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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1908
Page
1
North Dakota public replies to the statewide primary law show mixed views as voters adjust to the new system. Local reports describe a mix of weather, agricultural challenges, political optimism, and various community anecdotes from Clark to Bowbells and Dickinson.
A fragment from the Kansas City Star recalls an English admiral's wit and a tale of a ship’s chart misinterpretation. It notes the lone oil portrait of Daniel Boone by Chester Harding, painted in 1820 in Missouri, Boone resting while James Ek Welch watched, and the portrait now in the Kentucky state capitol.
The London Globe notes a legend that the slowworm can break into pieces and have each part survive. In truth the creature is timid and when captured it tightens its muscles into a rigid state, likely snapping, with only the upper portions surviving the ordeal.
During a trial for assault in Melbourne a rail ax handle knife shotgun were shown as instruments used. The assaulted man defended with scythe revolver pitchfork chisel hand saw and a dog. The jury said they would have paid a sovereign each to see the fight.
A humorous captioned exchange between a missionary and a cannibal imagines a merciful end, with the missionary requesting a quick lunch rather than a drawn out dinner. The quip showcases dark humor presented in a period newspaper voice.
A fragment from a Kansas City Newsbook features Cassidy and Casey in a playful exchange. Cassidy cites Shakespeare while Casey offers a garbled reply about liking and showing. The text blends dialect and quotation marks in a humorously murky exchange.
The tenor says meat is bad for song, opting for a cheese omelet with asparagus fruit and a drink. He argues meat dulls singing citing birds like thrush and lark as grain eaters and notes England’s meat culture harms voices while vegetarian countries like Italy boast fine singers.
The report recounts a water scarcity incident where three Afghans were murdered in Western Australia. A man shot them after they washed in a road hole near a selector’s homestead. At a later trial the jury unanimously acquitted him.
The would be author confesses need for a gardener as a country house has a large plot. Critlick teases that he could never manage such a plot, highlighting the comic clash over horticulture.
A London Globe note says the editor plans a story titled The Prettiest Girl In the Town. About a hundred young women sent postcards warning against using their real names.
In a brief exchange, Kwater cites brevity as wit’s soul while an observer counters that concision is commendable but not universal. The Philadelphia Press notes the exchange as a study in economical rhetoric.
A brief verse argues that doubling ten yields twenty and doubling eleven yields twenty two with a pun. It notes strength in danger from weakness and cites Rossetti.
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