Community Notes From Chautauqua Week in Devils Lake
Local items record visits and travels of residents including J J McCanna Ed Traynor and Mrs James Henley. News covers retail sales at The New York Cash Store and clothing bargains, church schedules, a Chautauqua sale on shirts, a marriage at Arvilla, family relocation plans, and local announcements including Myron Haig’s Northfield wedding and the Brannon-Lindstren nuptials.
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New York
Frederick Thomas Cuthbert
Mary Dodge Vander Grift
Austin
Minn
Devils Lake Baseball Team Faces Strong Schedule on Chautauqua Grounds
Devils Lake has fielded one of its best ball outfits in years, winning several close games this week at the new Chautauqua road grounds with a grand stand and fencing. Results include wins over Hope Warwick and Leeds, losses to Hope and Brinamade, and a 2 to 1 win over Hampden, with upcoming games against York Rugby and Ft Totten Indiana among others.
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Devils Lake
Chautauqua Road
Hope
Chautauqua
Warwick
Lake
Hampden
Leeds
Brinamade
Colored Gophers
St. Paul
York
Devila Lake
Rugby
Ft Totten Indiana
Chautauqua Opens Eighteenth North Dakota Session
The eighteenth annual North Dakota Chautauqua opened with an 2 pm welcome from President F P Mann in the auditorium. Mayor McClory and A B Kerlin spoke, followed by ex Senator H C Hansbrough. Musical selections by the Carolinians and Fort Totten Indian band delighted crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota Chautauqua
F. P. Mann
McClory
A. B. Kerlin
Devils Lake Commercial Club
United States
H. C. Hansbrough
Dr. Hindly
F. L. McVey
North Dakota University
Margaret Blair
Clara Laingstrom
Minneapolis
Edgar LaRue
Chautauqua Associat Hom
C.B. Davenport
Cheutasqua
Notable Visitors and Local News From Bowie Town
Maur eee Prot station head Brannon settles with his family in a cozy cottage for the simmer. C. Gifford of Kenmare runs Hotel Oakwood in fine shape. Hon. H. C. Hansbrough, veteran North Dakota representative and senator, visits the town for a reunion. W. J. Gardner, Chippewa athlete, arrives and plans to stay part of the summer, visiting sister Mrs. Mozes Golden at Fort Totten industrial school. Gardner also practised law in Louisville and served as Dupont college physical director.
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Maur Eee
Brannon
C. Gifford
Kenmare
Oakwood
H. C. Hansbrough
North Dakota
Congress
United States Senate
Bowie
Vane
W. J. Gardner
West
Mozes Golden
Fort Totten
Gardner
Louisville
Dupont College
Private Tutor in Early America Ties To Independence
A young Englishman John Davis sought a private tutoring post in New York in 1798. The bookseller Mr Cart tat tests his fit for tutoring, emphasizing penmanship, arithmetic, and humble service over rhetoric. Davis fails. the tale warns tutoring can cost personal freedom.
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New York
John Davis
Cart Tat
Sisyphus
America
Ameo
Pompey
Euripides
Gladstone Speech Sparks Chaos At Manchester Hall
A crowded Manchester meeting to hear Mr Gladstone faced heat as high windows could not be opened. The mayor tried to explain the plan but was shouted down by an impatient audience while Gladstone declared he had something to say. A tense scene followed with a sharp exchange and lingering discomfort.
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Mr. Gladstone
Manchester
Gladstone
Weston’s Great Hike
A narrator recalls walking 2,590 miles across the United States from Syracuse to Chicago along the rail. He describes police and workers reacting as if he was an engine, meeting kindness and threats, and lasting fatigue. He touts walking as the finest exercise for Americans.
National tribute planned for old black mammy statue
Texas Galveston citizens organize to raise about 1,000,000 for a marble monument to the old black mammy of the south. The project aims for national support with designs from artists and a joint committee representing southern states to oversee the effort. T. J. Groce chairs the Galveston National Bank group. Colonel W. L. Moody and other Texas leaders back the move.
