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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1910
Page
8
The editor appeals to readers to prepaid subscriptions, noting that even small unpaid balances accumulate into large sums. He stresses paper bills and weekly labor checks must be paid, and cold coin in the bank is needed to cover daily operating costs.
A collection of dated vignettes from the 1860s including a Perryville era Baptist baptism with names like Simon Bolivar Buckner and Mary Stonewall Jackson Lee, Mark Twain barber humor, a courtroom quip about a bald husband, and a tale of Ochiltree recounting losing a million after Hearst’s praise, all told in a breezy period newspaper voice.
A pioneer tale follows Metty Davis known as the strong woman who tames a rough farm, fends off tramp threats, and hunts a husband. A bear trap courtship yields a marriage to a horse thief who later reforms. After twenty years, a barn collapse ends her story.
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