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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1903
Page
2
The note fills a satirical roundup with brief jests about obituaries, business, politics, and culture. It hints at Boston coal dealer riots, Morgan and Sage jests, a quip about the Monroe doctrine in Venezuela, and a Baltimore man jailed for self-burial mischief.
The King of Portugal visited the Duke of Marlborough, a rare honor not shared by other dukes. The remark about American money in the family hints at the reason for such distinctions. Tales about Thomas B. Reed and his predecessors in the speaker’s chair echo in the careers of Reed’s successors.
The Thai prince wears American garments and plans to apply to the courts to adopt an Americanized name, an action expected to yield further public appeal and clearer identity abroad.
James J. Hill warns of hard times and signals a desire to purchase blocks of stock at lower prices than current levels, suggesting a strategy to acquire stakes as markets weaken. The remarks imply a readiness to invest during downturns, reflecting Hill’s consideration of strategic purchases amid volatility.
A coterie led by Mrs. Richard Henry Savage protests for women only street cars. They argue the measure would be unpopular with the average lady, likening it to a manless dance in social terms.
The piece notes a three year renewal of the Cornell Columbia debate plan with much skepticism about public reception. It grouses at length about audience endurance and mocks revivalist zeal, while weaving in quips about intellect and college life. It also references European prospects for American women seeking titled husbands and hints at radical political plans affecting France.
Montreal physicians report another electricity cure for consumption, marking the fifty-seventh such claim in six months. The piece questions why people continue to die from the disease despite frequent supposed cures.
A collapsed market panic appears narrowly averted as financiers pool fifty million dollars to calm Wall Street. Analysts say the move aims to steady confidence, limit withdrawals, and prevent further declines despite persistent uncertainty.
France presses claim against Peru while the United States seeks collection from Korea. The text advocates creating an international debt collection agency linked to the Hague tribunal to handle such disputes.
A garbled notice reports Andrew Carpogie's infant daughter being honored with a household gift. The readable text confirms a ceremonial acknowledgment but is incomplete on names and dates.
London Ont Jan 12 The McClary Manufacturing plant in London was destroyed by fire Friday night a boy dropping a burning match into a vat of fluid caused a sheet of flame. About 500 workers were in the building when the blaze broke out causing a frantic scramble to the street. Firemen could not curb the flames. loss estimated at 300000 dollars with no serious injuries reported.
The president nominates Ray mond R. Frazier of Wisconsin for consul at Copenhagen. Other notes include rising per capita money supply to 30 dollars, Eastman to be moved from Crow Creek reservation, and a treasury ruling taxing Pacific shore ends of the Commercial Cable. The state department confirms a declined indemnity installment on the silver basis, a sinister sign. War plans include a 485000 dollar cable to Alaska headquarters, and a salmon closure in Southeast Alaska until July 1 to protect the fishing industry. Long list of other items covers naval postings, retirement due to wounds, a resignation by Felix Hugg, population centers for the Great Lakes training school, and various European and Asian financial and political developments.
A warehouse belonging to Franklin McVeagh & Co. in Chicago suffered about 150000 in damage with insurance coverage. George H. Trumbell, 35, a superintendent at a Yadkin County North Carolina gold mine, was killed when a hoist overturned. His Milwaukee home is left with a grieving family. Fire at Mundell's store in Wapella, N W T destroyed the shop and several adjacent buildings including Pease bank Lodge butcher shop Winning clothing and Pritchard drug store and Jubilee hall. Mundell’s hotel severely gutted with total losses around 15000.
The wife of Missouri Governor Dockery dies. Charles Childs, Nebraska pioneer, died in Omaha at eighty seven after building the state’s first sawmill forty seven years ago. E J Baldwin, San Francisco financier, seeks cancer treatment under the name E Jackson. physician says case is not serious. Isaac B George, eighty four, Baltimore financier and former Traders National Bank president, dies at home. Gen Ferdinand P Earle dies at Jumel mansion New York after long illness. once hotel owner of Normandie and Netherlands. Dr E G Franklin appointed chair of organic chemistry at Stanford University replacing late G W Richardson. Franklin previously Kansas professor of physical chemistry.
