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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1911
Page
4
A flood of items from Devils Lake notes social events including a Catholic picnics on July 4, weddings in Fort Totten and Fargo guests, and travels from Ed Cole to Chester Illinois. Local officials, church events, school graduations, and business chatter fill a broad snapshot of community life.
A tramp finds a Prussian lottery ticket in Scottsville and dies of exposure. The town debates who owns the prize as claims flood in from landlords, coroners, a beef trust member, and a deacon who paid to fund a new church. The tension peaks when the draw nears and the town erupts in a frenzy over the potential $25,000 prize.
A garbled collection of quoted fragments from various sources includes exchanges about telecommunication services and social scenes. The text mentions a Grand hotel, a parade, and casual conversations, with broken lines and misread words. No coherent event or single narrative emerges.
North Dakota State Women's Home Missionary society secretary Mrs C L Wallace of Devils Lake serves as press head for Methodist churches statewide. The June 7 gathering at Woman's Home Missionary in Larimore will include Queen Mother circles from Bathgate Fargo and Fargo churches with G W Miller treasurer and G S Hillis state president coordinating.
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