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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1903
Page
5
A Devils Lake monthly paper urges merchants to improve street hitching spaces and establish a central hay and wood market to serve farmers. It notes anti flirt buttons in New York, reports on Minnesota Dakota and Kaiser ships, and praises reform administration while predicting soon expansion of market facilities and public hitching points.
Progress on the Dakota class steamers advances toward launch in a little over two months with both sister ships expected to sail together. Their Pacific voyage could transform American commerce, carrying 125 train loads of merchandise per trip. Concurrently, reforms probe alleged corruption in the post office, while Standard Oil maintains vast employment and influence despite widespread opposition. Obituaries and local notes touch on age and lineage, with labor disputes and strikes prominent in New York carpenters unions amid broader national unrest.
A Dakota Farmers article extols diversified farming as practical balanced agriculture. It contrasts the wheat farmer who exhausts soil with the diversified farmer who runs a multi source operation including cattle hogs and a creamery. The piece portrays the mixed farmer as a permanent community mainstay devoted to intelligent, sustained production.
The Minneapolis Tribune notes Agnes Baldwin’s seven year penitentiary sentence for murder. It hints that medical students at the university dissected Agnes Tanner’s body, not realizing they were studying a known murderess with a troubled past.
A 58 year old woman found dead at 2434 First Avenue South left letters revealing a violent past. She allegedly killed her husband to wed a man named Tanner after a prior life on a North Dakota farm. Her case involved multiple trials and a penitentiary sentence, with later release and disappearance from public view. The paper also notes a catarrh cure advertisement and a separate druggist promotion.
Through Dakota timber land scarcity many Dakotans learn the value of Oregon and California holdings. Vast timber areas from 4 to 7 million feet lie available at 2.50 per acre via the stone and timber act, with options for homestead plus timber claim. Jes Boy & Sherman advertise expert timber locating services in Grant Pass Oregon with W. B. Sherman at office 13 Masonic Temple.
Travel from Chicago to California and Arizona via Chicago Great Western. Tickets on sale daily April 1 to June 15. Inquiries to Chicago Great Western agents or J P Elmer G P A Chicago Tl June 15. The best strings for any matr only Scents at Huesgen's. Stenographer position sought with good references. Address Box 45 Crazy ND. Watch repair and cleaning offered by H Huesgen, expert in the trade.
A Washington report lauds the United States staff college as a major improvement in military education, noting its long-standing model after Japan and German influences. Japan began staff college work in 1882, with Meckel shaping tactics and staff rides. today Japan admits 50 lieutenants annually.
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