Devils Lake notes and community notices mix of travels and events
District newspapers compile a dense list of Devils Lake visits and local happenings. Mentions include meetings of Mr Treffle Bail, Mr and Mrs W C Manz, and J Atkins, plus visits by E H Pike and a new priest Father McBee arriving for parish work. Local social events feature plays in Devils Lake with residents such as H A Nicholson and various families attending. A mix of political commentary, firewood and stock transport notes, and social gatherings fill the page, with interspersed brief notices from other towns about roads, weather, and stock losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Atkins
Devils Lake
Blose
Pillsbury
E. H. Pike
Father McBee
Father Kenn
Condo
Jesse
Lawrence Nicholson
Margaret
Adelaide Laurie
Claryites
H. A. Nicholson
Walke
Medelman
Katherine
Hurd
Iverson
McGurren
Scherlie and Johnson
Della Miller
Henry McGuren
M. D. Kavanaugh
B. A. Reuter
Pitt
Hunter
H. A. Nicholas
Sheriff Belford
Inter Ocean items of interest from twenty two years ago
Pasquale DeFiore has been quite sick. J. F. O'Brien left for St Paul. H. J. Mctee returned from Chicago. Frake Prosser returned from Indiana. M. H. Rutten and Miss Barbara Wytem were married February 2. Bob Cairnes visits Me family. John Percus retired from Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasquale DeFiore
Frake Prosser
Indiana
M. H. Rutten
Barbara Wytem
Great Snap for Farmers at Barrett & Zimmerman's Midway Horse Market
The American Transfer Cab and Express Co has consigned over 800 horses and mules to Barrett and Zimmerman for auction at the Midway Horse Market in St. Paul Minnesota. The sale begins Wednesday February 9 and continues weekly with auctions at 10 a.m. daily private sales also ongoing and every horse sold with a positive guarantee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Transfer Cab & Express Company
Barrett & Zimmerman
Midway Horse Market
St. Paul
Minn
Great Midway Horse Market
Barracks Church Services Led by Captain Kimbell
Barracks on Fourth Street and Farrington Avenue with Captain and Mrs Kimbell in charge. Evening services daily except Monday at 8:00. Sunday school at 3:00 in the afternoon. Jail services held Sunday morning at 9:30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Street
Farrington Avenue
Kimbell
Jail
Bent on the Ballinger saga in Taft era verse
In a satirical poem from 1909, the speaker lampoons Ballinger and President Taft amid political uproar. The verse mocks forest policy, consumer costs, and political fame, while hinting at a coming crisis and public appetite for humor and reform.
Horoscope for March Predicts Comets, Politics, and Spring
A humorous old column touts March predictions mixing Halley’s comet, George Washington comparisons, and a critique of Morgan. It jokes about Lent aiding meat strikes, Pisces, and upcoming events like a trusts aviation meet and tariff debates, ending with March arriving as T. Roosevelt’s shooting pace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Washington
Mare
Uranus
George
Lent
Halley
Mr. Morgan
T. Roosevelt
The Skipper's White Lie on a Foggy Night
A passenger recalls a captain who confessed to testing engine readiness by stopping and reversing in fog. The skipper used a literal white lie to reassure a nervous traveler as a schooner ghosted by unseen in the haze. The story centers on trust, risk, and the captain's method of calming fear at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bald
Scamoso
New York
Water rising in glass shows gravity exceptions
A discussion of water appearing to rise above its source in a dipping glass or narrow tubes. It explains capillary adhesion along tube walls, forming a cup shaped meniscus and taller columns as diameter shrinks. Mathematical reasoning links reduced circumference to strengthened rise without breaking the balance of forces.
Sixth sense and intuitive perception in crowds
The text discusses natural signs of danger observed in nature and quotes Lafcadio Hearn on crowd intuition. Dr. Waldo urges developing a street sense to detect danger, while comparisons are drawn to a tree’s sap channels and an instinctive, nonrational awareness guiding safe movement in crowded spaces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waldo
London
Lafcadio Hearn
Quotable Snippets From Hearings On Prices And Propriety
A collage of witty misquotes and accents from newspapers including the Washington Star The New York Sun The Presbyterian Standard the Chicago News the New York Press St Louis Bar St Paul Dispatch Houston Post New York Journal and Boston Herald. The snippets poke gentle fun at vendors bets markets manners and everyday speech reflecting a lively press card style.
The Making of Our Girls and Boys What They Would Be
A brief note on shaping character through home life and charity begins at the domestic threshold, urging temperate deeds and moral discipline to mold youth into steady, virtuous adults.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charity
Homestead land details in Montana listing acres and applicants
A fragment describes homesteading in Chou County and Ciot- VSM tenu County Montana mentioning 32 acres of desert land and 640 acres in one family. It notes the haw band can take 320 acres and the wife up to 320 acres. For more information write to B.C. Camay Hayney Souk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bao Acke
Chou County
Montana
Ciot- Vsm
Tenu
Soa
B.C. Camay
Iy Hayney Souk
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mr. Treffle
Penn Hustler
Ars
W. C. Manz
Warwick Sentinel
Hagen
Farmers State Bank
Lakota
Lawson
Eee
Hansbrough
Congress
Devils Lake Journal
Gronna
Thos. Turner
Starkweather Times
Western Union Telegraph Company
Carllads
Palmyra
Dakota
Wm. Sparks
Dry Lake
Will
Jas. V. Brooke
Minnewaukan
Northern Pacific
B. F. Shanley
St. Valentine's Day
Ole Christovergon
Odessa Township
Inter-Ocean
Minesota
J. F. O'Brien
St. Paul Tours
H. J. Mctee
Chicago
Bob Cairnes
Lanton
John Percus
Iowa
Salvation Army
Mooers
Geo
W. Mooers Bangs
Blk
Ates
C. H. Reich
Ted
Pinchot
Taft
Ballinger
Mr. Taft
St. Valentine
Algernon
A. M. Bond & Cof
St. Louis Republic
Dustin Stax
Washington Star
Lve
New York Sun
Presbyterian
Clarence Mahoney O'Toole
Young O'Toole
Salley
Chicago News
Ostend
New York Press
St. Paul Dispatch
Houston Post
St. Louis
New York Journal
Boston Herald
Rowatt
Ree Bloom & Majerus Ubles
2Nd Ave
Allwe
Iso
Nery
Lip King
Meidelberg
Pirth and
Jackson Sts
Paul
FURS
D.bergman
Cargill Commission Company
Minneapolie and
Duluth
Canada
Shaw
Monket Alia
nEeSs
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