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Newspaper
Williston Graphic
Location
Williston, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1906
Page
7
A Farm and Home sketch shows a portable gasoline powered elevator enabling direct dumping from a wagon bed into a crib. The device includes a pivoting platform, drop floor, and optional scales. it could handle 5 000 bushels with dual drive ends and is offered as ready made by equipment manufacturers.
An article extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for nervous exhaustion during change of life. It cites Mrs Mary L Koehne of Chicago and claims the medicine builds up the nervous system and cures female disorders, inviting women to seek free advice from Lydia E Pinkham's representative.
The article praises San Francisco as a unique literary and cultural hub unmatched by other American cities due to its size, spirit, and patronage. It contrasts this with New York and cites San Francisco's independent imagination, money, and global view. It ends with a note on continental railways where meals are served efficiently with numbered seats.
In the gardens of Raby Castle Durham England stands a remarkable fig tree with a 20 to 24 foot branch spread. It was brought from Italy in 1786 and is kept under glass.
A woman recounts years of bilious colic, headaches, catarrh and dyspepsia from coffee. After quitting coffee and using Postum Food Coffee, her symptoms subsided and she regained health, endorsing Postum as a cure and citing doctors’ prior misdiagnosis. She references the Postum Company and its pamphlet The Road to Wellville.
The article notes rapid bullet rotation with a rifling one turn per ten inches. Muzzle velocity is 2,300 feet per second, equating to about 2,760 rpm if the bullet remains engaged. Bullet circumference and peripheral speed imply 19,000 feet per minute of surface travel.
A testimonial from Claude N. Johnson of Walnut Kansas details a two year skin eruption cured by Cuticura products. He says initial doctor visits failed, but after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills he found relief starting with the first application and completed a full cure. The notice notes the $1.26 cost and dates June 15 1905.
An extraordinary prisoner, a woman of nerve, endures every deception from gunfire to simulated earthquakes. Detectives test her resolve by threats and taunts, including a whispered complaint about her hair. Yet she remains calm until a mere hair disturbance causes a collapse from shame.
North Dakota adopts a labeling plan to curb fraud in paint and other products. The law allows mixtures if buyers are aware, requiring labels to distinguish pure white lead and linseed oil from adulterated substitutes. It argues the principle could extend to foods and other goods.
In Washington and northern Oregon farmers push for labor, threatening vagrancy penalties to force idle individuals into harvest work. Towns including Pullman Colfax Garfield Pomeroy Palouse and others impose fines and forced labor under a broadened vagrancy definition to secure crews paying $2 to $3 a day plus board.
In Elkland Pennsylvania Mrs. Charles N Preston credits Dean's Kidney Pills with rapid health recovery after severe weight loss thirst and sugar in urine. The piece also notes Bell's generosity tale and a discussion of baking powders claiming alum based powders are safe and cheaper.
The gradual cessation of rural industries drives peasant ownership from the land. Thatching and woodcraft decline due to councils favoring slated roofs and alternative materials. Cottagers must buy coal as old fireplaces cannot burn timber and the era of cottage timber use ends.
A late 19th century style advertisement promotes car maintenance tips and a list of respected automobile brands. It includes a cleaning solvent recipe with sperm oil and vinegar and advises on polishing brass. The piece touts Bulock Maxwell Mitchell Reo Knox Franklin and Queen cars priced from 750 to 2000 dollars.
A valley cloud and distant rumble spark a mistaken danger tale. A stone age man flees to a mountain peak, then learns it is only a roaming creature. He returns to chewing an ent horse from a solid cli, calling the disturbance a false alarm.
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