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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1903
Page
3
Tickets on sale daily from April 1 to June 15 for travel via Chicago Great Western Railway to California and Arizona. For details contact any Chicago Great Western agent or J P Elmer GB, G P A, Chicago Ill. June 15.
Alderman Cockburn leads renewed effort to raise the submerged grade after repeated failures and a missing dump car fiasco. City actions include appeals, wire pushes, and plans to order or assemble dump cars to finish the grading near Pelican Point, despite warnings and injunctions.
In Garske the Farmers Road stockholders approved bond issuance to cover the road's indebtedness. A financial report shows gross earnings since last October near $21,000 and net around $15,000. Total debt about $103,000, payable in roughly four years at current earnings.
Bishop Spaulding, miner strike commission member, condemns dehumanized capitalists and calls for justice over charity at Peoria Illinois. He argues laws favor corporations, warns against wasting nature and human lives, and asserts money should not equal human value.
The passage argues that American fulfillment lies beyond material wealth and wages. It promotes urban living of 20 000 to 50 000 inhabitants as reducing societal evils and praises trades unionism for its beneficent history while noting strikes harm both labor and capital.
W. H. Kipp, agent for Great Northern at Devils Lake, suffered a right shoulder dislocation five weeks ago. Initial treatment failed to relieve a fracture pressing on a nerve. After X rays at Grand Forks he was advised to enter St Paul hospital for a delicate operation by Dr Quiran.
Special Order No 1 announces Memorial Day observances at Devils Lake North Dakota on May 30 1903 with a church service at 11 am and a parade assembling at 10 am. W R C and Co D with band join the procession. Comrades reflect on Grant Sherman Thomas Logan and other patriots now resting in graves or cemeteries.
A program details a Decoration Day parade assembling on Seventh Street at 9 o clock. March routes go via Arnold Avenue Fourth Street Hill Avenue Sixth Street Kelley Avenue and Fifth Street with disbanding at the cemetery. The event includes bands, schools, veterans groups, prayers, songs, orations, and a 1:30 pm armory service.
The notice urges planting trees to raise home value and curb appeal, inviting readers to consult the agricultural experiment station for tree recommendations. A separate item reports I N Walker’s Walnut Street property where an arson attempt failed after a boy alarmed residents. youths warned for earlier barn use.
Railroad notice updates daily schedule for Farmers Road between Starkweather and Devils Lake. Train leaves Starkweather at 8 30 a m arrives Devils Lake 10 50 a m. Returns Devils Lake at 2 00 p m arrives Starkweather 4 30 p m. Service runs daily except Sunday starting May 3.
A collage of jokes and captions from various era newspapers. Snippets include a bank fear vignette with dialect, an urchin and father exchange about money and a bank run, cartoon captions and humorous exchanges about manners and propriety, and light anecdotal gags from Punch Philadelphia Press and Baltimore American.
Judge notes Casey and Conroy Costigan exchange taunts amid a case about patent medicine claimed in four languages. The remarks reference a bottle and alleged translations as part of the proceedings.
Yonkers States notes a man of strict formality who would not speak to a stranger without an introduction, even if carrying an umbrella. The remark highlights social etiquette and cautious courtesy in public behavior.
A collage of light humor and waiving witticisms from periodicals including quips on marriage, taste, and daily life. Jests involve Valentine love, fashionable sensibilities, and polite exchanges, with snippets from Washington Star and Chicago papers.
A Forum piece argues the knocking element in every community opposes proposals that affect their wallets. It claims many do not pay taxes and lack the city’s best interests, labeling them not the most desirable citizens.
Strayed from Peter Sorenson farm section 8 township 151 range tit a light bay horse with a white star and trimmed foretop about 1000 pounds. Notify Fred Higginbotham Crazy NX D NEW VENTAL PARLOUES. Tam now in Devils Lake with dental offices over the Co operatives store. Office hours 9 p m to 2 m and 1 to 5 p m. Dr W J Brownlee signs off?
A narrator recalls a saying about a tree that grows onto rocks, and a parent explains it as a family tree referenced by Philadelphia residents.
A Chicago Record quarrel quotes Hin Method and a humorist on jokes lacking points. The exchange notes many readers miss the intended humor and criticizes the humorist’s delivery.
A fragmented passage shows a tense exchange with a remark about being low in spirits. A line about running the paper and neglect hints at newsroom stress. A vaccination anecdote is shared by Hewitt and a brief dialogue with Rev Arlington touches on attention to detail and small truths.
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