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T. J. Groce
Galveston National Bank
W. L. Moody
Texas
Sgures
Ttme
Blue Rose Grown By Morristown Horticulturist
A genuine blue rose, long sought by horticulturists, appeared in Morristown New Jersey. Professor Elwyn Waller of Princeton place presented the bloom which opened recently showing a purplish pink shade that develops into a steel like hue. The rose is a seedling of the Crimson Rambler, with expectations it may yield a new blue shade.
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Morristown
N. J
Elwyn Waller
Pranidth Place
Tds
Waller
Bleachers Used as Line Escape at Chicago Convention
Bleachers are repurposed as a line escape for the northern Baptist convention at the University of Chicago from May 6 to 18. Meetings occur in Bartlett Hall near the city building department. Two bleacher sections moved back toward the gymnasium, a platform to bridge gaps. Delegates expected total three thousand with doors to the platform.
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Northern Baptist Convention
Univerity OF Chicago
City Building Department
Unclear OCR leads to fragmented historical note
A garbled OCR fragment mentionsElection style language and names but remains unreadable. It references a character and a cotter fold and seems to reflect archival notes rather than a complete report. No verifiable persons, places, or events can be determined from the readable text.
How Tropical Fruits Are Protected
A Cornhill Magazine passage explains that temperate fruits like strawberries and raspberries can be eaten whole by humans and small birds, dispersing seeds easily. In contrast tropical fruits such as oranges, shaddocks, bananas, plantains, mangoes, and pineapples require the rind to be stripped, as their large seeds and dense pulp deter small fruit eaters and aid dispersal by larger animals.
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Cornhill Magazine
Odd African customs and long rivers listed in Geography Journal
A Geograph ical Journal writer notes Boamba cannibal practices where families exchange infants for eating and Bunyoros practice tooth removal affecting their bite. Rahima propitiate deities with joss houses and amulets. Also listed are the world’s longest rivers with measurements for Mississippi Nile Amazon and others.
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Africa
Geographical Journal
Rahima
Mississippi
Nile
Amazon
Yangtsekiang
la Plata
Leva
Kongo
Amur
Mekong
Niger
Yenisei
Volga
Hwangho
Yukon
For Sale Automobile Garage and Machine Shop Business
FOR SALE A good up to date fully equipped automobile garage and machine shop with a solid substantial business in a growing prosperous town For particulars address B care of Inter Ocean FARM FORK SALE My farm of 360 acres in South MinnewaukanTownship eight miles from Devils Lake and three miles west of Crary For full particulars apply to Rev M Billerna Clarenholm Alta OAangs
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Inter-Ocean
Minnewaukan Township
Devils Lake
Crary
Mbillerna
Clarenholm
Alta
Oaangs
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J. J. McCanna
Cando
Traynor
Starkweather
James Henley
Pax Lake
John W. Mbaer
Maud
Finley
Dr. Follette
Chicago
Father Augustine
Karlsruhe
St Peter & Paul's Church of Thatty
Locke Gram Block
Jacob Markley
Edythe Jenks
Arvilla
Rev
Clattenburg
Buster Brown
Harper McKee
Montrail
Wm. P. McKee
Francis Shimer Academy
Joe Glerum
McKee
Mr. Glerum
University of Chicago
George B. Hoult
Minot
Mrs. Hoult
George Vannier
Fred Traynor
Newport
Wash
Fred
George
Hood River
Oregon
Herbert
Fortand
Haig
Myron Haig
John A. Haig
Northfield
Mabel ‘George
Sapt
Mrs. Haig
Plymouth
Wisconsin
James Marshall Branpon
Emily Lindstren
John A. Lindstren
Marshall Brannon
Medical College
Branton
University of Wisconsin
BASE
Weston
York State
Syracuse
Ripley
Santa Fe
New York State
Utica
Ron
Newania
Cotter
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Amon
Ator
C. E. Norqnest
Geo. W. Mooers
Lovers Lane
Belcher's Farm
Lake Township
Ald Black
Gust
Furtterme
Colt
Peter Regan
Webster, N. D
Grand Forks Fair
Wright Brothers
Northwest
North Dakota State Fair Grounds
Grand Forks
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