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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1909
Page
8
A fragmented editorial tone discusses subscribers urged to pay promptly and questions a duty on wood pulp and congressional action. The text is garbled but hints at pressure on publishers and a skeptical view of writerial duties and funding.
A fragmentary London Mail style exchange references cigars and a joke about hemp in cheaper brands. It notes Daniel Pepys and a biographer James Curcombe, discussing how Pepys was spelled and pronounced.
Old style classified notice seeking a 140 to 160 acre farm in McLean County with fenced pasture deep well and comfortable buildings. Price around 2000 dollars. Also notes stray animals and livestock loss reports from Webster and Devil Lake areas with contact names and addresses.
A fragmentary poem celebrates an evergreen tree blossoming yearly with small candlelike blooms. It includes garbled lines about good children and seasonal cheer. Also appears brief notes on Joe Miller and Bridgat with corrupted phrases and uncertain attributions.
A Virginia tale traces Georgia Leger Bedell, daughter of Colonel Leger, who marries Edgar Bedell. Their child dies early, the marriage ends, Bedell inherits and redistributes land to former slaves. Secrets surface after Bedell’s wife dies, revealing a historic family mystery tied to the Bedell estate and a long vanished bond. The text recalls a lecturer's anecdote about a lantern mishap involving Gladstone.
A Dakota flour advertisement extols its prize status and baking merit. A shopkeeper refuses an order while a traveler offers to show samples, claiming the flour is “the flower of flours” for every purpose and praised by many housekeepers.
The saying suggests personal satisfaction in helping others, implying happiness stems from giving and receiving fulfillment. It frames joy as a mutual outcome of altruism and self-regard.
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