planting on western Kansas farms to replace forests. Dense windbreaks and productive wood lots can be created with careful species selection, spacing, and maintenance using cottonwood cedar mixes and catalpa or osage orange where hardy. The design shown on a 16 acre farm near a section corner illustrates belts, lanes, and rows laid out to protect buildings and provide timber.
A farm note advises protecting orchard trees by removing soil around the trunk and wrapping the lower trunk with tarred paper. The paper is joined with multiple laps like stove pipe to allow growth, preventing insect eggs under bark and shielding trees from intrusion.
The deal sell for a peach orchard is either a heavy sandy loam or a light clay loam. Every farm should have an orchard and a vineyard, and these should be regarded as among its permanent improvements. Where possible, the buyer should select trees from a nearby nursery and visit the nursery to ensure quality. Farmers should grow enough for family use and note that long distance shipping can work if roots are kept moist and well packed.
A farming tip describes building rabbit pits in an orchard. Dig a five foot deep well, cover with boards leaving a man hole, and construct a 12 foot box with an open floor over the pit so rabbits running in drop into the well. This both destroys rabbits and preserves meat.
The article argues calves must be fed properly to develop into productive cows. It criticizes underfeeding and neglect, noting intelligent feeding shapes future dairy strength. It cites breeders who starve calves claiming high lineage, and warns this harms overall butter production and herd quality.
Aunt Jean recounts a calfing two year old heifer being broken to milk with an improvised guard. She used a turned box and wooden strips as a corner guard to secure the milking tin while milking with both hands. Her method allowed control and efficiency during the milking process.
The public dairy offers greater farm richness through improved manure quality and quantity due to more cows and better feed. This strengthens soil fertility and productivity across the farming operation.
A serialized advertisement recounts patient testimonials praising Peruna for chronic constipation catarrh and systemic ailments. Claims include long standing cures for wife’s life stage issues and a man’s catarrh with final notes of satisfaction from Atkinson and others.
A wartime correspondent questions a Russian commander's tactic of marching backward as a defensive ploy. The exchange hints at strategic signaling and morale effects amid conflict while the piece satirically blends unrelated ad copy and medical plug from a Chicago Daily News page.
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