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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1897
Page
1
The text argues that sarsaparilla, like tea and flour, has grades but only one Ayer's Sarsaparilla stands out for its 50 years on the market. It urges buyers to choose an established house they trust and mentions that your grandfather used Ayer's as a reputable medicine.
In Greater New York Tammany swept city borough and county tickets with Robert A. Van Wyck elected mayor by 87 308 plurality. Low trailed Tracy, with 140 412 and 101 012 votes respectively, while Prohibition and labor candidates gathered under 5 000. Assembly gains favored Democrats. Republicans held the state senate and slim majorities in parts of the city.
Baltimore dispatch reports a county by county ballot count showing Republicans in control of both chambers of the Maryland legislature and a Republican to succeed Arthur P. Gorman in the U S Senate. Five assembly members are noted as elected.
Boston reports Roger Wolcott the Republican candidate re-elected as governor with a plurality near eighty six thousand. Complete returns show Wolcott 163813 to Williams 79895 and Everett 14129 with some remote precincts still to report.
A dense market update reports wheat futures with November December and May figures, plus live poultry hogs and cattle prices at Chicago Union Stock Yards. It notes hogs strong and active, cattle steady with firm bids, and also lists dairy and egg prices alongside grain closing quotes for November and December contracts.
Pembina forms a fire department while St John resident E P Hutchinson dies. Grand Forks women push for a public dray. Minto mills to be rebuilt after last year’s fire. August Wankle sells 200 acres east of Fork River for 7500. A Ward county farmer ships 180 dollars of potatoes per acre. Forsman women raid a blind pig, find nothing. Benson county bond for a courthouse fails by about 20 votes. Baptist Young People Union plans Grand Forks convention on Dec 9. Anderson & Hunter win contract for Northern Pacific machine shops in Grand Forks. Peter Grammer of Buffalo shot by Charles Vinson. Grammer loses two teeth. Ransom County courthouse jail bond of 20000 defeated decisively.
A treaty binding the United States Russia and Japan on joint seal protection was signed at the state department at 12 15 p m awaiting senate ratification and disertive. The Idaho foundered off Long Point Lake Erie in a gale. 19 sailors drowned while one mate and another man survived on the rigging. Cripsi case quelled by court of cassation stating parliament should handle the charges. Fever in New Orleans eases with expected normalcy by month end.
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