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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1899
Page
4
The notice lists subscription prices of $1.50 a year or $1 if paid in advance. Advertising rates are ten cents per line for first insertion and five cents per line for subsequent insertions, with twenty-five percent off these rates on yearly contracts. All bills collected monthly.
The Chicago Inter Ocean reports Senator Foraker urges withdrawing US troops from Cuba arguing peace is maintained without bloodshed. The piece warns such a move risks anarchy, recalls past warnings by Mason, and notes Ohio’s earlier Foraker position. It also invokes Luzon, Aguinaldo, and Corwin as cautions from history.
A Fargo meeting of troops returning from the Spanish war debates mustering out sites and fare. San Francisco favored for mustering, with committees to secure low rates and welcome troops. A push claims Col Ames of the 13th Minnesota should be dishonorably discharged for cowardice citing a retreat and distant orders.
Citizens of Fargo push a $50,000 Masonic temple to serve lodge needs as the finest in the United States. A contract is let for a flax fiber mill, aiming to spur new industry in the flax-rich region and potentially start more mills in the state pending success.
Recruiting remains active in Manila with a newly organized regiment drawn from returning volunteers now counting about 500 men. They are on duty at the front, advancing military strength in the area and signaling continued mobilization efforts.
A Boston Democratic alderman who opposes a public demonstration to Dewey appears to seek notice from dime museum managers. North Dakota wheat output is forecast about 8,000,000 bushels below last year. North Dakota farmers seek men willing to work for good wages.
Politicians map the 1900 campaign amid war's shadow with talk of a dark horse. Popularity shapes candidates as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters is touted as the era's top medicine, claimed to boost flesh, vigor and vitality and improve health.
Major BE Maglone, a prominent legal figure in Devils Take since 1894, is renowned for after dinner speeches and oratory. He also holds prominent roles with the Knights of Pythias, the Masons, Ancient Order of United Workmen, and other fraternal societies.
An advertisement touts Dr King New Life Pills as a busy, mighty product that turns weakness into energy, selling at 25 cents per box through C. W. Greene. It also urges hiring an experienced painter and paperhanger with prices available from Marshall at Kelley's hardware store.
In this humorous anecdote from Chicago Inter Ocean, two long time friends attend a dinner party. One spills beaten egg yolks on his tuxedo and the other offers his brand new coat. The first replies with a sly quip about wearing the friend's coat, revealing a playful tension between chums.
Miss Flyppe notes Mr. Gayson needs a tailor. Throggins jokes about hand me downs and fitting cues. He grimly reflects on paying $35 instead of $15 for his next call, a bitter takeaway from social chatter in Chicago.
How coffee grows the evergreen tree reaches 10 to 12 feet with dark green leaves and pale undersides. Flowers are fragrant white clusters yielding deep red cherries ripe for gathering after four to seven years of growth.
A salesman and customer spar over calico pricing with guesses of sixteen, tepid six, and final offers of five cents a yard. The fragment shows distorted dialogue and a stray reference to a Boston Transcript style line. It also hints at an unrelated note about goats and acrid poison in leaves.
A Lewiston Maine merchant reports an old fashioned clock in his shop that starts whenever anyone enters or passes by, and if a passerby steps on a specific street spot it will begin ticking. A man who owned a similar clock noted his stopped once his furnace began burning in fall, and resumed in spring when the fire was gone.
The long section limits blind pig operations and requires a pharmacist to obtain a county judge permit after a petition signed by 25 reputable voters and 25 reputable women over 21. It details moral character, asset thresholds, public notices, hearings, penalties for false statements, doctor prescriptions in need, affidavit and oath rules, record keeping, penalties, and officials’ duties under Section 7600, ending with to be continued.
An old advertising note promotes Syrup of Figs from the California Fig Syrup Co as a gentle, effective laxative. It claims the product cleanses the system, awakens kidneys and liver, and relieves headaches, colds, or fevers without irritation or weakening.
A World money transfer note offering Great Northern Express Order at 50 cents per hundred dollars. Includes agent contact Plow files anvils and hammers at Esters.
Local supplier announces available binders for farmers at 97 dollars each with a quick sellout notice. Limited stock remains. urged to come early to secure a binder on a first come basis.
A Washington Star reader recalls a life insurer manager who explains that they rate insurability by risk. A policy holder bragged about a Kentucky trip to buy horses, but the manager warned rates would rise if he left the country, joking that liars cannot be funded with $10,000 policies.
An English lady recalls a Paris society anecdote about Prince Napoleon demanding to be depicted riding a white charger at the Alma scene. The artist refused to place a rider on the horse, insisting on truth in painting, prompting the prince to have the rider erased and the charger remain riderless.
A prosperous New York theater could exceed 250000 dollars in business and employ 150 people. The city hosts 87 active theaters in Manhattan and the Bronx, with Brooklyn adding 20. Theater fate mirrors general business trends, as managers note that tickets compete with cigars for consumer luxuries, and sustained theater patronage demands constant cultivation. The theater trade, per W J Henderson, blends business acumen with artistic sense.
In a Detroit Journal fragment a wife boasts about slippers she claims to have made while admitting she bought the uppers and hired a man to collect them. She sewed bows crookedly yet remains proud of her work and wonders how she achieved so much.
In a whimsical exchange, a yellow dog declares belief in an afterlife sphere of action and jokes about becoming a golf player on the links, prompting the black and tan to ask how he figures it out. The Philadelphia North American reports the lighthearted dialogue.
A Penn medical school prank amused about 350 students when the favorite professor learned he had become a father. The class staged a noonday spectacle with dozens of baby toys on three operating tables and a chalkboard motto asking Is Marriage a Failure. The lecture was replaced by lighthearted mockery as students serenaded the professor with nursery rhymes, then invited him to visit the newborn.
A June 15 1886 revolt in the capital saw janizaries overrun by sultan loyalists aided by artillery marines and bostangi. The siege at Elmeidan left walls wrecked, thousands slain, and the massacre extended to other cities as surviving troops were executed.
The Chicago Journal recalls Hon. George R. Peck joking about a London suit that fit tightly in Topeka. An Irishman quips that Peck is a bigger man in Topeka than in London, highlighting regional pride and humor from a foreign trip reception.
Untimely Nap reports a hotel fire at midnight with all guests escaping safely except the night watchman who could not be awakened. The tale warns against overloading with irons in the re and echoes a travel note from the Boe ton Traveler.
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