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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1901
Page
7
A historical booster urges health over baseball spending, promoting Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a simple, effective remedy. The ad claims the tonic strengthens the stomach aids digestion and cures dyspepsia constipation biliousness and weak kidneys, asserting health is worth more than millions spent on sport.
A French innkeeper known as Jeanne Volante allegedly married eight men in eight towns without divorce. The disappearance of her husbands drew police attention after she fled with a new 18 year old boarder from Clichy. Authorities hope to uncover a broader series of crimes. In Goodland Kansas, N E Albertson recovered from rheumatism using Dodd's Kidney Pills, which he credits for relief and calls a near miracle.
A fragment from Harper's Bazar and a Chicago Tribune joke section note a wary romance over money and life insurance. Clarence Bainbridge proclaims love, the beloved questions belief, and the scene ends with uncertainty about a formal life policy.
An old reader extols Western Canada for bumper grain and thriving stock plus rich game. The region promises comfortable farming life, plentiful shooting, deer and wapiti, water fowl, and accessible farms with markets for butter and eggs. A note mentions agents for settlement details in government ads elsewhere.
George Hartwell stainless mislaid his marriage proposal to Miss Helen Martindale. After rehearsing on paper and in person, his diffidence thwarted him. He buys two phonographs to record a proposal and plans to deliver cylinders, hoping the talking machine will speak his heart.
A man plans a romantic coded proposal via a phonograph. He records a verse of devotion, but the device delivers a flirtatious song about beware deception with women. The woman reacts with shock, revealing the miscue and a missing phonograph links to a brother Fred at a smoker event.
The Canadian Marine department finished a tidal survey of the St. Lawrence estuary from Quebec to Point de Monts. Eight self recording tidal instruments collected day and night data on tide height and time, showing rise from five feet at the estuary mouth to eighteen feet at Quebec. Plans extend the work to the Pacific coast with tide tables for Victoria and the Gulf of Georgia.
Portraits of William M. Evarts and Dr. Barnas Sears, key figures in the Peabody fund, were presented to the University of Nashville. Former Governor Porter donated the Sears portrait, and Dr. J. M. Curry, the fund’s agent, gifted the Evarts portrait. Dark silk waists noted as apt for early spring.
Miss Lucy Annie Heiser a nine year nurse who trained at the Homeopathic Hospital of Minneapolis writes from Albert Lea Minnesota November 8 1899 endorsing Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio. She relates cures including an inflamed womb and constitutional headache and urges readers especially nervous and tired women to try Peruna as a tonic and to write Dr Hartman for free advice.
A collage of carnival quips and light verse from exchanges and authors. The item includes a Judge quote about visits to a disliked person, an ad for Allen's Foot-Ease promising shoe comfort, Hamlin's Wizard Oil promotional line, a sleighing quip, and two literary maxims by George Eliot and Gleim.
A London audience at the Imperial Institute enjoyed Mr T H Wardle’s recounting of Jamaican Negro proverbs. The sayings include Cockroaches invite chickens, the alligator not Bib mouth until across the river, and one thief not liking another with a long bag. The London News noted the wit and charm of the presentation.
An old advertisement offers a sample treatment for Pile and Fistula Cure and a book about causes and cures sent free to any address for four cents in stamps from Rea Bros. & Co. Minneapolis. The rest is a clipped exchange noting a death column omission and a drinker quitting.
The eminent boxer dismisses a planned duel by saying it will not be run under any athletic club and no gate money will be collected. His remarks came as his entourage pressed for clarity on the controversial event.
An old newspaper fragment presents an internal remedy claim for Hall's Catarrh Cure with a 75 cent price and a humor strip about a microbe cut in for today’s issue. It includes a Harper's Bazar quote on bacilli of cholera and a testimonial for Piso's Cure, plus a brief social exchange about silk stockings and rainy day savings.
A Chicago Chronicle excerpt recalls Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s chronic debt. He joked about paying on Judgment Day, then postponed it again. The item also advertises Oklahoma land openings and Morgan's Perry, U T manual with maps and proclamations for sale.
A witty exchange features Mr Smart denying belief in hypnotism in front of Prof Stunner, described as a Svengali. The professor retorts that the exception proves the rule and that those without brains cannot be hypnotized.
A fragmented historical notice mentions a colonel praising Adams Tutt Frutt as a blessing to marching troops. It cites a 1697 license by New York’s common council for the first night watchman, a theological warning about defending faith, and an 19th century cure-all advertisement offering a free trial bottle of Dr King’s nerve restorer.
A settlement worker recalls a mother bringing her child to the East Side for kindergarten. The rule demands a clean appearance, so the teacher suggests a bath. The mother replies she has "sewed him up for the winter," highlighting hardship and humor in this urban tale.
Saint Paul newspaper item lists Northwestern inventors and their devices including Andrew M Carlson of St Paul with an animal trap August Haraldson of Center City with a windmill Richard Magnuson of St Paul with a track gauge William F Mullaney of Marshall with a valve William D Olney of Stillwater with a bed John F Sanderson of Minneapolis with an elevator Nels Levenson of Minneapolis with a mop head Jethrop and Johnewen patent attorneys located in Pioneer Press Building St Paul Minnesota
A stylish young Athens woman learns her parents are poorer than she thought and decides to work. She opens a large Stadion street barber shop, advertises in local papers, and on opening day draws crowded male patrons seeking shaves and haircuts. Her skill promises repeat business.
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