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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1912
Page
5
John Daeley visits election events from his Lakota farm while Mrs Greenwold shops in Devils Lake. Residents travel for business and summer school, attend church functions, and host picnics. Visits include Miss Maymen Nash to Saskatchewan and Miss Laurena Belcourt returning from Munich. A parish reception honors Father Augustine as he goes on leave.
The Gollmar Brothers Circus prepares two hours of acts under waterproof tents in Devils Lake on July 4. The show, touted as a major amusement enterprise, brings a large scale program and varied acts expected to attract a liberal audience.
Merchants will meet this year with prominent sneaker leaders in association work to review credits costs of doing business and trade abuses. The convention aims to remedy evils through organization and convention participation to improve merchandising conditions in North Dakota.
The committee offers many prizes for the best appearing lawn with an eight dollar Pennsylvan ia lawn mower as second prize. Inspections will occur during the first week of September across streets alleys and properties. Devils Lake expects many attractive places by then. Judges are W H Horton Y G Barnell and F W Foster. Residents urged to improve and join the beautification movement.
The late General Assembly declares the Presbyterian church must be the open enemy of liquor traffic in every form. It urges members to keep separate from the liquor trade socially financially and politically and to oppose licenses by any name to end the traffic’s influence.
Mina Forbes and Hugh Islington vie with Polly the parrot and a fiddler in a noisy feud that annoys the neighbors. A wrench, a barrel, and a shared laugh bring the pair together as Polly steals the show and bonds them over music and wit.
Two individuals discuss a comparison and then return home to tell their mothers about positive exchanges. The fragment hints at personal dialogue and family reactions with no identifiable names, places, or organizations.
The article notes Colombia emeralds as the premier supply of beryl form the finest crystals. It cites a 8 ounce 18 pennyweight hexagonal gem once owned by the Duke of Devonshire and other superb stones in royal and museum collections. It traces ancient uses of emeralds from Mount Zabarah in Egypt and famous historical gems.
A playful note on reputations and marriage, contrasting honored names with social status at a bank. The lines riff on how names and honors travel through everyday life in a light, comic manner.
Ex national leaguer and promoter Wm F Palger gears up a showdown against Greenwood fans to decide the summer resorts championship. The headline bout, if Stotlar’s Colts enter, promises a diamond battle at a well prepared ball park, with Colonel Fal Ber calling Chau tauqua talent to report at 5 am next week.
The piece weighs Walter Johnson against peers like Mathewson Walsh Brown and Marquard in judging pitching greatness. It lauds the smoke-ball Swede, noting Johnson’s dominance, a 23 win season, and injuries. It also plugs Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a quick healer for wounds and burns.
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