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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1900
Page
2
Lukra Garland Carr recalls a childhood brook near a white cottage with yard, shed, and bridge. Vivid details of stones, minnows, frogs, toads, and flowers evoke joyful days, alchemy of weeds into gold, and shared town memories. The piece ends with a question about whether the waters still flow.
Gregory Mason returns as teacher in a Wisconsin township to find population shifts from Yankee to Irish German Norwegian and Polish families. He inspires a Hawthorne literary society, helps fund and rebuild a modern log schoolhouse on a hill, and fosters Americanization through lectures and social events. The project unites the community, but ends with Mason offered a legislative seat and plans to farm, signaling rural Renewal.
The text explains budding in late summer by inserting a bud with its tissues under the bark of a twig. A sharp knife is used to lift beneath the bud, slide three quarters of an inch below it, and pass beneath the bud through the wood.
A compilation of horticultural how-tos on grafting buds with T cuts and wrapping, plus rural notes on shallow cultivation and violet farming. It also covers cleomargarine labeling, then shifts to road maintenance between scraping, chuck-holes, ditch checks, and roadside upkeep stressing timely mowing and community action.
Eben E. Rexford’s verse in Golden Day salutes a boy who resists temptation and fights daily battles unseen. It praises unnamed heroes who conquer wrong with steadfast manhood, urging “The Right” as a battle-cry and divine help to strengthen their arms in life’s strife.
Early Saturday near Diamond Head two native fishermen in a canoe chased a big conger eel and hammerhead shark. The eel grappled the shark, surfaced, leapt into the boat, then attacked as a third canoe arrived with a meat ax to end the fight. The catch measured 27 feet with a thigh-sized circumference. inside the eel were shells and remnants of a large cat. This is the largest eel on record in the islands.
Practical notes from a 19th century farming page describe a cord operated henhouse door with rising and lowering action and a locking bolt to secure it. It also offers orchard cultivation guidance advising mid August as the optimum cultivation pause and cautions against bluegrass sod to protect roots and moisture.
A juvenile reader description details the king crab known for its many teeth and leg driven feeding. It digs into warm sand in June to lay eggs while the mother leaves the nest. Hatchlings emerge tiny and tail length grows with each molt into a full grown crab.
The article traces the electoral college starting with 91 votes and explains how New York North Carolina and Rhode Island affected early totals. It notes Washington receiving all votes in 1789 and 1702 counts, then presents a table showing apportionment from 1788 to 1901 and explains population-based growth and occasional decreases due to reapportionment. The current college for the next election is listed.
A lone planter on a tiny South Pacific island keeps a 70 foot pet whale fed with chopped meat. He hosts traders at palmed banquets and horn signals lure the whale to the shore, where it noses into the sand for food then leaps with glee. The island’s only white resident relies on brown skippers to harvest coconuts while the whale becomes the curiosity of visitors.
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