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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1903
Page
2
A rapid, satirical collage from The Emmons County Record lampoons royalty, yacht builders, and public life. It mentions Sir Thomas Lipton, Captain Hobson, Commander Peary, and King Peter, plus jokes about Shamrock III and Shamrocks, diamonds, and Radium debates.
The Rochester Union and Advertiser asks if women will get advantages from the new Pulitzer school of journalism. It states they will have an opportunity to read the improved newspapers.
An Indian Territory paper reports a man caught a hardshell turtle in the Washita river a few days ago. It measured three and a half feet long and weighed seventy pounds. The find is noted as the season’s greatest snap. New York society debates whether to wear afternoon or evening dress for Parsifal performances running from 6 to 11. Herr Wagner’s timing trouble is noted.
A New York banker in an automobile pursued a cabman who had struck a woman, captured him, and handed him to police as testimony favorable to the defendant in the public versus the red devils case.
The capital note reports that the Redlake reservation lands will be formally opened on November 10. It also notes a Hawaiian bond issue approved at 1 229 100 dollars, and Secretary Shaw renewing refunds up to 20 million. Roosevelt begins his annual message and denies visitors. Samuel R Longer named postmaster at Ossipe, Minnesota. Yerkes orders pursuit of bootleggers who refill whisky bottles. Naval inspectors test vessels for the Asiatic torpedo boat flotilla. Bainbridge passes sea test and Decatur to be trialed in ten days.
Miguel Valverde Ecuador secretary for foreign affairs resigns amid congressional dispute. Other secretaries expected to follow his lead. In Massachusetts three men arrested after burglary at the South Hadley post office during a tense police struggle. A German anti duelling league meeting in Frankfort with forty delegates under Prince Loewenstein. Dr Kolb notes Austria tops dueling incidents with Germany second. The Duke of Manchester buys Kylemore castle and 13 000 acre estate in Connemara for 315000.
Rev Henry Percival PE died at his Devon Pennsylvania country home at age forty nine. On Yung King has been named vice consul general in San Francisco after several months as secretary to the Chinese consulate. Joseph L Day, seventy five, famed as the best dressed man in Chicago, died suddenly at the Auditorium likely from heart disease.
Henry Hines of Rockford Illinois is expected to lose sight after a sliver of steel penetrated his eye. Read details of the incident and his medical prognosis as reported.
Louis Pesant confessed to murdering Mrs. Mary Spilka for money in Chicago. Charles Greenfield is jailed for obtaining 700 dollars via a confidence game. A man drowned after leaping from the City of the Straits near Port au Pelee. A Wilkesbarre poacher was shot by Game Warden Campbell during arrest. Eleven year old Arthur Eaton’s body found in Chicago lake. James Mears killed his son in law Michael Crotty in Buffalo then died by suicide. Jail escapees Hibler Day Chenault injured a jailer in Frankfort Kentucky. Ashbell Dunton died after intervening in abuse at East Sullivan New Hampshire. John McCue killed in Freehold New Jersey after dispute over cigars. Brig. Gen. John Chase produced prisoners in Cripple Creek Colorado. Deputy Marshal Gamble of San Francisco confesses to plot in deportation case. William Herdick recaptured and pardoned after long good conduct. Hearing on Stiles injunction reveals bribery and violence by union officials.
Reports describe renewed anti Jewish violence in Russia and Bulgarias protest over Turkish actions in Macedonia. Other notes note French and German officials planning for the St Louis exposition with Baden refused unveiling Wagner monument. a Paris singer murdered. a nurse harmed. plague quarantines and a city case of police violence at Irkutsk.
Prince Alert set a new world pacing mark at 1.57, while women nationwide push to expel Reed Smoot from the U S Senate. Western Union workers in Chicago strike for $6 weekly pay and $1.25 per flight, eight-hour day. A wave of varied notes from courts to railways to science closes with a Des Moines jury drawing error and a Cuban expedition.
