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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1902
Page
3
A Chicago News excerpt features Young Softleigh asking if anyone objects to cigarette smoke and preparing to light a cigarette offered by undertakers while Miss Cutting responds that no gentleman ever smoked in her presence.
The new revision of the Bible completes an update while preserving meaning. Many readers will continue favoring the original text. Also, many users of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters share strong loyalty to the remedy for sick headache nervousness indigestion dyspepsia and liver and kidney troubles.
A literary writer reports Roosevelt always carries Plutarch Thucydides and Herodotus. A New York publisher notes the president keeps a pocket volume of Plutarch. Another source says a federal employee supplied more, mentioning Herodotus. The anecdote appears in the New York Times summary.
Brooklyn readers hear of Garfield Tea the Herb Cure praised for health benefits. The remedy uses herbs to remove disease causes, purify blood, and cleanse the system, claiming universal appeal for all ages.
A St. Louis investor sought a Texas oil well at 15 000 dollars but balked. a selling official proposed a deal at 10 cents per barrel for 30 days, yielding 10 000 barrels daily and a total cost of 30 000 dollars, as reported by the New York Times.
Paris Cable reports plans for a seven storied tower at St Cloud built entirely of Sevres porcelain atop the old wartime site of the Diogenes Lantern. Seventy designs are done, height forty five meters, diameter eight. Seven stores linked by double spiral staircase, exterior polychrome in turquoise emerald coral brown pink with white. Thirty thousand pieces require 100 furnaces.
Classified note lists Dr J H Rindlaub as a specialist in eye ear nose and throat in Fargo North Dakota. The item repeats the name and location with no additional context or dates. A quoted San Francisco Bulletin line about salt and pepper appears as unrelated filler.
North Dakota items report New Rockford cigar factory, Lisbon light plant request, Langdon wheat shipments, Casselton accident, Jamestown mumps impact, and statewide notes on smallpox, flax issues, school enrollments, and infrastructure. Mentions edgeley settlement, Park River Sunday closing, Bowdon bank dividend, and local politics with Miner seeking re election.
A violent earthquake devastates Guerrero with an estimated 300 fatalities and widespread damage in Chilpancingo and surrounding towns. Relief troops join rescue efforts. telegraph lines fail, and churches, mills, and homes collapse while survivors camp in tents. Mexico City reports strong shaking and 55 second duration.
Bird 8S of Color of New York spoke at the Good Government club in Ann Arbor on municipal administration. He argued honesty alone does not qualify a public official, noting that a holder of office must combine honesty with ability for effective governance.
Henry Boyd colored was hanged in Upper Marlboro Maryland for the murder of Martha Owen his sweetheart. He confessed cutting her throat on the night of August 6 1901 and requested an early execution to leave the world before the crowd arrived.
In Louisville on January 19, experts pegged the former city treasurer Stuart R. Youngs shortage at $40,250 after examining the treasurer’s books. Youngs died by his own hand in November after reports of the shortage appeared in a newspaper.
Springfield Illinois January 19 Gov Yates declined to honor a North Dakota requisition to extradite John Stover now held in Chicago and sought in North Dakota on charges of obtaining money by false pretenses. Requisition papers were improperly drawn. Stover reportedly traveled in North Dakota and is accused of taking multiple sums for school charts not delivered.
A humorous note on marriage timing from Mrs Grundy and a statistical breakdown of ideal ages for bride and groom, listing typical pairings such as bachelor with spinster and widower with widow. A New York Times quip adds that courting Russell Sage may lead to frost-bitten fortunes and fur-lined overcoats.
In Brooklyn Eagle dialogue, Susie Robinson jokes that wearing her big sister Mamie Brown’s coat feels like wearing an automobile coat because she is so short. The witty exchange highlights playful sibling banter about clothing fit.
A St. Paul man has solved the problem of a simple and successful perforating device for job presses. The Kane Perforating Co. of St. Paul, Minnesota, will place the article on the market.
In a fragment from the Philadelphia Press a character questions the so called copper company. Dialogue hints at a policeman's union being discussed and debated within a household.
A youthful candidate, after college, says he will study medicine. When told the field is crowded, he replies that he will pursue medicine anyway, trusting those already in the profession will have to take their chances.
Readable snippets offer old time remedies and aphorisms. Advertising blurbs mention FITS Berrass Rest day Kiinete Great Nerve Restor and Hamlin's Wizard Oil, with street address hints in Philadelphia and general moral reflections on fashion and self control.
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