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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1900
Page
3
A courtroom outlet quotes a lawyer pressing a witness with the question What is your age madam The witness retorts I am just the same age to a day that your unmatched sister is The exchange underscores a heated legal dispute reported by the Somerville Journal
A peculiar process yields paper teeth that purportedly surpass other materials. The article notes topics like dental quality and suggests maintaining stomach health with Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to aid digestion and overall well being.
A Detroit Free Press remark questions a couple's dynamic calling the wife capable of making a living for both. The exchange highlights social views on能力 and partnership in a historical context.
Mrs. Nerrie Cuast of 47 K St NE Washington recounts her 16 month old boy’s illness misdiagnosed as measles mumps and scrofula. After months of doctors and salves the neck sore healed only with Hood's Sarsaparilla, and persistent use led to a complete cure.
A Detroit Free Press quip cycle features a group recounting courtship days with bragging, limits, and a punchline about marriage. The exchange unfolds as one man claims lifelong marriage after boasting of proposals, while others giggle at nerves versus commitment. An ad line follows urging Parxer's Harm Balsam for hair and Deacorns corn cure.
A promotional mention notes a book of recipes sent free by Walter Baker & Co. Ltd. of Dorchester Massachusetts and requests readers mention the paper. A light humorous snippet contrasts a Kentucky man seeking two places at once with a call to arms at Frankfort and business in two places.
A compact note discusses a knife designed to cut wire for disinfection and explores topics including disinfestation methods for wardrobes, the role of magnesium in the earth, and how metals corrode. It also touches on the color of water and its scientific implications.
Johns Hopkins physics professor H A Rowland has announced a pivotal discovery explaining Earth's magnetism. Using a brass-cased metal wheel driven by an electric motor, he demonstrates magnetism rises with faster rotation and imagines this scales to planets. He expects a long program of delicate tests to map magnetism to rotational speed across bodies. Also noted is a separate observation about how turbid water with fine particles can appear yellow and greens with ferric oxide color, showing color changes due to suspended matter.
The German admiralty studied corrosion of copper, tin, zinc, iron, and aluminium alloys in sea water. Iron and tin bronzes showed strong attack when in contact, losing up to two-thirds strength after two years, while iron, tin, and aluminum bronzes corroded little when tested separately. Corrosion occurs mainly between metals with electro-positive relationships. electro-negative partners cause little damage.
A cork life saving collar from Ghent Belgium by Hubert de Wilde uses two hinged half-collars with a restraining spring. Weighing about five and a half pounds it displaces twelve quarts of water and provides roughly twenty pounds of buoyancy. Tests claim it surpasses lifebuoys and cork jackets, resists capsizing, keeps the body submerged but warms less, frees the arms, and adjusts quickly.
A Chicago inventor receives a patent for a hygienic wardrobe that emphasizes utility and sanitation. The metal framework is disassemblable with fabric panels to deter vermin and allow light to reduce moths and germs. A disinfectant pendant holder runs inside the top, and curtains are removable for cleaning and packing.
Prof Spring reports years of experiments to explain water color and concludes that pure blue is the natural water color. He notes looking through a long tube of distilled water at a bright white surface yields a faint blue, a shade similar to Geneva’s lake, though the description ends abruptly.
A hunting knife combined with a wire cutter has been patented by a Columbia Texas inventor. The tool uses a lever in a recess with disc cutters that pierce wire when pressed. Dull edges are renewed by turning the disc to expose a fresh cutting edge, ideal for ranch work along barbed wire.
Indian coal fields span Bengal and Assam with seams 50 to 180 feet thick and depths up to 700 feet. Bengal yields over three quarters of output, and much of the coal serves as steam fuel with low ash and sulfur. Some Bengal samples rival top British coals and coke suitable for iron smelting.
The Railway Review reports Tokio Card and Pasteboard company of Japan testing pasteboard as a substitute for roofing shingles. It notes pasteboard shingles can be made at about half the cost of wood and are tarred to resist weather. The piece ends with a curious line about habitual borrowers and a joke about Joan.
