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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1905
Page
2
A collection of satirical quips from the Emmons County Record lampoons figures, politics, and society. It mentions a machine made babies forecast, Napoleon in the tunnel, a stock slump, and lamb wool supply, with jests about Rockefeller, a senator’s age, and a rhinoceros banquet.
A lone woman found one eatable gift tainted with poison after it was anonymously given to her. She had the item analyzed to confirm the danger as authorities investigate the origin and intend to identify the supplier.
The note recalls Dr. Chadwick’s daughter choosing stenography over acting despite many managers who would hire her. It also mentions a New York man who beat his wife after she urged him to work, possibly influenced by Prof. Patten’s wage earner thesis for married women.
A New York woman pays a high price per Dickens volume, the Dowager Empress sends a youthful photograph, and a Boston man avows the earth is flat. The piece lampoons readers and industry, cites Rockefeller automotive spending, and notes a corn grinder placed on Napoleon’s grave site, hinting the device may be American-made.
The piece notes Americans drink more than thirteen and a half pounds of coffee yearly while many call what they sip coffee. It also reports a New York supreme court decision allowing a theater manager to fire an actor whose services are unsatisfactory, a judgment not shaped by the actor’s own view.
The article details lavish costumes at the inaugural ball with Mrs Roosevelt and other dignitaries wearing gowns of satin duchesse Mechlin lace and silver brocade. It notes the Palm greens roses and lace, emphasized by pearls and diamonds in a New York Herald account of high society fashion.
In London there is a growing sentiment favoring antique gems as tasteful ornaments, signaling a reaction against the Lalique style of resetting old jewels. Prominent ladies advocate keeping classic stones in traditional settings.
A bite sized critique of creating a sensational comic opera scheme. The piece lampoons stealing opera tropes and milking crowd appeal with flashy music a pretty Sally and a buffoonish comedian. It mocks sham sentiment and profit driven performances while predicting audience roars for more.
A Texas tale recounts Col. Bill Sterret and Judge Squire Bean in Langtry where a jury acquitted a sand-bag murder case. The judge denounces the verdict, urging punishment for jurors. A second vignette shows a factory owner hiring a brainless youth after a bull injury, praising obedience over thinking.
A Glasgow cab driver turned wit amuses and provokes a provincial theatre in eastern Scotland with running commentary on the play. His interjections delight some and nearly ruin dramatic moments as the audience, and police, recall his fame in the city. In a case, the audience erupts when the heroine hides under a table and the yelled reply exposes her slipper. The angry father loses his control and laughter ends the act early.
A World’s Work excerpt argues that naval warfare is shifting to submarines and fast destroyers. It predicts battleships may disappear as subs and fast surface craft dominate, with submarines protecting coasts and enabling distant landings to be prevented by mobile, unseen fleets.
A cosmopolitan describes the Marquise de Monstiers-Merinville as the most brilliant woman in Rome who hates excess, especially drinking. An English baronet questions her Puritan stance at dinner and she cites that wine can make you lean, then quips about his stick.
James Jeffrey Roche as consul to Genoa criticizes a magazine editor for rejected verse and lack of critical sense. He recalls questioning the editor about his marriage and praising his wife as a poem, prompting further remarks on taste.
Poem fragment praising winter scenery and seasonal transitions. Mentions snow, bells in town, bare trees, birds like grosbeaks and winter wren, and the whisper of spring returning. Attributed to R. Brumbaugh in Field and Stream.
W B Grosvenor told of a boy sent from the East Side to Kensico Farm for a summer outing. The boy returned delighted exclaiming about the biggest pig, which Grosvenor revealed was a Holstein bull, at the farm.
In Orlando Florida a man and a partner operate a green turtle farm on Inagua Island. They house 25000 turtles in a guarded inlet, breeding and fattening them for export to New York. They plan to ship 20000 turtles annually at 15 dollars each, aiming for a $300000 yearly return with little labor.
A humorous exchange unfolds as a small boy kneels by his mother to say prayers and his father remarks on his own motherless upbringing. The boy fires back with sharp wit criticizing his father’s upbringing.
An elderly man asks about the meaning of history repeating itself. Another passenger offers a terse weather reply as illustration. The exchange ends with the first man calling the other a mean jackass and predicting repeated encounters for ten years, as reported by the Chicago News.
Philadelphia’s new Bureau of Commerce and Labor chief J. Hampton Moore earns praise for shrewd financial advice. When a woman asked whether to invest 25000 in government bonds at 3 percent or Zaza gold mine shares at 15 percent, he replied: dine well with gold, sleep well with bonds.
A Brooklyn Eagle anecdote recalls a maiden named Mignonette visited by a friend and her son Jack who resists kissing the aunt. The boy argues God made the ugly too, remarking that if God created Mignonette He would not have looked at her again.
A short poem from the Boston Transcript contemplates living boldly by facing fate and fear, aiding the fallen, and lifting the weak. It urges constant self-improvement, modest ascent, and dedication to giving the best to others as the meaning of living.
A prominent Cincinnati woman recounts a nine month battle with womb trouble and says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound fully cured her after five bottles. She cites relief from painful periods and urges other suffering women to try the remedy.
In a Cleveland Plain Dealer exchange a reader quotes an English doctor claiming genius is a neuro system. The remark prompts a light, witty reply about whether any method exists to catch such a trait.
A fragment notes Salser's home builder corn named for 50 acres yielding 80 bushels per acre. It references Salzer's catalog with Indiana 157 bushels, Ohio 160 bushels, Michigan 220 bushels per acre and quotes a dare to beat the 1905 record.
An advertisement touts impressive per acre and per acre yields for various seeds including beardless barley, oats, speltz, macaroni wheat, pedigree potatoes, hay, rape for sheep, teosinte fodder, and fodder corn. It promotes sending the notice and $100 to John A Salzer Seed Co. of La Crosse Wisconsin to receive a seed catalog and samples.
A brief exchange shows Harry praising his wife’s voice while Dick remarks she often speaks that way on the phone. The playful banter highlights a light domestic moment.
The old riel debates living in history while the professor dismisses the notion as absurd urging acceptance of being embalmed in history. The dialogue contrasts ambition with legacy in a refined scholarly tone.
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