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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1901
Page
2
A string of standalone notes cites wedding rings happiness and misery, travel by indolence, voting motives, a Denver city hall vendor, Boni de Castellano on rich Americans, 1793 to last year cotton crop data, waste from sampling, golfing praise, and a Carchemish tablet showing a pastime resembling golf.
Distinguished Greek consuls from western cities and hundreds of Greeks in eastern seaports gathered over two weeks to honor the Navarchos Miaulis, the first Greek warship to visit American waters, signaling Greece’s appreciation for U.S. friendship.
A French village near Privas saw a butcher accept a wager to enter a cage with three lions, drink champagne, and play cards with the tamer. As he prepared to leave, he offered a glass of champagne to a lion, which then leaped and mauled him severely before rescuers freed him.
In Belleville Paris, Valles, a lodging house proprietor, died. He never pressed tenants or forced sales for rent and even gave funds to cover removals. In his will he ordered rebates for tenants a term. Tenants placed a large wreath on his grave. The piece then notes Albion Tourgee’s remark on American longevity and contrasts European political development.
A discussion on how thorough planning and attractive presentation boost sales. Australian butter packing uses window glass plates sealed with gummed paper plaster layers and waterproof wrap. Attention to detail aids dealer profits and consumer health, while careless practices harmed a once-promising cheese export trade.
Japan plans a new military decoration akin to the Victoria Cross to honor personal valor on the battlefield with possible immediate conferment. Concurrent praise comes from nurses of the Japan Red Cross aboard the hospital ship Hakuai at Taku, bearing postical names such as O Tak San Ume san O Hagi san and O Yasu gan.
The present U S army of 100000 officers and men has about 83000 deployed abroad with most serving in the Philippines leaving roughly 17000 stationed in the United States.
The Navy reports annual running costs: Annapolis $485,627.50 for the Naval Academy, Newport $15,522.05 for the Naval War College, Newport $95,484.20 for the Naval Training Station, and San Francisco $10,511.92 for the Npyval Training Station.
Savanah Walston of Tunis on Bayou Sarah Brazos is hailed for saving her baby sister from alligators in their mother's cottage. She retrieves her brother's rifle, loads it, and shoots one alligator striking its eye, ending the threat.
In a Texas cottage scene Miss Savanah Walston awoke as two enormous alligators prowled through a yard and parlor. She fired shots behind the forelegs of one, then killed the pair with a hot shot through the backbones, saving her family and becoming a local legend with a celebratory ball.
A Pearson's Magazine article recounts how New York City owned shares in a slave ship, financed fittings, and profited from voyages. It notes 1750 as a peak where slaves formed a sixth of New York's population, with widespread slave trade in London and major ship exports to Africa.
Mr. William McDonough, keeper at Yellow Island near Vancouver, acquires rifles, shotguns, ammunition and dynamite in town. He says weapons are for self defense against birds that haunt the light tower, not for harming natives, and cites nightly screams and costly broken panes as reasons for the stock.
A bale of cotton is described as a baleful blessing, suggesting mixed outcomes from its presence or use and reflecting tension between utility and danger in the era’s economy.
A quotation from W. E. Channing extols self culture as a noble and fearful endowment. It emphasizes that humans can search within and actively shape their abilities, guide passions, and apply means to foster growth, highlighting responsibility and agency.
London Letter notes Sir Thomas Lipton's pork corner in Chicago boosting his popularity in England. The precise operations are unclear, yet he is seen rivaling Chicago speculators in business shrewdness and calm judgment. His reputation also rivals his New York yacht sailing honors.
Lucy Alston faces the last party night as Horace Sturdivant woos her with charm while warning bells sound about his poverty and her aunt’s looming wealth. A terrace moment ends in a passionate kiss as Lucy learns the social peril of love with no fortune. Mrs Poindexter plans to keep Lucy within a growing estate, securing her future.
Camillie Flammarion describes shooting stars as small iron and carbon bodies weighing a few pounds that travel in swarms and orbit the sun like comets. They enter the earth's vicinity at high speeds, heat up to 3000 C, and burst into flame as friction lights them across the atmosphere.
The Minnesota and Kansas penitentiary twine plants win praise from unions and farmers for cutting costs and challenging a trust. The New York Post notes the system solves convict labor issues, but plants aren’t large enough to meet demand.
President Loubet opened the hunting season at Rambouillet as France issues nearly half a million permits. In earlier times farmers faced death for rabbit killing, a privilege once reserved to a small elite that left crops vulnerable at night.
A Louisville correspondent to the Constitution recalls a tale of Mr. Lincoln stopping at an uncle's house before his presidency. It describes a cold morning with Lincoln teaching a negro servant to make a fire and then warming by the one he built, saying he would fix the new one.
When kept young the hedgehog may be fully tamed and friendly. It can be handled and may associate with dogs and cats on terms of perfect concord.
A described testimonial promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for women's illnesses. It recounts Mrs Joux Williams of Englishtown New Jersey cured after following Pinkham's guidance. The piece urges readers to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for free advice.
A wife questions her husband about mailing a letter while he insists he did. The tale ends with her noting four jokes about husbands carrying wives letters around, and he denies the implication. Published in the Denver News.
Advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder by Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York offers a free sample. It claims to cure sweating damp swollen and aching feet and makes new or tight shoes feel easier. Also advertised as a cure for corns and bunions sold by druggists and shoe stores at 25 cents.
In a cheeky exchange, a boy notes his father replaced the sign from drug store to pharmacy. The mother jokes that the move aims to boost his political appeal and win former voters. The playful anecdote appears in the Chicago Times Herald column Foresight.
The Denver News notes a sharp exchange after a wedding where the bride is described as three times widowed. The groom contemplates drastic action or life insurance, reflecting a tense moment between the couple and onlookers.
A gossip column note describes a theatre scene at the stage door where Denver jokes with a governor and a soubrette, remarking on his progress as they switch through a playful exchange about being three men back.
Bess reports Maud Goody kissed a man at the Jones lawn party. Jack confirms the tale saying he heard it directly from Maud.
Each package of Putnam Face Less Dye colors more goods than any other dye and colors them better. The claim emphasizes broader performance and superior results for shoppers choosing this product.
Mrs. Northside asks about a ring as a prize fighters battle. Mr. Northside responds that it is an engagement ring. The exchange reads as a humorous domestic aside in Chicago.
In the Indianapolis Journal fragment a newly married couple is unnamed but humorously nicknamed Birdie and Birdle by neighbors while awaiting privacy. The exchange hints at curiosity and playful shorthand during early postnuptial privacy.
A London Telegraph quip recounts Viscount Hampden explaining he has only a few trees at his Wisbech seat and fears inviting Mr Gladstone there. The remark ties to the newly elected Wisbech member of Cambridge shire.
A fragmented dialogue fragment shows Mistress Bridget scolding Bridget for inviting company and blaming a small kitchen thrifthood. The exchange highlights petty household tensions with implied social norms and provincial speech.
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