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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1900
Page
2
Readable fragments sketch a homely valley scene with Mary Mary Jane the caretaker and her neglected labor atop a tale of wills and marriage plots. George Neal meets Kate Perry as legal actions unfold and Furness hints at a business pairing while other excerpts touch Gladstone letters Irish humor and social vignettes.
A handsome but restless youth named John Smith travels from Yarmouth to sea with a fisherman. He wooes Katharine Perry through a window and receives eight weeks work aboard Saucy Lass. Post voyage, he learns Katharine’s money and fate, then travels to London to learn his uncle George Neal is dead and that he stands to inherit.
Practical notes describe a stable design with sloped platforms, low mangers, neck restraints, and a back gutter. A front feed trough with constant running water keeps cows clean, while movable frames raise for feeding and direct waste into a gutter.
The piece argues that overrich soil leads to excessive vine growth with few seeds or fruit. It suggests relocating crops like potatoes cabbage corn and other staples to new locations to rebalance plant foods, noting that too rich a soil can harm fruit yield.
The Farmers' Review argues annual United States highway spending exceeds 30 million dollars yet yields no lasting benefit. It calls for permanent, substantial road improvements, noting macadam as a superior method where available, and urges farmer-led action and coordinated plans to replace the current costly, failing system with durable roads.
A technical note discusses the challenge of placing a tight foundation under an already built barn or structure close to the ground. It explains how the foundation should extend below the frost line and questions methods to dig the ditch beneath the barn’s edge.
The excerpt discusses trenching near a barn to set foundation stones and staking with boards, then filling with stones and cementing the top layer. It also notes machinery reducing farm labor hours and teamsters delegating upkeep tasks, reflecting era views on tools and efficiency.
The Lancaster SC Enterprise protests terrible public road conditions from here to the McDow house. It calls the roadway a horrible, shameful stretch and argues a community cannot be civilized with such roads.
A fragmented clipping mixes an unrelated ad about Houtetter’s Stomach Bitters and a humorous anecdote from a Chicago Chronicle reprinting a German domestic worker story. It contrasts ship cable encrustation with a language mishap at a telephone and ends with the maid asking “Hello who is this” as the man laughs.
Letters from Minnesota farmers writing to Canadian official Benj. Davis describe moving to prairie communities near Dalesboro Arkansas and nearby towns. They report rapid settlement, growing homes, building a church, and optimism for a Wheat Field of the West as vacant land vanishes and crops improve.
A Chicago novelist laments that literature costs more than money, noting a writer’s pay in pride and press. A blond editor recalls offers for Prairie Yarns at 25 000 dollars, while another author scoffs at 35 dollars for a piece tied to the Snobs murder case and Chicago’s West and North Sides. The exchange reveals tensions over royalties and status in literary circles.
An Afrikander trekking from Schuin a Hoogte to Palopsie with hilton halts at a fontein. A Voortrekker appears waving a vierkleur and shouts war. The Afrikander jokes war. The Voorlmpper stumbles, falls, and the group debates the quickest route to the nearest dorp. They are guided to a laager for safety.
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