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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1900
Page
2
A collage of brief items notes safety on sleeping room stoves and air, Richard Henry Stoddard the blind banker and poet writes with clear hand, France’s President Loubert adopts bicycling, and New Brunswick NJ education shifts from vertical to slant handwriting after a two year experiment.
The article notes that unmarried women in France enjoy more financial freedom than married women who must obtain their husbands’ written consent to access earnings. In Kansas Morton County reports no physicians or surgeons, with the State Board finding no real sickness cases there in two years.
A Jewish world summary cites 668 suicides in 113 days among 400,000 Jews in the United States. Comparisons show England 8 per 100000, Russia 2.7, Austria 16 per 100000. No cause offered for the higher rate in a free country.
The Omaha Bee notes Thurston County Nebraska has a population of about 6,000, half Winnebago and Omaha Indians and half white residents. With Indians newly enfranchised, they will determine county officer elections as white Republicans and Fusionists divide the rest.
The first half of the year saw speculative and brokerage concerns as the heaviest failures. Excluding twenty eight million debt the average defaulted liability per failure was ten thousand three hundred eighty five dollars, about six thousand five hundred dollars below last year and the lowest in 26 years.
Two western men made a ridiculous bet over a political race. One agrees to twist the other's mule tail daily for three weeks if his candidate loses, a stunt meant to influence the other man's voting. The scenario highlights the folly and potential coercion behind the wager.
The author notes that corporations allow estates to be held and transferred without exhausting them through will disputes. Incorporation shields principals from fortunes being suddenly redistributed, reducing exposure to contested legacies and greedy lawyers.
A Clay County farmer left about eight hundred bushels of wheat in a bin after discovering a hen nesting there. He chose not to disturb the hen, waiting for the brood to hatch. The wheat price rose, and he later learned he had gained over $100 by not moving the grain.
The article notes Lord Roberts struggles with dictating dispatches, requiring his aide to read and translate his handwriting. It also mentions California poet Joaquin Miller revealing that his posthumous complete works edition will use his real name Clyeiopatus Heine Miller.
A Hong Kong race meet draws a diverse crowd of Asiatic nationals, Europeans, and Americans. Chinese spectators gamble furiously on local ponies while Derby day features Chinese jockeys and customs. foreigners observe, some clashing with jockeys during a lively promenade.
The article observes that parent birds often act like they are injured or distressed to mislead intruders while protecting their young. It cites a covey of young partridges and a family of wild ducks as examples where both male and female display purposeful actions that resemble a strategic plan to safeguard offspring.
The Portland Oregonian reports Lum Chang a Chinese worker in Portland who trained with a Winchester rifle. After returning to China he killed seven robbers during a confrontation while transporting hogs, then warned the gang and spread terror among them.
Four hundred elk teeth were sold in Spokane Washington for $1,000 reflecting Elks members demand and increasing scarcity. A Montana man once paid $80 for an Indian headdress with 800 elk teeth, while last year a similar piece with 280 teeth brought $200.
A sensational tale recalls Tai Ho a Chinese girl sold for labor and later rescued by missionaries and made a San Francisco cook. The piece also notes chimney building troubles and recounts Ed R Dennis riding to safety after his bulldog battled a blue racer snake, which killed the dog.
The French subsidy enables French vessels to operate profitable ballast voyages, with the Gen. Mellinet sailing from Glasgow to Portland to load wheat for the United Kingdom. Despite aims to stimulate global trade, the program appears to benefit a few ship owners rather than France or broader trade, as shown by the Mellinet’s two year voyage pattern and transfers of cargo.
The British Army suffered heavy horse and mule losses in the Boer War due to overwork and altered color camouflage. Painting horses khaki hindered sweat evaporation, causing illness and death. By July, 22,000 horses and 146,000 mules had been consumed, with many mules surviving where horses perished.
A young French naval officer fell in love with Princess Amelie at a Nice charity bazaar. He later learned she would become Portugal's queen. After deserting his ship to find her, he was refused admittance at the castle and captured, paraded back to his vessel in a humiliating scene.
A wealthy New York resident has for twelve years pressed presidents to appoint him but insists he will never accept the job. He writes to President Harrison that all he desires is the privilege of declining, though no president has acted on his promise.
Emperor Wilhelm sums up a grand mission as German waiters march to the Paris exhibition with a fatherly mandate. The piece notes high land values in London and a rail ground dispute in Bermondsey, and ends with news that Prof. Alfred Newton received the British Linnean Society gold medal for zoological work.
Nanking known as Kiang-Ming by Manchu rulers sits as a historic and economic hub in the Yangtse-Kiang valley. The city, population 400,000, is a treaty port with rich crafts, coal, iron ore, and marble nearby. It bears walls believed to resemble the great wall in scale, and its sanitation is tightly controlled by officials.
The Supreme Court rules that suit service on a person five days before appearance, with four days travel and only one day to prepare, even with land foreclosure, is insufficient for reasonable notice and due process. The decision emphasizes the heavy travel burden and short preparation time as incompatible with fair legal notice.
Miss Charlotte Mulligan of Buffalo, famed for guiding and reforming vagrants, died after a long illness. She ran a streethome for homeless men, led probationer programs, taught education and industrial arts, conducted an orchestra, and edited music for the Buffalo Courier. Her influence extended through clubs and charities, shaping Buffalo civic life.
A Kaffir story titled Demane and Demanza narrates a hunter husband and wife living in a cave. While Demane hunts, Demanza cooks despite a warning that cooking will invite cannibals. A cannibal knocks, is refused, consults his tribe, suffers a throat burn, returns in a woman’s voice, gains entry, and abducts Demanza as Demane returns with honeybees.
In a strange tale Demane and Demanza thwart a cannibal plan by bees released from a sack. The feast backfires as the host is stung and dies, wealth goes to the couple, and they live happily. The collection mocks obedience with a proverb about honesty.
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