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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1909
Page
2
The committee presents the measure to the House of Representatives with an amendment by Mr Norris of KA. The Payne bill receives 217 to 161 clearance in a winter session, shifting crude duties by percent and placing it on the Fordney line of tariff policy.
A garbled OCR item notes figures including a baroness in Martinique and Theodore Roosevelt praised for aiding the country in relief efforts. Mentions a birthday anniversary, Salvation Army donation, a college recognition, and a New York arts dinner with speakers from Indiana and Milburn opening an event for Standard Oil Company while a dissolution suit at St Louis is referenced.
The Salvation Army marks Gen William Booths eightieth birthday with mass meetings in London and across America as it launches a University of Humanity fund in New York and Chicago to train social workers. Booths long career spans global expansion from London East End missions to 7000 corps and 18000 officers, with honors from Oxford and the Japanese mikado.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock former secretary of the interior under McKinley and Roosevelt dies in Washington at 74 Mme Helena Modjeska famed Polish actress dies after illness in California Col George A Sanders prominent Illinois attorney and Republican figure dies at his Springfield home He served as assistant senate treasurer during three administrations
At the Hurlingham club in England a young nobleman, newly inherited earldom, bet £20 to eight on a pigeon shoot. He missed all with both barrels and, after examining his shells, asked where he had shot. The pigeon supplier replied frankly that he had shot in the bloomin big space around him.
The quote from Mr. Tankaway critiques long haired geniuses noting that inside ideas often fail to match outward appearance. He laments that inner thoughts do not always translate into outer success.
A humorous essay laments the lack of bathroom mottoes while noting other rooms display verses and proverbs. It contrasts cheerful wall sayings with a joke about a groom-to-be and his indented dowry tied to his father-in-law’s forged check case. The quoted quip ends with a wry note on justice and a wager on outcomes.
Alfred Blaisdell secretary of state issues charters to The Mason Farmers Elevator Company of Wheatland and Cameron Erie. First State Bank of Burlington. Eagles Building Association of Jamestown. State Bank of New England Orr and Benson. Security Bank of Rugby. Interstate Land & Loan Co. Sentinel Butte. Citizens' State Bank Hannaford. Harvey Cooperative Company Wells County. Wright Harvey ND and Towner/Fritz. Also reports on local incidents from Harvey to Jamestown including deaths, fires, and political results.
Arthur Keller and Harry Evans were arraigned in district court before Judge Templeton and admitted burglary of the government boat on the Red River. Each received a one year term in the state penitentiary at Bismarck. Alex Goodrie pled guilty to larceny and drew one year eight months, with a suspended sentence. His wife sobbed as he was sentenced.
Portal reports a heavy cross border movement with 712 cars carrying about 5 000 people in March. Additionally about 5 000 landseekers tickets were bought. roughly 5 per cent filed and may stay or return within six months. Even Montana 320 acre land grants do not curb the shift, and desirable free lands may be taken within a year.
A grim find at the Boltmeier claim homestead near Mercer in this county reveals the bodies of Fred and Henry Boltmeier, both Germans from Nebraska, dead for about ten days. Coal gas asphyxia is given as the cause. Neighbor Nels Fibble reported the scene.
Superior police officer C L Halberg returned to Grand Forks from Adams North Dakota where he attended his brother United States soldier's funeral killed in the Philippines on February 5. The accused killer is a Negro soldier charged with murder and facing the extreme penalty.
Across Grand Forks Bottineau Ray Minot and other towns, a series of local notes include a 6 year old boy killed by a wagon wheel, a wagon passenger dislocated shoulder, a private horse deal of 800 head at 62.50 a head totaling 50000, launderers convention opening in Grand Forks, a warrant for maiming a dumb animal, Eva Crawford rescued after falling through ice, a mayoral victory by John J Murphy, and a delayed sentencing of Dr Moeller for manslaughter in Gina Lica case.
Bolivar Missouri man David W Martin, a retired merchant, describes wartime kidney injury after a fall and ongoing symptoms. He credits Deans Kidney Pills with near total relief after three years of suffering. The ad notes the product is sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A beautiful young woman chats with a real hermit at the cave mouth. He explains his money sits in four percent government bonds, not buried cash, and notes the danger of staying as more people arrive. The exchange blends humor about romance, travel, and modest belongings.
A farmer recalls a sparring retort about gold and heaven from a Northeastern man as a Tennessee-like plainspoken exchange appears alongside an old remedy advertisement for Halle Catarrh Cure. The ad touts a constitutional solution and a money-back promise from J. Cheney & Co. with a Toledo base.
Percival rushes to his grandmother for water and explains he feared he swallowed a worm while eating an apple. He wants help to drown the worm. The Delineator notes the children’s tale with a gentle moral frame.
A quip from a judge on memory asks for a loan as a test. The friend jokes that recalling the debt is the true memory exercise. The line plays on the idea that memory is tested by financial obligation and reliability.
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