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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1900
Page
4
Local notices report staff travel and services in Braddock and Linton. Emmons county tax collections for January totalled 28,035 with railroad taxes included. growth in settlements and new residents in Williamsport and surrounding towns noted. Discussions favor direct nominations for county offices and reform, with editorial praise for primaries over conventions and references to national experiments.
President Schurman praised John D. Rockefeller for his wealth’s charitable impact and organizing skill in a New York Delmonico speech. The Minneapolis Tribune notes the eulogy would have moved kerosene users more if the Standard Oil price hike of 250 percent, from years past, hadn’t occurred.
A collage of humorous lines from Philadelphia Bulletin, Weston Traveler, New York World, Philadelphia North American, Boston Transcript, Stray Stories, and Boston Journal showcases wry exchanges and sharp inquiring humor. Brief quips cover daily life, miscommunication, family antics, and clever retorts.
A Stroudsburg resident took his own life after tensions at home over independence and a move. Fragmentary notes mention a mother restricting his plans and a violent act leading to his death. The report references a hazy sequence of events and troubled state of mind.
Current College Notes reports Smith College with 400 freshmen while Brown’s class is smaller than last year. Cornell students earn customs service appointments. Williams begins its 106th year with 110 freshmen. Penn to build four dormitories. Rush Phees becomes University of Rochester president. Cornell library use rises 232 percent over seven years. Nature study to join Philadelphia public schools curriculum. Minnesota forecasts up to 3000 students. 259 Michigan men in service during the Spanish War. Tennessee Presbyterians plan a Cumberland Presbyterian university in Memphis. Franklin Remington joins Navy graduates association executive committee. Trincetn flag sails with Peary relief ship farther north. Princeton library accessions break records. 18,350 volumes added since Oct 1, 1898. Michigan Marquette normal school underway with Dwight B. Waldo as principal. Rockefeller gifts Brown University 250,000 dollars to spur a 2,000,000 endowment. 1,000,000 to be raised by next commencement and remaining pledges about 275,000 to complete the goal by June.
A garlic flavor method for salads uses rubbed bread in the dish. Leftover spinach can be dressed with French dressing and served after chilling. A lemon bath soak with brand is suggested for a bath tonic, and oatmeal bags or shaved soap and almond flour make pleasant bath additions. Curried eggs are simmered with onions curry and milk then thickened and served with hard boiled eggs over rice.
A collection of curious notes recounts giraffe tongues, a London tavern cat drinking wine, a trained rat in Steuben Maine, a Maltese cat raising a litter, teeth pulled by a dentist, and a cat that begs tooth removal nightly. Algeria funds grasshopper control with 40000 dollars as camels are used to move burn material. Mrs Schowengerdt of Independence Missouri recalls a kettle snake incident from a cistern boiling tea water.
The University of Illinois reports 240 women this year, a record. Vassar adds 239 new students with fewer dropouts than usual. Across ten Prussian universities the female tally grows from 117 in 1895-96 to 414 in 1898-99, signaling expanding access to higher education for women.
The County Judge announces he will be at the county seat on the first and third Mondays of each month to conduct business, urging residents to take note of the schedule and bring matters for resolution.
An old Record office notice announces a sale and instructs applicants to contact F. B. Streeter for details. The fragment provides no date, place beyond Record office, or item specifics. Street and item not stated.
Town residents discuss fire protection measures after recent fires. Proposals include a hilltop well, windmill, tank, and pipe or hose to supply water. The crowded north side layout worsens fire risk, and future fires could devastate the town without protection.
A long list describes cattle horses and sheep brands tied to owners across towns like Braddock Winona Williamsport and Emmonsburg. Entries note cattle and horse marks such as on hip shoulder and jaw with identifiers like initials letters shapes and symbols accompanying each name.
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