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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1908
Page
2
Vague figures from North Dakota election coverage show approximate turnout around two thirds of voters with unclear totals. The fragment implies discrepancies in reported counts and lacks precise data.
Fragmentary notes list legislators and districts including Welford of Pembina Byorrabi of Walsh Toompwer of Grand Forks Crawford of Corvalier Legit of Eddy Moen of Cavalier. The text shows Republican and Democratic references in a state house context with candidate names.
Analysis of newspaper chatter suggests a tight race with doubts about outcome. Voters in two regions show split support as William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley campaign amid lingering uncertainty about electors and future leadership.
Laveel reports indicate Dorks reelected by about ten thousand, with Jobo issuing many iter to supporters over taxes and philosophy. The letter portrays Burke as a likely second term favorite if he runs again, while Johnson would have won big had Burke not run.
Emmons county residents call for a grand jury to examine alleged illegal contracts and wasted funds. They demand open bidding for jobs over a hundred dollars, end favoritism, and businesslike county governance with full law compliance and public oversight. They criticize the county board and bridge suppliers, urging accountability and rectitude in public spending.
The piece argues for protectionist ideals and warns against free trade, urging Americans to support tariffs and resist European price pressure. It condemns railroad and corporate abuses, praises workers and farmers, and criticizes county officials for legal printing purchases and patronage.
The Record exposes alleged graft involving the county board and the county measurer over printing duties and ballots. It details prior favors to the Advocate, including printing allotments and campaign material, and notes work outsourced when the Advocate was unavailable.
A woman uses a telephone for the first time and fears the mouthpiece holes are to blame. The drug clerk explains they are to strain the voice, and the woman becomes flustered and forgets the number she must call.
The magistrate quotes a fifty dollar price with a warning to Toor ing Karr. He pays the fee, climbs into his ninety horsepower racer, and departs to try another speed record, in a brisk exchange from the New York Press.
An art photographer plans an exhaustive study of a specific landscape on a farm. He asks the farmer to keep his hired man in the same fence position for days at a time, to sit still as part of the study. The farmer agrees.
A humor bit has a man asking which plaster has the fewest holes to get his money's worth. The pharmacist offers all sorts of porous plasters as the dialogue plays out with a wry proverb about loving friends versus enemies.
In Grant Duff’s Notes From a Diary Landseer, famed painter, meets the king of Portugal. The monarch reportedly exclaims with enthusiasm that he always likes beasts, reflecting a playful royal remark about animal subjects.
A customer asks for Antony and Cleopatra and a clerk offers a copy for one dollar. The customer only has fifty cents, insisting on the title Antony. This humor reflects a playful misreading and stock response in a Harper's Weekly context.
A humorous quote attributes a piano and trousers pocket comparison to music, noting the wife finds only keys when reaching into pockets. The remark appears in the New York Globe.
A distorted Washington Star exchange humorously credits the Chinese with discovering printing and jokes they invented the interrogation point. The dialogue features two men discussing ancient tech and a playful misquote.
A brief exchange shows Jack fearing a proposal will be treated as a joke while Molly hints that not all jokes are rejected. Rhakespeare notes that what ripens quickly does not endure.
A sprawling satirical piece blends political theater with November and December forecasts, mixing Bryan Taft Roosevelt figures, election bets, and harvest imagery. It weaves a carnival scene, civic talk, and whimsical dates with notes on the Roman calendar and future weather cues.
A passage cites Dr. William H. Thomson in Everybody's Magazine describing mescal buttons as an artistic poison. The low cactus grows near the Rio Grande and is scarce, causing vivid visions but not increasing efficiency. Kiowa use in religious rites is noted, yet missionaries and government action ended access.
The article explains estimating storm distance by counting seconds between lightning and thunder. Sound travels 1,100 feet per second, so multiply seconds by 1,100 to get distance in feet. For ten seconds, about 11,000 feet or over two miles. It notes light travels faster and surviving a loud crash indicates safety. Remembering this helps reduce fear.
A conversation from the Philadelphia Record notes reassurance about a child who has not started speaking by age five with a counterexample of a parent whose child began talking around age three and later progressed.
A Scottish anecdote recalls a mother telling her sons one is an impostor and the other a malefactor. The phrase, spoken to family, was misheard as impostor and malefactor but meant upholsterer and manufacturer.
A collection of quotes contrasts legal intent with lawyer business and offers early guidance to a young man about exploring distant countries. It praises travel at ages twenty one to thirty five as a path to learn languages, see new places, and take up ventures abroad, urging bold steps beyond home life.
