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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1909
Page
4
Official paper Ramaey County and Devils Lake edition announces monthly bill collection. D Mills, managing editor, subscription price one dollar fifty per year. October first, 1909.
In remarks to the Americana Bankers Association Chicago banker Henry S. Henschen questioned trusting custodians of public savings. He contrasted proposed postal savings banks with private banks during 1907 1908 panic, citing Britain France and other nations deposits as panics bulwarks. President Roosevelt and Taft speeches are invoked to argue for government backed savings access. The piece notes bankers often resist postal savings, citing private enterprise’s role.
James Hill’s railroads and farm advocacy push growth in science and agriculture yet he warns that rising home consumption and limited yield per acre may force the United States to rely on imports to feed itself. The comment notes the nation lags behind England, Germany and others in agricultural output.
In a discussion on agricultural progress, the text notes higher yielding wheat bred by experimental stations, though成果 slow and patient. It cites ongoing cultivation advances and dry farming principles, urged by Harriman, to ease freight costs for the Union Pacific and broaden future food self sufficiency.
Examination of the Glavis report vindicates Secretary Ballinger of aiding or abetting the Alaska coal land frauds. Glavis offered innuendo but no direct charges, while the wider fight over reclaiming a billion dollar property continues. The piece notes trials and convictions have mostly failed against powerful backers, cites interdepartmental tensions, and questions Ballinger’s stance on reclamation statutes and the Interior Department.
John Mitchell urges stricter immigration laws to protect American labor and civic life. He links unrestricted immigration to unemployment, inflated city strain on police and health services, and tax nonpayment, noting the harm to American workers and national unity. He cites a Pittburgh ad seeking Syrians Poles and Roumanians as un-American.
Debates surge as grand jury upholds humane objections to the hose for flogging. Judges and reformers, including B Adams and the Illinois Humane Society, monitor schooling discipline amid calls for stricter regulation. The piece traces similar long running legal cases like Price vs Walker and Holladay vs Ewing, while noting sewing as a traditional occupation for women and the evolving view of corporal correction in schools.
A garbled passage critiques foreign commentators on American haste and a country newspaper man defending his six subscriptions. It notes differences in speech and action, hints at asylum blocks, and contrasts how people express themselves in public.
The fragmentary text riffs on prison escapes by jumping from trains and acrobatics, time’s length, tobacco and paper trusts, maternal duties, Consuelo Vanderbilt and the Duchess of Marlborough, fame versus posterity, prudence in speech, and a string of aphorisms and garbled quotes from various figures, punctuated by stray political lines and a note about tariffs.
Don Prosser has won a two course scholarship at the Wea ley Conservatory of Music, State University, and will begin soon. His progress in music pleases his many city friends as he takes this advanced step. Misa Corcoran plans to locate in Devils Lake and open a shorthand, bookkeeping, typewriting, dictation, and elocution class in Brennan block on October's second Monday. She is a Staddath-at the Northwestern University, with long teaching experience, and aims to offer a formal course for interested students.
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