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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1911
Page
5
OCR fragment outlines advertising pricing terms. It mentions conveyer or inset width based pricing, twelve and a half cents per inch, contracts for 1200 inches or more per year, reading notices six cents per line per issue, $25.00 for 1 000 lines, professional cards seventy cents per inch per month or 97 50 per year, and fantasy ads one cent per word per issue.
The article notes post about a late autumn indicated by meadow lark broods and unusually warm days. It also reports beaver in Canada delaying winter food gathering, farmers finishing threshing and fall plowing, and a call for Williston to enforce or pass an anti spitting ordinance due to public sidewalk spitting.
German born Milwaukee financier Ernest Leiness, arrested by Detective Henry Rooney, escaped en route from Round Up to Great Falls and was returned to Milwaukee County Jail. He faces multiple charges for obtaining money under false pretenses, including selling farm land at inflated values while conveying marsh land.
University extension lecture by Dr. Frank L. McVey at Gates Opera House on Thursday October 26. Admission prices are 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for school children. The talk will cover social and economic problems in community life. McVey is a Yale PhD and former president of the University of North Dakota.
A group of law school graduates says four women first represented tailors as clients. They argue female lawyers bring unique expertise in dressmaking and style to legal work, inspiring trust and patronage among tailors and their networks.
In a witty exchange Mr Dustin questions being called an amphibian. The reply cites his method of capitalisation and a developed resource of the land, noting a desire to move from land to water when tired of land.
A historic note recalls chocolate once denounced as the devilish beverage in seventeenth century England. Monks wrote a long tract against it in 1624, destroying copies to curb circulation, while coffee houses in London rose as refined hubs where gaming and plots allegedly thrived.
Special prices offered during this sale cover Shoes Hair Goods Muslin Underwear Silk and Heatherbloom Skirts Headscarfs Handkercheffs Furs and Fur and Plush Lined Coats with numerous discounted items available for a limited time.
A Central Creamery movement urges building a city creamery backed by banks to help farmers buy cows on easy terms and develop the dairy industry. Proponents cite irrigation nearby and abundant alfalfa, urging a shift from wheat to corn cows and alfalfa for year round prosperity, with Bergman-Dickson Land Co selling land or offering loans.
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