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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1898
Page
2
A tale follows Burt Elwood and Cyril Elwood in a Chicago outfitting firm. The father imposes strict discipline and frugal ideals, denying city pleasures to his son. After the father’s death, Cyril explodes into wealth with flashy clothes, jewelry, and reckless living, shocking peers and exposing the failure of the old money rule.
A public library excerpt recounts Cyrus Elwood a self made Chicago man who advocates rigid poverty to forge character. He targets his son Burt urging constant toil and abstinence, while citing a reckless relative Duceby as cautionary proof of luxury's ruin.
The account recalls Col Knox carrying a dying body into the Louisiana House to cast a pivotal vote for Judah P. Benjamin's U S Senate bid amid a tie in the legislature. Benjamin won as Knox, near death, was carried out and later recovered.
A mosaic of witty exchanges and social jests from a past era, compiling brief lines about lovers, lawyers, gossip, and daily foibles. It tethers humor to city life with names like Chicago Daily News Harlem Life and Cleveland Train Center, reflecting popular humor columns and lampooned discussions of love, work, and manners.
Maryland wheelmen push for road improvements by promoting broad tires for draft vehicles. Farmers are engaged, experiments show broad tires compress and stabilize poor roads, reducing hauling costs and road-work needs. The effort seeks legislative bonds and tax exemptions to fund modernized road networks nationwide.
Orchard and garden guidance covers pruning young trees, grape placement on slopes, drainage for old orchards, row planting for easier cultivation, and choosing varieties for extended strawberry ripening. Notes on currants, curmint, gooseberry, plant lice remedy, and seed size effects on germination discuss seed selection and plant vigor.
Home cheese making outlines a method using tin heaters, kettles, or cauldrons with adequate draft, heating milk to about 100 F and up to 93 F, adding rennet diluted in water, cutting curd when it sheets, draining whey, salting at 2 pounds per 1000 pounds of milk, pressing lightly, aging in a cool room, and daily greasing and turning for care.
Edgar Sanders explains pruning as essential when transplanting and growing young plants. For large trees thinning to remove cross shoots yields a uniform top, while ordinary nursery shrubs and roses benefit from shortening branches by half to a third. He notes amateurs often resist cutting but urges experimentation to see vigorous regrowth.
Guidance on dairy utensil care advises using tin milk pans and pails, ordered to fit, washed with cold water then hot water, dried in sun, and kept clean to prevent souring. Borax can purify hot rinse water. avoid hot water in seams. Do not reuse tinware for other foods. clean with soda and a soft cloth. Keep milk away from damp, odors, and gases. use charcoal in mill rooms.
The Ontario experiment station tested reed potatoes in three trials using different seed sizes including medium small and very small. Yields roughly followed seed size with the largest seed giving the highest yield. The study concluded that yield depended more on seed size than on the number of eyes.
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