03 Feb 1893
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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1893
Page
1
A writer recounts delaying publication due to travel through a mild blizzard from Bismarck to home with Mrs Streeter and children. Half the trip was completed Thursday. the rest Friday. A bout with lagrippe interrupted plans to produce a full issue next week.
Charles Kupitz claims a vegetable formula can cure consumption bronchitis catarrh asthma and nervous complaints and will mail the recipe in German French or English to any reader who requests it by sending the paper with a stamp to W A Noyes 820 Powers Block Rochester N Y.
Agents offer sale of choice fruits and ornamental nursery stock. The message promises varied varieties controlled by the firm, details on commission salaries, and terms for secure selection and delivery from Rochester New York.
Fragmentary OCR describes a teething syrup claimed for infants and teething relief. It asserts digestion aid, relief from pain, and cure for diarrhea and dysentery, with administration by the mother and a per bottle price.
George Jennings of Bismarck advertises International Stock Food for horses cattle and bogs to last winter. He also buys butter eggs poultry and hides at high market prices and offers Atlas of the World and a library as premiums with groceries. Pacific Hotel in Bismarck promoted for good accommodations and cheap rates. No senator yet.
The passage notes Union Pacific train length hypotheticals, Mexico’s sixty two year political turmoil with many leaders, new silver salt bottles and ornamented ware, China religious representation in Pekin, a feet washing sect near Union City Michigan, the 140 US Christian denominations, Virgin Queen Elizabeth naming, and Mrs Graoram Gouin described as economical and skilled at cooking and sewing for her children.
A jumble of notes mentions a New Hampshire asylum population, a San Francisco dentist at Stanford, a Johnston County resident with seven daughters, a New York jeweler exhibit tusk, and a Fayette County hunter's misdirection leading to a fatal shot.
Figures show American oil output around 20 million barrels yearly and Arizona mining yields totaling 9. Let's note Washington timber stock at 300 billion feet. The Spez canal claim and bicycle usage estimates add breadth to industrial figures of the era.
A compact collage of quips and witticisms from period publications. Included are Barnum criticism of mass newspapers, a Geelic proverb about faults, a vivid indignant mother line, and a brooklyn life quip about a damsel and her suspenders in a cliff rescue.
The largest private medical library in the nation is said to be Professor N. Senns collection, with about twenty thousand volumes. Early book history notes that the word preface began as a greeting to a meal, and that a first edition of Longfellows Hyperion costs thirty dollars in London. A Walton Complete Angler (1653) in original binding and a Cotton Complete Angler (1076) recently sold for 1550 dollars.
A garbled text fragment presents scattered aphorisms about truth, morality, and warning about sermons, with references to the devil, repentance, and social behavior. The lines suggest a reflective, sermon-like voice but lack coherent narrative or identifiable persons or events.
A collage notes vast Stradivarius counts, royal treasures like Mozart’s Windsor harpsichord, and broad church youth movements from England to the United States. It cites 872 Christian Endeavor societies in England, 415 Baptist youth groups, three U.S. Army Christian Endeavor chapters, Vermont forming a Baptist Young People's union, and the Church of Scotland Young Men’s guild with 21 621 members, up 711 from last year.
A report on exotic imported paradise fish from Japan detailing their nest building behavior. The male builds a bubble nest, guards eggs, and tends hatchlings for weeks. They surface in red blue and green hues during mating, tolerate confinement, and require stable water with evaporation allowance. They are carnivorous, hardy against cold, and breed rapidly with several broods annually.
A Sardinia island commission reports Salti lacks a town council police clergy physician post office church school or registrar. Taxpayers travel sixty kilometres every eight weeks to pay taxes. Births baptisms deaths and marriages occur with minimal ceremony and schooling is unknown.
The exhibit will showcase leading artificial ice and cold storage techniques in a 190 by 255 foot five story building with observatories at the corners and a central tower. About eighty tons of ice will be produced daily using three methods: plate system, filtered water, and can system from condensate steam, plus cooling room processes.
A miscellany of observations on animals and oddities. It mentions a sick dog as a self healer, Crossums as elaborate mammals, the hardest wood cocas, geese around Sherman Oregon, a molasses spill in Buffalo, rats escaping, and flies attracted to alcohol. It also describes cow horn wrinkles as age indicators.
The item notes Confederate veterans idolizing Charleton Parker of Michigan as a model schoolboy who walks fifteen miles daily. It also mentions Groner W. Giltmans gifting 85,009 to firemen and 1,000 to policemen for saving the Public Ledger building, and reports Conarius McKane in Savannah claiming African royal lineage and plans for a medical college. Ex President Hayes remarks on a private inauguration date.
Miscellaneous items report bottle bursts wasting champagne, infestation threat at Springfield statehouse basements, a San Antonio widow earning fame for panther killing, a Yardley fruit jar collapse spared by neighbors, a Plymouth church bell destroyed, and quirky notes on light vessel moorings noting anchors ride to mushroom like masses in mud.
In days gone by a mosaic of medieval tastes and practices is sketched. Imports and dishes from Europe and Italy mingle with mentions of fashion, armor, and social attitudes. The excerpt blends curiosities from Rome to France across centuries.
A roundup of unusual facts from 1892 covers China villages with theaters and urban hubs, long known telephony in India, Russia's vast reach, Japan rice related disease, a Vincennes fire clay find, a Keokuk metal discovery, an odd double faced potato claim, and a Fairhaven coal bonanza spanning 1000 acres with potential 10 million tons.
A critical look at higher denomination Columbian stamps, arguing they have no practical postal use. The piece questions government profit from collectors and explains postage rules, rates, and limits, noting many stamps cannot be used for regular mail and detailing value scenarios.
Two deaths in France from foils piercing repaired masks prompt safety calls. Iris notes eye color links to marksman skill. A race-horse clears twenty to twenty four feet in a bound. Jockey Bopp Donte, famed for Nancy Hanks, earns verse tribute from Dr. Holmes.
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