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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1903
Page
6
A collection of eccentric hotel anecdotes from Greece and Egypt. A Greek host greets guests with a bizarre phrase that confuses diners, while an Alexandria cafe chantant placard translates to a set of odd English lines about iced drinks and complaints, revealing misunderstood phrases and price practices.
A Harper’s Weekly style meditation contrasts the glittering Monte Carlo scene with faded fortunes hidden in obscurity. It notes wealth, nobility, and constant sun, while despair, poverty, and loss vanish from public view amid perpetual opulence and calm.
The article paints the Turkish post as invasive with state surveillance of telegrams and letters. It notes foreign post offices in Turkish cities using their own stamps to avoid Turkish scrutiny. Examples include Salonica with five posts and Constantinople with six. It also cites a British traveler’s mistaken Michigan exchange and contrasts etiquette in Sweden.
A roundup of short items from Fargo and Devils Lake area society includes A J Stade in Fargo, first class fire insurance via Gooler and Gooler, Prof Bangs trips Fargo Friday to Saturday, Mrs W H Ried entertaining her sister Mrs Harry Walker, Cagelows visiting Farming ton Minn, Rev O F Jones and C W Greene in Fargo for Masonic grand lodge, Mrs S H Elliott visiting Lake friends from Joslyn, E O W club invites at Odd Fellows hall next Monday, Leon Peary visiting Devila Lake for real estate, Dion and O Leary wed last week, H Ralston of Northwestern telephones in city, Rebecca lodge basket social Jan 27 at Odd Fellows hall, Libbie Sparks returns to Fox Lake, Mrs A O Whipple returns from Nashville, B F Hoy Starkweather visits, local farming success noted, R E Maddux Starkweather visits, Devils Lake remains business HQ, long distance booths to be placed at Sevilla hotel Reid’s restaurant and Greene’s drug store, sleighs in demand with Prosser and Scrumgard’s stock dwindling.
A group of eight to twelve Devils Lake residents seeks contact with a responsible person to open in the city a first class boarding house. An opportunity to start a paying business. Address Box 222 Devils Lake N Dakota. A red yearling steer with a white stripe on the left side arrived late November at SE quarter section 9 township 155 range 64. 48-45 -W. E. Goozee.
A special meeting will take place in the court room hall on Tuesday January 20 at 8 o clock. Major Bartlett, head of the North West Province Salvation Army, will perform the ceremony. Admission 26 cents.
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