Torrential rains cause extensive floods in central Belgium. Reports flag Bishop Gulstan E Ropert dead in Honolulu. Crown princess Austria reconciliation rumored. Belgian minister Joostens secures colony concession near Hankan. May Yohe settles estate claim with $45,000. Capt Carstairs in London lamenting divorce. Mentz and Butler held for trial in Puerto Rico. Swine compliment reaches American troops in Mindanao amid Moro clashes.
Fort Sheridan prisoners escaped after beating a sentry, later recaptured twelve miles away. In San Francisco, Thomas Williams faced trial for shooting Editor Mariott, threatening with revolver and dagger in self defense. George Worthington killed his brother over a poker quarrel in Shawner Ohio and fled. Mississippi lynchings for 1902 totaled fourteen, two by Black perpetrators. A Dunker church fight in Indiana involved Frank Cripe. I N Ebbs, ex senator from North Carolina, was arrested for forgery in Mississippi and taken to Greensboro. Miss Alldredge freed two murder suspects in Oneonta, Alabama. Levi Eicher and wife, orphans of Springfield Township, Pa., were tortured for money with a lamp and burned feet.
Trials and topics sweep this item: Mac Donough hits 28.56 knots on her trial run while a Detroit woman robs a coal firm with a revolver and buys anthracite. Colorado & Southern chief resigns as gas well yields 14 million feet daily. Combebank crew suffer yellow fever deaths aboard ship from Panama. Pressed Steel Car to sell discounted stock to employees. Typographical union to meet in Washington in August. Park urges boiled water to kill typhoid germs. Arizona and New Mexico statehood proposal for one state with Santa Fe capital. Holland torpedo boat Pike to launch January 14 at San Francisco. Southern Pacific raises wages 6 to 10 percent for Oregon crews. Dawson gold rush accelerates in Forty-Mile district. Kenna’s Workingmen’s Exchange records big saloon sales. A lawsuit over breach of promise in New York. Estelle Hoffman sues for damages. Topsy the elephant executed at Coney Island. Connecticut tobacco crop underperforms due to open-air farming. First coal handled by American Express in Manchester New Hampshire. Pottsville steel plant to push four furnaces toward 160000 ton yearly capacity.
Berlin reports say Ambassador von Holleben was not recalled but requested a long leave after his government expressed dissatisfaction with his work and morale. Speck von Sternburg will act as chargé d’affaires until a future appointment as ambassador, while von Holleben stays as consul general in Calcutta.
London reports from Tangier say Fez faces a critical crisis as rebel forces near the capital. The sultan orders the arrest of his popular brother Muley Mohammed, made chief of the army after release, provoking mass support for the brother and grave implications for the sultan's hold on Fez.
Victoria January 12 Copies of interviews with Wu Ting-fang ex minister to the United States were received here. He says Chinese exclusion laws harm both America and China and that enforcement is left to customs officers rather than the legislature. He condemns applying the law to Hawaii and the Philippines as ridiculous given local circumstances.
In Sidney Nebraska January 12 hundred coal supplies are exhausted and no supplies are available. The Union Pacific railroad may seek militia protection against a potential mob attacking coal in its yards. Dealers have no coal on hand and no word from headquarters on delivery. Residents are determined to obtain coal despite weather and shortages.
In Washington on January 12 Mgr. Falconio the apostolic delegate to the United States was presented to President Roosevelt by Rev Dr J Z Rooker of the papal legation. The audience was brief with a cordial greeting and light chat.
An army of over a thousand unemployed persons marched through central London and the West End, accompanied by a small force of mounted and unmounted police. The event proceeded without any disorder or incident.
A gas explosion in the rooms of eight Oatka Hose company at Leroy damaged the post office and the Lampoon house block, property tied to the university. Loss estimated at $75,000. The incident occurred in Rochester, New York on January 12.
A coal famine grips Marshall and neighboring towns in Missouri with families burning fruit and shade trees for heat. Cut wood sells for eight dollars per cord and remains scarce.
The town of Webster in Cassells county Colorado was totally burned after a passing locomotive started a fire at the Webster hotel. Flames spread to barns and outbuildings as a strong wind fanned the blaze.
Mazatlan Mex Jan 12 Thirty seven people are in lazarettos and six deaths occurred yesterday including an entire family wiped out by the plague. Many residents flee to nearby islands while authorities plan city disinfection and burning of contaminated houses. Americans depart and some are placed in observation.