Four year old Mabel ran downhill holding her dress. Her mother warned her to be careful or she would fall. Mabel replied that she was holding tight to herself and would be fine.
A London Answers anecdote recalls Baron Gros pressing Japan to open ports. Japan replied by asking France to open Liverpool, a non French and non Japanese port. The French ambassador conceded the joke at his expense.
The article compares submarine crew discipline to other military units, noting months are required to form a working unit. It explains there is no standard practice drill and each sea sortie is treated as actual war, with crews acting as if sinking an enemy.
In a London Answers description the large artisan prisoner enters court for the first time. The magistrate asks if he has defense counsel and the prisoner, gathering himself, replies he needs no one and challenges to bring on half a dozen men.
The name Pall Mall derives from palle maile an ancient game once played on the Pall Mall site, introduced to England by Norton monks Pepys notes in his diary on April 2 1661 visiting St James Park where the Duke of York played Pelemele for the first time.
An excerpt from the Berliner Tageblatt contrasts English home life with German family life. It asserts English sons leave home early to seek independence, becoming responsible men sooner than their counterparts in Britain.
A witty exchange imagines love guiding spending and restraint. One side argues a man will curb cigar purchases if his wife asks. the other counters that a wife should love a man enough to prompt such restraint.
Readings from a clipped item note doctors have given up Johnson as dead but a witness asserts he is actually alive and well despite doctors declaring him beyond recovery.
A light Chicago News quip contrasts Mrs. Caller and Mrs. Nextdoor about refined neighbors. The joke nods to polite phrases and a witty remark about flattery as a tempting tale, ending with a proverb about listening to flattering tales.
A staged exchange unfolds with a timid new girl and a motherly figure over cooking. The scene includes tension about bread making and a warning about heavy work, with a newspaper label noting heavy work.
The readable fragments describe a discussion about coughs, laughter, and a group’s fear of extermination. Mentions of a congregation, Mimiers, and a grim context imply a dramatic or coded warning within a damaged passage. The text is incomplete and unusual.
Fragmented OCR recounts flogging anecdotes among English gentry and clergymen. Dr Bosby, Dr Valpy, Archdeacon Groom cited for birching discipline as a pupil stories circulate of corporal punishment among elites. A parent’s protest ends with threats of further flogging.
The tale recalls Sir Christopher Wren facing a pushy guild member demanding extra pillars during Windsor town hall work. He feigned danger, later revealed faulty supports by two inches, proving the illusion while vindicating his skill to future generations.
Pat Murphy faced a prying landlady who took small items daily calling herself not like other landladies I’m telling you. The constant pilfering inflated his bill until he packed and left saying I’m sloping.
A dialogue about arranging a scene and a sister visiting. The speaker jokes that the sister is coming down and will see Charley Jones instead, prompting humorous reactions about shirts and timing in a casual domestic setting.
The speaker notes unease toward unfamiliar settings and people, admitting a nervous reaction to some faces. He adds that many share a reluctance to face creditors, expressing a candid anxiety about social and financial pressures.
A tongue in cheek exchange reveals the wedding did not take place as planned with the bride backing out at the last moment. The remark highlights an abrupt end to the ceremony. The brief dialogue implies an unusual or improper reason at the core of the interruption.
A teacher asks how to write horn and a boy replies horn isn’t written it is blowed in a brief classroom exchange. The quip captures a child’s playful mispronunciation and the humor of language learning.
A witty Baltimore Americas line plays on medical jargon to describe Miranda as suffering pneumatic tendencies and threatened with spiral trouble, framing her predicament with humorous medical diction.
A concise adage appears: a map who saves when poor is stingy, while saving while rich marks judicious behavior as noted by the Chicago Record-Herald.
A brief quip from a Chicago News column questions whether women speak plainly in courtship versus marriage, noting the old adage that a wife speaks plainly after tying the knot. The exchange humorously frames gendered language expectations of the era.
A Washington Herald reader quotes a proposed melodrama where the villain lights a cigar during a snowstorm, triggering a snowstory fire. The wry line imagines a dramatic, improbable scenario as fiction.
A garbled town page mentions a Tuesday spauldlt and a commissioner trip to Bismarck. Names include Gayton Sylvester Hurs Linton Jerry Hart and W. R. Grove. The text also notes sales of east part of a listed office and up-river coverage in Winona County.
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