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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1903
Page
9
A reflective piece from a city observer discusses a toddler’s insistence on carrying a coal bed, contrasts two boys choosing work or play, and riffs on education and character. It includes notes on a reader’s questions about a book’s Yule log tradition, Washington’s flag at Prospect Hill, and local political gossip about H. R. Aslakeon.
The Beidlen-Robinson company sues the Coe Commission for 8600 but the case favors the commission company. Prospectors near Milton Grove buy land seeking a cement deposit similar to McLean county. A Valley City mill fire destroys the Barcell-Miller Milling Co. facility. 40000 bushels of wheat stored in the elevator were insured for 29000. Atlantic Monthly 1904 features Emerson journals and new essays by Higginson and Brooks with a special offer for subscriptions.
A frightened horse stampedes through streets injuring riders and causing widespread caution. The ad promotes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve for burns cuts sores eczema and piles with quick soothing relief. Available at C W Greene’s drug store for 260. Also brief local note about Berkshire boars eight months old raised by J J Hill and bought from John McCauley in Devil Lake North Dakota.
A couple seeks a farm and house work posting and is capable of taking charge of both operations. They request contact through box address B at Inter-Ocean.
Report lists cash close prices for wheat oats barley and futures for Chicago and Duluth with markings for No 1 northern No 2 and No 8. Also mentions one billiard table and fixtures for sale. J F Henry Devils Lake North Dakota addresses buyers. Also a skin remedy AD and testimonial for Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption with price and trial bottles.
A notice offers a six room dwelling on Seventh Street with good water and favorable payment terms. Buyer can submit a small cash payment and monthly installments on the balance through M. P. Neff & Co. The item includes a discussion of wasp attack methods from Wasp's Method of Attack.
A fragmentary exchange discusses what counts as an art treasure with Mr Comox weighing the term. The Washington Star quote defines an art treasure as something valued more for its secondhand origins.
In a comic panel, Mrs. Naggs cries Oh oh after biting her tongue as Mr. Naggs laments with a sharp retort about there being no end to her tongue. The exchange reflects a humorous domestic moment typical of the era.
A child asks why a boy prefers being a papa to a mamma. Tommy explains the papa goes to the office while the momma must care for the children, reflecting a gender role view from the Little Chronicle.
The San Francisco Argonaut recounts Randy Bowers a teamster and his wife a washerwoman who struck it rich in Virginia City Nevada building the famed Bowers mansion at Washoe Lake Their wealth faded as they aged and the widow later earned a living as a fortune teller in San Francisco Persia their adopted child died and Sandy was buried near the Sierra
A Malay Peninsula merchant sends a New York payable draft to his South Clark Street cook brother. The cook quits his job to trek toward Asia, carrying the draft and a note detailing the plan. The letter asks the cook to stop in Texas to visit another brother, Thomas, unseen for two years.
A man claiming to be a sailor and injured at sea was charged with begging in the city. The chief magistrate tested him with a question about the mainsheet, revealing it as a rope and exposing the impostor.
A florist describes growing a peanut plant indoors during cold weather. In a warm room or by the stove, a peanut kernel in loose loam with moderate moisture sprouts and matures into a small, appealing plant. Leaves close at light or rain and tiny yellow flowers appear.
A fragment notes Voltaire’s reluctance to study English saying he was taught that a word sounded like "plaig" though he found it pretty. The记 fragment hints at a mispronunciation issue and a teacher's remark about a word meaning.
A 19th century voice lists strange survival ideas for snakes bees dogs sharks and a cinnamon bear, advising motionlessness for snakes and bees, brandishing a knife for dogs, and prayer for a cinnamon bear, noting sea behavior differs.
Mrs Burton and Sir Richard Burton with two ladies recall a roof scene near Triest where a rat seemed to move to music. They watched silently, later learned the creature was a painted tin figure fixed to the house top, proving imagination overfact.
A Canadian student narrates an lilting Scotland tale about breaking the Sabbath over a rock hammer and a castle ruin. The piece then discusses the impossibility of a perfect vacuum, noting air or vapor quick to fill any space and quoting Descartes and Galileo on nature abhorring emptiness.
A fragment describes a silent village dance in Russia where youths and maidens form separate knots. Dancers move in circles to a droning pipe, with no words or smiles, while spectators award merit to the participant who has remained mute and expressionless through the summer revelry.
The most effective artists in New York often work in stark rooms devoid of furniture beyond their tools. Expensive draperies and art objects distract from the craft, as many top painters prefer plain, functional spaces over decorated studios.
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