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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1903
Page
4
Fragmented dialogue passages about poetry and writing mix with a list of patents and brief humorous lines from various periodicals. The readable items mention named individuals and firms, places like Minneapolis and Philadelphia, and dates around 1900. The text resembles a collage of literary snippets and notices.
The Linton court room hosted a full Christmas program with numerous child recitations and songs, a mother and children tableau, and a Santa Claus visit. Local residents praised the display following the town hall fire and noted the event as a high point for the county.
A fragmentary column mentions Bennet Musson and his fairy tale Maisie in Fairyland, plus a street scene with a gasoline bottle slid toward a basement door. It also notes John D. Rockefeller’s morning and evening prayers and a maid’s quip about the wealthy benefactor’s pleasures.
A dramatic critic derides the current play noting its segments will drive men to drink. The author-manager counters by blaming the piece’s division into sever acts for its shortcomings.
A Connecticut woman recounts years of indigestion and heart trouble with constant fear of death. She says dieting worsened her condition until Grape Nuts and Postum changed her health, allowing daily walking ten miles and no medicines. She notes renewed life and youth.
Greek divers uncover treasure from the Russian admiralty vessel sunk in 1770 after a Turkish fleet battle near Tcherman. The search yields sacks of gold and silver ducats, coins, crosses, jewels, and a gold-bound evangel. Divers earn large shares while the Turkish government claims a substantial portion. Reports compare fortunes from other shipwrecks, including an English bark and a French vessel at Trafalgar.
A broad view of the world mail system describes a vast network of railship routes and riders weaving a spider like pattern. Letters can travel from New York around the world through Alaska Manila Singapore Tokyo Vladivostok Vienna London South Africa and back, with forwarding addresses keeping the path intact. Two envelopes in Washington travel 160000 and 125000 miles respectively, stamped to resist decoding.
The excerpt explores the vague pronoun they as a proxy for power and otherness. It discusses how they shifts with context from gender to class, implying an undefinable collective influence in society as observed by readers of the London Spectator.
The Stroller notes an incongruity in New York Town where a doorkeeper in an uptown apartment house must wear a formal brown tail coat knee breeches stockings buckled shoes and a powdered wig while a week ago he read a Yale Princeton football game account in a red fudge evening paper.
An athlete laments the lack of excitement in traditional sports after listing multiple games. A friend quips that joining a labor union and going on strike could provide the needed adrenaline and confrontation.
Lon Manley of Whitall Ill recounts a recovery from Brights Disease once deemed incurable after four to five years of kidney stomach and liver troubles. He says doctors gave him up but after using Dodd's Kidney Pills he regained health and can do all his work.
A brief humorous exchange from Cassell's London Journal features a man who detests constant shop talk and a woman who is always talking shopping, highlighting a comic clash of social types.
Washington Star quotes Farmer Corn discussing his son Josh. He says the boy is “party good” in the new setting and that if he makes a mistake, Corn will be on the safe side. He believes Josh is unlikely to work hard enough to incur trouble.
The garbled note suggests Mrs Winslow's boothing reduces to syrup for teething and soothing, but the clearer line says choosing a winner at the race track is a one horse affair.
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