North Dakota Speaker Hope Hinted in Republican Row
The Emmons County Record outlines North Dakota House dynamics after reapportionment with 110 members and a Republican majority of 109 to 7. It lists seven veteran candidates for Speaker and one new name, describes caucus procedures, and notes a push toward party unity ahead of the 1914 session amid recent national Republican regrouping.
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House of Representatives
North Dakota
Senate
Theaw
House
Record
A.M Thampson
Minot
Ward
Stane Hendrickson
Coteau
J. H. Fraine
Gratton
Walsh County
O. J. Norlie
Buxton
Traiil County
F.E. Ployhar
Valley City
Barnes County
Bernt Anderson
Church’s Ferry
Ramsey County
Synth
A. G. Diver
Wanpeton
Richland County
Republican Party
North
Everstang
Ise
Republican State Central Committee
Fred C Brewster
Harvey
James W. Foley
United Press
Repubican
Sherlock Holmes Original Was Dr Bell Inductive Master
The piece notes Dr Joseph Bell of Edinburgh as the real model for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. It recounts Bell’s inductive reasoning, keen observations, and stories of deductive prowess gleaned from patients and students, including Doyle. It also mentions Bell’s pride in inspiring the fictional detective and a London Chronicle anecdote about his self-identification as Holmes.
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Dr. Bell
Joseph Bell
A. Conan Doyle
Sherlock Holmes
Royal Infirmary
Edinburgh
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
Lapstone
Durgeon
Svr
Bell
Conan Doyle
London Chronicle
Post election talk on Republicans after Wilson victory
After Woodrow Wilson’s presidential win became a fact, many places claimed the Republican party was finished. When the final vote figures emerged, the truth of those assertions began to take shape as analysts weighed the results.
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Taft
Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Job Printing Services Offered by Emmons County Record
For Job Printing of any kind call at the Emmons County Record office and examine samples.
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Emmons County
Prairie Dogs and a Rattler A Curious Canyon Tale
A cattleman observed a prairie dog colony as a rattlesnake crawled nearby. Two dogs showed heightened agitation and danced about as the snake moved, then tracked it toward a burrow. The dogs remained quiet while the snake slipped into the hole, their odd behavior suggesting no real harmony with the reptile.
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Plaine
Minor insomnia a home guide for restful nights
The article divides insomnia into major and minor forms and urges home care for minor insomnia. It links sleep loss to dietary mistakes and indigestion, advising small meals, water, or hot milk, and cautions against mental agitation. Tips include light reading, soothing talk, and avoiding late anger or fear to reduce wakefulness.
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Cody
The Captive Canary Tells a Flight Lesson
A bird fancier notes that a canary he has kept in captivity struggles to fly downward. He contrasts the free bird’s willingness to drop with the captive's fear of downward motion, explaining how environment and training affect a canary’s confidence and behavior.
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Job
New York Sun
Doctor's tonic advice inspires clever bill reply
A man visits a doctor for medical advice and is told to take a tonic and dismiss worry. Months later he receives a bill for 3 guineas and replies that he has taken the tonic and dismissed his worry, and that the bill itself is what he now dismisses as well, noting that defeat sometimes rests with its giver.
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London
Pay Later Shopper Trouble at Butcher Stand
A debtor enters a butcher shop and asks to pay for a leg of mutton. The butcher hands over the meat and the customer starts to leave. The butcher stops him, noting the payment promise, while the customer replies that he indeed wants to pay but cannot.
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London Telegraph
Ethics of Visiting Children in a Yard Dispute
Constance and Taylor dispute which game to play while visiting. Taylor asserts dominance as visitor and urges Constance to yield to his choice. Constance recalls parental teachings and resists yielding, suggesting they move to Taylor's house to decide.
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Constance
Taylor
Indianapolis News
Prussic Acid Deaths and a German Chemist's Fate
Cyanide is described as the deadly principle of prussic acid. The text notes how quickly prussic acid kills, including a pup dying from a single drop on the tongue. It also mentions a German chemist who believed he found an antidote but died before using it.
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Washington Star
Medieval to Renaissance Gardens Show Transformations
The piece contrasts early monastic gardens with the Italian Renaissance ideal linking garden art to wealth and culture. It highlights the Villa Falconieri as a five century old exemplar of beauty and dignity, famed for pools and cypresses, echoed by a New York Press remark on Japanese garden aesthetics.
