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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1903
Page
2
Report notes grave difficulty in securing assistant surgeons for the army and predicts worsening shortages of commissioned personnel. Examinations are being held at the Army Medical Museum in Washington to fill 50 vacancies in the department.
Four mares missing since November 20 from Kesler residence in Zion North Dakota. Two bays and two grays, ages about eight to eleven years. Notable marks include a bay with a white forehead spot and another bay with a hip cap, a gray with dapples, and a flea bitten gray. Heights estimated at around 1400 pounds for bays and 1150 to 1200 pounds for grays. Foretops trimmed. Contact Kesler if found.
Warning against ointments for catarrh that contain mercury as they harm the sense of smell and the entire system. The notice cites F J Obeney & Co and urges receipts be avoided from unreliable sources.
The item lists varied notes from 1700 shipbuilding to whaling fleet declines and a Swiss watchmaker Horiet crafting an ivory billiard-ball case. It recalls colonial control shifts in the middle colonies, a London museum gift of the Walsingham microlepidoptera collection with 200000 specimens, and references to Zeller, Hofmann, and Christoph type specimens.
A comic exchange as Tom searches the hall, drawers, bonnet box, mantel, and chairs for his wife’s missing fan before they rush to the theater. The frazzled husband quarrels while she scolds him for not helping, until the fan is finally found on the hall rack.
The Missouri town of Gower was shaken by a long running ghost hoax led by Thomas P. Ogden who confessed on his deathbed to creating eerie noises in a livery stable and a haunted nearby mansion. He used signals and wires, fake groans, lights, and a cemetery ruse to scare residents, nearly triggering lynching and causing one man to die running into a tree. Ogden admitted to haunting many local houses and warned his friends before dying.
The government acts as a depository for soldiers savings with four percent interest. Deposits grew to over four million in the last fiscal year, encouraging discipline and loyalty as soldiers save and avoid desertion to protect funds. The policy was born from early low rates and desertion penalties, reinforcing duty and self reliance.
The piece praises Captain Clark for guiding the Oregon through Magellan and to Santiago but elevates Chief Engineer Robert Wiley Milligan as the unseen force behind the ship’s triumph. It argues engines made the battleship viable and questions why Milligan, a commander on shore duty, receives little recognition for the Oregon’s historic voyage and battle.
Practical tips on flour types and kettle care, starch preparation, iced beverages, and preserving flavors. Advice covers ironing, washing, bacon rind use, pea soup scraps, and gum arabic stiffness. Includes methods for starch, lemon iced coffee, cooling tea and coffee, egg lemonade, and a lemon milk drink recipe.
A recipe from Ladies' World New York describes preparing corn by removing pulp and hulls, then combining butter sugar and flour with salt and milk. Beat yolks and fold in eggs, whip whites to stiff peaks, mix with corn, bake in a buttered dish thirty minutes in a hot oven.
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