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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1903
Page
2
A string of humorous and satirical remarks references figures such as Pennell, Sir Thomas, Mrs. Russell Sage, J Pierpont Morgan, William Waldorf Astor, and King Edward. The piece teases news, social trends, and public affairs with playful asides about politics, crime, business, and culture.
Reports say kerosene consumption as a beverage is rising in France, while crop failures and wartime strain push the Afghan ruler to cut expenses by divorcing nearly all his wives, leaving four.
A reflective musing questions the abundance of reformers and suggests valuing fewer people needing reform. It hints at modern social critique and the tension between reformers and those requiring change.
Senator Clarke and Congressman Brundige of Arkansas were involved in a street brawl, challenging the idea that the senate and the house never meet in person. The incident draws attention to cross chamber tensions and political rivalries.
The Holland strike has collapsed and anti-strike legislation has become law. From this distance, there is little to celebrate and no reason for rejoicing.
A naturalist remark states female rabbits favor large families while male rabbits may kill offspring. It notes regional regret over the male’s poor success in preventing large litters.
A toast at Reginald Vanderbilt's bachelor dinner hopes he will be as happy in marriage as he is now in single life. The piece notes many soon-to-be married men seek greater happiness, while China's new minister travels to Washington with forty two diplomats and a carload of oriental rugs, prompting envy from housekeepers over the rugs.
A fencing session with the president draws attention as officials arrange an understudy to shadow the national leader. The arrangement highlights the ceremonial and training aspects of the event.
The Shamrock IV carries a 470 foot mast but the Yankee yacht pledges to tower higher. The remark frames competition as a race of mast stature with pride riding on scale.
The government seeks bids from the Northwest to furnish butter and cheese for the navy. The Bureau of Animal Industry can quarantine cattle as needed. Posts report supplies sent despite postmasters’ advice. Capt. Chamberlain faces relief linked to smuggling.
Princeton professor John H. Finley elected president of the College of the City of New York will start Sept. 1. Col. William R. Arthur dies on his Urbana farm at eighty-two. Stephen H. Mallory wins another Senate term in Florida with full vote in the Senate and all but one in the House. Russian ambassador Count Cassini receives the order of Alexander Nevsky from the czar. Dr. F. W. Anderson, Salt Lake physician and first Utah Medical Society president, dies at eighty-one.
A Trinity Texas fire destroyed the Cameron and Camp sawmill with 75000 feet of lumber. Elkhart Indiana saw the Elkhart Egg Case Company plant burn. Losses include 50000 dollars. A tornado at St Paul Kansas caused heavy property damage and four injuries. A fatal car strike killed six year old Harriet Allen in New York. Grief Bros Barrel plant in Cleveland burned with 150000 dollars insured loss. Paterson New Jersey fire leveled four tenements, over 50000 dollars loss. Nina Correglio dies after being struck by a flaming stove thrown from a tenement. A Hocking Valley passenger train crashed into an open switch at Walbridge Ohio injuring six, two seriously. only engines derailed.
A string of violent incidents and convictions is reported across cities. Robbers looted Bank of Rogers of 2500 dollars, Albert J. Adams convicted after a twelve hour jury deliberation, and George Miller killed his wife before suicide. Other cases include executions, embezzlement arrests, a street brawl among Yale students, and gang activity.
Reports indicate the Irish land bill will be taken up in the British parliament on May 4. Other notes cover German officers receiving decorations for Venezuelan service, a Chinese desperado executed for sixty murders, failed peace talks in Santo Domingo, and a British battleship moving from Malta toward the Balkans as tensions rise.
Series of brief items across arts, crime, transport and business. Booth Tarkington seriously ill in Indianapolis from typhoid fever. Gustav Gottheil dead at 75 in New York. Maia Parr dies after cat bite in Peoria. Oil strike at C. O. Coleman farm Hartford Ohio. New York L line labor dispute settled. Chicago flour mills closed due to unprofitability. Marble Rock Iowa man John Sommers found dead in Chicago station. American Bankers hold convention in San Francisco by Oct 16. Mascagni to hire Siegismund Elfred to dramatize an Italian story. Wedding party in Marion Ind handcuffs couple with cowbell alarm on train. Gen Baldwin remarks provoke official pushback. court inquiry expected. Downe’s advance guard lodging in New York for 4000 missionaries from Chicago in October. New York Metropolitan Street Railway accounts under investigation. Mother Lode mines near Sutter Creek claim closure without protection.
In Mexico City on May 2, reports say a Wells Fargo courier robbed a small safe of 42,000 at Silao last Thursday. The messenger warned to guard the safe but took it home with accomplices and split the loot. About forty suspects were arrested, with most funds recovered except 11,000 dollars.
Conflicts around Nevrokop report eighteen Bulgarian rebels killed and fourteen taken prisoner after a Turkish attack. British dispatch notes dynamite destroyed Ottoman property in Salonica and a bomb caused the Guadalquivir blast as troops move from Smyrna. A large insurgent band near Jinabale was annihilated.
May 2 Aden report says British expeditionary advance in Somaliland is suspended indefinitely following recent reverses. Maj. Gen. Egerton named successor to Brig. Gen. Manning as the expedition reorganizes its executive heads. Observers fear the victory may embolden the Ad Mullah to attack isolated nests while Manning’s force is kept inactive through the hot weather.
In the House of Commons War Secretary Brodirick announced the virtual abandonment of the Samoli campaign. Opposition attacked the government for muddling the affair and doing needless police work for Italy. Cranborne defended policy. Brotvick said operations were inevitable due to Britain's treaty commitments.
