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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1901
Page
2
The article notes Holland as a place with primitive customs and deep reverence for tradition. It describes four November Sundays kept as fete days named Review, Decision, Purpose and Possession. It also mentions social themes about money, class and the Prince of Wales wearing eyeglasses as a sign of shifting attitudes.
The Agriculture Department views Alaska as a viable farming region. Experiment stations have been placed in Sitka and Kenai, with plans to establish interior operations, reflecting a push to develop agricultural activity in the territory despite harsh conditions.
In Oxford Massachusetts Ovide Villers a Republican committee member bet with his daughter the wife of Democrat John J Toomey on the outcome of Bryan versus McKinley. If Bryan won he would roll a peanut with a toothpick a eighth of a mile from his home. if McKinley won Mrs Toomey would perform the same gesture. The peanut rolling occurred amid amused villagers.
A Simla correspondent notes the number of relief recipients has fallen to about 3,000,000 from 6,500,000 two months earlier as rains were favorable. Officials fear pauperization of famine sufferers despite the relief reduction. Many reliefees are able to work the land.
A Massachusetts doctor notes a household fear of fresh air after tightly shut doors and windows. In Glasgow a painter’s mural in the city chambers reimagines the Saint Mungo ring legend with the Clyde scene, the queen and king, and a salmon delivering a ring.
Broomhall notes improving reports from Argentina, but warns crop health is weak this season. Historical 1898 yields were extraordinary, with 23 bushels per acre on 5.1 million acres and 15 million quarters harvested were wind and rain storms to blame for 300000 tons lost before export.
Victims of seasickness will welcome a league formed in France to collect documents, conduct scientific experiments, publish relevant material, assemble medical experts on shore and at sea, pressure public bodies for subsidies to well ventilated vessels, and aid inventors in remedies to counteract motion sickness.
An agricultural journal writer argues that the first lesson for any professional is self-control. Replacing mule-trainer with public school teacher, the underlying truth remains equally vital and more broadly applicable to educators and other workers.
The Union Traction Company of Philadelphia will operate open cars continuously through winter with no smoking restrictions. In summer smoking is allowed only on the three rear seats of the open cars, per the company policy.
A Kansas farmer Edw in Taylor shares five years of cow pea trials planted July fifth and August tenth. He compares broadcast sowing with planter rows, notes higher yields under careful cultivation, and reports three tons per acre in dry vines and peas. He observes better milk production and animal thrift from feeding pea silage to cows, and predicts wider use if soil friability improves.
The Vermont Experiment Station warns clover seed on the market is largely impure. Red clover samples averaged 1.8 percent impurity and alsike 3.2 percent, with about 300 weed seeds per ounce. Noxious species included sorrel and pigweed, among others, plus minor seed mixtures. Any buyer can gauge purity with a hand lens.
The true bud worm Heliothis rhexiae is a small greenish moth whose larva feeds in the tobacco plant buds. It occurs mainly in southern tobacco regions, not north of Maryland, and in some seasons appears in large numbers causing notable damage. Larvae mature from August to September as moths emerge late in the season.
At New Hampshire Agricultural College eighteen pigs divided into six groups fed varied rations including pumpkins with milk, corn meal, raw or cooked. Results show raw pumpkins with corn meal offered best profit per pig and lowest cost per pound gain, while apples proved uneconomical. Professor Burkett concludes pumpkins pair best with corn meal, raw pumpkins with milk is costly in output, and bran is undesirable.
Ohio Experiment Station notes the wire worm’s parent is the snapping beetle. This pest favors lower, cooler, damper lands with patches of black soil among clay. Fall or winter plowing of sod lands offers the best chance to reduce future ravages, though complete freedom from attack cannot be guaranteed.
The excerpt explains how Danish farmers shifted from grain and stock to butter and hog production by importing English hogs, notably Berkshires and Middle Whites, then Large White. By 1870 many boars were English, boosting bacon exports to England. It warns that clinging to a fixed breed may loosen grip on evolving bacon markets, stressing that market demand forces producers to continually adapt.
