Linton Editors Return From North Dakota Meet
The Linton editors and about 250 state press members attended the North Dakota editorial association gathering in Williston. Free rail travel and urban hospitality aided a memorable event with a barbecue, auto tours to irrigation projects, and a large banquet praised for its success and social quantity.
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Linton
Williston
Association of
North Dakota
Valley City
N. P
Bismarck-Minot
Soo
Minot
Great Northern
State Press
Fargo Forum
North Dakota Tour Details North Dakota New Northwest Spirit and Irrigation Growth
An editor’s trip through Minot Williston and surrounding towns highlights the North Dakota region as newly prosperous with strong hospitality. It notes irrigation projects near Williston boosting crop yields and a rising population in Emmons county from 2509 to 2826 with $12 per pupil state school funding.
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Viands
Sam Clark
Minot
Toachmaster
Bruegger
United States
Williston
Burgster
Jamestown
Mitchell
Stickley
Kenmare
Mumby
Buford
Streeter
Linton
Hollett
Wilson
Grand Forks
Palmer
Fargo
Whitehead
Clark
Black
Grand Forks Times
Ohnstad
New
Northwest
North Dakota
Missouri
Supt
Hanson
Emmons County
Editor Erlandson Named Walsh County Republican Secretary
Mr. Erlandson was appointed secretary of the Walsh county Republican central committee. He publishes and edits the Edinburg Tribune, noted as one of the cleanest and best weekly newspapers in the state.
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Erlandson
Republican Central Committee
Walsh County
Edinburg
Senatorial district vote shows Allen unopposed
Official results list H. W. Allen of Braddock as unopposed for state senator on the Republican ticket. For representatives the field includes Tuttle of Dawson Wood of Steele and Streeter of Emmons with Tuttle and Streeter receiving plurality margins and Emmons Widder noted in the tally.
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H.W Allen
House of Representatives
Woop Tuttle DE Streater
H. W. Allen
Braddock
Tuttle
Dawson
Wood
Steele
Streeter
Emmons
Widder
Rik Streeter
Krapen Great Oxen Race Of Madura
The Krapen oxen race in Madura draws huge crowds and high bets each year. Magnificent decorated beasts sprint as drivers ride on small planks, urging their steeds at a signal for a large prize.
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Java
Madura
Magazino
Adventure With a Bear on a Ontario Hunting Trip
Two men on a hunting and fishing trip in Ontario recount a bear encounter while crossing a lake. After the canoe is upset and the bear boards the overturned craft, Tom shoots from shore and the bear is killed as Bill and the narrator reach safety with only wet clothes.
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Ontario
Picket Duty Cash Sign Aimed To Let Pass
During the late Spanish American War a wealthy merchant on picket duty challenged a nearby footstep. He asked for the counter sign and learned the approaching man was a former dry goods clerk. The clerk whispered Cash and passed, the merchant resuming his patrol.
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Detroit News-Tribune
Motive and Mockery in Opera Circles
The article recounts Brignoli's fierce jealousy of rival tenors and his dismissive cue about Tom Karl. It notes Karl's stage debut sensation and Brignoli sizing him up, joking he was born to be a policeman while Karl performed with Titiens in Ia Favorita.
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Brignoli
Tom Karl
New York
Tagliapietra
Karl
Titiens
An Odd Word puzzle hints at a five letter word
A riddle states a five letter word where removing the first letter leaves a bit, removing the second letter yields a bit, and removing the third letter leaves the whole thing. The answer given is Habit.
Clergyman Questions Boys Over Jacob and Joseph Motive
In a farming district scene a clergyman questions many young boys about how Jacob knew Joseph sent for him from Egypt. A boy replies with a vivid image he saw the name on wagons. London Tit-Bits reports a humorous anecdote from Sunday school culture.
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Jacob
Joseph
Egypt
London
Mammoth Cave Discovery and the Lost Lamp Tale
The Mammoth caves in Kentucky are famed for salt peter and a legendary lamp drop. A miner lowered a rope to recover a lamp, failed, and the tale of an underground temple grew until an old guide later found the missing lamp and stick in the Egyptian Temple. The six columns rise about eighty feet high and twenty-five feet wide in a semicircle with pyramidal towers and ornate jasper-stalagmite veining.
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Kentucky
Mammoth Cave
Brown
Lexington
American Philosophical Society
Great Britain
Hovey
American Geographical Society
Baron von Steuben Turns Ragged Troops Into Drill Masters
Baron von Steuben trained the Continental Army at Valley Forge teaching drill and discipline. He harshly criticized undisciplined officers yet transformed ragged militia into well drilled troops, making Washington's forces formidable.
