Devils Lake Local Notes Reflect Busy Community Life
A sprawling list of visitors and residents highlights Devils Lake as a regional hub. Movements include Mrs. Jordahl visiting Spokane, Peter Morgan in town, Miss Clara Moran visiting Warwick, and J G Gunderson from Aneta on Wednesday. Many locals travel for business, court, or court-related matters, with several from Lakota, Tokio, Starkweather, Crary, and Devon visiting or passing through. Reports mention farm loans, clearance sales, and shop happenings at New York Cash Store and Troppman Co. promotions, plus local sports and theater activity with the Musical Piers ons and Ruth Craven Co. performances.
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Morey
Devila Lake
Commercial School of Typewriting Offered at Wineman Building
Thoroughly experienced instructor invites pupils to a free trial class. Courses held in rooms 2 and 3 above Chas. Turner’s confectionery store, in the new Wineman building on Fourth street.
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Booker Jing
Chas. Turner
New Wineman
Fourth Street
Homemade Baking Tips and Ink Stain Remedies
Homemade baking fawner and pure baking powder method using cream of tartar soda and flour is described. A recipe for cornmeal dough to shape into oblong rolls is given. Ink stains are removed with steam salt and lemon juice or peroxide. A humorous quip on matrimony ends with alimony.
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Virginia
Methodist Revival Gains Momentum at Local Church
The revival services at the Methodist church, led by evangelist Rev. W. A. Dennett, attract growing interest and attendance. His sermons emphasize earnest truth without tricks, earning praise as a helpful and able speaker. Signs point to an auspicious penitence revival ahead.
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Methodist Church
W. A. Dennett
Parlor Jokes and Collected Sayings Sampler
A compact miscellany of clipped quips and verses. It pairs quick wits about aging, ambition, love, and daily life with short rhymes. The humor riffs on alarms, monuments, and generational takes, ending with a sly note on not letting energies stagnate.
Fragmented stray lines hint at a disrupted travel tale
The readable text presents garbled phrases about a past supply shortage, meals on a farm, and a couple in France planning a honeymoon in a troubled setting. It hints at travel mishaps and domestic life but lacks clear narrative structure or distinct events.
Joe Miller the Noted Joker and his Forged Jests
The article notes Joe Miller, famed for wit, never told a joke yet remained the butt of humor. It contrasts his grave demeanor with others’ wit and reports a forged collection titled Joe Miller's Jests attributed to Elijah Jenkins and forged by Jon Mottley, likened to earlier literary forgeries.
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Doo Miller
Joe Miller
Stiller
Wade Mecum
Elijah Jenkins
Jon Mottley
Hobson
Polly Peachum
Bers Johnson
Joint Installation Of Odd Fellows And Rebekah Lodges
The joint installation at the Odd Fellows hall featured Grand Master H. D. Skinner of Cando officiating. A banquet, musical program, and toasts followed, with Mrs. Eliza beth Hurst and other officers installed in the Rebekah lodge and F. A. Schrader and Jas. Miller among those installed for the Odd Fellows.
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Odd Fellows
Rebekah
Odd Felows
H. D. Skinner
Cando
Sevilin Hotel
F. A. Schrader
P. G
The
Ole Scrumgard
Geo. Elmslie
Henry Hale
Jens Svee
Jas. Stenson
Carl Kenneth
James Miller
Rebekah Lodge
Elizabeth Hurst
P.G
Minnie Turner
W. G
Anna Graham
V. G
Ruby Henley
Geo. Darnell
Jas. Miller
N. G
W. J. Graham
Businesses plan 6:30 pm closures for winter months
A committee of business men aims to close stores at 6 30 during January February and March with several merchants already agreeing White Henderson New York Cash Store S O Bondelic M Glickson A B Welch Rodenbach Mundt C P Brainard J Q Adams O'Brien Bros. Others may join. The move protects clerks evenings and seems wise for the season.
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White & Henderson
New York
S. O. Bondelic
M. Glickson
A. BE. Welch
Rodenbach & Mundt
C. P. Brainard
J. Q. Adams
O'Brien Bros
Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday Services Schedule
Sunday schedule includes 1100 a m morning worship with a sermon by Rev W A Dennett 12:00 m Sunday school 3:00 p m service for men only on the subject Strapped 830 p m Epworth league 730 p m evangelistic service with Evangelist Dennett in charge Public invited to all services
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Semmon
W. A. Dennett
Epworth League
Evangelist Dennett
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Joni Smith
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R. M. Stair
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A. F B. Hutchinson
Anna Nestoss
Grace Jaries
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James Dolan
Hampden
Texas
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Treadwell
Rock Lake
H.B. Walker
Prosser
Mr. Prosser
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Colonial Theatre
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OF Odd Fellows and Resekahs
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