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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1899
Page
5
The Detroit Journal quotes a boastful line about victory and money gained, framing death as a reputation in play. It portrays a trimmed triumph described as distinguished, amid taunts and claims of parties paying up.
A vintage promotional notice offers a one hundred dollar reward for any case of catarrh it cannot cure. Endorsed by West & Truax and Walding Kinnan Marvin, Toledo druggists, with testimonials and internal action claims. Hall's Family Pills advertised as best.
Comic dialogue shows two flies arguing with human characters in a New York World page snippet. The excerpts portray a humorous impatience with disturbances, reflecting light local culture and daily life scenes.
The growing Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road adds extensive telegraph lines. About 2,000 miles of copper wire, 166 pounds per mile, were installed over the past year. New lines run Baltimore to Pittsburg, Baltimore to Parkersburg, Newark to Chicago, Philadelphia to Newark, and Cumberland to Grafton, with summer quadruplexing between Baltimore and Cumberland and duplexing west.
Anglo-Saxon chroniclers tie Colchester’s name to Old King Coel Godebog and a new town hall project now to feature stained glass and sculptured stone honoring Coel and other town worthies. The London Globe commends the effort as a model for municipalities.
Jno M Smyth head of a Chicago firm built the world’s largest company of its kind through hard work and business skill while his name is a synonym for honesty and fair dealing. The paper highlights a guitar bargain and a vast catalogue of goods for everyday use.
Timothy Knockdown and his wife visit Mar gate seaside. On day two he longs to return home saying everyone knows his business here. Forty grinning boatmen remind him it is a nice day for a gale, reflecting his unhappy mood.
Watts argues that Filipinos must understand that American promises differ from Spanish promises, while Potts suggests sending American Indians to make the explanations. The Indianapolis Journal records this exchange as a glimpse of policy rhetoric.
A brief dialog notes Dewey as a quintessential American, with Potts remarking he is the one boy in school. The exchange appears in the Indianapolis Journal, highlighting national character themes.
A brief quotation noting magnanimity as the rare virtue, contrasting numerous merits with the few who openly acknowledge others, attributed to William Hazlitt.
A Boston inventor showcased a wireless radiophone in New York, using arc light and parabolic mirrors to transmit voice via heat rays. The device converts light intensity changes into vibrations that are heard in ear pieces, suggesting future long distance communication possibly even with other planets.
Ethnologist Mr A H Keane places the appearance of real men in the Pliocene about a million years ago. He cites a Pithecanthropus erectus precursor, with four developed varieties Homo Ethiopicus, Homo Mongolicus, Homo Americanus, and Homo Caucasicus. He notes existing races descend from these groups and speculates on possible future longevity.
The rapid spread of electric trams and lighting is pushing magnetic observatories away from towns. Vienna’s observatory has been abandoned as nearby electric plants disrupt delicate instruments. The Austrian government is urged to relocate the observatory farther from the capital.
A Philadelphia Record blurb describes a new pyramidal hat box that folds around a woman's millinery to save floor space. The base is square with triangular sides that button together. paper strips along the edges protect the contents while allowing the box to fold flat when not in use.
Sir J Burden Sanderson notes scientific progress by graphics of electrical changes linked to physiological phenomena. The lecture contrasts 1867 diagrams of heart and respiration with modern graphic methods recording thousandths of seconds by light, documenting electrical events associated with bodily manifestations.
The excerpt references living organisms undergoing functional activity under observable conditions and invokes Galileo’s famous phrase E pur si muove to emphasize continuing motion or change in science. The fragment signals a science history or philosophy discussion without concrete event details.
At Baden Baden the international congress of veterinary surgeons debated bovine tuberculosis. Dr Bang of Copenhagen urged abandoning eradication efforts in Belgium and Massachusetts and opposed drastic regulation. The congress backed voluntary stock owner measures and compulsory slaughter of visibly affected cattle. He suggested stricter actions might come in about twenty years.
