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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1902
Page
2
Officials say right of way disputes with the Turners' railway are settled and track laying will start on the 11th. Rolling stock and other materials are en route from St Paul, with completion expected within thirty days given good weather and adequate help.
City council met in regular session led by Mayor Wineman to discuss sewers. First reading approved for a cement sidewalk on Arnold avenue. A drainage system was decided with new pipes planned on Fourth Fifth and Minnewaukan streets, bids to be advertised, and work to begin promptly. The printing bid favored the Inter-Ocean. News named official organ for the year at a nominal recompense. Starkweather town boom noted with multiple new buildings and post office relocation efforts. A major cattle sale by Clay Robinson & Co. for Bloom Cattle Co. fetched 94 90 per 100 lbs, a record high for straight range cattle, boosting market excitement.
A wide sweep of Europe notes Finland faces conscription failure with few recruits reporting for exams. Swedish observers discuss eastern fortifications and Copenhagen's notable events, while Sweden reports a surge in volunteer rifle clubs and coastal defense planning. Norway covers Leksand fires, tree planting drives, Arctic expeditions, immigrant arrivals, and a new Kristiania monument project.
The New York Herald reports Philadelphia houses a block with 65 physicians on Chestnut Street between Eighteenth and Nineteenth. A four block radius contains over a seventh of the city’s doctors, reflecting a strong professional clustering in the area. The piece notes Washington DC has high physician density too, but not higher than Philadelphia or New York.
An anecdotal survey notes Americans producing items thought imported or exotic. It mentions New York artists selling old master paintings, California wines labeled French, Maine soap and ship materials, Vermont maple sugar misinformation, and Westerns turning generic ingredients into maple sugar.
A column cites Harvard President Charles Eliot claiming five feet of library shelves suffices for intellectual training. It recaps an authority on crops S Thornton Kenney Prime, notes Prime’s background, and describes ping pong dinner parties and Tokio city baths with 300,000 daily bathers at a penny each.
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