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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1913
Page
3
North Dakota South Dakota and Minnesota should boost farming with crops rotation manure and soil fertility to prevent crop failures. Livestock and silos are key, as furthers farm profit and long term wealth through butterfat egg revenue and land fertility.
Contractors lavishly spend to place grading gear on the right of way from Williston to McKnezie county. Heavy material including dump cars rails and steam shovels moving by wagon at 75 cents to 1 dollar per hundred pounds. A 50 ton shovel from Williston to Erickson camp on the Little Missouri river will be set up for the line through the bad lands. Bituminous coal from Williston fuels the shovel while lignite is unsuitable for boiler fuel.
A wide range of early 20th century items are reported. The piece notes a Danish expedition near Copenhagen with a $3400 stake, a young Clausen enjoying a Bla biplane ride, and superstitions tied to a talisman found with a horse remains. It also covers Swedish finances, Swedish naval seal killing budgets, population figures, 1912 insurance losses, and royal acknowledgments. It reports on Baltic and Nordic events including hospital openings, conscription debates, Panama exposition funds, and Amundsen’s polar expedition support.
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