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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1905
Page
3
A girl with a talent for simulating death worked with an elder uncle to fraudulently obtain life insurance. She feigned death and lay in state while the uncle, in financial distress, insured her life as collateral and secretly borrowed, fooling ten companies into paying out large sums before they fled to the continent.
A historical note recounts King James I visiting lions in the Tower of London. He had an arena built for cage fights, but on the day described the two lions merely blinked as mutton racks and a live cock were offered and devoured. A later lion and mastiff fight was deemed better sport.
The piece recalls Baron Fersen captain of the Izumrud who blew up his ship to prevent capture by Japan. It traces the Fersen family from Highland Macphersons who settled in Sweden dropping Mac and later rising in Russia. The famed Field Marshal Count von Fersen aided Marie Antoinette’s life and drove the royal couple in disguise. he was killed by a Stockholm mob amid suspicions of poisoning the crown prince.
Prof Okakura Yoshisaburo describes the feminine ideal in precise detail. He outlines a height around five feet, fair skin, long jet black hair, oval face with straight nose, large eyes, full red lips, and evenly spaced teeth. He also notes defined eyebrows and proportionate limbs as essential to beauty.
The report notes Ireland's major coal districts in Tyrone in the north and Kilkenny Kilkenny Queens and Carlow in the south. Tyrone has several coal seams totaling about thirty feet near Lough Neagh, with a four foot seam at Drumglass once mined but flooded by water from old workings. Now only one mine operates, run by a pottery company for its own fuel. Meals at all hours at the railroad restaurant.
A Philadelphia Record note mocks evolving beauty standards requiring dramatic changes in women’s appearance. A dyspeptic husband jokes about his wife’s many transformations from hair color to eye color and pale skin as fashion dictates, while fearing the loss of personality.
A Babylonian scribe wrote a love note on a brick around 2200 B C. The Age of brick tablets preserves the stubborn message, contrasting ancient boldness with modern romance. The piece, quoted from the New York Times via Le Matin of Paris, ends with a playful moral about messenger bricks and enduring sentiment.
In a Washington Post described country house party, a playful hide and seek game escalated when a guest forcibly pulled out a hiding cook, causing a dramatic clash and the loss of the household cook amid raucous laughter and shouting.
The passage recalls Sig Lucci and M Alexandre Jacauez who in England tied for premier honors by fasting forty two days. It also mentions a man named Meriatt who survived fifty days on only water sips in the eighties.
A Boston Herald writer recalls Daniel Webster living near his district while serving duties in Washington. A butcher once sued him for a meal bill, and Webster remarked I will not be starved. The anecdote highlights Webster’s view on financial obligations and public life.
Land Office in Bismarck announces final homestead proof for F H Scott for the NW of Sec 20, Twp 100 N, Range 77 W, with witnesses H P Tracy Peter Knudsen Louis Lutze and W Morris all of Dale N D and a Sept 5 1905 hearing in Lin ton North Dakota. M H Jewel registers the notice.
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