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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1911
Page
2
Reports from Bottineau Wahpeton Valley City Dickinson Wimbledon Towner Rolette Cartington Max Esmond and other towns describe social events, organizational efforts, infrastructure plans, and local incidents. Topics include a big basket social for charity, Sunday School convention success, booster clubs, road work, postal savings, grain shipments, arrests, gambling dens, a steer at a show, a jail escape, and a warehouse fire aftermath.
Burtscher the tailor advertises fur services including shelling, repairing, cleaning, altering and refinishing with economical rates.
A California town proposes running a municipal saloon to capture profits as other cities weigh public ownership. The idea mirrors public ownership trends noted in several papers while editorials joke about local politics and the political names of North Dakota candidates and activists.
During a dance a man questions why he was led on to propose. The woman accuses him of injustice, denying love while recounting guarded dancing. Their exchange reveals hurt and misread signals as they cling to each other in a tense moment.
An upper New York state man seeks a gentle horse for his wife and negotiates with a veteran dealer. The dealer promises a horse “perfectly safe” but reveals the steed’s odd fear of the word whoa, a fear tied to hearing it. The anecdote appears from Lipstick’s.
In France at Mons Girardville experiments with gyroscopes on aeroplanes aim to improve stability. Paris academy report notes gliders without motors stay free from periodic oscillations and return to equilibrium after disturbance. Extra weight from gyroscopes, about pounds, rotating at 16 000 rpm, is a key challenge.
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