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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1905
Page
4
In Linton Emmons County a mix of local observations and fleeting items appears. The column mentions rice trade shifts, social comments on weddings and manners, toy safety questions, and regional rumors about Sioux labor, bandit events, and family advice with jokes and moral quips.
Mrs Chadwick’s art treasures were let at ridiculous figures. Mrs Chadwick herself is considerably de pecrated. Pavathications should quiet Ves vilis, or some American showman will have full eruption over here in a few weeks.
An unnamed German scientist demonstrates a treeless cookstove as part of ongoing food tech exploration. The piece notes ironic contrasts with “cookless meals” and wry commentary on progress, peace expectations, and public life. It also references editor Whitelaw Reid paying higher rent than salary and monarchic risk in Servia.
A Van Dyck has been sold for five francs, likely triggering a surge in the sale of old paintings at much higher prices, with many works worth thousands remaining unsold at the lower rate.
Doom Doolin Donlin Dahlen and Neviin are listed among National League players. The passage notes many readers cannot name the twelve apostles, yet still follow baseball details.
The government is constructing what is described as the biggest dam in America on the Salt River in Arizona, a river that has previously hosted several substantial dams.
A remark notes that the eye’s closing and opening are timed at 395000ths of a second, and asks how quickly intelligence can reach a soda fountain clerk.
A correspondent asks what kind of politician to trust. The answer signals cynicism by stating a blunt verdict that aligns with the satirical tone of the Dayton Sazette News. The second query about chicken for salad is answered with the same sharp phrasing: A dead one.
Cleveland humane society statistics claim husbands show more love and consideration in warm weather than in cold. The notice cheerfully hints at better times ahead for wives as the warmer season approaches.
Chicago police raided a matrimonial agency and seized forty five thousand love letters. Authorities suggest a publisher could profit from obtaining rights to compile a book from the letters.
Evangelists who began a revival in Wall Street recognize that the city’s slums are not the sole or most urgent front for religious outreach. They aim to broaden efforts to all districts in New York, addressing deeper urban needs.
A young Boston woman ends a relationship over a man not wearing a gold chain with his eyeglasses. She remains firm on her standards, noting that in Boston men are scarce and a woman must stand by her principles.
The Boston Transcript notes millinery workers are quietly organizing with plans to strike next fall when styles change, suggesting femininity helps keep the secret.
A once celebrated burglar and swindler known as Sheeny Mike died broke after a career of thefts and swindling, having once written a check for a quarter of a million but ending with nothing. The piece comments on parallels to similar people who crave more yet end in ruin.
A magazine article defines moderate wealth as an annual income from less than $2,000 to at most $10,000. The writer notes many people fall into this range and face straitened circumstances today.
Gen Evra A Carman is named by Secretary Taft to lead the Chickamauga Military Park Association succeeding the late Gen H V Woynton. A Loeb letter fixes Oct 24 and 25 for President Roosevelt’s New Orleans visit. Cherbourg cited as departure for Admiral John Paul Jones remains. Pension Warner conscience fund $1924 from a pensioner repaying Civil War pension money not earned or deserved.
The torpedo boat S 125 built at Schichau with turbine engines averaged 27.8 knots for three hours and reached 29.5 knots at top speed. Four sister piston engine boats averaged two knots slower. In Mexico Luther H. Jewell of Chicago was killed robbed and burned in the Magdalena district. a Mexican suspect confessed implicating four others and pointing to a funeral pyre.
Reports detail drownings in Torch Lake and a near burial of Miss Hollinser in Sterling Illinois. Include a Kokomo glass plant fire with $150,000 damages and 225 lost jobs, a Reading Railway fatality near Birdsboro, a baseball related death in Bassett Nebraska, and a fatal Erie train crash in Goshen New York. Also notes a large New York auto garage fire losses, a Burling ton Wisconsin ice house destroyed by lightning, a Chicago quarry fall, a Brooklyn fire displacing 90 families, and a Williamsburg block blaze injuring William Sheehan.
Across Tennessee New York Detroit Oklahoma and Indiana key figures face deadly violence and legal actions. A blacksmith shop in Thorn Hill yields three dead and one wounded. a Detroit hotel robbery with jewelry losses. a bank cashier arrested on illegal banking charges. a druggist killed in McGee Indiana with a jail statement for a doctor. Public executions and trials unfold in New York Saginaw and Omaha involving murder charges contempt and obscenity penalties.
