Sugar price and orange sale offer announced
The notice states wholesale sugar at $5.80 with plans to raise to $6.00 next Monday. It claims the product is worth $6.50 today and advertises a special week long price on a medium orange regular 30c kind.
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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1910
Page
5
The notice states wholesale sugar at $5.80 with plans to raise to $6.00 next Monday. It claims the product is worth $6.50 today and advertises a special week long price on a medium orange regular 30c kind.
Numerous residents and visitors appear in Devils Lake and nearby towns with business, social calls, and travel hints. Names include James Kennedy Fargo, Jacob Pfluger Rugby, W G Samuel Webster, F D Yoder Grand Forks, Rasmus Sorenson Webster, Fred Lang Tokio, Joseph Powell Tokio, Senator McArthur Bottineau, Wm Orr Crary, and many others.
A digest of social visits and travels includes FD Kelsey in Grand Forks for Great Northern business, Bupt and Mrs J A Haig at a county superintendents meeting, and John C Knowlton of the Grand Forks Herald on paper business. Mrs Rose Rugar and daughter Sallie depart for Gainsville Florida for winter, with locals attending events and catalogues advertised for 1910.
Devils Lake citizen W G Rogerson praises Doan's Kidney Pills for backache and kidney trouble after a year of dull pains and irregular secretions. He bought at Devils Lake Drug Co and reports a complete cure in weeks. Doan's sold nationwide by Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name Doan's.
The Firemen's Dance at the opera house in Devile Lake Wednesday night drew the largest crowd of any Mire chharacter event. People from all classes mingled, enjoying a festive evening that united the community in appreciation of the Bremen' of Devils Lake and its courteous hosts.
The event featured Tony Prete's five piece orchestra and a grand ballroom adorned with bunting. Hundreds of donations funded a lap supper at midnight, donated by city ladies. About 200 to 250 couples attended, with a crowded floor late into the night, enjoying the well managed dances and lack of encores.
The article details gun cotton as a hazardous explosive, outlining raw materials like cotton waste and sulphuric acid, the soaking and washing steps to remove excess acid, and the drying or pressing into shapes for torpedoes. It notes the material’s lightness when dry, a wet brick burning quietly on coals, and a 320 degree heat explosion threshold, with detonation by cap and mercury fulminate in torpedo use.
Naturalists discuss light at ocean depths and eye development in deep sea animals. The text notes orange red coloration as camouflage, mostly orange or red creatures, absence of green or blue fish, and shell beds on submarine mountains. It mentions color patterns, eye sizes, and adaptations like burrowing tails in worms.
A Philadelphia North American account warns that shellfish and deep sea creatures are consumed and eroded by scavengers, leaving only metal remnants when ships sink. It claims bodies are reduced to nothing within days, illustrating relentless ocean decay.
Champ Clark points to a solemn man entering a commuter room saying he reads every speech delivered in the house. The constituent learns the man is a government Printing Office proofreader who reads every word. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
The piece contrasts American and English margin practices in stock speculation. English settlement days require payment of differences and contango charges, limiting visible risk. In America, brokers may hold thin margins, letting wealthy clients wager large sums with little oversight, risking bankruptcy if a single commitment collapses.
A quaint reminiscence on an elderly woman loved by friends and kin who worshipped her. The piece reflects her gracious yet inwardly defiant nature as others shower attention, followed by a humorous, clipped reference from Youth’s Companion. It also notes Minnesota’s early print history mentioning a Bible printed in 1633, pre dating St Paul’s first newspaper.
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