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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1905
Page
6
A damaged OCR reads a romantic fragment praising Lilly Elizabeth Kelley in Boston, with archaic phrasing and scattered quotation marks. The text references love, life, and the spirit, framed as a poetic dedication within a transcript-like context.
On the Lewis farm at Homeration a bean threshing episode brings Burton and Dolly together. Walt Symonds arrives with the threshing engine, causing jealousy and comic tension. Burton proves clever and steadfast, Dolly grows curious, and a late-night talk leads to confession and a kiss confirming love.
A sect in New Jersey prepares for the end of the world, choosing New Jersey as a likely jumping off point. Officials report near equal gender balance in Holland, with women showing about a one percent preference.
William H. Lee, now in his nineties, of Shobonter, Iowa, says he is the only survivor of the 1832 Black Hawk War. The Des Moines Register and Leader notes his life spanned frontier hardship from youth in Illinois to pioneer farming, three Chicago and New Orleans grain trips, and California gold fever averted by later successes.
A New York Sun illustration imagines parceling the United States into farm regions. Maine and New Hampshire as an out field, Rhode Island as a tobacco plantation, Connecticut and Long Island as a potato patch, New York and several states as a wheat field, Pennsylvania as a cotton area, Virginia and West Virginia as hay, Maryland in rye and buckwheat, the Carolinas and Georgia in corn, and Texas or Ohio Kentucky Michigan Indiana Illinois Wisconsin as pasture. Even with this, three quarters of the nation remains unimproved forest land for future settlement.
A Philadelphia Press note describes a nonsupport case in which the accused husband pleads temporary ill health and an agreement is made. The wife offers to work while he recovers and the magistrate, husband, and wife all express satisfaction, though the children were not consulted.
The piece notes most people are right-eyed, like right-handed, with about 60 percent favoring the right eye. It suggests left-sighted individuals are about one in ten and links eye dominance to historic weapon use shaping sensory strength.
A perfection feed hopper is described eight inches wide, two and a half feet high, and three feet long. The roof overhangs the patch where fowls feed, with perches and lid attachment clearly shown. Weight on the arm should suit fowl size. box length is flexible, height and width fixed.
The passage explains hive labor division from early male and female roles to modern communal effort. It notes the queen lays 2,000 to 3,000 eggs daily during peak periods, feeding she and attendants provide bee milk, and a prolific queen can lay about 1,500,000 eggs in a lifetime.
The guide advises daily egg gathering, keeping eggs warm enough to prevent bursting, and using small ends down in baskets and boxes with separators. Proper placement preserves freshness as yolk stability is maintained away from the shell. It notes prices influence whether to sell eggs or raise chickens, and lists prolific layers like Black Spanish, Leghorns, Poland, Hamburg, Creve Coeur, and La Fleche.
Notes advise saving cabbage for hens, using leaves as scratching material, and cracked corn to fatten fowls. Kill excess cockerels to improve egg output. Green bone or beef scrap speeds pullet maturity. Dampness harms poultry keeping. sunshine is a cure. Maine hen lays 251 eggs yearly, profitable at 176 percent. For geese, buy fall breeding stock, they pair in February and may not breed first year without acclimation. high quality, well-mated geese are cheapest and most profitable.
Jada Yarmer advises on winter egg production through exercise and scattered feed to stimulate hens. She recommends regular feeding with modest rations and keeping hens slightly hungry to encourage foraging rather than overfeeding.
A compact guide on starting a duck farm amid care, expense, and management. It covers market prices, breeding ages, incubation choices, water needs, and a cautionary anecdote about duck drinking troughs to prevent smothering.
Apiarist Edwin Bevins outlines two methods to salvage laying worker colonies. First, unite a hive with a fertile queen atop a strong colony through a screened barrier, then swap hives to allow queen rearing. Second, move brood frames into a nucleus with a wire cloth divider, releasing a fertile queen and escort to form a strong nucleus, then transfer frames back as needed.
The poultry raiser seeks pure blood stock and often does not breed himself. An illustration features a pair of Partridge Wyandottes bred by a Kansas fancier. They won medals in a major poultry prize contest.
The article warns to ensure the henhouse has tight ends and sides and to face the front south. It notes warmth improves winter egg-laying and earlier broodiness without artificial heat. It also reports Minnesota creamery men weighing purchase of milk on grade similar to wheat purchasing practices.
A garbled reminiscence outlines a Glasgow golf course encounter with a red coat observer, a Mississippi pickpocket claim, and Judge Erskine at Chelmsford with a ticklish breach of promise quip. It also recalls Senator Stockbridge’s library-sized prank of sending 216 running feet of books from a Chicago house.
A fragment describes a man’s brisk exit on a rainy day. He fixes his hair, wears turned up trousers, carries no extra shirt, and leaves without folding under a burden or needing to pose to please others. The scene contrasts a woman’s envy with a man’s carefree departure.
An Indiana woman recalls coffee caused lifelong stomach trouble and dyspepsia. After switching to Postum she reports improved health and no longer needs coffee at breakfast. She praises the product from Postum Co of Battle Creek Michigan and notes reading The Road to Wellville.
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