Washington reports Dr. Salmon head of the bureau of animal industry, directing the campaign against the foot and mouth disease in Boston, believes the epidemic will be stamped out this winter unless spread elsewhere. Two herds remain, the largest to be killed today, with government methods endorsed by the Massachusetts Stock Breeders Association at Worcester. Milk-disinfection complaints rise as barns housing milk cattle will be disinfected to reduce odor.
Mrs Ellen Johnston died at St Louis city hospital from morphine taken at a card party the previous evening. She, at Cornelius Duggan’s home, told hosts she would die that night and continued playing until she collapsed. Authorities note multiple prior suicide attempts amid domestic troubles.
Dr. L F Flick announced Henry Phipps of New York, once Carnegie’s partner, contributed 300000 dollars to establish a Philadelphia center for the study and treatment of consumption. The Henry Phipps Institute will test the Finsen treatment using sunlight and electric light to eradicate tuberculosis in the United States.
Alfred Chasseau of New York has been named United States commissioner to the international engineering hardware machinery and allied trades exposition at the Crystal Palace London opening next March. The move aims to give American firms a new avenue to showcase specialties to English and colonial markets.
St. Louis January 12. A Vandalia engine drawing the outbound express for Indianapolis jumped the track at the tunnel mouth yesterday. The fireman was killed and the engineer seriously injured.
James L M Wilson, a Dallas born poolroom proprietor in Fort Worth, was killed by two highwaymen who waylaid him and fired five shots. The robbers escaped with 600 dollars in cash a diamond and other valuables. The crime occurred on January 12. Reward or suspect details were not released.
Report from Manus Jan indicates the American garrison at Ormick Island Leyte suffered a cholera outbreak. Nine men from Company B Eleventh Infantry contracted the disease with five deaths. The post ordered quarantine across multiple island areas.
Col George A Price, then brooklyn civil service commissioner, recounted examining an applicant’s file. The certifier, asked if the applicant used intoxicants and to what extent, wrote that the applicant had eight to ten years of drinking history, claiming he always took a drink when asked but had never bought a drink more than twice in that period.
A compact antiquated excerpt notes troubles arrive in pairs and mocks self justifications. It ponders that if people face tight spots they would fall through, reflecting on human size and reason in hardship.
A Dolittle Indiana item touts Dodd's Kidney Pills as up to date in medical science. It cites cures for kidney and bladder troubles with testimonials from locals like W. A. Terry the grocer who reports improvement by the second day. The piece references broader claims of cures echoed by the Philadelphia Ledger about Borrowell.
An advertisement fragment urges use of Allen's Foot-Ease powder for uncomfortable cold damp feet and sweating. It promotes Allen's Foot-Massé with 26 cents price, free samples, and mail order to LeRoy New York. Also mentions medical concerns and a short, unclear note from Van Buren Indiana dated February 1900.
Northwestern inventors receive weekly patent grants including Frank Boelk of Waltham Minn for an inserter and remover, William Jaco of Minneapolis Minn for a fish cleaning device, Horace Lathrop of Long Lake Minn for a kitchen cabinet device, George Leeson of Lake City Minn for a drive well point and strainer, Martin Malen of Osakis Minn for a wrench, and Harry Menzie of Minneapolis Minn for a lantern. Patent attorneys Lothrop and Johnson located at Pioneer Press Building St Paul Minn assisted.
Mrs C Mason of Black River Falls Wisconsin endorses Cole's Cough Cure as best for her children's severe croup attacks. The bottle is guaranteed and sold by all druggists at 25 and 60 cents.
A witty quip from the New York Times laments rising costs during Christmas bygones, noting that absence once sparked longing but now requires costly gifts. The fragment reflects nostalgia for affordable holidays and remarks on escalating prices.
J Frank J Cheney senior partner of F J Cheney & Co sworn in Toledo Ohio that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for any catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary public date December 6 18384. Hall's Cure taken internally acts on blood and mucous surfaces. Send for testimonials. Sold by druggists 73c Ball's Bonite claim.
A theatrical manager presses a weary actor to choose a role for the season. The actor agrees to take a small part, arguing a minor role is better than continued idleness. Cassel's Journal notes the exchange as a light theater anecdote.
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