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Baron von Steuben
Valley Forge
Herr Hauptmann
Washington
Why Washington crossed the Delaware in class
History lesson ends with a classroom joke as students guess Washington’s motive. Forty third graders debate the famous crossing until Annie blurts a playful answer about going to Atlantic City. The teacher guides with a light touch in this Philadelphia Times item.
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Washington
Delaware
Annie
Atlantic City
Philadelphia Times
Cautious New England Answer Recalled in Anecdote
A writer recalls a New Englander famed for cautious direct replies. An eastern friend with a less active family background is asked if his father’s death was sudden. He softly pulls his beard and says in a drawling, tentative way that it was “rather sudden for him.”
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New England
New
Familiar Face in Railway Car Exchange
An affable traveler greets a neighbor in a railway car and notes the other man’s face seems familiar. A Quiet Stranger reveals he is Pole Modzonetskiest Koroczoctoctker, recently discharged after fourteen years in prison.
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Koroczoctoctker
London Mail
Braddock Brevities Spoils and Socials Highlight Week
Editor Shepard visits Pennsylvania. Adolph Staak returns from Wisconsin. Miss Florence Petrie of Linton visits Braddock. Busy Workers set a sack social for August 13 at Oscar Francens. A sixteen car stock train ships to Chicago. prairie fire near J J Ryan place is extinguished. Mayor Weatherby and cattle trade stories feature local business. George Sempel’s pool hall is burglarized. thieves take candy, cigarette paper, gum and about $5 with no clear suspect.
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Adolph Staak
Wisconsin
Florence Petrie
Linton
Braddock
Lucile Allen
Busy Workers’ Society
Oscar Francens
George Sempel
Big Ben Named for Sir Benjamin Hall and Time Keeper
Big Ben the London bell weighs thirteen tons and was named after Sir Benjamin Hall, the first commissioner of works when it was cast. On calm days it fills London with its sound and remains the standard time keeper for residents who set their watches by it.
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Big Ben
London
Sir Benjamin Hall
Changed Owners and Property Transfers Noted in Public Record
Receiver's Certificates list United States transfers to Helmer Sedig Jakob Schafer and Frank Marth with land descriptions. Patents show Helen M Born and John B Sander son as grantees. Warranty Deed records name G A Herolz and A W Sims with Peter Oster as recipient. Amount noted is $6 400.00.
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United States
Helmer Sedig
Jakob Schafer
Frank Marth
Swayr
Helen M. Born
John B. Sanderson
G. A. Herolz
A. W. Sims
Peter Oster
Deed Transfers Record Between Local property Parties
Administrator Chas Coventry conveys lot 15 block 5 Hunter's First to Claude Sigie for 945 dollars. Claude A Harwood and wife transfer sawmill quarter shares valued around 135 dollars plus fees to G G Palmer and Claude A Harwood. Berreth and Ludwigs wife transfer sequence rights noted at 2100 dollars.
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A. Ludwigs
Leonhs
Berreth
Claude A. Harwood
G. G. Palmer
Chas
Coventry
Claude Sigie
Hunter
Linton
Notice of Auction for Real Estate in Emmons North Dakota
Public and Joseph Emmons of North Dakota announce a sale after August 5 1910 by county court order to confirm a land sale. The property is the undivided four fifteenths interest in the NE quarter of Section 20 Township 130 North Range 77 West Fifth Principal Meridian and related land in Emmons County.
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Cha
Emmots
State of Noy
Public
Joseph
Emmons
State of Nerit
Fmiimons
North Dakota
North
Ortry Fifth Peete
Seerion Twenty Ty
Ini Prancis Pitt Conrdhin
Sa Mina
Bids Sought for Glanavon School Improvements
Sealed bids are invited by the Glanavon School District No. 4 for painting three schoolhouses, appurtenant work including setting hitching posts, flooring, building coin boxes, and erecting a Mayestave stall. Bids close August 1 1910 at 2 pm and will be opened then at the Putnam schoolhouse. The District Clerk provides details and the Board reserves the right to accept or reject.
Bids Sought by Glanavon School District for Coal Hauling
Sealed bids requested by the Glanavon School District No 4 Emmons County North for coal hauling to district houses. Bids due at 2 o clock a m Saturday August 1910 with opening at the district meeting. Information from the District Clerk. Board reserves right to reject all bids. By order of Board of Directors July 22 1910.
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Glanavon
Emmons
Noth
Board of Pipers
Von
Joun Biddlecombe
Her
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John Peterson
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O. Johnson
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Pope Asims
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Avon
John Biddle
Wes
Fuller & Johnson
Linton Bazar
Emerson
International
Hart-Parr
Garr, Scott & Co
Tiger Thrasher
van Brunt
Kelly Duplex
Jewel Feed
Duplex
Oshkosh
Eclipse
McCormick Machinery
Weber and Stoughton
de Laval
U. S
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Owens Fanning-Mills
Chatham Fanning-Mills
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K. Means
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