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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1905
Page
7
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The article argues teachers shape a child’s life more than parents, urging careful selection and deep preparation. It stresses that mental growth requires years of study, not quick seminars, and that grit, integrity, and persistence in teachers forge capable adults. Methods trump mere content.
A Sioux Falls echo argues Devils Lake could become an ideal summer resort with camping, lake recreation, and nearby parks. It calls for a modern hotel and a rail link, plus city ordinances to remove eyesores to attract visitors and boost business.
A reflective critique argues institutes are useful for ideas but fail to ground teachers without spirit. It compares teaching to reading Jayme's Almanac for medicine, stressing that true success comes from the teacher's personal insight and capacity to draw out pupil needs, not mere testable preparation.
Justice Brewer praises the idea of a woman president while a Vassar speech sparks talk of future leadership. Meanwhile a city chief warns that riding on sidewalks endangers pedestrians as citizens dodge reckless wheel traffic.
A grim note from a late era dispatch cites Hoch vowing to face execution with ladylike calm while others claim he never lived modestly. The column also jabs at public figures, economy, and politics with wry, clipped commentary on crime, governance, and international affairs.
North Dakota items report creamery resuming operations, discovery of angle worms in Cando, library construction at the Agricultural College, and 124 rural free delivery routes ranking third in the northwest. Mentions land irrigation studies near Souris, rye on a 60 acre Sanborn plot, and grain cattle sales at Candor. Also notes a Leeds post office robbery arrest, a Bottineau schoolhouse struck by lightning, humorous rural anecdotes, elopement rumors, and an Easter eggs advertisement by F. A. Dion.
An old advertisement warns of a bad scare from abdominal pain and fear of appendicitis, promoting Dr Ring's New Life Pills as a guaranteed remedy for bowel and stomach issues including headaches biliousness and costiveness, sold at O W Greene's drug store for 25 cents.
A letter to the editor from Copeland of Williston reports Thad C Michaels of the Willow City Eagle has accepted leadership of Republicans dissatisfied with the party he handed to the people. The move signals a push to reshape the party’s direction and regain grassroots control.
The proprietor of the Mid-Western Commercial School sold the school to Buena Vista College of Storm Lake Iowa. The college does not expect to operate a school at Devils Lake but bought the concern to place Mr. Churchill as principal of the Buena Vista Commercial Department.
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