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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1918
Page
6
A short guide urges households to start a small backyard flock of about ten hens. It notes hens convert city kitchen scraps into food, producing roughly 100 dozen eggs a year worth about 25 cents a dozen, reducing living costs while providing fresh eggs. Even six to eight hens can supply a family of four year round.
A government backed guide advocates backyard flocks to cut waste and aid the poultry supply. It notes six to eight hens can produce eggs and meat at low cost, offers advice on odor, noise, and housing, and promises bulletins from USDA poultry specialists for beginners and veterans alike.
An Irvin Cobb analysis recounts German brutality in Belgium, citing official documents and eye-witness letters. It documents von Bissing’s harsh policy, Imperial messaging to Wilson, and German propaganda aimed at demonizing Belgian civilians.
The poem recounts the Devil resigning to Kaiser William amid wartime bravado, claiming Hell is outmatched by the Rhine region and the Kaiser’s war leadership. It contrasts infernal ruin with human conflicts and laments his own obsolescence. The piece blends dramatic resignation with satirical praise of martial power.
Mrs. Van Vierson wife of a prominent businessman at Plentywood and her six month old daughter died in an accidental shotgun discharge on Friday evening January 4. Reports say a thief had been sighted at the Pierson coal pile and Mr Pierson fired at it.
Motivation stresses wartime need for every penny saved by every man woman and child to fund war bonds and equip soldiers and sailors in defense of American honor. The message urges national unity to win the righteous war.
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