Baking Perfection with an Al Flour
A fragmented ad copy asserts baking excellence with an aluminum flour brand, claiming reliability and taste as proven in many ways. The text emphasizes quality and consistency as key selling points.
25 Aug 1905
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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1905
Page
1
A fragmented ad copy asserts baking excellence with an aluminum flour brand, claiming reliability and taste as proven in many ways. The text emphasizes quality and consistency as key selling points.
The Great Northern Railway lowers grain freight from points along its line to the Twin Cities from one half cent to five cents per bushel by distance. Other roads will immediately match the reduction.
The telegraph operators strike on the G N and N P is over. Railway authorities report the men lost. Union officials claim every case saw wage gains for the operators, while companies again use scales as a makeshift and rehire their competent old staff.
The national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic will meet in Denver Colorado starting a week from Monday and run for four days. Denver citizens prepared extensive entertainments for the veterans. Milwaukee railways offers a round trip fare from Linton via Omaha at 19.65 dollars, a price that may tempt veterans to travel rather than stay home.
A Grand Forks figure, famed for travels to Pacific Coast health resorts, scorches the libel bill and its author. He criticizes its backers while the Grand Forks Herald opposes the measure, though the paper’s stance is deemed inconsequential by the critic.
George Hughes a brakeman on the McKenzie Linton N P branch died after a fall between box and gondola cars on the main line east of McKenzie. Eleven cars passed over him. he left a widow, mother, and child in Mandan. He was about thirty, well regarded along the N P line in Emmons county.
The Eureka Aberdeen passenger train began last Monday with a midday arrival at 12 15 and departure at 2 40 pm. A tri weekly freight remains, improving mail delivery with six days of eastern and Southern mail at 12 15 pm and faster Twin City paper arrivals.
The article discusses railroad timing issues between Bismarck and Emmons County, noting unreliable departures from Bismarck depot and the desire for clearer schedules to improve passenger and mail service. It also reports agricultural conditions with crops and forage doing well, oats below expectations, flax partly cut, corn behind season, and haying affected by rain.
Dakota Farmer advocates extending flooring to outside sheeting and laying a four inch brick or coarse concrete layer behind mop boards to fill studding spaces. This creates a fire barrier, prevents drafts, and reduces rapid fire spread between walls, offering protection beyond many insurance policies.
Heavy rains drenched nearly all regions with eastern and southern flooding and hail damage. Wheat harvest is widespread though delayed in the northeast with many fields ruined by spoilage and lodging. Barley and oats harvesting is nearly complete. yields overall good where not damaged by smut rust or storms.
Roy and Earl Jones killed twenty three rattlesnakes on a hay field south of town including a large fifteen rattlesnake. Garfield Morris was injured at the town well when a windlass rope broke, a bucket of dirt striking his back. G W Tracy killed a large rattlesnake near the Slaughterhouse. Ira Mandigo, a Soo brakeman from Pollock, wrote insurance for New York Life this week. Citizens urged to watch for snakes along the creek.
A string of short notes from Eureka to Linton covers residents visiting from Hazelton Westfield and Eureka, local dining at the Railroad Restaurant, and community happenings. Names include Julius Schamber Ed Campbell Gerrit Brummel Ira Mandigo Mrs H W Allen Miss Lucile Anton Naaden Ida Sandidge Stella, with mentions of Dacotah Lumber Aberdeen bakers Ward Bros. and Parkhurst neighbors.
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