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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1895
Page
1
The Fargo jury verdict in the Kent case seems unlikely to be reached given doubts about Swidensky’s testimony. Prosecutors show no motive for the self confessed murderer to induce Kent. The letter notes the stale defense of being led to crime and warns against overpraise of Swidensky’s role.
A controversial attack accuses Secretary Carlyle and Hoke Smith of betraying anti Shylock reforms and free coinage ideals. The author denounces their now pro Wall Street stance and accuses them of eating their words, claiming moral decline since joining government. The piece ends with a biblical proverb about the ox and its master.
The piece mocks Horr from New York for defending the rich against workers and asserts unions and farmers favor free silver. It recalls prosperity from 1865 to the 1870s and claims no fear of cheap money, noting wage and employment growth and no tramp presence in a prior financial flurry.
The piece contrasts hardship across regions, noting more poverty in older states during hard times while the Northwest prospers. It argues independence from hard work wanes in long-settled states where many farmers inherited wealth, urging readers to compare states as they were in early settlement rather than their current status.
The August Northwest Magazine features Lake Cushman described by Geo Cady Johnson and a western story A Paseo Belle by Jennie Louise Harris. Lucius R. Root discusses Minnesota as an Educational Center while Victor Herbert Smalley shares Life as a Cadet. The issue includes Montana mining sketches and various Western life tales plus science humor and wit.
A Boston paper denounces farmers as unfit for legislation calling the tiller of the soil a plow-tail. It asks how Washington Jefferson Clay and Jackson would view such insults and uses the argument to discuss the nation’s finances.
The Winona Times questions the Record's handling of a state attorney card, noting an oversight now corrected. A Winona correspondent replies with a humorous estray ad tale about a sow and five pigs, alleging a local vendor swindled the old man who later advertised for them.
John 8 Nichols of Fertile argues against summer fallow for weed eradication. He prescribes cultivating 25 acres with row checks, four cultivations, and timely drag cultivation to boost corn yield and fodder, promising no mustard or wild oats next year.
The Pleasant View Sunday school in Logan district reports opening with singing and prayer led by J. F. Geil. Eight officers and three teachers were present, with 25 total attendees. Collections totaled 35 cents and the session closed with benediction. Everyone is invited to attend.
G R Leonard of Dickinson North Dakota travels to Williamsport for bidding dental work then to Winchester from the 7th to the 10th and Winona from the 10th to the 14th offering all kinds of dental work with plates on gold rubber and aluminum crown and bridge work and teeth filled extracted and regulated with guaranteed satisfaction.
The piece extols irrigation of fruit orchards berry patches and alfalfa in the Yakima Valley as genuine fun rather than work. It notes the satisfaction of controlling crop growth and weather independence and offers an irrigation pamphlet for four cents to Cal S Fee Northern Pacific Railroad St Paul Minnesota.
Local trade notes and visits include butter buys at J L Boutillier and rope-like ads from W L Yeater Co. Miss Eva Campbell finishes Cherry Grove school term. Rev Chas Lane visits Williamsport. preaching held at the schoolhouse by Lane and Ross. Weather and farm notes plus various regional updates from Dickinson to Moscow Idaho.
Capital City items report Joe Hare granted a pension and General Hughes visiting Spiritwood lake. Eastward trips include M Eppinger buying stock for fall and winter wear. Dr Rawlings renovates parlors in the First National Bank block. Local commerce includes Marty Healy selling for Griggs & Co and Larry Casselman purchasing Jennings groceries for a Washburn store. Wheat and oats yields are noted, while Beecher's widow travels west to visit a son. Two prisoners who skipped work at the capitol grounds remain missing with a $100 reward. A six-foot oat bundle from Suttle is sent to Boston for the Knights Templar conclave decoration in North Dakota headquarters. Jimmy McBride tours Montana, planning to return by September. An incident injured Ed Morris' son when a nail punctured his hand. Gov Worst travels between Emmons and Fargo, with ranch plans in Stutsman county anticipated by Sept. 1. A critique of sightless swine and the Jordan trail axles appears in the Tribune. Charles Maluch, a long-time Fort Clark pioneer, is likely the state's oldest white settler. Subscribe for the Record.
Aug 5 and Aug 6 correspondence from Glanavon reports haying near completion and strong stock conditions for winter. Local residents greet visiting kin, discuss schooling, harvest outlook, and dairy cattle. Messages note corn, oats, and wheat yields with hot weather affecting crops and several community visits and sermons planned for August.
A quip on errors from Noah in the Ark Gazette frames the state papers. Frank Reed, the book-keeper at Geo. Gassner's, is appointed post master at Bismarck, indicating a local civic career move.
County Court of Emmons county will meet at Williamsport on the first Monday and third Saturday of each month. JosErm Kalberer, County Judge. 88 Worth of Papers for 82. Those owing for the Record who settle to date and pay $2 receive a year of the Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean and Farm Stock and Home and the Record. New subscribers paying $2 get the same bundle. If not taking Inter Ocean and farm paper, payers to date receive reduced rates of $1.50 a year.
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