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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1899
Page
1
Braddock Nordak invites customers to inspect his in town showroom featuring side-boards chamber suits tables chairs bedsteads extra mattresses and springs. Full stock includes everything typical of a furniture store and customers are urged to call in.
The advertisement declares a fresh full stock of shoes sold at prices as low as the lowest and urges customers to call. It emphasizes unbeatable cheapness and asks buyers to contact the seller.
The North Dakota Agricultural College at Fargo will run a thoroughly practical winter term program for farm students. Experts will teach proper use, care, and repair of machines, with demonstrations on machines donated by farm machinery companies. The aim is to produce competent students capable of building, running, and fixing farm equipment in the region.
The 19th to 23rd of December are the year’s shortest days, with sunrise not until January 11. Last Sunday daylight began increasing and the two weeks ahead will add afternoon hours. Eureka reports little grain being hauled to market and rail stations show weak movement as farmers hold crops for higher prices.
Sixty men perished in a Brownsville Pennsylvania coal mine explosion, Dwight Moody died in East Northfield Massachusetts, and 21 perished when the British steamer Ariosto wrecked off Cape Hatteras. Indiana funds for a Gen Lawton monument rise as his widow chooses Arlington as final resting place.
The Napoleon Homestead notes the King people have abandoned the county seat election contest. A Mandan raid targets blind pigs amid other busts. Mayor Patterson of Bismarck, ill at St Paul, to winter in Florida. Benjamin Van Sickle detained in Bowden over killing a steer from L. S. Meyer’s herd. A Finley ad offers a tobacco cure via two years in state prison. Boer English war interest grows in Steele as daily reports arrive. An Indian woman aged 104, returning from Crow Creek, rides in a wheeled vehicle for the first time and shows vitality.
Several visitors and residents are noted in Linton and Emmons county last week. Attorn ey Armstrong, J B Payne, and others from Dale and Westfield stop in town for business, court, or social events. A Christmas dance at Honstain's hall draws a large crowd with music by Prof. Whalen and Tommy Jones, while local officials, witnesses, and homestead claimants appear at various proceedings.
M. C. Caddell of Fort Rice plans to reopen the state’s first lignite coal mine located about two miles from old Fort Rice. Soldiers worked it in the late eighteen sixties. A hunting party of Indians in the Bad Lands faced a rough incident when horse thieves seized their prized animals and deer meat as they returned home after a successful kill. At Standing Rock an inspector for the South Dakota Stock Association has finished examining cattle hides sold to the Indian agent revealing burnt brands and replacements. Sensational developments are anticipated and a full probe is expected.
Advertisement for Murat Halstead's life of Admiral Dewey promises a 100 page book with a neat half tone image. The Dominion Company offers this volume on the 3rd floor of the Caxton Building in Chicago.
Taken up is a red yearling steel with a white face and no brand. Owner must call, pay charges, and take the animal away. Contact A. P. Szymour in Dale, North Dakota.
Notice seeks an individual in Emmonsburg described as an odchopper nicknamed Macwrip. Authorities urge surrender or contact county sheriff for details. Public safety warning issued and crime line appeals for information leading to arrest.
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