Local Visitors and Moves Highlight Eureka Community Brief
Eureka notes list visitors from Hillsview Temvik Linton and Herrold, including Hans Temple Irene Vorlander and Irene, plus Gregor Graf and Rueb families. Local residents Gurnee Olson Arthur Siegele join Army Signal Corps. J A Gardner leaves Eureka for Bowdle and Great Lakes Training Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Siegele
Gurnee Olson
Herreid
Signal Corps
States Army
Huron
Great Lakes
J. A. Gardner
Dakota Central Telephone Co
Eureka
Mr. Gardner
Bowdle
Pollock Progress Briefs Include Tragic Montana Death
The Pollock Progress notes several visitors and events from Dec 7 including Harry Fiddles and Cliff Putnam in Ashley and Pollock, Linton businessmen at the Peterson hotel, stock shipments to South St. Paul, and travels of Mr and Mrs John Bader. A fatal accident near Rygate Montana claims Walter Gordon dragged to death by a team after tying a rope to his watch, with details of the incident and arrangements for the body’s return to Mobridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Winkle
Pollock
Johnnie Cleveringa
Westfield
South St. Paul
Walter Gordon
O. J. Gordon
Rygate
Montana
Mr. Gordon
Mobridge
Russia to reclaim desert in Astrakhan memoir cited
A Scientific American note reviews J. G. Firstov’s Petrograd memoir on Russia’s efforts to reclaim ten million acres. Sands spread at 100000 acres yearly due to overgrazing and poor farming, with 1900s government measures and a 1918 forestry service push, showing progress but uncertain forest viability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Astrakhan
J. G. Firstov
Petrograd
Scientific American
Portuguese Premier Arrest Reported in Guarda
Lisbon dispatches say fighting has lasted three days while Portugal moves to concede the resignation of the ministry amid revolts. Reports state former premier Dr Alfonso Costa has been arrested at Guarda as tensions rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portugal
Guarda
Lisbon
Alfonso Costa
Jacob Jones Destroyer Sunk With Loss of Crew
navy department reports the American destroyer Jacob Jones torpedoed in the war zone off the European coast. Of 110 crew, 44 survived, including one rescued by the submarine. 27 more survivors named, and officials fear no further rescues due to exposure and cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Navy Department
Jacob Jones
Daniels
Sims
Liberty airplane motors production advances in war effort
Washington reports production of Liberty motors has begun and aviators are in training on the European front. The air board predicts another sixty days will bring sustained production of men and machines to realize the great air fleet project mapped since the nation entered the war.
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Washington
Europe
United States
Air Board
Thousand draftees sent to California for Christmas
One thousand Minnesota draftees will spend Christmas in California, directed to Fort Winfield Scott near San Francisco by Washington order to arrive by December 23 for coast artillery duty. Separate reports cite German officials in Berlin and alleged consular plots tied to activities in Manila and Shanghai, presented in U S district court testimony by John Singu.
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St. Paul
California
Minnesota
Rhinow
Washington
Fort Winfield Scott
San Francisco
Indian Revolutionary Society
Berlin
India
Manila
Geneva
Shanghai
United States District Court
John Singu
Notice of Mortgage Foreclosure Based on 1914 Deed
Default in the mortgage conditions prompts foreclosure on real property in Emmons County North Dakota. James L Allen Martha M Allen and Paul C Remington mortgagors filed 1914 and foreclosing at the county courthouse in Linton. Taxes and prior encumbrances are listed with delinquent amount and dates. Dated Bismarck North Dakota December 1 1917 by Paul C Remington mortgagee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James L. Allen
Martha M. Allen
Paul C. Remington
Center of Deeds
Ews
North Iota
Linton
Emmons
North Imkota
Alee
Real Estate Sale Under North Dakota Court Order
Katharina Bauman administratrix announces private sale of Lot 3 in Block 7, Strasburg Emmons County North Dakota under an order dated December 6 1917. Sale to highest bidder for cash with court confirmation. bids due after January 10 1918 at First State Bank Strasburg or with the county judge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Carley
Emmons
North Dakota
Sebastian Bauman
Strasburg
Emmons County
First State Bank of
Katharina Bauman
Dee
Gladstone and The Open Mind From Later Years
The American Magazine recalls Gladstone as a tireless worker who pursued Greek for recreation after heavy political duties. It compares him to Pope Leo XII and cites Cardinal's toast at a 90th birthday. It also notes the German historian Winké aiming to write a 12 volume world history and living past ninety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gladstone
Leo XII
Uinke
Retreated in Good Order A Civil War Soldier’s Veiled Jibe
A veteran recalls a comrade who vanished from battle and reappeared unhurt, facing accusations of desertion. He insists the retreat was orderly and quips that, if his wife were ill at home, bystanders would misread his haste as a dash to the doctor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Cap'n
Harper's Monthly
City Grievance Over Sunday Train Whistle Loud Enough
A railroad official declines a stern citizen's demand to restrain an express whistle at Elm Grove on Sunday mornings. The man explains his pastor preaches until the whistle sounds, and the late express last Sunday disrupted services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elm Grove
Lamb
Contentment Through Acceptance in George Eliot's View
A reflection on happiness arising from relinquishing personal will and embracing life's determined path. The mind grows freer when one stops wishing for ease and accepts duties and burdens as they come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Eliot
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Braddock
Nora Melander
Bennet
Bismarck
J. M. Melander
Food Administration
Noember
DeWitt Baer
Lillian Boe
Chris Sweverland
Stowell
Woodrow
Wis
Hersey
Hans Temple
Hillsview
Jacob Graf
Temvik
Fred Rueb
Irene Vorlander
M. J. Pufahl
Normah Brundage
Leola
Burchatt
Jacob Keim
Carl Vorlander
Christ Vorlander
Ed. Graf
Jessie Britts
Vorlander
Johnnie Pietz
Katherine Pudwill
Herrold
City
And
R. L. Benedict
Lillian Goides
Alma Stenger
Miss Stenger
Miss Cole
G. J. Keim
Aberdeen
Mr. Keim
Mrs. Keim
Duro
Linton, North Dakota
Pollock Progress
Harry Fiddles
Ashley
Cliff Putnam
W. R. Grover
Winona
F. R. Schilling
J. Brokofsky
Linton Business
Peterson Hotel
John Bader
Climber Line
Mrs. Bader
Cherokee
Iowa
Minnie Naaden
Dale
State Grange
Thor Naaden
Russia
Uncle Elen
Destroyer Jones
U. S
Great Air Fleet
Liberty Motors
West
Newton Dullam & Young
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