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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1902
Page
3
A comic tale from the Denver Post recounts a giddy girl who giggles at every cue and a quarrel with a blunt Cork-born woman at a Sixty-first Street hotel door. A memory-strengthening book leads to comic forgetfulness as husband William forgets his new coat after praise.
William Thotless, an amiable man with chronic forgetfulness, endures a sequence of comic missteps. He forgets his wife's letters and even his hat, trips on a train, orders hot rolls in a drug store, and imagines a red hat rack as he returns home on a rainy evening. The tale follows his escalating embarrassment and bungled attempts to please his wife.
A western city biograph show depicting a detachment of the Fourteenth United States infantry triggered a scream when a front row spectator cried My brother my brother claiming the figure on screen was her missing sibling Orscular Observations later confirmed by the war department.
Discussion of historical road maintenance in England and France. Describes evolving tolls, public resistance, and the shift to collective funding. Details four road classes in France and the roles of national, departmental, military, and cross roads with typical widths and upkeep responsibilities.
Coleman K. Sober of Union proposes a vast chestnut project on 203 acres near Shamokin. He grafted Paragon chestnuts after early trials, yielding a 30 bushel crop worth 210 today and projected 3000 bushels next year at market value. Fire roads, brush burning, game chickens, and sheep manage the grove.
The text explains making a flood gate from timber ties arranged in an X shape with interlocking frames, set into the bank to block a creek. It argues the method is cheaper than pen-and-rock dams and praises good roads for supporting agricultural labor and prosperity.
A New York Tribune piece outlines legal minded guidance for building country telephone lines. It covers franchise needs when many homes exist, pole placement near sidewalks and curbs, farmer property rights, and crossing methods with minimal disturbance to existing lines.
A simple method uses two posts placed inch apart with a wire laid between. A wire nail dropped into a notch holds the strand until it is needed again. When lowering the wire, press it to the base of the post and slide it under the hook for easy movement.
A Rural World piece argues for planting orchards to guard farm value and long term gains, noting trees shelter future profits when grain crops fail. It calls for more treed farm homes and warns road improvements fall on farmers, not government, urging private initiative.
Compiled claims praise Peruna as a cure for catarrh and a tonic for the weak and elderly. endorsements span Mrs Belva A Lockwood Congressmen Amos J Cummings General Joseph Wheeler with others praising its curative purported reach. The piece also notes catarrh as widespread and Peruna as a systemic remedy, with consumer contact for literature.
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