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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1903
Page
3
A collection of zany comments and quick takes on sports, politics, society, and culture. Topics range from Sir Thomas Lipton and Shamrock boats to Dalmatian fashions, magazine quips, and royal intrigues, all offered in a breezy, editorial tone.
Sir Thomas hints at a return may not be next year or the year after but will come back after the cup with an extended time allowance. The Rochester Union and Advertiser questions whether women will gain benefits from the new Pulitzer school of journalism offering readers access to improved newspapers.
An Indian Territory report notes a man captured a three and a half foot long turtle weighing seventy pounds in the Washita river a few days ago. The catch may be the season’s greatest snap. New York society debates proper attire for Parsifal performances from five to eleven, a dilemma Wagner did not foresee.
A New York banker testified for the defense recounting a pursuit by car after a cabman who had struck a woman fled. The banker caught the cabman and turned him over to police, part of testimony favorable to the defendant in the public versus the red devils case.
The Redlake reservation lands will be formally opened on November 10. The Hawaiian bond issue of 1,229,100 dollars is approved. Secretary Shaw will renew refunding operations to 20.6 million. The education bureau probes bogus diploma factories. Samuel R. Longer sworn in as postmaster at Ossipe, Minnesota, replacing Leo Trynka. Internal Revenue targets liquor bottle refills. Naval inspectors test vessels for the Asiatic torpedo boat flotilla. the Bainbridge passes tests and Decatur to be tested in about ten days.
Miguel Valverde, secretary for foreign affairs of Ecuador, resigns after a breach with congress. Other secretaries are expected to follow his example. In Massachusetts, three men linked to a South Hadley post office burglary are arrested after a struggle. A German anti duelling league meeting in Frankfort, under Prince Loewenstein, discusses dueling trends with Austria leading. The duke of Manchester, married since 1900, purchases Kylemore castle and estate in Connemara for 315000 pounds.
Reverend Henry Percival a Protestant Episcopal leader dies at his country home in Devon Pennsylvania aged forty nine. On Yung King longtime secretary at the San Francisco Chinese consulate is named vice consul general. Joseph J. Day seventy five known as the best dressed man in Chicago dies suddenly at the Auditorium likely of heart disease.
Multiple incidents reported include a Rockford baseball player losing sight from a steel sliver, a Beaumont oil district fire that destroyed 35 derricks totaling 125000, a Price Utah general store loss of 60000, and a near complete Admiral Gueydon steamer destruction with one death. Also listed are a boiling apple butter death in Belleville Illinois, a Greensboro oil tank fire with about 25 cars destroyed, a McDonough Georgia building fire at 100000 loss, a Galveston elevator fire causing 75000 damage, two deaths from a Westline Pennsylvania gas incident, a Circleville Ohio yard collision injuring four women, a Rogers City Michigan man missing at Lake Huron, a Jersey City par affine factory fire at 60000, and related damage across these events.
Louis Pesant confessed to the Chicago murder for money. Charles Greenfield faced arrest in Chicago on a $700 confidence game claim. A man drowned after leaping from the City of the Straits near Port au Pelee. Warden Campbell wounded poacher Roman Dales at Wilkes-Barre. Arthur Eaton, 11, found dead in Chicago harbor, suspected drowning by Albert Shupe. James Mears fatally shot his son in law Michael Crotty in Buffalo then killed himself. Jailbreakers Hibler, Day, Chenault escaped Frankfort jail. jailer Merritt Williams injured. Dunton died after intervening in abuse at East Sullivan. John McCue killed in Freehold after refuse to pay for cigars. Brig. Gen. Chase sent prisoners per habeas corpus in Cripple Creek. Deputy Marshal Gamble in San Francisco confesses to a plot involving deportation of Chinese. William Herdick recaptured and pardoned after 17 years. Hearing on Joan M. Stiles injunction reveals bribery and violence by union officials.
Reports from Europe and beyond describe massacres of Jews in Russia and ongoing starvation diseases in Danish West Indies. Revolt and unrest echo as Irish leaders seek local self government. Rome’s Osservatore Romano notes Pope names Giuseppe Wilpert as papal secretary of state. Paris singer Eugene Fourgere murdered. a servant killed and another abused driving mental breakdowns. Bulgaria warns neutrality cannot endure Turks’ actions in Macedonia. Frankfurt votes to join German expo display. Berlin council to attend St Louis fair but rejects Wagner monument unveiling. Venezuela imposes 30 day quarantine on ships from French Mediterranean ports due to plague cases. European cities cited as healthiest by Dr Mara Ballad at Berlin conference. Irkutsk reports a Bus Men officer shooting a Jew who refused a cigarette lighter.
