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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1899
Page
2
A Congregationalist poet laments the birth and sacred bond with his child. He speaks of divine awe, celestial imagery, and the vow to guide and bless the daughter through life, seeking heavenly protection and joy through tears.
Aneta Ovideo, a Cuban woman in San Juan, Cuba, faces death as she waits by the water to see if a knot of cape jessamine she drops will drift back to shore or out to sea. Her lover is dead, and Americans entered San Juan amid turmoil as Cape jessamine knots symbolized hope or fate.
In a shifting scene Aneta encounters a visiting trooper named Denkins who flatters her with colored jessamine and declares love. Her father deems his approach bold, while Aneta is torn between fascination and warning, as the regimented man presses for closeness and companionable singings in the house.
Aneta deceived by a trooper while dreaming of a home and love. The trooper’s letters reveal betrayal and death, while Henry Harmon plays a cruel joke, and Aneta endures a vow of hopeful longing as she clings to a doomed romance.
Notes and Queries explains a Mesopotamian system of notation used to divide time and space. It traces 60 minutes per hour and 360 degrees per circle to Babylonian roots, with decimal refinements and cross influences from the Greeks and Phoenicians.
Fragmentary OCR passage recounts an 18th century note about trousers used as protection against sailors’ guns, cites a Victorian manuscript with a dated entry, and mentions Los Angeles power from the Santa Ana river and a claim about primitive cabs in Ireland with over 49 000 single-room cabins.
A humorous collage from a Boston transcript, featuring witty snippets and charmed wordplay. Characters laugh at misunderstandings about marriage access and registry offices. A Scots footman delivers deadpan replies as chatter shifts between theater humor and domestic quips.
A Brooklyn man recounts traveling to Denver to seek a cure for consumption and recovering against odds. He describes the local term lunger, camping in pure air, and a dramatic cold snap that preceded his recovery. He notes others in Colorado who seemed less afflicted sometimes died, but he himself recovered.
A simple tingeing pen made of oak or pine planks keeps hogs confined while rings are inserted in their noses to prevent rooting. The device allows quick ring placement as hogs are driven into the pen, enabling farmers to manage rooting behavior.
A historical description from Country Gentleman details a hog ringing device. The mechanism secures a hog’s head through a crack with a lever and pin, allowing the animal to be turned out after the procedure. The inventor claims widespread use on hog farms and notes adjustable holes for different hog sizes.
A summary of Doolittle’s beekeeping method for joining two or three colonies into a box holding 22 quarts for small colonies or at least 20 quarts for large ones. It describes wire cloth sides, a removable frame, a top funnel, smoke, pounding, shaking, and inserting a caged queen to encourage early breeding across latitudes 40 to 40 degrees.
Article discusses how comfortable pens save feed costs in cold weather, criticizing uniform rations for young pigs and stressing consistent feeding times. It promotes parsnips as a superior winter cattle root, noting their long shelf viability and contribution to rich butter color in Jersey and Guernsey cattle.
Sugar beets rank high as hog fodder due to their sugar content converting to fat and supplying minerals for bone and frame. In Nebraska studies, beet-fed pigs require little corn and, at equal ages, reach larger sizes than corn-fed counterparts while showing greater resistance to diseases.
The Wisconsin station notes subsoiling boosts soil moisture storage and deeper infiltration while reducing surface return. It should be done when subsoil is dry, preferably in fall after crops draw moisture, to avoid wedging and compacting the soil.
Orange Judd Parker advocates a fence plan using a single upright stake braced by shorter stakes on each side and bound with plain wire. The design, he argues, prevents sinking, leaning, or pulling apart, ensuring the fence stays in place even on soft ground.
Practical notes from the National Stockman on maintaining a fifty sheep flock including hoof care on wooden floors, salt usage, feeding after lambing, breeding ewe management, and housing to prevent injury. Advice compares breeds, manure concentration, mineral fertilization, and the importance of practical husbandry for dairy cows and milk cleanliness.
A fragmented newspaper column reports a man swallowing a false tooth and going mad, with ads for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters curing indigestion and other ailments. It cites spring cleaning tips, revival anecdotes, catarrh treatment, and various consumer quips and remedies from period ads and jokes.
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