The article details honey production in North Dakota, noting 20 or more progressive operators in the Red River valley with most apiaries housing 30 to 40 hives. It explains climate limits, timing of nectar flows, wintering practices, and the potential for growth via more trees, vegetation, and diversified farming.
A five banker party from Madison Wisconsin toured Mandan to Dickinson areas with Insurance Commissioner Ferdinand Leutz. They found refined hospitality, educated women, libraries, art, and music, and learned the famed wild and woolly ranch life does not exist in that section of North Dakota. They planned to return next summer with families.
The past week brought heavy rain and snow storms with freezing fronts across the state. Threshing slowed due to wet ground, about one third of grain threshed while two thirds of wheat remains. Cor n and flax suffered damage from freezes with much unripe stock.
Newcastle Indiana authorities investigate a suspected murder of a two year old child, son of Samuel Criner. Neighbors say the death followed severe beating by the father. Windom Minnesota reports a separate item: a bonds vote for a new Windom courthouse carried by 400 majority amid light county turnout.
About 2,000 people witnessed the laying of the cornerstone for Manitowoc’s new $25,000 Carnegie library. Mayor W. G. Kemper presided, Attorney Oscar M. Torrison of Chicago delivered the day’s address, and Library Board President L. J. Nash helped formalize the ceremony. Miss L. E. Stearns of Madison and other state library officials attended.
In Li moure county Fargo on September 26 Joel Schock man, twelve, rode a header with his brother when he jumped off. The shotgun discharged injuring his side. Doctors say he has a chance to recover. Separately, Britain’s Board of Agriculture lifted the prohibition on landing animals other than swine from New England states.
A long list of local items reports growth and plans in Lansford Pingree Oakes and Portal, crime waves at New Rockford and Minot, weather damage at Wheatland and Minot, diphtheria cases in Wyndmere, civic projects in Grand Forks and Portal, and various agricultural and transport notes across the region. The notice includes a reminiscence about a bellwether 1903 crop season and local trials, with a sample medical ad for Dean's Kidney Pills.
Mrs Newliwed reveals she cooked the dinner and the husband comments on the watermelon remark in a light Philadelphia Press humor piece. The exchange captures a playful domestic moment with witty banter between spouses.
A humorous exchange in the Chicago News features a wife asking about making parlor matches and a husband admitting his method involved a foolish display in the mother in law’s parlor. The dialogue showcases light domestic wit in a newspaper cartoon style.
An advertisement asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must use constitutional remedies. It links deafness to inflamed Eustachian Tube mucous lining and catarrh, offering one hundred dollars for any case of business caused by catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promotes circulars and Mail's Family Pills as best.
A Washington Star exchange shows a blunt critic accusing a senator of favoring corporate interests over national ones, prompting Sorghum to remark that republics are often ungrateful and he might seek appreciation abroad.
A humorous exchange about a book titled The Golden Wedding. A wife urges reading while a husband admits the story sounds wonderful yet dismisses fiction, noting their fifty years of marriage with striking civility.
List of patents issued to Northwestern inventors including Andrew Anderson Euclid Minn wind ing indicator Jacob Berge Minneapolis Minn oil stove Edward Geske Wykoff Minn grain car door Gudbrand Grondahl Red Wing Minn stove controller Albert Keck St Paul Minn toy John Sanderson Minneapolis Minn elevator Joseph Schutz Minneapolis Minn disintegrator and patent attorney Lothrop & Johnson 91 and 912 Pioneer Press Bldg St Information for the Young.
A witty exchange at a temperance hotel in Chicago features a visitor questioning why sensible men take a foolish tramp to see the hermit. The wise guest explains the hermit is the bartender, offering a sly wink and musing on Sunday habits.
A fragmentary collection of 19th century ad style lines and social musings note self reflection after a confessed indiscretion and encourage punctuality. It contains product pitches for tonics and teething syrup and short proverbs on debt and vanity with no clear single event.
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