A wide old page of news notes reports Prince lowering the pacing record to 1.57. Other items cover Reed Smoot expulsion efforts, Western Union strike talk, lodge secrets, Japaneselike ventures in Texas, Eigenmann heading to Cuba, Schwab in Philadelphia, and court void deeds on allotments. Also noted are Solace arrival, Burlington reward for train robbers, steel plant closures, police exhibit plans, epilepsy X rays claim, truth-telling musings, and Des Moines jury concerns.
North Dakota hosts around twenty beekeepers in the Red River valley with apiaries typically housing 30 to 40 hives. The state, cooler and windier than Minnesota or Wisconsin, still supports honey production from clover and basswood, with June and July yielding lighter honey. Beekeeping offers profit, needs modest care, and can be pursued by many farmers as a supplementary, pleasant farm activity.
A Madison Wisconsin banking party toured central North Dakota from Mandan to Dickinson and found no wild west fringe. Guided by insurance official Ferdinand Leutz they enjoyed refined hospitality, educated hosts, libraries and art, and were surprised the famed wild life did not exist. They plan to return next summer with families.
The report notes a week of severe rain snow and cold with killing frosts across the state. Threshing slowed badly as fields remained wet while grain damage rose and flax corn and other crops suffered, though much of Red River valley corn stood ahead of the freeze.
County authorities investigate a suspected murder of two year old child of Samuel Criner in Newcastle Indiana. Neighbors say death resulted from severe beating by the father Windom Minnesota.
A 2000-strong audience witnessed the laying of the cornerstone for Manitowoc's new Carnegie library worth 25000 dollars. Mayor W G Kemper presided, Mrs J B Anderson read the library history, and Oscar M Torrison of Chicago delivered the day’s address. L J Nash headed the library board and L B Stearns of Madison, a state library commissioner, visited.
Fargo reports a 12 year old boy named Joel Schock in La Moure County riding a header with a brother when he jumped off and a shotgun discharged. The charge struck his side. doctors say he has a chance to recover. In other news Britain lifts an import prohibition on animals other than swine from New England states.
Lansford grows and Pingree gains a bank, Oakes seeks a county fair, Portal boasts a department store, and Ward county reports a population of 85 090. Minot sowed thief activity and wind damaged Wheatland while diphtheria appeared in Wyndmere. Fort Yates troops arrived at Fort Lincoln as flour mills run night and day. Grand Forks taxes rise, telephone lines reach Portal, and farmers urged to plow. Weather, crime, and local industry mix with rural life notes across the state.
Eugens B. Lario of Denver testifies that Dean’s Kidney Pills cured his backache after long desk work. He praises the remedy and notes he would advise friends to use it. A free trial offer is available by mail from Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, NY. Sold by druggists at 50 cents per box.
Mrs Newliwed reveals she cooked the dinner herself to her husband who quips the watermelon was very fair. The Philadelphia Press records a humorous domestic exchange with a playful punchline.
In a humorous exchange from Chicago News a couple jokes about making parlor matches. The wife asks about the method and the husband recalls his early courtship by drawing laughs in the mother in law's parlor.
Advertisement claims deafness arises from inflamed Eustachian tubes and catarrh. It asserts local applications fail and offers $100 for a cure not solved by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulars promised. product sold by Disto.
A Washington Star excerpt captures a sharp exchange where a plainspoken man accuses a senator of favoring a corporation over national interests. The senator retorts that republics are often ungrateful, implying he could seek appreciation elsewhere.
A Chicago News item records a light exchange where a wife suggests The Golden Wedding to her husband. He replies with a joke about not liking fiction, reflecting a humorous slice of domestic life in fifty years of marriage.
Northwestern inventors received patents including Andrew Anderson for a winding indicator, Jacob Berge for an oil stove, Edward Geske for a grain car door, Gudbrand Grondahl for a stove controller, Albert Keck for a toy, John Sanderson for an elevator, and Joseph Schutz for a disintegrator. Lothrop & Johnson, patent lawyers, 91 and 912 Pioneer Press Bldg. St. Paul. Information for the Young quotes a New York Herald item about grain of truth and neighborhood talk.
A fragment from the Chicago News describes a new arrival at a temperance hotel reacting to a tradition of taking a “foolish tramp” to see a hermit on Sundays. The hermit turns out to be the bartender, a detail explained with irony by another guest.
A jumble of ad lines and stray quotations appears, including references to Osta Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets priced 23q and various moral reflections about punctuality and gratitude. The readable fragments offer no clear single event or person, suggesting a collage of mid page notes rather than a cohesive story.
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