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Lorenzo de’ Medici
Villa Falconieri
Japan
New York Press
Testing the Eye's Refraction and Correction Methods
The article explains the ideal eye focuses light on the retina and that any refraction error needs correction. It describes using test types at distance to approximate parallel rays and adjusting with a lens. It notes other methods to alter light paths, highlighting the single convex lens as the simplest approach.
Heart Treasures From Buddhist Teachings
A compact saying lists treasures stored in the heart charity piety temperance and soberness as enduring beyond death drawn from Buddhist scriptures and presented as a moral maxim for readers.
Selecting Type to Breed in Hogs for Lard or Bacon
Prof W B Richards outlines hog breed choices for lard and bacon in the Northwest. Lard types include Poland China Berkshire Chester White and Duroc Jersey, while bacon types favor Large Yorkshire Tamworth Hampshire and English Canadian Herkshire. Emphasizes matching breed to carcass type and proper handling. A quoted exchange from the Cleveland Plain Dealer is included.
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W. B. Richards
North Dakota Agricultural College
Poland
China
Berkshire
Chester White
Jersey
Victoria
Suffolk
Cheshire
Small
Yorkshire
Northwest
Chester
Tamworth
Hampshire
His Last Word in a Domestic Spat
A brief humorous note on a husband who finally wins a verbal exchange after his wife declares she has made herself plain. He retorts that he didn’t know she had a say, joking that she was “’ern that way” as the punchline closes the exchange.
A Close Student Story of Robert Lowe at Oxford
A humorous note recalls Robert Lowe later Lord Sherbrooke as nearsighted: while reading his nose touched the page, and a wit quipped that he would have earned higher honors at Oxford if he had not rubbed out with his nose what he had written with his pen.
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Robert Lowe
Lord Sherbrooke
Oxford
Rossetti Awful Breakfast Story From Meredith Tale
Meredith recalls a morning when Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Rossetti, Swinburne and George Meredith planned to live together A breakfast scene unfolds with Rossetti asleep then devouring five eggs and five slabs of bacon on a huge dish Meredith reacted by changing plans and offering three months' rent to avoid a repeat The anecdote is told by Meredith himself and reflects the period tone and literary circles involved
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti
William
Swinburne
George Meredith
Meredith
Rossetti
Big man challenges trouble seeker near Broad and Chestnut
A tall, bold man who stalked with chest out and pendulum arms bumped into a quarrel hunter at Broad and Chestnut. The hunter challenged him, and the large man asked what if he was hunting trouble, prompting a tense exchange in Philadelphia.
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Philadelphia Times
Use For Old Planes In Odd Ways
A Labrador tribe used barrels from a wrecked whaler as chimney tops. West Indians reused Timothy Dexter warming pans for sugar ladies. The Shans employed English beer bottles as household gods to ward off evil. De Tonnant gave a Patagonian chief a worn piano, then found the chief sleeping with his wife inside the piano, the bedstead formed by removing the interior.
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Timothy Dexter
de Tonnant
Patagonia
Patagonian
Summons in District Court for Emmons County North Dakota
The State of North Dakota against a named defendant in Emmons County District Court. The complaint seeks service of process and court action regarding a case filed in Linton on November 1912. The document specifies a court date and filing details including location at Linton and a post office designation in Dakota.
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Linton
Lost horse notice in North Dakota public notice
A fragmentary horse description appears: dark brown mare with two halters, no brand, unknown feet, last seen in Sunita Street area near Ford, North Dakota. Owner asked to contact and pay charges to recover the animal.
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Ford
N. D
Report of the Condit in the Security State Bank
A damaged bank report from North Dakota shows a cashier Henn presenting a financial statement for the Security State Bank at Strashure. The document lists assets and liabilities including loans, overdrafts, cash, and capital stock with signatures and notary stamps dated December.
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Strashure
North Dako
Bids for the Deposit Funds in Emmons County
Emmons County Board invites sealed proposals from banks for county deposits. Bids cover daily balance interest and time deposit rates for one year with fidelity bonds. Bids to be sent to the court in Linton North Dakota and opened January 7 at 2 PM.
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Board of Countiers
Emmons
Fidelity Bonds
Linton
North Dakota
John R. SN
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