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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1904
Page
2
A verse from B Kiser in the Record-Herald quotes a skeptical view of heaven and complacency. The speaker argues people must face and fix the world's wrongs with grit and action, refusing fatalistic resignation. The piece reflects a rural Williston attitude toward faith duty and social reform.
A rough seaman in a crowded harbor town learns a long-lost daughter, Eva Caspar, is alive when a young girl on a park bench recognizes him as her father. He reveals his past voyage, his wife’s death, and his plan to reunite with Eva.
A detailed portrait extols forest rangers in western reserves, noting outdoor life, self-sufficient work, dawn starts, cabins, ponies, and opportunities to study wildlife. It covers risks from fires and poachers, solitary months, and potential savings versus city salaries, with anecdotes from N. Y. Tribune and Lincoln era quip about a pestiferous party worker.
A reflective verse by Gertrude Gaskill from Christian Register portrays a night journey aboard the Express to Sleepy Town. The narrator warns a child passenger to keep quiet, say prayers, and hug her mother before the journey ends.
A Milwaukee Sentinel item describes a young doe named Miss Jenny wandering into Spruce Run School in New Jersey. The deer calmed as teachers and girls petted it, enjoyed cookies, and now spends days on the playground, loved by the children who plan a collar for their new pet.
On an east side street a trio of Newfoundland dogs operate the bellows forges at a burly blacksmith. Each dog works the wheel for one hour then rests two, feeding the smith’s shop and saving the owner two dollars weekly per dog. The piece notes the dogs’ intelligence and crowd appeal.
A fragmented excerpt contrasts vast population stats in U S and Europe with industrial scale data, then shifts to a personal reminiscence of rail travel. It reflects on urban demographics, production figures, and a narrator’s nostalgic voyage imaginations aboard the Santa Fe California Limited in contrast to earlier wagon journeys. The prose blends statistics with literary travel memory and a fleeting courtroom note.
In Valley City North Dakota on December 14 two year old Mey. Matilda M.L. Boucher reports dizziness then recovery after taking Dodd's Kidney Pills and Diamond Dinner Pills. She later suffered sciatica but again improved with the same medicines, praising their health effects and noting widespread use in Barnes County for kidney troubles rheumatism and related ailments.
A damaged OCR fragment references Piso's Cure for Consumption and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with prices and dubious testimonials. It also includes stray phrases about returning something, a Detroit Putnam patent item, and vague seed mentions, all lacking coherent context.
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