Obituaries note Carl von Friesen, Swedish minister of education, and Archduke Joseph of Austria among the deceased. Reports describe suspected cholera cases in Tula, unseasonable weather in Silesia delaying crops, and a lethal incident aboard the Magnificent near Tetuan. Censorship orders suppress congress proceedings and a wheat famine news from Mexico highlights global turmoil.
A roundup of death notices and career moves includes John Crushin of Ottawa born 1779 dies in Marquette Michigan. Hon George E. Seney ex congressman from Ohio dies of heart failure. Abram W. Harris offered and accepting Northwestern University presidency. Des Moines College president D Osborn elected. Princeton marks 158th commencement with 287 graduates. Brunswick-Balker plans Grand Rapids plant over labor unrest. Joseph Coomes dies in Norfolk at 68. other items note whisky transfer from Paris Kentucky warehouse and Harris denial of Northwestern presidency.
Railroad employees killed and mangled in a disastrous collision. Orders were disregarded and all those responsible are dead.
In Baltimore on June 20 a Western Maryland railroad collision near Patapsco killed twenty five railroad employees and seriously mangled many more. The west bound No 5 passenger train collided with an eastbound freight at a sharp curve near the Patapsco bridge. Local residents aided by farmers rushed to assist as relief trains from Westminster and Baltimore transported the wounded and dead.
Gen Maximo Gomez known as the Washington of Cuba and El Caudillo dies at sunset in his Vedado home. President Estrada Palma and Gen Andrade arrived shortly before his death as family and friends witnessed the passing.
Fire at Johnston City Illinois wipes out five miles from Marion. The blaze consumed forty buildings including the business district. Without water the blaze was not controlled until Sunday, causing an estimated loss of $200,000.
In Pittsburg six people died and three were prostrated as continuous high temperatures gripped the area. Fire and medical officials warn the heat wave will continue, urging precautions such as staying indoors and hydrating.
Edward M. Kelley filed the first suit in a Duluth court seeking $50 for injuries to a fox terrier owned by Jim, naming A. H. Smith and G. A. Wood as defendants. In Canby a $15,000 business change saw P. Ferguson acquire the Bernick farm and William Bernick take over the implement business. A death from cerebrospinal meningitis was reported in Duluth as Charles Carlson died after a 36 hour illness. Three section men were struck by an engine and caboose on the Duluth Missabe and Northern line near Duluth. Peter Lund and John Olson lost limbs, Olaf Largon sustained severe injuries.
The piece argues that poor lighting harms vision and praises acetylene gas for its bright, steady, sunlike light. It claims acetylene is cheap to produce, easy to install, and adaptable to homes, churches, and schools, predicting fewer eye defects as its use grows.
A St Nicholas note describes ants farming aphids by tending them for honey dew. The ants move aphids to better feeding sites, ward off enemies, and even construct mud sheds in shrub crevices, earning ants the label of farmers and aphids their cows.
At the biennial convention in Portland Oregon the Order of Railway Conductors adopted resolutions opposing legislation that would cede rate setting to a commission. They endorsed President Roosevelt’s stance against secret rebates, urged against a single body to regulate rates, and argued that current low freight costs reflect efficient American railway management and would be undermined by new rules.
A playful exchange features Hojack and Tomdick musing on certainty and doubt with witty paradoxes reflecting a light literary aside. The dialogue centers on the paradox of a dead sure thing and the nature of doubt.
The United States has not recognized Norway's independence and awaits a European lead. Sweden sent a circular noting it does not recognize the separatist movement, seen as a protest against Norway's independence. Action likely waits for European steps after Norway demonstrates stability.
In Stockholm on June 18 the Social Democratic party organized demonstrations by factory hands and other workers, urging a peaceful settlement with Norway and unconditional acceptance of settled facts in Norway. About ten thousand trade unionists marched peacefully through the city.
J Bordeax head of the People s Home Purchasing company was arrested on a charge of conducting a business without a license and for failure to make required deposits with the state treasury. Depositors were promised homes on installment payments. A rigid investigation is under way and a receiver has been asked for on behalf of the patrols. The amount taken cannot be learned. A fraud order was issued against the concern by postal authorities in Washington.
