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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1903
Page
2
A jumble of humorous notices and social commentary touching on Rockefeller philanthropy rail mood and other famed figures. It jokes about empress dowagers explorers and the pope while noting editor quarrels and stockish observations.
Internal revenue for January shows 17 954 729 dollars, down 2 902 042 from 1902. Combes reports Arias elected Guatemala president on Feb 15. Humphrey named quartermaster general after Ludington. Moody and Payne to inspect Caribbean naval stations and Porto Rico postal affairs. Soderburg wins Supreme Court mineral lands case over Northern Pacific. Smoot faced with polygamy charges upon Senate seating. Princess Djemil Tousson attempted suicide by poison. Lord Gurdon may be recalled. Brodrick considered for viceroy. Leopold Ferdinand Leopold to join US Army as officer. Boston coal transport study finds no water transport deficiencies to New England.
A string of incidents includes the Fort Lafayette explosion in New York killing three, the Toledo Hotel Deveau fire nearly destroying the building, and a Big Four wreck near Berea Ohio with four mail clerks and one passenger dead and several injured. Also reported are six Mexicans and others found frozen above Goliad Texas, a Chicago electric car collision injuring seven, the death of Claude de Lorraine and his son in Brooklyn from asphyxiation, and major losses from a St Louis Suburban Railway fire in Hodimont Missouri. Circus car sheds burned at Bridgeport with $100 000 loss and 33 000 insured. fourteen elephants rescued.
Louis F. Schade a noted author correspondent and lawyer died in Washington at age seventy four. Dr J E Rankin president of Howard university resigns due to age and infirmities. Miss Ellen Smith has served as instructor professor and registrar at the University of Nebraska for twenty five years. Sherman M Bell of Roosevelt rough riders is named adjutant general of the Colorado national guard by Gov Peabody. Capt Francis A Cook senior captain in the navy granted six months sick leave to seek health. Capt Cook commanded the Brooklyn during the war with Spain. Dr H H Hood aged seventy nine died at Litchfield Illinois. He served as Civil War surgeon and was a Republican state legislator in the 1880 Logan Morrison contest.
Cholera cases reported among English Somaliland expedition members. El Menebhi, minister of war, reportedly killed in battle on February 12 at Tangier. Rome hosts jubilee dinner for pope with 1000 poor. 600 Americans attend Washington reception at the American embassy. Boyaca gunboat sinks in Port Bethsade channel. all aboard saved. C T Yerkes discusses London transport reforms at Kensington mayor’s dinner. A 1581 Fulham ware jug sold for 7600 pounds in London. Swedish workers form one year abstinence unions over spirits tax, contributing monthly 15 cents per member.
A long list of incidents and political notes from various states and cities. Embezzlers, murders, riots, and political moves mix with lawmaking and legislative contests in North Dakota Wisconsin New Mexico Missouri Illinois Kentucky and other locales. Notable items include police raids on a pool room run by women a fatal shooting in New Orleans a brokered plan for library training and a trolley bill in Bismarck.
Colorado Springs February 28. Photographer W. E. Martin and his four year old son died yesterday when an explosion occurred as Martin mixed saltpeter and sulfur to make flashlight powder.
A Chicago scaffold collapsed while workers toiled yesterday, fatally injuring one man and injuring fourteen others with minor injuries. The incident occurred on February 28, prompting investigations into safety practices and site conditions.
Mrs Cornelis Cole Fairbanks of Indiana was unanimously re elected president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington on February 28.
San Antonio experiences partial submersion and widespread property damage from record rains. No fatalities reported yet, though there are several dramatic escapes and rescue efforts ongoing.
Fire destroyed the Beechnut Packing company office building and smokehouse in Canajoharie New York. Loss estimated at 60000 dollars with 33000 dollars covered by insurance.
Olympia Washington February 28 the house committee investigating Representative Louis Levy of Seattle found him not guilty of soliciting a bribe and the house adopted the report unanimously.
New York reports on February 28 that marine advices from Bermuda say the collier Alexandria was towed in there by the Dutch steamer Beta.
Science notes that surgeons use diverse threads such as kangaroo tendons horsehair silk and fine silver wire. Kangaroo tendons seal severe wounds lasting about a month before breaking away silk lasts up to six months and silver wire is nearly indestructible. Surgeons select a thread matching healing time and the thread then disappears.
A New York Sun quip notes the decline of old-fashioned clergy and parishioners. The dominic type preacher shouts fire and hell, while churchgoers abandon nightcaps and old customs as traditions fade away.
A brief humorous exchange where a boy named Tommy explains to his grandmother why he would rather be a papa than a mama. He says the mamma stays at home with the children, while the papa goes to the office.
In New Bedford on 658 First street Ulric Levas Levasseur reports a long illness with weakness and back pain. After two months on Dodd's Kidney Pills he recovered fully and calls the remedy a God-sent cure. He praises its power and notes a return to full strength and ability. The quote from H. W. Beecher is cited.
Deafness is caused by an inflamed mucus lining of the Eustachian tube. If inflammation persists hearing may be lost. nine of ten cases stem from catarrh. A hundred dollars offered for any deafness case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for free circulars. sold by druggists. Hall's Pills recommended.
A downtown literary society debate on abolishing capital punishment featured a negative speaker arguing that justice history supports the death penalty and that “if hanging was good enough for my father, it is good enough for me.” Also recounted is Gen. Gough’s bold yet reckless tactics against the Sikhs culminating in a vanished ladder incident atop a tower, forcing a strategic retreat.
A Decatur Ohio doctor recounts how his coffee use caused stomach trouble and headaches despite lab tests showing caffeine. A layman’s switch to Postum Food Coffee improved his digestion and removed headaches, leading to praise for Postum as a pure food drink.
Mrs Laura L Bremer of Crown Point Indiana reports relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for two years of severe spinal pain and illness. She says three bottles revived health and blood, compares cure to a house cleaning, and urges other women to seek her advice. She notes the offer of free guidance from Mrs Pinkham Law and mentions a $5000 forfeit regarding genuineness proof.
A New York Sun column notes a prize fight with a French challenger and claims the American will spare no expense, even offering to stage it by cable. Marmaduke overhears talk about major matches going illegal, prompting Alicia to lead the others to the sitting room. A reader from Trinity Springs endorses Pisa's Cure for consumption and coughs.
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