A Pennsylvania apple grower recalls a hail storm leaving green blemishes that never ripen, while a cherry grower notes sour varieties yield dependably and good fruit is hard to market. The piece discusses fruit inspection limits, repacking fraud, and evaporated apple quality, plus a Dodge report praising New Mexico sheep husbandry and high wool production.
A fragment from Dr. 8. W. Mitchell's poem The Wager and Other Poems reflects a traveler’s meditation on faiths and relics. Vulture imagery looms over mosques churches and temples as the Nile and Cairo frame a question of creed and value. The speaker contemplates truth across Osiris Jehovah Allah and Christ amid ancient sites.
Stonehenge’s Dana must break through Wilhurst defense in the final quarter as Clarkson, Dana, and a famed campus belle vie for the same girl’s regard. Tense football action intertwines with campus romance as the drama of love and sport unfolds amid a close contest.
In a tense finish Dana carries Clarkson’s team past Wilhurst as Stonehenge fans roar. The quarterback calls the decisive play as Dana bursts through the line, dodges a defender, and scores between the posts, with a cheering crowd and praise for Clarkson.
In Milan a city statute forbids all kisses in public places as immoral. A couple was taken before the tribunal for an embrace in a park corner. The judge ruled that while not immoral, kissing in public shows poor decorum and fined them a small amount.
Dr Letts a Belfast College chemistry professor and his colleague Mr Hawthorne reported in a London newspaper that large quantities of putrefying seaweed outside Belfast and Dublin flourished where sewage pollution existed. The experiments linked weed growth to polluted water and were shared with the British Association chemistry section.
A World’s Work excerpt lauds the century for vast conquest yet greater toleration and sympathy. It lauds active helpfulness and human brotherhood, noting heroic fact-finding and emancipation of thought from mystery and dogma, with precedent yielding to experience.
In a London court after about twenty witnesses testified, officials discovered all had sworn on a guide to the law of landlord and tenant. The Bible used appeared unusually clean, prompting a closer inspection that revealed the error and the copy’s proper nature.
Isaac Brock of McLennan County Texas aged 111 credits Peruna for his long life and health. He says catarrh affected him little when treated with Dr Hartman’s remedy and that Peruna has been a steadfast aid for many years, especially for the elderly. A free book on catarrh is offered by The Peruna Medicine Co. in Columbus, Ohio.
A ten-year-old boy in Dubuque, Iowa, lost his legs when a train of cars struck him yet he showed remarkable bravery. After his wounds were treated he bid farewell to his family, asked for forgiveness, and died peacefully with his mother by his side. The tale, attributed to Leslie's Weekly, portrays a child's stoic courage and imminent death.
List of patents issued to Northwestern inventors includes Benjamin Frank Mildred Minn on a crank wheel mechanism for raising or lowering grates Paul L Crowe Duluth Minn on a fuel feeding hopper and a trip lock for starting explosive engines Alfred and C Thompson Fort Ransom ND on a device to prevent a horse from crib bing Charles B Ulrich Duluth Minn on lifting device for invalids Lothrop Johnson patent attorneys 011 012 Pioneer Press Bldg St Paul Minn.
Old fashioned Christmas jumbles are expensive. simple ones, well made, are good. Mix suet substitute with butter, dissolve soda in water, stir into molasses, add coffee, shortening, cinnamon, ginger, and flour to form a soft dough. Roll, cut, and bake. adjust for snaps.
A festive call to decorate with holly pine and mistletoe and to mingle with Christmas crowds. It encourages reading a Christmas story and singing a song, cherishing the day’s significance as Christ's birth anniversary and sharing happiness with others.
A brief exchange from the Boston Transcript features Brown and Town joking about talking in sleep. Town quips that he talks in others' sleep, prompting amusement aside from a lighthearted linguistic twist.
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