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Newspaper
Bismarck Weekly Tribune
Location
Bismarck, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1900
Page
7
Stath New WW. W. Tousley buys Hillscra Times while census crews are appointed in several counties. Bank of Fargo becomes federal depository. A letter of notes on mills, post offices, and local politics spans Cass, Ramsey, Ward, Cavalier, and Wells counties.
A promotional scheme offers every reader a free copy of a new men’s health book. The ad touts cures for varicocele, stricture, and other male ailments, claims unprecedented home treatment, and notes Dr Newton Hathaway, M D, provides free consultations. It also promises the book’s pages cover venereal issues and vitality restoration.
Philadelphia man John Oliver recounts a near fatal illness with severe pain and loss of appetite. After three physicians gave up, he tried an electric battery and saw marked improvement after three weeks, praising its life saving effect and urging others to try it at 50 cents at P. C. Remington's drug store.
Col Lounsberry a special agent from Rolla notes land filings in western North Dakota up to April 24 surpassing 1K for the month. Minot records 48 filings as Jake Wolf of Iola Ramsey County bought 14 acres last year for 1000, abandoned by the homesteader then mortgaged. Wolf cleared 45 acres, put in flax, and paid for the tract from the crop. He has traveled 800 miles through Ramsey Cavalier Towner and Rolette counties amid rain. wheat is up, flax being sown, and conditions look better than 18 nearly a bumper crop year.
Five hobos arrested by Sheriff Bogue under the anti tramp law for boarding freight trains and soliciting payment from crew at Jamestown. They claimed prior permission and paid a brakeman for a ride to the division end. Justice Tibbits fined 10 or jailed ten days. one opted for the fine, others took jail. Costs of arrest evident as county faces enforcement costs.
The page blends farm health tips praising Karl's Clover Root Tea with prices from Ey & Beardsley and a traveling letter from Ed Sloan. Sloan reports his southern trip through Tennessee Mississippi Alabama Georgia to Jacksonville Florida, praising the flowers, meals, heat, and local conditions while planning onward to Charleston and Havana harbor. He notes many blacks in the south and sends regards to Bismarck and local pioneers.
A fragmented travel note describes moving through North Dakota with casual reflections on lodging and friendly messages to a companion named Sam. The writer says they are enjoying the journey and will keep friends updated as they travel from place to place.
An advertisement promises a refund if two thirds of the bottle are not beneficial. The guarantee urges taking two thirds of the contents and states the druggist may refund the price. Price options listed as 25 cents, 50 cents, and $1.00. Beardsley, druggist, Fourth street.
A monument honoring slain members of Company C at Grafton will be finished by October 1 at a cost not exceeding 1100 dollars. The stone is dark Barre granite with a quotation carved in sharp letters and a bronze statue of a young American soldier in khaki, about 6 feet 4 inches tall, atop.
An article discusses constructing dams along Red River tributaries in Minnesota to create two large reservoirs at Red Lake and Lake Traverse. The plan aims to maintain summer navigation by controlled flows, reducing floods. A Grand Forks gathering on May 1 aims to gain congressional funding, with total cost around 800,000 and historical flood losses cited.
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