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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1900
Page
3
In a remote Texas Panhandle county two lawyers argued a juryless suit before a justice who ran a hotel saloon and gambling house. The judge hesitated, Miller offered to bet Hoover $10 that he was right, and after a pause the court ruled for the plaintiff due to Hoover not posting stakes.
You can obtain a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease by writing to Allen S. Olmsted in Le Roy New York The powder relieves chilblains sweating dampness and swollen aching feet It eases tight shoes and acts as an instant cure for corns and bunions Sold by druggists and shoe stores at 25 cents Also included are two maxims about trouble and cow field bravery.
J C Baxter of Braidwood Illinois reports that after using Ayer s Hair Vigor half a bottle cured his hair loss. When shedding resumed he found the old bottle again effective, confirming its lasting value and reliability.
Ayer's Hair Vigor is described as economical and long lasting, with a little going a long way. It claims to stop hair loss, restore color, cure dandruff, and keep hair soft and glossy. Sold for $1.00 per bottle at druggists.
Patient writes to Dr. J. C. Aven in Lowell Massachusetts about not obtaining all desired benefits from using Vigor and requests advice.
A Fargo North Dakota advertises the Electro Medical and Surgical Institute at 10 Broadway offering combined medicine and electricity treatments for chronic diseases. A patient testimonial claims long standing rheumatism cured, with X ray examination offered free to patients.
In Polly's studio I confront a tense scene with Mr Peters as a visit from Horton's museum turns sour. Polly denies plans with Peters while probing my confidences about a woman I dated Tuesday night.
In a tense social scene Polly flirts with Peters while the narrator schemes to provoke jealousy. A sharp twist reveals the other girl mirrors Polly, leading to a startled realization that the narrator’s claim of innocence hides a surprising connection.
A tense exchange unfolds as Polly accuses the speaker of deception about a brief appearance with Miss Stanton. The speaker admits to deceit and jokes about punishment while insisting on visiting the curses, and Polly demands to be taken along, refusing to go herself.
An English resident in New York praises the American education system for girls while criticizing its rapid shift from United States geography to England, Scotland, and Ireland. He notes six months on US states versus one week on Great Britain, lamenting the Americanization of his children.
The famine camps across India are depicted as brutal sites where thousands of emaciated workers dig and haul earth for embankments. Laborers earn mere pennies daily while a baboo middleman skimps 20 percent of wages, and overseers brutalize the exhausted workforce.
A traveler from New York to Chicago told a Chicago News tale aboard a St Paul bound train. He claimed a rushed romance with a staying-looking girl leading to marriage plans and 320 love letters. She later married someone else, and he presented a $1000 check as settlement. He offered a cigar to aboarders.
Ivory today stands out as the most distinguished material for brushes, combs, powder boxes, and hand mirrors. For collectors, invest gradually in fine ivory pieces rather than silver. High quality ivory value rises yearly as central African ivory elephants dwindle, making ivory toilet articles highly sought and collectible.
A playful exchange quotes a colonel asking what to drink after whisky and noting concerns over whisky supply, with a humorous World Magazine tone about rationing and appetite for spirits.
Moorehead Kansas features a cooperative complex including a hotel laundry hall and creamery with a canning factory and a dining hall. Nearby are several cooperative farms supporting the town’s collective enterprises.
In Woolwich Arsenal sketches W J Gordon describes gun manufacturing. Early stages show long slender forms before wire wrapping and hoops of steel disguise the build. The process uses a high tension wire jacket, rotating lathes, and swelling steel rings to grip as cooling water maintains temper. The result, a heavily encased gun, takes longer to make than the ship that carries it.
Princess Viktoria Luise, five, daughter of the German emperor and empress, hosted a casual five o clock tea for her young guests after a mountain visit. Chocolate served, small portraits given as souvenirs, and the hostess charmingly distributed treats. The child, beloved by family, runs to her father each morning with new verses and learns languages.
A tale from Maryland reports that Lloyd Lowndes and Richard Lowndes, twin sons of Governor Lowndes, travelled in Ohio a year ago. A chance encounter led Lloyd to marry Miss May Quinn after Richard, mistaken for Lloyd, introduced him to her. Richard later revealed the truth, causing confusion but no break in the marriage.
Mrs. Dormy worries about smoke while a reader enumerates cigar contents. Acetic and propionic acids, creosote, phenol, nitro compounds, and nicotine are listed as dangers. Mr. Dormy jokes that you can buy all that for a nickel in Life magazine.
Northwestern inventors were issued several patents last week including John Chial of Lake Park Minnesota for a straw stacker John K Christy of Minneapolis for a shaft tag David H Houston of Hunter North Dakota for a magazine camera Mike M Jerdee of Dawson Minnesota for a harrow tooth Chauncey K Richardson of Duluth Minnesota for a seal lock Werbrand O Simle of Manuel North Dakota for a bill coupling and George Wetherby of Duluth Minnesota for an apparatus for boring and disintegrating earthy matter Merwin Lothrop and Johnson patent attorneys 011 912 Pioneer Press Bidg St Paul
In a Chicago News excerpt a west-bound train passes an animated platform. A boy named Frankie, asked by a stately woman what he sees, exclaims he sees the Chicago platform but cannot spot Bryan. The moment captures a child’s hopeful perspective on travel and reunion.
A Toledo patent medicine advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only positive cure for catarrh, claiming it cures constitutional disease by acting on blood and mucous membranes. The notice offers a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure and invites testimonials.
Paris motorists and motorcyclists now race with open exhausts creating loud blasts that rival switch engines. Beconnais on a tricycle reportedly hit fifty miles per hour in central Paris, frightening a cab horse which bolted and injured the carriage driver or cabman.
George Q. Cannon shows active interest in irrigation as he attends Far West congresses. A drowsy delegate claims artesian wells always bring water unless they strike rock, a point Cannon challenges by asking how to account for Moses’ success. Some people are charitable only when their deeds are public.
A gentleman on a road near a railway asked a group of insanses where the railway goes. The lunatic answered that it does not go anywhere and is kept there to run trains.
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