22 Years Ago Readings and People in Langdon ND
A scan of local items lists Wheat b¢venta and Bob Catrnes driving from Langdon to town. Notes include Miss Jennie Pattie at Grand Forks Orsaline academy, Mrs W. Kelly and Miss Terry attending events, and house-building on Sixth Street. Tributes to Col Uline and J B Shel on road matters. Prohibition vote dates discussed, plus Lord leaves Devils Lake for a North Dakota bank post. The column mingles social notes, employment articles, and reminiscences of Paul Jones and the Duchess of Chartres with general local chatter.
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Chartres
Duchess of
A. Warra
Ts -Great
Paul “Jones
Bea
Jones
France
Britain
Paul Jones
A. C. Buell
Richard
Paul. Jones
Paris
Promsite
Lorient
Ianbic
Tokio area notes and weekly happenings
Local items report school reopening in Tokio on Tuesday and a Jaquaway in Devils Lake Monday. Masons began basement barn work on the D. Mille farm. Mr and Mrs Jos Powell and daughter Julia visit South Dakota. Local prices touted as rock bottom. Mrs Att visiting daughter Mrs D Mills left for Dixon. Serene and baby seen in Tokio. Alex DeMars bagged ducks but was detained by game warden delaying opening day. Threshing continues with grain quality improving over last year.
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Tokio
Devils Lake
D. Mills
Dixon
Ansielad
Alex DeMars
Minnee Waukan
Agricultural College Opens Fall Term With Broad Courses
The Agricultural College will open for the fall term on the 20th. It offers full programs in Agriculture Civil and Steam Engineering General Science and Domestic Science. There is growing demand for trained men, with employment in government service and industrial sectors.
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A.C
H. J. Hughes
Bani
A. C
U. S
Flour That Stays On Top Ad Claims Merit
An advertisement touts a Dakota flour as superior and easy to bake with. It urges readers, especially women, to try the product, promising continued use after initial trials and inviting orders for mutual benefit. Made at home.
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Viosa
Odd Jobs on Warships Help Sailors Earn Extra Pay
Many ways to make extra money aboard ships, including tailoring and sewing repairs. Enlisted men use sewing machines to fix uniforms and perform odd jobs for officers, with pressing and cleaning duties common.
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Mable
Avship
Chew
Muchea
Navy pay and plunder at sea arms and crafts
Sailors earn extra from prize distributions on target practice and submarine duty. Bluejackets, signaling duties, or holds receive additional pay. A yeoman writes shipboard letters, sold to comrades for 50 cents to a dollar, easing parental concern over a sailor’s adventures.
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Tenuman
Rela
Star Gazing and the Constellations as a Pastime
A reflective guide on learning star patterns through simple night observation. It explains identifying constellations by name, such as the Great Bear and Hercules, and outlines how meteors and the Pole Star aid navigation of the night sky. The piece encourages careful nightly noting of star positions to observe their apparent motion.
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Will
Great Bear
Hercules
Aphromeda
Groom to Build Linen Room for Bride’s Linen
The Bride's Linen Room warns the groom elect to provide storage space for his bride's linens. The piece notes that in tight times a mother may close her lips and seek the father’s pocketbook to cover nine dozen towels, fifteen dozen napkins, eighty four sheets, and related items, urging proper pride and responsibility.
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Atehlson Globe
Fragmented Quotation Sparks Town Talk
A garbled excerpt shows Silas recalling a theft of a cord of wood and a lost memory tied to church, prompting questions about forgetting the incident as a choir sings a phrase resembling The Lost Chord. Unclear names and dates limit specifics.
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Silas
Tan
Clothes Hospital and Burtscher Tailor Ad
An advertisement touts a French dry cleaning plant as the town’s sole provider for garments cleaning. It also promotes Cham berlain's Cough Remedy for croup in children and notes it is sold by all druggists.
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Burtscher
University of North Dakota education claim promo
The notice asserts that youths can receive top tier education at the University of North Dakota. It promises physical, mental, and internal development through first class instructors and modern equipment across all departments including arts sciences law medicine education and engineering with address to Frank L. McVey president.
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University of North Dakota
Frank L. McVey
Prex
University of North Dakota, University
For Sale Classified Ads Include Various Items
Multiple local ads offer an Oliver typewriter in good condition a high grade five passenger automobile a pure blooded White Wyandotte chicken stock a house and barn with land trade option and top price for hides wool and scrap iron Also a note on weighing loads at the city scale and a Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy praised as effective for bowel complaints Sold by all druggists.
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Oliver Typewriter
C. Smeallie
Tokio
Inter-Ocean
Devils Lake
Davis Rubin
Second St
Haley & Hyland
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Bob Catrnes
Langdon
Holscopil Indies
Jennie Pattie
Orsaline Academy
Grand Forks
W. Kelly
Mise ‘Terry
Chia Louis Stensethia
Sixth Street
Col. Uline
Hoe
Minnesota
Scrumgard
J. B. Shel
Fourth Street
Fiean
Hach
Saenytt
Coblity Tonmiesiéners
Curt J
Lord Hes
North Dakota
Churchs ‘Perry
Lord
Hig
James Layman
Santa Ana
Cal
Moran
Eden Prairie
Minn
Mel
Mia
Layman
Mr. Moran
Per- Waa
Jos, Powell
Julia
South Dakota
Dr. Jones
D. R. Blaisdell
Modiste
C. D. Mills
N. D
Inter- Ocean
A. H. Bell & CO
O’brien Bros
Cos
Missouri
John Henley
Cement Block Works
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