In St Joseph Missouri on June 18 George W Stockton a farmer shot and killed Jack McGowan a laundry employee after McGowan took Stocktons thirteen year old daughter for a ride. Stockton confronted McGowan and after McGowan admitted the act Stockton shot saying he must preserve his self respect. McGowan who is twenty three and married died from the shooting.
Miss Mable Crummer, twenty, a Rollins Kansas school teacher, fell from Quartz hill cliff near Cripple Creek Colorado. Accompanied by her sister she climbed down to an overhanging rock. sister returned to find Crummer dead on the rocks below. Cause unknown, inquiry pending.
Samuel Greason, a colored man, was acquitted yesterday of the murder of John Edwards in Reading Pennsylvania. Mrs. Kate Edwards, wife of the slain man, testified to exonerate Greason after his earlier conviction was overturned. Edwards was murdered about four years ago, and Greason was arrested months later. his death war rant was issued ten times amid a highly notable case in the state.
Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal John F. Wallace left Panama to confer with Secretary Taft on canal matters and to arrange purchases. Large orders expected including 7,000,000 vitrified bricks and rock crushers and rollers for paving Panama.
Fire swept Front Street in Fort Francis Ontario destroying the main business section. The blaze started around 2 am and burned for hours leaving over $100,000 in losses with about half covered by insurance. No licensed hotel remains, and officials suspect incendiary origin.
Otis Botts twenty one years old was put to death in the county jail at Peoria for the murder of his wife on Jan 5. The trap was sprung at 9 08. Botts spent the night joking and telling lewd stories and invited everyone to attend his funeral. He strangled his wife by tying a hair ribbon around her neck on Jan 6.
Naples reports Mount Vesuius has entered a new active phase with a wider crater opening. Ejected burning material pours from the openings continually, signaling intensified volcanic activity around Vesuvius.
June 18. Through the explosion of a cask of oil at the National Tube company plant in McKeesport four men were fatally burned last night. The disaster occurred at the Pittsburgh suburb as workers carried out operations when the blast occurred. Fire departments battled the blaze and investigators began examining the cause.
Gen. Oku ponders a new pass named Guns hu as he repeatedly spells it G u n s h u. He muses that changing the third letter from n to m could allow a stealthy approach to surprise the Russians.
Mrs Minnie Drew of Roxbury Massachusetts reports cracked and peeling hands caused by water and heat left her unable to work. After trying two doctors she used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment and is now entirely well. Houston Post excerpt follows.
List of patents issued last week to Northwestern inventors reported by Lothrop and Johnson. Names include George Almond of Parker South Dakota for a car door, Alfred Andresen of Minneapolis for cake mixer, Richard Cudiby of St Paul for drain pipe eyeglasses, Wille Lindgren of Litchville North Dakota for churn, Peter McGrath of Hibbing Minnesota for siphon, John Orr of Dillon Montana for carburetor.
A Portland Telegram item quotes a bald man denouncing a testimonial for Dr Growem's hair tonic as a false fabrication while his spouse calls it hair raising fiction in a humorous exchange. The brief notes a domestic quip on advertising claims.
Opportunities in Cuba advertised by Cuban Land & Steamship Co. promising land in La Gloria and profitable fruit raising. Urges readers to write for a free illustrated booklet from 83 Broadway, New York City.
Ad fragment promotes Sirs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children claiming wind colic cures. Vague phrases reference La Gammation and suppressed details. An unrelated quoted line from the Houston Post appears, with no clear context or attribution.
A Detroit Tribune humor line has Newed declaring to Singleton that he possesses two model wives. The exchange jokes about the type of model, cloak or artist, in playful banter.
Dr J H Rindlaub, specialist in eye ear nose and throat, based in Fargo North Dakota, appears in an advertisement. A humorous proverb is included: He who preaches economy to his wife by the yard is apt to practice it by the inch.
Article argues that many nervous and emotional complaints in women stem from undiagnosed uterine disorders. It discusses common symptoms and urges medical evaluation to identify underlying gynecological causes contributing to anxiety and physical distress.
An advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for nervous prostration, irritability, and related female disorders. It cites Mrs. M. E. Shotwell of Brooklyn praising relief from headaches and fatigue, claiming readers have reported feeling ten years younger.
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