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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1911
Page
4
An excerpt from Leon Modern in New York World reflects on Persian executions and the brutality of beheading. It notes a method involving a sack lowered down a mosque tower and a remaining mystery about the contents. The writer mentions a widow’s fate and questions whether guilt rests with both parties.
Readable fragments recounting the cocoanut’s global spread, a Cambridge tale of a prideful fellow, Turks at a French banquet, and a witty exchange from Flora and Jenks. The items mix natural history with light humor and social scenes.
An anecdote from Francis E. Leupp describes an Indian prank where a man tore down neighbor cabins, hauled the logs to the agency for standard pay, leaving owners stunned then laughing. The tale underscores a sharper Indian sense of humor compared with the Caucasian view.
The London Chronicle notes that many odd surnames have origins unrelated to their current associations. Examples include Hogg from Roger and Cockles from Cock Hill, with fish names like Cod, Chubb, Salmon, Trout, and Turbot deriving from non-fish roots.
A father scolds his son about rising late and chasing wealth. The son jokes about the worm waking early, revealing the worm stayed out all night. The father explains the worm’s early journey home, and the lesson on discipline lands with humor. A second quip about wealth follows, hinting wealth does not buy happiness.
An Irish editor, unable to obtain enough news for his daily paper, announced that due to unusual pressure of matter he was obliged to leave several columns blank today.
An uneven mix describes a Chopin funeral march tale with a skeleton and a prince, then shifts to a North Dakota court summons in Brymons District Court, Lynn v Retseker and Davidson Jr. The summons calls defendants to answer a complaint in Makata County official proceedings and includes legal serve instructions.
A farmer visits a village school and offers sixpence to any student who can name the moon’s weight the sea’s depth and his thoughts. Twin brothers Sam and Joe answer. Joe blurts a playful reply. The farmer learns he is speaking to Sam’s brother Joe.
January carried a grim Saxon name wolf monath as chronicled by Richard Verstegan and echoed in the London Chronicle. The notes reflect language on wolves amid cold, with accompanying quips about Browning and a playful diary fragment from Dobbleigh and Hawkins in a car mishap anecdote.
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