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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1910
Page
8
Linton admonishes readers to settle advertising and job printing accounts before year end as Hazelton Republican notes the need for cash to fund paper and ink. The piece reflects a forward looking end of year financial push by a progressive local press.
The piece praises Colonel Martin for Speaker and mocks opponents while noting political maneuvering in Burleigh city. It questions Ginrel Byrne and Ed Patterson and predicts militia fears, then shifts to concerns about express and telephone charges and rural line regulation in North Dakota with local price examples and debates on state law limits.
The piece argues state legislatures cannot fix express rate abuses as inter state commerce lies beyond their reach. It notes federal action via the Inter State Commerce Commission and clarifies parcels post could lower costs if eleven pound limits were allowed. It urges direct railway service for urgent goods rather than middleman express firms.
Circular from Prof H L Bolles of North Dakota Agricultural College urges farmers to adopt seed selection bed formation and seed treatment to curb flax diseases and improve yields. It requests farmer lists, seed samples for testing, and asks whether readers want regular flax bulletins.
A drenched boy tells a gloomy river angler to fish under the bridge where they all seek shelter from the rain. The angler, unamused, learns the hint too late as the boy retreats into the downpour.
A Friday rear road accident two miles south of Strasburg injures J. W. McKitrick and wife and their two sons Claude and Clark, on a trip to Dale. Driver Robert Masterson loses control at speed. Clark suffers leg injury, Claude loses a tooth, others suffer cuts, bruises, and a sprained hip. Dr. Wolverton attends.
A traveling theater company recounts a eerie night on a barnstorming trip. One actor, nicknamed Gloomy Gus, reveals a death in the family and foretells harsh news while the troupe hurries between stations and turns on a grate-lit room. The sobering moment unsettles the group.
An initiatory paint duel among art students in the Latin quarter uses blue and red brushes. Opponents start cautious, then clash fiercely as crowds cheer, stools topple, and both end laughing and cleaning off the colors. The stunt ends with mutual goodwill.
A city gentleman invited for a day with the birds finds his shooting poor and the birds unusually feisty. A bystander jokes the same bird repeats as the hunter misses, suggesting the bird keeps following him for safety. London Ideas notes the comic exchange.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer note recounts a backer criticizing a stage production for lacking realism. The backer mocks the pasteboard train and hero tied to the cowcatcher, and criticizes the female villain's arrival from a Pullman car in the wrong direction.
In Purbeck Dorset, the marble trade operates without strikes or disputes under the Ancient Guild of Purbeck Marblers. The guild controls quarries, holds hereditary membership, and grants freedom rights at Shrove Tuesday town hall meetings.
An 1660s parliamentary text declares penalties for women who entice men with cosmetics and attire claiming witchcraft links. The act defines offenses including scents, wigs, high heels and false teeth and states the grabrace shall stand afvil upon conviction.
The piece argues Lavoisier nearly earned the title of father of chemistry. It credits him with introducing new methods and ideas about the constitution of bodies and chemical phenomena, reshaping the science in the twenty years before his death, while noting chemistry’s long existing foundations.
An Englishman, possibly the founder of the field, is credited with shaping early electrical ideas. Dr Gilbert’s work "io Magnete" is cited as the first modern treatise on electricity, outlining experiments and philosophical methods that influenced later science. Gilbert, born in 1540s and died by 1600s, is highlighted as a foundational figure.
The speaker, a playful angler, uses sea life puns to woo a partner. He vows loyalty and hints at a future together, promising closeness and support as they navigate life’s rocky seas. The partner responds with a tender, incomplete reply.
A novice writer sent a lengthy story to a first class magazine and received a sharp rejection. He described the editor’s fatigue from reading it and asked why his tale was not sent to the editor promptly. The exchange ended with no further correspondence.
A mare described as about six years old and weighing around 1100 pounds was taken up at a location seven pF southeast of Praddock around October 2. The mare has a black tail with white hairs in the mane, a collar rub, a wire cut on the right front foot, and a white hair on the right side. Local resident Peter Noon reported the capture, listing R. F. Di Se as a witness or claimant.
Taken up cow found six miles south east of Linton on Section 24 Tows ship 132 Range 10. The white spotted animal bears a B brand and is available for claimant to prove property and pay charges by January 5. Contact Dacob Shili, Linton, N. for details.
By the undersigned residing in the northeast quarter of Section 2 Township 135 Range 75 six miles southeast of Braddock North Dakota an iron-gray mare two years old with white star in forehead, mane mixed black and white stomach rupture. around tenth of November but recently taken up. John A. Rousy. Dec 15-29 Box 36 Braddock ND Field notice seeks owner identification and recovery.
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