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Newspaper
Devils Lake Inter Ocean
Location
Devils Lake, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1914
Page
3
Steve Blossom hides a mysterious box aboard a ship in a tense tale of treasure, greed, and muttered threats. He plots to steal the cache of doubloons while rival sailor Jim Dunkers snarls and eyeing the chest, risking discovery before Bahamas passage. The crew debates fists and fate as theft looms near.
New York report quotes William Guggenheim son of Meyer Guggenheim predicting a postwar era of unprecedented American prosperity. He argues Europe’s war becomes economic, US gains finance center status, but a sharp readjustment and price declines will occur before benefits. He notes nine of his cousin’s sons were wounded in action but promised to recover.
Princeton official Richard Varrett, son of the Princeton Light and Power president, was held up by two men who demanded valuables but returned his knife, pocketbook, four dollars, and later an eighteen dollar pearl handled pistol. They also let him inspect the loaded revolver. The same pair had robbed Robert Wilhite of seventy five cents, later returning fifty cents. Police suspect the pair are county fair workers.
A Kentuckian letter writer signing as R. S. asks Minneapolis postmaster E. A. Purdy to help him find a wife. Purdy competes with Mayor Nye for the position of chief assistant to Dan Cupid, as he reads the unusual request.
The Inter Ocean reports a stock of standard legal blanks kept for general use. Facilities hold forms suitable for contracts notices and similar filings. The publication notes availability for local practitioners and businesses needing ready templates.
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