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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1900
Page
2
In a sunny July morning by the river, the narrator and Lady Emily observe the scene while tension grows over a forthcoming proposal. A masculine letter to Emily surfaces, prompting a quiet confrontation and suspicions about lovers and loyalties as the trio's plans unfold on the riverbank.
In a sunlit garden, Emily reveals she will marry Tommy after a dramatic contest for her hand. Johnny wrestles with jealousy as Sorrell’s bold advances fade, and Tommy proves the true favorite through a playful tennis duel that ends with Emily gifting diamonds.
The article recounts how Elihu B. Washburne of Illinois earned gratitude abroad for defending Germans in Paris during siege and commune. Prince Bismarck spoke of presenting him a grand cross iron crown, which he declined wearing, choosing a Washington museum display instead. He also notes Washburne agreed to sit for three American portraits by an artist.
Grant P. Robinson recalls a Civil War soldier who said he fought mit Sigel as he faced shell fire. The fallen man lost his knapsack and cap, but whispered of home and loved ones while dying, and the writer marks his grave with the note that he fought mit Sigel.
A Minneapolis Tribune piece recalls Col. Platt B. Walker, once a Confederate prisoner of war, who has remained under parole since the Civil War era. His tale travels from Fort Snelling to Rock Island, detailing capture after a Texan campaign, wartime parole, and a life paused by service. It also recounts General Lee’s return to Richmond and family life after surrender, as described by Capt. Robert B. Lee in Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly.
The Sixth Michigan Cavalry, part of Custer's brigade, was led by a colonel who had been a Michigan lawyer. At dawn on the final day at Gettysburg the regiment waited for orders as impatience rose. The colonel quieted them with a nervous gesture and a blunt remark about silence to sound better.
Pickets on opposite banks along the dark river shared a rare armistice with concerts and casual chat. Bands played Civil War era tunes nightly, as soldiers joked about Dixie versus Johnny, Manassas, and other battles, echoing across the Fredericksburg front in a fleeting peace.
A description from Orange Judd Farmer explains top-working methods for apple trees by budding or grafting. It notes a two year stage tree grafted at the center with two shoots forming the head potential and outlines shaping by cutting and grafting of larger branches depending on initial height.
A Ohio Farmer guidance on handling newborn calves in winter. Convert male calves into veal using skimmed milk with corn or oil meal, housed apart from milking cows in warm, well-bedded quarters. Raise choice heifers separately with leaner feed to grow thriftily, aiming for robust future cows. plan for spring grass as calves mature into yearlings.
The piece extols grapes as nutritious and healthful when eaten with meals in moderation and warns to wash imported grapes due to dust. It notes borax preservation methods for grapes and other fruits, and praises grape juice as a refreshing harvest drink. Also discusses garden succession crops and the farmer’s neglect of the garden.
A fragment recounts a skirmish era exchange near a river where Union and Confederate soldiers shared coffee and tobacco, traded musket glances, sang The Star Spangled Banner and Dixie, and mocked each other before planning moves toward Richmond. It notes heavy casualties in a broader river crossing, highlighting the war's toll and regional impact.
Ne Gilat of Good Butter argues there is no glut in the market for ready good and toothsome butter. Housekeepers seek fine butter but find only high-grade offerings that are unattractive or unsatisfactory. Farmers could supply better butter if they pursued regular patrons in every town.
The Sunflower harvest in Russia is described as highly profitable with $25 per acre field value. Seeds sell by farmers at $1 to $1.80 per pound, merchants salt and retail at $3 per pound, and urban street stands sell salted products to passersby. The note adds advice on dairy utensil construction emphasizing minimal seams and smooth soldering.
A historical note describes enlarging a barn by extending the end and side and adding a flat tin roof connected to the gable, creating floor space and hay storage but often lacking mow room. The method emphasizes practical expansion with limited vertical storage.
An article on barn expansion discusses widening and re-roofing a barn to increase capacity for stalls and fodder, detailing a 40 by 40 foot expansion with a modified roof. It cites Canadian Agricultural sources noting higher butter fat in the last half pint of milk compared to the first half, while other solids remain similar.
The article advises placing the cow on dry feed and gradually reducing milk withdrawal at each meal, leaving a small amount of milk in the udder. After a few days withdraw only as needed to ease gland pressure. Also give about half an ounce of powdered alum in drinking water twice daily and rub the udder with a Belladonna extract ointment in lard.
A Bloomfield township Kansas pair, a 16 year old girl and a 14 year old boy, plowed 190 acres of wheat ground rented by their invalid father T. J. Duncan. The girl harrowed, the boy drilled, and a hired man ran the harvester while the children did most of the rest. The 100 acres produced 4,000 bushels of 6 pound wheat.
A vintage appeal invites mothers with heavy duties to seek help from Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Carrie Bellevold of Ludington Michigan testifies that doctors offered little aid and the remedy restored her energy to care for eight children.
A flood of daily mail from the United States reports people buying “5 DROPS” as a cure for rheumatism sciatica neuralgia and related ailments. The Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co advertises large bottles at 1.00 plus 4¢ postage and seeks agents, listing numerous diseases and promising rapid relief.
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