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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1901
Page
3
Mrs Mabelle L LaMonte of Chicago says three doctors failed to cure her female troubles for years. After using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound she was cured after five bottles and urges others to try it. Mrs Pinkham offers free advice to sick women from Lynn Massachusetts.
Northwestern inventors and Minneapolis and St Paul based developers including Delbert Barton John Caldwell Thomas Hargrave Swan Bengston Wallace Senderson and Lothrop Johnson patente attorneys listed with devices such as leather-stretching gear sundial nozzles belt guides computing scales portable vehicle seats and a tripod at 011 012 Pioneer Press Building St Paul Minnesota
A Philadelphia Press joke has the hare crediting luck and rabbit feet for escape from dogs while a fox comments on the superstition. A rustic adage targets Marmaduke and a witty quip about a man with the hoe appears in Puck with Cecurtney and tally-ho reference.
Visitors urged to step into the Star Theatre, home of refined burlesque, for an evening of polished performances and elegant entertainment in a classic downtown venue.
A collage of small notices and satirical quips including Mrs Winslow s Soothing Syrup for teething pain advertising 25c a bottle. Jocular exchanges about a waiter and college education. An ad touting Hall s Catarrh Cure and other patent medicines. Snippets lampooning prudent versus imprudent speech and spelling. A Fargo eye ear nose throat specialist ad closes the page.
Washington reports recount the Senate and House in session as Roosevelt’s first message is read. Members listen intently, praise and adjournment follow. A committee is named to consider a tribute to McKinley, while the Senate extends the Industrial Commission and schedules next actions.
The Army transport Crook with 341 Elev enth Cavalry, 385 Twenty-seventh Infantry, 40 hospital corps, and 71 general passengers sailed from New York Harbor for Manila via Gibraltar, Malta, Port Said, Aden, Colombo, and Singapore. Crowds cheered and cried as the ship cleared the outer harbor.
In Chicago a mass meeting at the auditorium on Sunday evening will appoint a delegation to visit President Roosevelt. The group will seek U S influence with Britain to settle the war in South Africa and request Congress to assist the president in pursuing a settlement with the Boers.
Paris December 7 The Intransigeant was condemned to pay 1600 dollars and to publish the judgment in five Paris newspapers and fifty provincial journals for slandering Senator Joseph Fabre It said the senator was drunk when he argued against the league of the French fatherland The sentence is viewed as very severe under French standards
Speaker Henderson announced committee rosters for Ways and Means Appropriations and Enrolled Bills. Republicans named Payne Dalzell Hopkins Grosvenor Russell Steele Tawney Long Babcock Metcalf Newlands Cooper Richardson Robertson Swanson McClellan New York Rich ardson et al. Democrats listed Cannon Bing ham Hemenway Barney Moody Van Voorhis McCleary Littner Brownlow Gardner Burk Livingston McRea Peil Pierce Penton Taylor. Anti trust measures were presented including a Ball plan to form a nine member special committee to report an anti trust bill and Crumpacker proposed a constitutional amendment to allow taxing corporate capital stock and earnings. House adjourned until Tuesday.
The senate judiciary committee in Washington reported a favorable stance on the nomination of Hon. P. C. Knox as attorney general. The anti trust league protested, claiming Knox did not sue certain entities they labeled trusts, but the committee upheld the president's right to appoint advisers and the vote for approval was unanimous.
Washington December 8 The Presbyterian committee on revision of the creed spent most sessions debating the divine purpose to be added as an article of the doctrinal statement. Differences centered on wording not on the concept. None of the paragraphs of the doctrinal statement has been adopted yet.
Colonel Robert L. Meade of the Marine Corps at the Brooklyn Navy Yard has been acquitted of drunkenness on duty and scandalous conduct. He is ordered restored to duty pending formal review by the Judge Advocate General and approval by Secretary Long.
Washington December 8 The senate committee on foreign relations voted to report favorably the Hay Pauncefote treaty authorizing an isthmian canal. The panel debated the convention for nearly two hours with no votes against it though Senators Money and Bacon criticized few objections from the old treaty.
