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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1907
Page
4
A New York maid uses a cat as a social barometer claiming the cat reflects family stability. The piece links a well ordered cat to a calm home and a troubled, nervous household to turmoil such as financial ruin. Included is Mrs Flaherty a widow opposing remarriage and the shock over a widow in her seventies planning a second marriage.
A Canp y Scot faced a magistrate for drink related disorder. He claims bad company from Glascow led him astray, then quips teetotalers are bad company for him. He confesses he drank whisky alone, ending with a humorous exchange from Reynolds' Newspaper.
The life of William Stokes recounts his famine mission to Dublin to teach soup making. A beggar questions the value of the soup, saying it is merely water boiled down to strength, a line echoed in contemporary satire.
In Auchleucheries village blacksmith Rory MacInory, famed for a powerful varied voice in the kirk choir, irritates the congregation by switching vocal parts during hymns. The minister vows to discipline him, admonishing him to sing tenor or bass consistently, lest the harmony be ruined.
Illustrated Bits portrays a tramp with clear views on his own condition. Mrs Finehealth dismisses his plea at a hotel entrance, while the tramp argues the contrast with a well off woman boarding at a hotel.
A dialogue snippet shows tension between a would be son in law and his potential father in law. The exchange reveals family disagreement and a humorous note about approval and marriage prospects.
A humorous Young's Companion clipping contrasts nervous women with a hypernervous stereotype and a sales encounter. Mr Mason negotiates a ten dollar umbrella, learns it costs 0.89, while his wife quips the 11 cents are not invidious, touching the clerk with tact and wit.
North Dakota lands in Emmons county will be sold at public auction at the Lin ton court house between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m on Thursday November 14. Bids start at assessed value with payments over 20 years plus six percent interest. The University and School Lands board may reject any bid.
Fragmentary OCR shows a dated local notice from a commissioner named Lind. The readable bits reference auction or assessment activity with times listed and a formal seal of the office. Details are incomplete but indicate official action scheduled or recorded.
United States Land Office Bismarck N D gives notice that Abraham L Abel seeks final proof for a homestead claim in township six section thirty four north range five west Fifth Principal Meridian. Proof will be before US commissioner A Wigutherby at Linton North Dakota on October 1 1907. Witnesses listed include James A Gillespie Joseph Fuller Ole Paulson D Carmichael and M L Jewell.
H E No 26872 dated January 5 1904 for land in section 28 township 133 north witnesses named to prove continuous residence and cultivation including John J Renschler Michael Weber Philipp Hetterle Jakob Kiemele all from Hartford or Linton North Dakota with M H Jewell as register
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