Devils Lake News Briefs Highlight Local Activity
Local residents including BH. J. Sandie from Lakota and Harry Nicholson of Crary visited Devils Lake over the weekend. Many townspeople travel for business, education, and conventions such as the Grain Growers. The article notes loans at low rates, a Carnegie library opening, and various locals visiting relatives, with several moving or seeking work in nearby areas.
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Harry Nicholson
Crary
Mra
Tite
Leeds
B.S. Dunh
John W. Msher
Charles Bellinger
Minot
Nellie Mitchell
Penn
John McLean
R. Hedden
Perth
Harry Mayer
Lakota
C. Enoding
Devils ‘Lake
Inter-State Motor Car Co Promotes 1910 Catalogs
A brief notice invites readers to inquire about purchasing automobiles from the Inter-State Motor Car Co, distributors of cars in North Dakota, highlighting their 1910 catalogues.
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Inter-State Motor Car CO
Salvation Army at Patricks Corner Services Daily
The Salvation Army operates at Fourth Street and Farrington Avenue with Captain and Mrs. Kimbell in charge. Evening services run daily except Monday at 8:00 p.m. Sunday school starts at 8:00 a.m. Sunday afternoon. A jail service is held Sunday morning at 9:80.
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Patricks Corner
Fourth Street
Farrington Avenue
Kimbell
Jail
At the Country Store. Three Camerad' Reportes Over an Order For Chicken Feed
A Galveston Nowa item recounts a comical exchange at a country store where a customer asks for chicken feed and tobacco, the grocer denies stock, confusion ensues, and the customer explains his true need while noting the whitewashed chicken house at 223 Johnson street and Mr. Plysmouth Rock.
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Ratar
Johnson Street
Galveston
The Manchus Dogs at Washington Country Gathering
A fragmentary account describes members swapping stories and remarks about dogs and origin. A speaker praises athletics and a tale about Chi mod origin is recalled, set against a background of soldiers and stationed places. The passage preserves locals’ speech and scattered names, with unclear sequence of events.
By Fate or Chance In an Omaha manuscript reveal tale
A weary editor Bert King and his former childhood friend Lilian Watson reconnect through a submitted story. He recalls their past love, learns she is now married to Harry Rogers with a son named Bert, and faces a bittersweet awakening as Broadway crowds drift by. A week later Lilian prays beside her child, hinting at lingering longing.
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Omaha
Harry
Bert
Bért
Broadway
Broker Lights Up Loud Laughing Night Drive
A Washington broker near Leesburg features a big searchlight on a stone water tower and amuses himself by throwing merit around the country at night. One incident near Leesburg involves a Virginian and a freighting team, the sky lighting up as a fast automobile passes, provoking incredulous exclamations and a shocked awe.
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Washington
Leesburg
Bening Post
Jerusalem
Marvels of the Stock Whip in Australian Hands
The stock whip is shown as a highly useful yet dangerous tool in Australian practice. Ranging from twelve to thirty feet, with a short eighteen inch butt, it is hard to wield safely. A well trained jockey can strike at ten paces distance and corral wild cattle, though mishandling risks serious self harm.
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Binmelt
Con
Suggestion on suffrage and portraits in a quirky mock dialogue
A satirical piece references a suffragette leader demanding her name appear in every feminine month, a boy heckles about a new chewing gum, and a gallant general advises avoiding remarks about portraits to prevent offending the original.
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Judge’s
Paradoxical Answers From Senators And Contractors
In Outline. Have you prepared the speech you are going to deliver Yes answered Senator Sorgium I have taken several large adeets of Peper and written laughter and applause at regular Intervals Now all I have to do to Gill to the stories or epigrame of needed Washington Star Paraou Have you no home The Hobs Yep had a nice home but de that ring knew it had a wood pile and a garden and a pump And den It got so much Ike a steady job Mot I resigned Paradoxical Business It is that Jinks Keeps expand his busines Why shouldn't be Because he is a contractor Baltimore American
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Bert
New York
Omaha
Tan
Abe
Barry
Harry
Harry Rogers
Sorgium
Peper
Gill
Washington
It & Ol
Jinks
Baltimore American
Annt broth of whoy Noung Perrick Houlihan Henn
A quirky fragment quotes a speaker praising Irish tastes and a fond memory labeled Annt broth of whoy Noung Perrick Houlihan Henn, set in Tenn. The text hints at Celtic admiration and a humorous, garbled line about a traditional dish with peculiar spelling.
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Houlihan Henn
Judge's Library
Off the Same Pattern Poem About Common Folk
A poem reflects on the sameness of people despite status and roles. The speaker sees variety in character yet notes all share a common humanity. The verse emphasizes a universal pattern of worth across rich and poor, workers and dreamers, sharing one pile of folk in a playful, unpretentious cadence.
The Vox Hunter Narrow Escape at Creek Fight
The Novice recalls a near deadly moment as a brute knocked him into a creek, a close call during a perilous exchange. The Vox Hunter frames the incident as a survival test and hints at darker dangers looming nearby.
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Vox Hunter
How He Got Even Comedy Tale of a Stuttering Salesman
A traveling man who stammers spends an afternoon trying to sell a grouchy businessman a bill of goods. In front of clerks the merchant quips about impediments of speech, prompting the salesman to reveal his own stammer and point out a trivial habit as a peculiarity. The exchange ends with a light moral about quirks.
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Lving
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Bacon
Ca. W. Barnes
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Margaret Chisholm
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G. H. Harrington
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John W.maher
Nellie Boulger
Doyon
Devils
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Chier Sree Ciel
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Devis Lake
C." B. Parker
Margaret Higgins
Webster
Davis Lake
Harold Goozen
Twin Cities
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Philip Greenburg
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J. D.shearer
Carl
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Wyoming
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Wm. Moeller
W. W. Breckinridge
Grand Forks
Great Northern
J.M. Thompson
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Mary Robinson
Il Dratlan
F Blemarck
Carnegie Library
Addie
Margaret Learle
Mra. J.S. Kirk
W. Z. Murphy
Beek É& 'Ilbren
Devila Lake
George “Belford
Mortis ‘Township
W. H. Belford
Wm. Stoll
Superior
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J. A. Horne
Derik Lake
Roy Canfield
John Mahood
Bert Hankle
Don’ Peterson
Ed. Diune
Deville Lake
the Grand
M. H.mandy
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Helen M. Quinn
Mabus
Mira’ King
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