Representative Gardner of New Jersey introduced a joint resolution authorizing the state department to purchase the Danish West Indies. The measure appropriates up to 4,000,000 dollars and argues for American ownership under the Monroe doctrine.
Detectives and police raided the Southern Telegraph and Money Order company in St. Louis. Eight wagon loads of occupants were taken to the station as the crowded rooms were searched. In Gainesville Florida a prominent citizen J B Easterlin was shot and killed by H Johnson on the streets last night over a saloon license dispute.
London December 7 Tolstoi has quite recovered from his recent illness according to the Odessa correspondent of the Standard. He takes daily walks and has resumed his work.
Atlanta report says the Douglasville bank was robbed Thursday night of 2500 dollars. The robbers escaped and no injuries were reported.
At supper in the county infirmary insane ward in Springfield Ohio Fred Gram struck his roommate Anderson Godfrey with a chair during a quarrel last night causing Godfrey’s death. Authorities report the incident and have the case under review.
In Ottawa on December 8 Miss Bessie Blair daughter of Hon A G Blair minister of railways and canals and H A Harper assistant editor of the Labor Gazette were drowned while skating on the river.
In Waukesha Wisconsin the vacant Waukesha Springs sanitarium nearing completion burned overnight and was completely destroyed. Built by Michael Gleason at a cost of 50000 dollars the insured value is 30000 dollars. A spark reportedly ignited the freshly tarred roof after the heating apparatus had been tested the day before.
Milner announces building boom with Kenmare to get a new bank and Grafton to receive a skating rink while Cooperstown mills stay busy. Pierce county land sales rise, Walsh county closes blind pigs, and various towns plan new jails roads and courthouses amid growing immigration, banking, and real estate activity.
A Philadelphia Record excerpt notes a Kentucky parson deeming it not harmful for a man to pretend to have been bitten by a snake in a prohibition district. The exchange highlights local attitudes toward deception and prohibition era norms.
A historic ad line urges official authenticity with a red mark from the sovereign and a Private Die Stamp on Hostetters Stomach Bitters bottles. It proclaims fifty years as a recognized remedy for stomach liver and kidney complaints and claims cures for dyspepsia indigestion constipation and biliousness and prevention of malaria fever and ague.
In Paris Bagnolet a shelter called The Subterranean Palace of the Poor has formed under a hill where extensive excavations yield plaster. Fires burn to create warmth for homeless men women and children as police largely overlook them. Pillars hold the hill as digging resumes each winter forcing the vulnerable back into the cold and scavenging for crumbs.
Northport resident Byron O. Leslie, long afflicted with kidney disease, credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with a permanent recovery after nine months of sustained health. Physicians and locals react with surprise at the seemingly lasting improvement.
In a tense exchange the wife demands to see a letter her husband just read, suspecting a feminine writer. He hesitates but hands over the letter, which turns out to be a milliner’s bill for the wife, revealing unseen costs and tensions in a Baltimore setting.
A Norfolk area resident Mrs Taos of Maple Street Norwich claims Piso's Cure for Consumption saved her life three years ago in a February 17, 1900 notice.
Mrs Stocks fears losing caste if they move to a cheap house while Mr Stocks argues debt avoidance and comfort justify the choice. He prioritizes security over social opinion, and she mocks his stance as conceding to practicality. The exchange captures social pressure and financial pragmatism in a domestic moment.
A concise feature highlights the skill and strategy required to navigate buying a home. It emphasizes calm decision making, timing, and market insight as key factors in securing a desirable property.
The piece describes neurotic young men dissolving lithia tablets in champagne to counteract perceived acidity. It notes widespread medical fear of medicines among doctors, causing hesitation before taking any nonessential dose. A gallant officer reports consulting a physician about a quack remedy, who responds with a biting quip about the Victoria Cross.
In a short exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer a speaker notes two pebbles found in a milk bowl while another remarks the brook water is low where cows drink. The brief dialogue evokes rural life and ongoing farm concerns.
A customer states that the material shown in a prior discussion has nearly worn out after only a month, questioning whether this qualifies as rapid wear and prompting an assertion that it indeed is.
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