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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1901
Page
7
Long list of Norway updates from Bergen shipbuilding to temperance rallies, rail profits, mine discoveries, and royal movements. Notes on a death, a failed company, weather shocks, musk ox acclimatization, and a busy Oslo scene with trains and street life. Includes Denmark and Sweden items.
An Odessa theater impersonator of famous men receives a secret note to study General Gourko. He is arrested and brought to Gourko’s palace but the marshal’s laughter ends the danger as the impersonator pleads with a mirror and avoids punishment.
Cosmopolitan argues that if 19th century growth rates continued, Earth would reach a population of 52 billion, filling 52,000,000 square miles at 1,000 people per square mile by 2250, about 350 years from now, at which point a notice may be issued that the world is full.
A vivid antiquated scene describes Bruce the explorer dining on a living ox in a cruel ritual. Guests witnessed the animal restrained and skinned while meat was eaten raw, amid roars and pain, highlighting horror at such antique feasts.
A South American hoatzin, a relic of bygone ages, is described as a bird where hatchlings come with four legs and reptilian claws. The young later shed the claws as legs fatten, grow feathers, and become wings. Nestlings resemble reptiles among birds and can climb, dive, and swim well.
In a courtroom Hopper contends with slander allegations as the opposing counsel questions his acting and his father’s occupation. Hopper admits acting as a profession while noting his father was a lawyer.
Chambers Journal reports that the line Or are you dead or that you live inspired Milton Wellings while awaiting news of his wife amid rumors of a yachting party accident. He saw the line in a book and wove it into the song.
The text describes converting paper to gun cotton by stiphuric and citric acids, drying, grinding, and mixing with 20 to 40 percent camphor. The mixture is ground fine, colored with powder pigments, cast into sheets, pressed under high pressure, and baked between superheated roller sets.
The text notes that any crop grown elsewhere can be duplicated in the country and highlights abundant coal, silver, and gold poles, most of which are only slightly developed. It presents a view of rich natural resources and potential for agricultural and mineral development.
In a London style production Ellen as Mme Sane-Gene is awkwardly learning a court dance. A long riding habit causes the prop train to slip from her arm, prompting boisterous amusement as she wrings out a fat coil of stuff. Audiences in a great English city respond with electrified recognition.
In a scene inspired by the Swan Song story, a young couple by a waterfall discuss a joint peril. The girl asks if they should jump to die together, while the boy questions his swimming ability and counters with a claim of undying love.
Patti on tour was set to perform in Bucharest when weather kept her in Vienna. A deputation of Roumanian nobles with a torchlight procession greeted her, but the escort turned out to be hired street figures. The diva was entertained and whisked to her hotel with the band.
In dense fog a four masted schooner grazed a passing steamer and cast its port anchor onto the deck by a fluke. The anchor wedged in an engineers stateroom, trapping him until the chain parted as the room was torn apart. The schooner trailed the steamer to regain its gear.
A farmer's 12 year old son tried to clean the clock while alone. He took it apart easily but struggled to reassemble it. On his return, he exclaimed that he had cleaned the clock and had enough parts left to make another clock.
In a swift exchange, Timkins asks to marry the girl, but the father dismisses the plea, mentioning she had already expressed desire to wed him and urges them to settle the matter themselves.
A fragment describes Jamestown Virginia where settlers first gained a foothold in 1607. The area was burned in 1676 and now is largely deserted with little remaining beyond a crumbling church tower gravestones and ruined house foundations cited by Ladies' Home Journal.
The author claims Canadian ears grow unnaturally from customs of forcing caps down over the skull, causing ears to protrude. It contrasts American ears as freebitten by cold, and asserts indigenous ears become insulated against extreme cold.
The article describes the Hairy Alnos of Hokkaido and Yesso, their isolation from Japanese society, population around 17,000, and unique practices. It covers child naming rituals, hair and attire, earrings, knives, and paintings, plus marriage customs, housing, gender roles, religious rites like the bear festival, punitive practices, polygamy tendencies, and beliefs in heaven and hell.
A guide explains how to prepare chalk samples for microscopic viewing. Methods include scraping powder onto a glass slide with a quarter inch objective, using a condenser and light, or rinsing chalk in water to concentrate shells. The procedure ends with mounting in Canada balsam to preserve slides.
A duke traveling from the station to the park on his estate stops to ride with a ragged boy. At the gate, the boy asks where the duke will go. The duke guides him into the park and is asked to show the adults. The lad, sizing up the duke, replies it’s either him or the duke.
A Cincinnati man recalls Frank Connor as a famed regional character whose stories and sayings saturated local culture. One line, That shows almost him an intelligence, migrated nationally and remains tied to memories of his farm work digging postholes and leaving holes.
After the Chinese exclusion act, a Pennsylvania letter from a Chinaman claimed entry under false pretenses and sought deportation. The secretary of state ordered an inquiry. An agent found the man did enter lawfully but he had prior murder conviction and life sentence.
The text portrays Iceland as a land where nature performs extreme acts, with volcanic fire erupting after ages of sleep and geysers roaring amid perpetual snow. It emphasizes that the landscape remains untamed and dramatic despite time.
The main gate at Allahabad is thickly studded with horseshoes of many sizes as an offering by pilgrims. Similar memorials are found on the sacred gates of Somnath and in the fort at Agra, reflecting religious devotion across sites.
The fragment discusses Wrinkles and attire to keep hair in place, noting talk about a person and a simple Chinese plow described as a crooked stick with steel fastened to it pulled by a buffalo. It cites Boston Transcript and Atchison Globe as sources.
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