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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1917
Page
2
The piece notes a milder blizzard delaying travel to Bismarck for reporter and family. Dr Kate L Perkins helps recover the boys. The editor plans to publish but lagrippe delays him. the paper laments postal and train disruptions affecting news and weekly production.
Sam Smith sold his livery business to Joe Frison. Conrad Erck reached Strasburg on return from Bismarck and rests there. Hague Teachers plan a Saturday meeting. Train delays halt traffic as German army moves unseen. Teachers seek trains to Linton for exams. Snowbound travelers and revived old papers fill time. Hague bowling team returns from Linton with loss. Gus Scherr and Gus Arndt endure frost on rural routes. Mrs Huber and Miss Emma Schulz ill. John Albrecht serious with pneumonia. Measles strike at Stedman child. Rural mail resumes after a week. Prof Fromke sick. school suspended. Mrs Murray returns from South Dakota trip. E A Wilson arrives from Linton for business then heads to McKenzie. Hanson party escorts travel to McKenzie for main-line trains.
Mrs. L. L. Harriman and Mrs. Mattie McVey are grippe victims this week. Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Schatz have gone to the Geo. Huber home called there by a serious illness.
The piece notes a harsh winter with heavy snowdrifts surrounding hay stacks and blocking access. It tells of teachers modernizing upon U S History lessons, a shift toward music in exams, and family efforts to feed stock. Clarence Loyd and nephew cleared a snowed roof while Lawrence Rodrich faced injured fingers and frostbite after a blizzard on the route to Linton.
February notes show McCauliffe and Grogan visiting school No 4 while storm days kept attendance mainly to teachers. Neighborhood youths improve English during long winter evenings. Also mentions meat markets and a Napoleon shipper with an eight mile snow hike.
Hazelton notes report visits by Rep Harding and others in Bismarck Temvik and Delamere trips by Forsyth family. Stock Growers convention attendance and a failed House Bill 44 revision are noted along with a Florida DeLand colony visit. Local social updates include hospital visit for Bennie Klabunde and a large Emmons county delegation.
In a Science letter W W Lyon argues zoological evidence supports that early humans and ancestors fed on three parasites linked to beef pork and fish. The piece notes that meat eating may have aided evolution by shortening digestion and boosting energy, with horse meat also considered by some investigators.
Frank T. Probert recalls a dramatic descent into the Neuva Luz shaft at Veta Madre in Guanajuato where workers and an engineer ride iron buckets lowered by ropes. Candled torches flicker as singed melodies echo through the dark, ending with a silent, prayerful Amen.
A French journal lists various British regiments and their nicknames. The Sixteenth Infantry are dubbed the peaceful for lacking biblical inscriptions on their flag, the Norfolk Regiment are the Saints for Bible purchases during Spain wars, the Second Royal West Surrey Fusiliers are Sleepers after a night Almeida surprise, the Gloucestershire Regiment are the Sears, the Seventeenth Lancers the Dandies, and the Seventy sixth once bore an elephant but soldiers were called the Pigs due to a misdrawn emblem.
Classified notice from Central Petroleum Co of Cleveland Ohio seeking men to write for sales positions with potential advancement. Ad promises earnings over 125 dollars monthly and invites inquiries.
A company defends its bids for 14 inch shells, noting four contracts totaling 4,200 units at $1.5 each were issued two years ago. None have been accepted by the Government, while $522,881 has been spent on wages and materials with no payments received to date.
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