Paul du Chaillu renowned American author and explorer dies after partial paralysis. A brother of Russian painter Verestchagin will arrange burial in the Litterateurs cemetery if interment is to occur in St Petersburg.
Fifteen crew members of the British cruiser Pallas are reported dead with others injured during rioting at Port of Spain Trinidad on Tuesday. Admiralty officials refuse to confirm or deny the report.
Rome, May 2. Emperor William will arrive in Rome on Saturday. He will be accompanied by Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm Prince Eitel Fritz Count Von Buelow the imperial chancellor and Field Marshal Count von Waldersee in the official announcement.
A vast disaster at Frank results in extensive loss of life and widespread destruction. The picturesque valley is reduced to ruin and desolation with minimal remaining structures and families displaced.
The Turtle Mountain collapse near Frank, May 2, kills 56 residents before daybreak and destroys the Canadian American Coal and Coke plant. Two miles of valley are buried under rocks, with a three quarter mile fissure opening on Turtle Mountain. Monetary damage tops $1.5 million with mining losses around $200,000.
The transport Thomas will sail today for the Philippine islands carrying the Twenty third infantry and the Twelfth cavalry. It also carries treasure of 1,200,000 silver coins weighing about forty tons and valued at $800,000.
Heavy rains in northern Lower Michigan ended days of forest fires threatening small towns and causing damage in the lumber region. No casualties reported and fires controlled by crews.
A Simla dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph says the bubonic plague officially infects nine British provinces. It covers 156 districts, 109 big towns, seven cantonments and 51 states. The weekly mortality exceeds 80,000.
Fire destroyed the birthplace of Senator Shelby M. Cullom near Deer Creek in Tazewell County Illinois. The frame structure, a local landmark, burned yesterday afternoon and officials say the origin is likely a defective flue.
La Porte Ind May 2 John Plume Tepote who celebrated his 100th birthday on January 13 died yesterday. He voted for every presidential candidate from 1824 to the present time. He smoked some and chewed tobacco for eighty three years but never used intoxicating liquor.
Governor Chamberlain writes to Admiral C E B Clark praising his command of the battleship Oregon during the Spanish War and presents a sword of honor on behalf of Oregon citizens.
There is little likelihood of a cabinet meeting during President Roosevelt's stay in St. Louis on May 1. Only Secretary Hitche has been seen by the president.
General Luke B. Wright, vice governor of the Philippine Islands, arrived in Manila from San Francisco and received an enthusiastic welcome. The arrival occurs amid ceremonial honors and public interest in his role and duties.
Fire in the central district of Sault Ste. Marie Michigan yesterday wiped out six storey buildings. Losses total around 100000 dollars. Fire officials investigated the blaze as crews fought the flames and contained spread.
James Murphy died by his own hand after leaping from a Great Northern train near Great Falls. He was en route to his home in Anaconda and leaves a wife and two sons.
Atwater Minnesota May 1 Dahl and Peterson's elevator burned last night causing about 3000 dollars in damage. The blaze destroyed one horse and several thousand bushels of grain while insurance covered the building loss.
Andrew Carnegie installs a $1,500 English billiard table in his New York home at Ninety third Street and Fifth Avenue. The room is praised as unmatched among millionaires’ houses, with only two other English tables in the city, at the Waldorf Astoria and a club favored by Englishmen. The English visitor regards the American table as a toy.
The state is not organized to protect capital alone but to safeguard the community and maintain order. It evolves with public consensus and character, sometimes oppressing or tolerating slavery, yet always aligning with the prevailing opinion as laws are modified with change.
A city salesman notes how visual cues mislead about a building’s size during various stages. Foundations, excavation, steel framing, and finished walls each distort perceived dimensions from 50 to 500 feet, ten acre footprints, and eventual swelling of the completed structure.
Powersville Kentucky resident J. J. Monson, aged 86, credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with a miraculous recovery from eight years of kidney trouble. Bedridden for four months this winter, he endured pain and breathlessness but says he has felt no pain or weakness since starting the remedy and now works daily.
Dialogue from the Boston Transcript notes two boys boasting about a horseless carriage and dismissing another claim about a coalless furnace, reflecting humorous exchanges on technology and practicality.
Dr W O Coffee of Des Moines Iowa claims to have medicines for the eyes that readers can use at home to cure cataracts scums granulated ulcers or blindness and restore sight. He has published an 80 page book on eye diseases and will mail it to every reader of the paper.
A scrapbook style snippet features a rug advertisement from Reliable Rug Works at 840 West 11th Street Des Moines Iowa run by Mra W E Ferrington plus a quip about patience bread and butter and social commentary on New Year resolutions and fortunes.
A Lebanon Kentucky street superintendent testifies that kidney irregularities caused severe back pain and urinary issues, finds relief after using Dean's Kidney Pills. He credits fast, lasting improvement and urges others with kidney disorders to try the remedy. Free trials offered by Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY. price 50 cents at druggists.
A Baltimore News item reports a man named Jones facing a dire choice between losing his soul cursing the icy pavement or risking his life in a confrontation with a man who throws ashes against the wind.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure for deafness caused by inflamed Eustachian Tube mucous lining. Claims local applications fail and offers one hundred dollars for cure not helped by the remedy. Promises circulars free and lists Toledo based FE. J. Cheney & Co. as makers and Druggists as sellers.
A humorous note recalls Washingtons birthday antics with a mock interrogation by a Spanish inquisitor asking Louis XIV about George Washington. Louis replies he last saw him in the buffet cutting down cherry bounce supplies.
In the Detroit Free Press the question arises why Mrs. Dinsmore harbors relentless hatred toward Mr. Templeton. The motive centers on a remark about her being a well preserved woman that she heard secondhand.
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