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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1904
Page
8
A storyteller recounts a figure who advertises his goods and attracts multitudes while competitors loaf. He declares that in an age of push and enterprise it is harder for a business man to flourish without advertising than for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle.
Rumors sweep rail circles of sweeping changes among Great Northern and Northern Pacific leaders after the merger suit decision. Cooper may move east to join C. S. Mellen at New Haven. George T. Slade could replace Cooper at Northern Pacific. Gruber eyed to reclaim a Great Northern post. George O. Somers linked to a major Rock Island role.
The text urges backing a proactive town leader, the hustler, noting that bold energy builds towns better than passive inertia. It warns against jealousy and discouragement, stressing that one active person plus supporters is worth more than many passive residents. Keep the push alive and avoid undermining progress.
Government figures place the 1903 wheat crop at 87 million bushels, 38 million below the prior estimate and 33 million below 1902, marking a fourth largest national crop but far below the 1904 peak. Minnesota and the Dakotas produced about 171 million bushels, down from 187 million last year, with Minnesota missing by 10 million bushels.
Inst South Dakota reports 8 million more and North Dakota 8 million less. With the visible U S wheat supply 14 million bushels below a year ago, the outlook suggests higher prices for wheat this season.
A compact roundup notes varied topics from bullfighting deaths in Spain to shifts in U S government roles. It mentions the Colombian army shrinking or growing amid a clumsy draft, a Chicago professor on early love, Taft resolving friar lands in the Philippines with seven million two hundred fifty thousand paid for land, Hanna and Roosevelt political frictions, the farmer as a national wealth generator, a large treasury department report, and a reorganization moving commerce and labor duties from treasury.
In Mohall the Great Northern provides Granville Mohall telephone service and sit elevators are noted in town. The Masons opened a new hall at Bottineau, the Sonris Westhope branch of the Great Northern is completed with the first Westhope train arriving last week. First National Bank offers loans on farms and city property as well.
The piece recounts Sandy Bowers a teamster who struck rich at Gold Hill Nevada then built the famed Bowers mansion by Washoe Lake. It traces his rise with wealth Europe travel and lavish hospitality, the adopted daughter Persia, Sandy’s death, and his widow’s decline ending in fortune telling to survive. It also includes scattered ads and a fragment about newspaper advertising and a skin product AL-EI.
A curious note tells of two brothers one a Malay Peninsula merchant and the other a cook in a cheap South Clark Street restaurant. The merchant sends a draft payable in New York and asks the cook to cash it there with a hint to visit a missing brother in Texas. The letter reveals the odd cross national affair and family entanglements alongside a stray line about a new husband for the mother.
A collage of comic lines about landlords wives and heirs from Irish and London papers. Jests include a tenant’s threat and a warning that nothing would injure or annoy the wife, plus banter about a wife at the piano and a flirtatious “mountain of fleab.”
In the City Journal excerpt Lillian doubts Abe’s love for Walter and weighs her own feelings. She alternates between thinking Abe loves Walter or not and questions the engagement. Despite uncertainty she accepts that Abe plans to marry, noting Lillian is twenty seven.
The annual stockholders meeting of the First National Bank of Devils Lake North Dakota will be held at the bank office on Tuesday January 12 1904 at four oclock p m for the election of directory and such other business as may properly come before the meeting Dated at Devils Lake ND December 11 190%
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