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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1896
Page
2
A poem asks what defines a gentleman beyond dress and status. It contrasts outward elegance with inner virtue, asking if true nobility lies in honesty, piety, and fair conduct rather than birth or wealth. The piece challenges boasting, scandal, and theft, urging integrity and God fearing living.
A narrator and his wife argue over a birthday gift for the father. They buy a self-actor-extraction coffee machine, test it at home, face mishaps and odor issues, and a kitchen accident ends the trial. In the end gifts arrive: a rocking chair for the husband and a brooch for the narrator, with the father approving a traditional method and delivering a final quip about practical gifts.
A farmer’s guide to turning loose field stones into a picturesque dairy building. The design features a single room or rear icehouse, shaded location, and partitions for cheese or winter dairying. Include a long work table, shelves, brick or stone floor, windows with screens, and optional water flow to ease cream and packaging tasks.
A Missouri reader reports a remarkable tree growth on J. J. Parish grounds by the Els river four trunks emerge from one base forming an elm and a sycamore and two smaller trunks an oak and a sycamore. each trunk remains distinct in bark and growth, suggesting a rare fusion yet separate origins.
The Farmers' Review notes dairy tips on sterilizing milk to 176 degrees and using thermometers in butter making. It calls for adopting the new term oleomargarine replacing butterine and stresses market, temper, and gentility in handling cows to secure a stable dairy trade.
Instructions advise using clean sand for rooting cuttings not more than half an inch deep. Pack the sand, place the container in a warm, bright area with shading in strong sun, water to prevent wilting, and mist foliage. Once roots reach about one half inch, transplant the young plants.
The article outlines a crude jarring method to remove curculio insects from orchards. It describes building frames with cloth sheets and a soft pounder, then striking limbs to drop insects onto the sheets for collection and destruction. The process runs daily for weeks, prioritizing outer orchard areas before inner trees.
The article describes forging a grafting knife from an old rasp or file. It advises shaping the tool to a four and a half inch square main body with a one inch cutting blade, tempering the blade mildly to avoid brittleness, and forming a wedge at the short end for splitting stock.
An old horticultural note describes a grafting knife with a half inch wedge, two inch blade, and precise use steps, priced at 25 cents. It then cites the Gardener's Chronicle on seed size, stating large seeds germinate faster with 85 90 percent crop yield, while small seeds delay harvests. advice to butter makers and market notes follow.
A description of a Chinese practice honoring written letters by burning waste paper. The piece notes a hollow pillar for reverently burning discarded letters and recounts Confucian injunctions about handling lettered paper. It claims actions affect life, health, and offspring, though reverence has limits.
A fragment mentions Hoatetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for dyspepsia and biliousness. It notes a 184 acre Virginia farm for sale with house, barns, orchard under fence, 93 000 price, near railroad and Washington City. describes contact for more details.
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