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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1900
Page
2
Fragment from Francis Barile in Youth's Companion speaks of southern woods as home. The narrator hears trees offer sermons about love, hope, patience, and faith through spring, summer, autumn, and winter, urging trust in God.
Bill Ellis recounts a bear encounter in the hills with Old Clubfoot the bear dragging him up a tree. He escapes by riding ants down the trunk and finally mounting the bear, then surviving a brutal chase as the bear charges and the narrator clings on.
A rugged narrator describes a chaotic retreat through mountains and brush in California. He recounts a scramble from danger, noting coyotes, flying debris, and a sudden tumble into a manzanita patch before regaining his senses and wondering who spoke.
In a shaky note, Hevins reports the Squawbunk and Sqwanktown railroad is taken by a receiver. The writer recalls long travels and failed hookups, while a swarm of 112 immigrant families and insects vex local farmers.
A collage of light jokes and anecdotes from society pages. Snatches of dialogues about weddings, love, money, and manners appear beside brief quips and cartoonish lines. The humor centers on courtships, family tensions, and social foibles in a late 19th to early 20th century newspaper style.
In apiaries with 60 or more colonies swarms cluster. use a queen trap to prevent queen kill. The device, a simple two‑flat‑iron trap, slips under the alighting board and lets the queen remain while the swarm is moved to an empty hive. Swarm returns after 10–20 minutes. release queen to join swarm, then divide if needed. The method, illustrated as Fig. 2, uses a wire ring, burlap bag, and a swiveling mouth for easy capture and hiving.
A long OCR excerpt describes a hay derrick with a 32 foot center pole and four 65 foot stay ropes used for lifting hay, noting a horse-driven operation and labor needs. It blends farm gear details with agricultural advice on lice control, kerosene emulsion for pests, hog manure composting, and silage for sheep, urging practical husbandry and poultry flock improvements.
Practical advice for poultry and hog farmers outlines egg freshness, feeding for ducklings, broiler weight calculations, and incubator care. It warns of possible price drops, urges marking poults, and notes poultry housing and shelter needs. Also covers pasture choices and emerging forage trials for swine and poultry.
The article describes how horse remains yield valuable products. Bone and leg bones are used for bundles and table cutlery, tails and manes for hair cloth, ribs and heads burned to make bone black, phosphate of lime processed for phosphorus for matches, hides for cordovan leather, short hair for cushions and collars, animal oil as a poison in pesticides, bones in ammonia production, hoofs processed for oil and Mikado goods, and bones dissolved in muriatic acid to extract phosphate and dry the soft element.
An old advertisement touts a blood tonic promising quick relief of tiredness pimples sores and rheum. It claims the medicine raises blood levels and restores good health and urges readers to buy a bottle and start using it now.
The article extols Washington Territory as a growing empire with vast forests for shingles and timbers, value fruit, irrigation friendly climates east of the Cascades, ample rainfall west of them, and strong rail links. It notes diverse crops, education, and industry plus labor demand and remunerative wages. It also references travel notices and a Paris anecdote about ginger in confectioneries.
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