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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1904
Page
7
A collage of quotes and notes from early 1900s newspapers includes a humorous exchange about a Scottish man and a wry remark on credit and generosity. Items mention rail routes, theater lines, and an array of patent medicines and remedies with promotional blurbs.
A series of playground style word puzzles and puns. The item features questions about language and logic such as why read is like the sun and why a watch-dog grows larger at night. The piece plays on homophones and creative misdirections.
Ancient wrestlers could rub hands on sand in the arena while contemporary performers are barred from using resin drugs or any preparation to increase grip tenacity, enforcing a safer traditional competition standard.
A Kansan reports quitting coffee for Postum cured long standing headaches rheumatism and heart nerves saying the switch brought back appetite steadiness and white health. He credits Postum as a food staple and praises its taste and health benefits supplied by Postum Co Battle Creek Michigan with the book The Road to Well.
A poultryman describes a DIY automatic fountain using a ten gallon keg and a pint tin cup connected by a tube. Fill via corked tube, water flows only when the top is secure and the tube is below the top. Set on a box eight inches high for easy reach. one cup serves a large flock, two or more if needed.
Practical notes for new beekeepers on starting with a single super, using starters and partially filled sections from active colonies, timing, and weather effects on honey yields. Also includes a schoolboy's humorous essay on ducks describing their shape, singing, swimming, and drakes versus hens.
A reader from St. Louis Republic endorses using gas tar to treat roup in fowls by smoking the birds at night with tar-soaked rags laid on hot coals. He also notes a spray of gas tar and crude carbolic used around hen houses, hog houses, and cow barns for sanitation.
A poultry keeper who tracks annual income and outgo learns exact egg production costs and profits. A farmer’s wife using a poultry and egg record book finds Leghorns lay about 120 eggs yearly, eggs weighting over four times the hen, and winter egg price at five cents per dozen. Even in poor markets she can net more than a dollar per hen, while many keepers guess at profits without records.
Practical poultry tips for summer care. Build a small wooden box water tray to prevent tipping and keep water clean. Combat vermin with kerosene and whitewash. To prevent gapes mix sulphur in dry corn meal for 30 25 chicks, moisten to crumble and feed daily.
The essay urges farmers to revive traditional methods that build humus, warning that fertilizer-focused farming depleted soil organic matter. It calls for cultivating nitrogen gathering crops and using more barnyard manure alongside fertilizers to restore soil fertility after decades of intensive cultivation.
A farmer recommends keeping vermin powder and a spraying bottle on a reachable shelf for roosts and walls. Use carbolic acid mixed with whitewash to destroy germs and keep the house smelling sweet. The guide notes adding one ounce per gallon of whitewash and warns against dull tools when starting a poultry rock with dung bile.
New Jersey residents react fiercely to the idea of a traveling animal farm near their homes. Reporters describe stockades, cages, and boarding houses for trained animals and show how fathers vow to defend their neighborhoods against a possible influx of wild beasts in suburban Newark.
A Chicago Inter Ocean report describes a man and his wife playing whist by telephone, with a deck on his dining table and a friend at a distant table. They announce each card played and imagine seats opposite each other, noting the novelty despite slight drawbacks.
The Inside Inn at the World’s Fair in St. Louis reinforces Mr. E. M. Statler’s reputation for first class accommodations at reasonable rates. Guests praise cool, comfortable rooms and easy access inside the Grounds saving streetcar travel. Rates are $1.50 to $3.50 European and $3.00 to $7.00 American Plan per day. A postal inquiry will receive renovation details and more information.
Newberry chief of police Harris reports years of kidney pain and sleepless nights ended after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He says two boxes cured his backache kidney secretions and restored normal kidney function. A free trial offer is mailed nationwide from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY at 50 cents per box.
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