Cambridge shire dairy farmers sell butter by the yard in cylindrical rolls weighing a pound each. Fitted into long baskets, the yard-long portions are sliced with exactness by butter women for university students at breakfast, often served with wheaten bread in the daily commons.
A long-profile of Mr. W. Creamer, a leading mixed farmer near town, detailing his 1,280 acre operation, crops, livestock, and thriving farm buildings. It notes his arrival in 1880, recent harvests, extensive grain stores, and the region’s potential as cited by the Baldur Gazette in 1899. The piece also includes a humor vignette about sailors ashore at Gibraltar and a school board anecdote, illustrating social life and comments on marriage and experience.
Sir Richard Webster was in a cab collision near the Law Courts and gave his card as a witness. In court he was asked to sit near the bench. The verdict favored his cabman and outside the cabby waited. Jump in, sir, I’ll drive yer anywheres says the cabman.
An 1880s advertisement asserts catarrh is constitutional, not local, promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo. It claims to cure by acting on blood and mucous surfaces, offers $100 for any failing case, and directs readers to obtain circulars and testimonials.
A Cincinnati Enquirer note recalls a colored church in this city where the janitor was said to have been arrested last night for stealing coal. The preacher faced a cold church as a member whispered the accusation to him in the pulpit.
Claiming to ease teething pain for children the product softens gums and relieves wind colic. Priced at 2 cents a bottle.
A youth sternly argues against future punishment to an old man, who rises and kicks him. The youth laments reforming an old fogg while the elder says he should have learned this fifty years sooner. Philadelphia Press notes the humorous exchange highlighting stubborn reform.
A listing of patent awards to Northwestern inventors includes Thomas Forstner of Sigel for a wag on box design Arthur C Deverell and J J Lake of St Paul for a walkover car seat George H Goodell of St Paul for a throttle valve Albert I Kres en and A Leasman of Buffalo Lake for a mechanical movement Joseph Latourell and E A Fischer of Sterling Center for a music stand Carl B Olson of Canby for a harness issued by Merwin Lothrop & Johnson patent attorneys at 011 012 Pioneer Press Bidg St Paul
An 1895 Denver advertisement praises Piso's Care for Consumption as the sole remedy for coughs and colds. In the same era a joke from Collier's Weekly features Aunt Gertrude and Tommy about growing a beard to wash less face. The Indianapolis Journal notes a political stance about changing views to keep the mind elastic.
Advertisement proclaims permanent cure for fits and nervousness with Dr Kline's Nerve Restorer. Offers free trial bottle and treatise for $2.00. Mentions Tae R H King address in Philadelphia and ends with a quote about aging by Amiel.
The piece notes that embracing delusions harms dating, that clever women are rarely pretty, and that bachelors find marriage satisfying. it observes women object to a man's status until he proposes, illustrating social wit.
An ad touts Gramo Quinine Tablets as the grip cure that removes the La Grippe cause. It notes E. W. Grove’s signature on each box, claiming reliable relief and a timely remedy.
A mocked exchange overheard in a local scene tells of a new neighbor Donal as a curious saddle who offered a glass of whisky. the host Sandy notes his restraint and sportsmanlike manner while comparing him to a friendly rule of talk and social chatter. A separate advertisement from American Pub, Minneapolis Minnesota promotes a society dancing chart for teach-yourself lessons for a 25 cent request.
A reader recalls a conundrum proposed by poet John Godfrey Saxe and asks if it has ever been printed. The verse plays on rhyme and meaning with lines about a hypocrite’s eye, toes, and a pussycat, suggesting a poetical pun or puzzle that may not appear in standard Saxe collections.
Forty years of relief for female ailments is claimed by a medicine advertised as a woman’s remedy. It emphasizes removing the cause of backache and offers free counsel from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts with grateful letters from readers.
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