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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1913
Page
8
A Minole experiment station study by L. J. Hall and A. D. Emmett outlines how much meat and waste occur across different retail cuts. It explains how knowing location price and waste can yield savings when buying meat.
Professor R C Donoghue outlines North Dakota soil types, noting finer eastern red river valley soils with higher rainfall and coarser western soils lacking organic matter. He recommends alfalfa as a long term rotation crop to boost organic matter, with careful placement and yearly hay production, and suggests corn and small grains after good cultivation given lower western rainfall and water holding capacity.
Plante explains heredity and true breeding. He asserts that sowing a wheat variety yields the same variety and that valuable true breeding variations, once selected and propagated, are essential to successful plant breeding. The message emphasizes the importance of maintaining desirable traits through careful propagation.
Italy enacted a 1912 law requiring women aged fifteen to fifty in industry to join a compulsory maternity fund financed by 20 to 40 cents yearly from employers with half deducted from wages. The program provides eight dollars for confinement, a nursery in larger factories, and a month off for mother and child, reducing infant mortality among workers.
A column contrasts past wages and child labor practices with modern times and notes a three mile high telephone exchange atop Mont Rosa. The observatory site, at 15,450 feet, features snow insulation and seasonal pole maintenance to prevent line breakage.
The document details receipts from the state Tuition Fund and district levies for the year ending June 30 1918, including amounts from the County Population Tax and warrants redeemed. It lists expenditures for school houses and improvements, furniture and texts, teachers wages, transportation, incidental expenses, and interest on warrants. Cash on hand at year end plus totals are recorded, with signatures of the treasurer and district authorities.
Washington dispatch notes the tariff debate tightening as the Underwood bill nears Senate action. Key figures Newlands and Hitchcock could swing votes, with Democrats split over wool, sugar, and protections. Republicans prepare amendments to replace free sugar and redefine duties while clues of intra party shifts emerge amid caucus maneuvers.
Finance Committee signals five weeks may suffice for general debate and passage, but prominent Republican Senators doubt it. Even if debate ends in five weeks, session would run into mid August with three weeks needed for conference settlements. Likely end of September before final bill reaches President Wilson, if at all, as the drama plays out amid slow public appetite.
Weather Bureau observer John Craig reports for Williston North Dakota the week ending July 30 1913 with high 92 and low 42 degrees averaging 67 normal 70 precipitation 0.00 inches versus 0.38 normal. Extreme highs and lows over past five years include 93 and 42 on the 27th. Greatest weekly precipitation 0.31 inches in 1912.
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