A wooden three section shoe last, designed to fumigate the interior while maintaining shape. It features a hollow forward and lower section, a cotton-filled interior with a central reservoir, a top bulb to force fumigant through the cotton, and a capbed tube. Holes at the top allow fumigation of uppers and sole.
The Thames navigation faces ongoing challenges as shifting sands shrink the Duke of Edinburgh channel from a mile and a half to about half a mile since 1882, risking total obliteration and forcing longer routes during low water. Also note liquid air used as local anaesthetic in early surgery, and Tours France adopts Diatto underground tramway with ground level contacts and magnetic lift system.
San Francisco tests sea-water for street dust control. Officials claim salt in sea water causes dirt to cohere and reduces dust clouds when wind blows. By absorbing moisture at night it dampens the ground surface, making sea water three times more effective than fresh water.
At a London meeting the president of the Society of Chemical Industry urged applying top technical skill to perfecting methods for making briquettes from coke and pitch. He said smoky emission could be eliminated and briquettes tailored for boiler firing and domestic cooking.
German experiments show bacteria die off faster on oil painted walls than lime size enamel or proprietary paints. Prof Loeffer advises oil paint for interior walls especially in houses, schools, hospitals, and barracks.
A New Orleans Times Democrat account recalls a San Francisco Barbary Coast tale where a man facing a looming mugging used a bold bluff. He flashed a diamond watch to deter hoodlums, handing over the timepiece to avoid violence and earning his escape.
A New York Mail and Express item explains walrus hides from Norway, English tanned, eight to ten feet long and up to three inches thick, used for polishing metals. A Memphis Scimitar anecdote tells of a gas stove misused by a cook, causing a $21 bill as jets burned unattended.
Justin McCarthy recalls his first U.S. visit and talks with Emerson about Wendell Phillips. Phillips refused dinners of the Saturday Club due to total abstinence, Emerson jokes that Phillips deserves credit for his hair shirt.
A fragment notes a new salad featuring pineapples and cherry teas with mixed polies and tomato cases. The text is garbled but hints at a menu item or recipe offering a salad variation.
An overview purporting Syrup of Figs as a world renowned laxative, ethical and physician approved, highlighting its ease of use, pleasant taste, lack of after effects, and exclusive manufacture by the California Fig Syrup Co. The piece signals broad medical and press endorsement while stressing authenticity of the genuine product.
Letters from Anna E. Ha of Mille dale Conn and Ellen Flanagan of Philadelphia Pa credit Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health. Ha says it cured her nerves back pains falling womb and neuralgia after long suffering. Flanagan claims seven bottles ended years of chronic dyspepsia irritability and crossness and seeks further interview.
Public Opinion recounts a rock island three miles south of Masa In cantada Mexico with a 400 foot overhang and a flat top of seventy acres. A cliff town named Ancoma sits atop the mushroom like rock. The houses, built for defense, date back to before 1540 and show Pueblo architecture.
Reading an old Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet, the piece notes J H Rindlaub and his Fargo ND practice as a specialist in eye ear nose and throat. It mentions burlesquer Lydia Thompson nearing seventy planning a farewell benefit and speculation on her future.
An advertisement touts Kline's Great Nerve Restorer claiming permanent cure for fits and nervousness with a free trial bottle offer. Includes address R H Kline Ltd Philadelphia and notes a Bendex free 62.00 trial bottle and treatise along with other product mentions and a humorous cartoon caption.
A New York man asserts he shot a crane in the Adirondacks that carried forty five trout in its stomach all weighing at least a pound. The odd claim is part of a scattered set of observations about fame, vanity, and rumor from a dated Indianapolis Journal fragment.
A London tale notes a groom vanish from home to a library where relatives later find him in new clothes. The ironic moment arrives as the bride and preacher wait two hours on his wedding day. Also mentioned: a British scientist brother and a London firm struggles to hire electric vehicle drivers.
A British bishop complains choir members lack reverence as they chat during services. He notes chorus lads and girls on stage whisper or talk while gesturing, muttering phrases like I am so hungry while finishing the scene, a long standing gripe in high class Italian opera.
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