Local notes reflect busy week in Devils Lake area
Lakota visitor Attorney John Lampoon comes to town this week. Residents and guests travel between Devils Lake and nearby towns for meetings, visits, and events. The community hosts a Monday Musical Club at the library, a home cooked sale at Brainard hardware, and plans for a millinery and dressmaking parlor.
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John Lampoon
Lakota
Starkweather
John Nelson
G. Jacobson
F. N. Maurer
Charch
Brainard Hardware
Burial Note For Peterson Baby In Grand Forks Home
The 15 month old child of Mr and Mrs Tobias Peterson was brought there for burial Monday from Grand Forks where the Peterssons now live. They were former residents of this city.
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Tobias Peterson
Grand Forks
Farmers Seek Improved Farms to Rent in Midwest
A broker in Devils Lake North Dakota advertises inquiries from Iowa Wisconsin and Illinois for improved farms to rent or purchase. Interested parties are invited to visit the office upstairs in the First National Bank building at Devils Lake or write. OHAS C CONNOLLY.
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Iowa
Wisconsin
Illinoia
First National Bank
Devils Lake
North Dakota
OHAS
C. Connolly
Black Lightning and Other Aerial Oddities
Photographs reveal that lightning overexposure and negative reversal cause the so called black lightning in pictures. Other notes mention Niagara Falls descriptions, Native canoes descent tales, Solomon Islands hurricane myths, and Algeria’s high masonry bridge spans.
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Scientific American
Chinese Marriages and Funeral Grimness in 1742 Ad
An OCR fragment notes a solemn wedding leaf and funeral mood, then references Thomas Fleet a Boston printer and auctioneer advertising a Negro man for sale in August 1742. The description portrays harsh colonial advertising language about the enslaved man’s age health and abilities.
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Boston
Thes
Soap Bubbles Puzzle Figures Bubble Count
A puzzling note claims 25 344 000 soap bubbles can be made from a single pound of soap, noted by mathematicians and reported with a curious figure.
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Mat Sonlus
Her Protector by Sarah Ehrlich
Commander Haversiangh of the U B N finds his daughter Louise a flirtatious nineteen in Berlin court society. She marries Baron von Hilderschoff and becomes entangled with Count Gethart and Captain Manteufel, who are drawn into a web of suspected loyalties, secrecy, and passion as her marriage faces trials.
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Haversiangh
Bertin
Imperial Court
Louise
Naval Academy
West Point
Louise Beitge
Berlin
Baron Carl von Hilderschoff
Haverslaugh
Baron von Hilderschoff
Count Gethart
Capital
Captain Manteufel
Gethart
Manteufel
von Gethart
Ret
Gerhart
von. Gethart
Manteyfol
Mantoufel
Berlin Duel Snares With Baroness Calming Scheme
In Berlin a baron and baroness maneuver to avert a duel between Count von Gethart and Captain Manteufel over an alleged affair with the baroness. The baron confronts the men at the field, then arranges a dinner and later arranges a private meeting at his home to ease the dispute. Letters reveal Manteufel’s jealousy and protectiveness.
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von Hilderschoff
Manteufel
Alps
von Gethart
Germany
America
Baroness
Gerhart
Berlin
Heinrich
Count Gethart
Captain Manteufel
Count von Gethart
Baron von Hilderschoff
Captain Mantenfel
Mantenfel
Beinrich
Himmel
Martieufel
Gethart
Lindbergh Attacks Taft Administration and Congress
Representative Charles A. Lindbergh of Minnesota fires a broadside at the Taft administration and Republican leaders in Congress. He accuses Cannon and Aldrich of steering government to trust interests, forcing the president to bow to their will or see his legislative program fail. He complains post office appointments are ignored and laments government by party factions.
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Washington
Charles A. Lindbergh
Minnesota
Taft
Congress
Lindbergh
Cannon
Aldrich
Cannon-Aldrich
Postmaster Is Suspended Over Stamp Sale Charges
New York February 8 A C Montrose the wealthy postmaster at Larchmont a fashionable New York suburb is under suspension pending action by postal authorities on complaints alleging the improper sale of stamps It is a second class office and the post master s pay is governed by the gross sale of stamps there It is charged Montrose sold large quantities of stamps to rent who used them in their business in New York contrary to a department regulation.
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New York
A. C
Montrose
Larchmont
Feeds His Men With Stream Water and Oats During Siege
A Wennae contractor, ill in health, issues orders to ration meat and boiling Quaker Oats to mix with drinking water. He reports rapid improvements in stomach issues and strength among his troops after adopting the improvised feeding plan. The account highlights the value of good provisioning in difficult times.
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Atte Fo
Subway Travel Increasing in New York
New York reports rising subway use with 1 212 775 000 tickets sold across interborough stations since 1905. The first year tally was 116 000 000 and by 1910 annual sales reached 270 000 000.
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New York
Interborough Tubes
Patrons Win Their Fight Over Pay As You Enter Cars
Toronto street railway company yields after riot and ongoing criticism of the pay as you enter scheme. The firm consents to drop enforcement for the remainder of winter.
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Toronto
Toronto Street Railway
Copany
For Sale and Rent Notice from North Dakota listings
Lost-One loan norte spring colt Nick Kitsch offers stock through North Daksts Improvement company. Will sell at a big sacrifice if taken. For Sale Hay six miles west of Lawton North Dakota. Address T Nienhius Lawton No. Dak. FOR RENT Large room one block from post office. Fine for shop or storage. Inquire at Inter-Ocean office.
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Norte
Spring Colt
Nick Kitsch
North Daksts Improvement Company
Care Inter-Ocean
Lawton
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