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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1907
Page
7
Prof L A Taft of Michigan describes a valuable tree named Japan walnut Jugians Steboldiana. Introduced about 15 years ago, it has been tested across northern states. The tree grows rapidly with thick branches and very large leaves, resembling walnut and butternut but with more luxuriant growth and hardy to enter.
The Japan walnut thrives in varied soils at Michigan experiment station grounds. It bears in 3 4 years, forms panicles of nuts resembling butternut but smaller and ovate, cracks easily, kernels slip from shells. It lacks the butternut’s bitterness yet offers edible kernels, making it a promising ornamental tree with valuable nut production.
Instructions cover storage of apples and spinach, pruning vines, lime and ashes use for trees, peach tree spray for buds, renewing blackcap patches, sheep pasture benefits, grape vine pruning guidance, and rhubarb winter storage in cellar. Emphasizes frost protection, soil enrichment, moisture retention, and year round harvest readiness.
Advice urges subsoil before planting, noting potential benefits on compact soils but questioning profit on most orchard soils. Root systems are deep, reaching for plant food when available, and outcomes depend on soil character and prior plowing.
Clean up yards and burn rubbish to curb pests and improve crops. Marketing is as crucial as growing, with home markets giving growers control over grading, packing, and profits from consignments. Proper brushing, sorting into grades, and careful barrel filling drive demand and prices.
A Prairie Farmer correspondent outlines a storage method with two earth layers and a straw cushion forming an air space to retain heat. A four to five inch straw layer is topped by earth, with coarse manure optional after the first frost. The piece also notes truckers face scarce, rising, and unreliable labor as better paid jobs attract workers away from farming.
Captain 8 L Crute of Roanoke Virginia describes severe kidney gravel and fatigue with weight loss and frequent urination. After using Dean's Kidney Pills his gravel passed in a stone the size of a bean, his health improved, and he credits the remedy. Sold by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo New York at 50 cents a box.
The article notes rapid railway expansion in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta, with about 11 000 miles completed by 1906 and 5 000 more added that year. It argues construction stimulates circulation 100 million dollars twenty years of work creating new districts homesteads and markets plus thousands of free homesteads and rising incomes. It highlights ongoing settlement with 189 064 people finding homes this year including 57 796 Americans. It also briefly surveys prominent lecture earnings of politicians Tillman Watterson and Champ Clark.
Marie Pierre Feliux Junet a professor of experimental psychology at the University of Paris travels in the United States giving lectures. He is seen by the public as a hypnotist but he aims to prove hysteria victim embodies two distinct personas.
The Four-year-old story recalls ex Gov Odell of New York facing pressure to select a rival lieutenant governor. Odell’s 88 year old father a strict church deacon attended a hotel cottage conference and ordered his son to refuse the objectionable candidate. Odell obeyed and told them to go to.
A tale explains dominoes arose from two monks kept in strict silence. They played with marked stones and whispered the opening line of the vesper hymn Cantate Domino. The game spread through Italy and beyond, the hymn line shortened to domino, giving the game its name.
A jumble of late 19th century advertisements and quotes appears, promising cures for catarrh with Hall's Catarrh Cure, rewards and testimonials, fur and hide trade notes, price offers for butterfat, and assorted slogans. Names like Hall & Co Toledo and McMillan Fur & Wool Co Minneapolis surface amid miscellaneous endorsements and proverbs.
A collage of quotations on virtue and ambition, interspersed with notices on a sultan’s concession to electric lighting in Constantinople. It highlights Brandreth’s Pills as a blood purifier with a century of use, touting its extracts and daily dosages for health.
Strangely Mounted describes a cavalry band in Saint de Moorvay east Africa under Mada gascar French rule that moves with oxen. It contrasts with Mark Twain recalling a 19th century Missouri LL D invitation and a visit to Hannibal where Tom Nash jokes about the town’s people.
An Indiana woman testifies against coffee and tea claiming headaches nervousness dizziness and sour belching improved after switching to Postum. She reports clearer vision stronger eyes and better well being, noting a friend who tried Postum after her recommendation. The testimonial promotes Postum by the Battle Creek company and its guide The Road to Wellville.
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