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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1905
Page
5
A fashion note highlights a longer spring and early summer garment with deep back slits, broad lapels, and draping from the shoulders. It features plain and silk striped covers and reversible fabrics in several attractive shades.
St Paul trade piece argues prosperity rests on local business and citizen support for home markets. It warns mail order catalogs drain cash away, shrinking towns as merchants fail and land values fall. Emphasizes circulating dollars locally to build up a town and keep it from decline.
Local merchants align with customers to boost town progress and tax support. Mail order catalogs are viewed as unreliable, while commercial clubs drive town growth, new industries, and better legislation. Public cooperation with merchants is hailed as key to a city’s standing as a progressive commercial center.
Capt. E E Heerman returns from an extended Cuban tour to assess conditions for potential American settlers. He warns that while land prices may rise with advertising, there is little to entice Americans due to high costs lodging and goods, indolent natives, costly land clearing, and harsh climate.
The report notes unusually high moisture with four to five feet of rainfall occurring in the warm season, shaping conditions for the period.
In a vivid Monday evening showing at the armory on March 27, James Kyrle MacCurdy's The Old Clothes Man portrays Salvation Army workers rescuing the fallen in New York slums. The play is praised as a powerful, heart wrenching portrayal that highlights charitable efforts and spurs public support.
President Kelly enables Ramsey County to boast a unique farmers railroad now paying, moving 2,000,000 bushels of wheat last season and other goods. An extension to Rock Lake, thirty miles, is planned with engine car and coaches bought. Daily passenger and freight trains expected. new townsite near Lakview.
A fragment notes plans for a future small city at the junction of the farmers' road and the nearby route, indicating changes ahead before summer ends.
The deaf school fared well amid governor and legislative cuts. Last year it received 9 600 from the emergency board. this year appropriations total 35 500 including sewer 5 000 spur track 800 land 2 600 and general expenses 18 000, plus emergency board support. The institution still needs more money but has not been slapped by authorities.
The text expresses mixed views on public figures and events including a pension case, Roosevelt era political satire, Kansas legislature adjournment with big trusts in session, Russian war prospects, Mrs. Chadwick, and Alton Parker’s bench return. It notes Bangor Maine electing a Democratic mayor for the first time in fifty years.
Robert Wallace of Starkweather North Dakota writes to A M Powell agent of the Connecticut Fire Insurance Company praising a $70 lightning loss settlement for two colts killed last July. He credits prompt payment despite initial doubts and endorses mutual and weak companies abandoning them in favor of Connecticut Fire.
Nels W. Hawkinson invites customers to compare lumber bills and promises top prices for wood sales, urging fair pricing on requests and estimates.
J W McKinnon of Talladega Springs reports that after a pneumonia battle a dose of Dr Kings New Discovery brought relief and a single bottle cured him. The remedy is advertised as a cure for consumption sore throat bronchitis coughs and colds with guaranteed availability at O W Greene's drugstore.
A partial OCR reads as a base report mentioning a barn, antite, pores, harnesses, and Mr Moeller. The text is garbled but suggests a review or examination of items tied to a barn site and an individual named Moeller. The missing context limits precise events or dates.
Restaurant for sale inexpensive by owner V. G. Haslam invites buyers to operate themselves and seize a money making opportunity at the White Swan Cafe.
Uncalled letters listed for Pavils Lake office dated March 25 1905 remain, with fourteen day window before forwarding to dead letter office. Names include Brooks Ed Miese Earl Byres Henry Barber Jno Neff CoM P 2 Champ Jas Offit Dewey Pederson Alice Davis M Ransay Dr R A Goodz Richards Hall Regan Lipp Sandbeck Lang Williams and others.
One day gelling eight or nine years old weighs about 1200 pounds. Had a halter on when he left the writer's place four miles southeast of Starkweather on February 0th. Information should be sent to Geo Merklejoba Starkweather ND.
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