Hague district notes and community life in Pollock
Local correspondence from Pollock covering social events and movements: Hague district names, attendances at gatherings, a double wedding at St. Marys, a bank building razing, relatives visiting, and a funeral for Grandma Tracy. Mentions include OConnor speech, local schooling, and a baby’s passing with obituary verse.
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Peter Wolf
Blanche Madison
No. 6
Hague
Fischer
Sam Schmidt
Coast Artillery
Mat Schatz
Val Keller
Frank Jaeger
Richardton
N. D
St. Mary’s Church
O’connor
O'Connor
J. J. Brokofsky
Minneapolis
W. D. Fenelon
Aberdeen
C. S. Prouty
Havre
Montana
Clement
Grandma Tracy
Pollock Cemetery
Local social visit noted by several families
Mr and Mrs Wm McCulley and Mr and Mrs Claude Harwood joined Charley Waddell and Miss Harth along with Mr and Mrs Bryant Baker and Mr and Mrs Alex McCulley and Grace for a social visit at an unspecified location.
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E. R
Wm. McCulley
Claude Harwood
Charley Waddell
Miss Harth
Waterloo Boy Kerosene Engines for Home Power
A vintage sales pitch extols Waterloo Boy kerosene engines for farm chores from pumping water to running milking machines. It highlights ease of use for both spouses, reliability across regions, and multiple horsepower sizes 2 3 5 7 9 and 14.
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Waterloo
Waterloo Bay
Miss Evelyn Smalley War Hero Returns For Lecture Tour
Miss Evelyn Garnault Smalley arrives back in the United States for a lecture tour after serving in France since 1917. She worked on front lines with the AEF canteen corps and was attached to the French army, earning the Croix de Guerre and two citations by Marshal Petain. She plans to resume reconstruction work in the Marne valley upon returning to France.
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Evelyn Garnault Smalley
France
Miss Smalley
Marshal Petain
Ministry of the Liberated Regions
Marne Valley
Clothing prices to fall with spring goods forecast
Chicago figurehead Bertram J. Cahn, president of the Wholesale Clothiers Association of Chicago, forecasts lower clothing prices as spring goods approach. Manufacturers will trim profits, woolen mills plan 20 to 25 percent cuts, and labor cooperation may bring further declines. gradual reductions are urged to avoid triggering retailer pullbacks.
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Chicago
Bertram J. Cahn
Wholesale Clothiers’ Association of Chicago
Cahn
North Dakota music clubs federation holds first annual meeting
The first annual meeting of the North Dakota Federation of music clubs was well attended in Bismarck with local notes of interest. Charlson shows rumors of local egaturn and beet sugar refining plans for nearby areas. Tower City post office achieved a perfect score at the last inspection, the first since 12 years.
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Bismarck
North ‘Dakota Federation’ ‘of
Charlson
Egatern
Capital
Post Office
Inspector reports crate with dog and cat bound for Des Moines
Jamestown recalls General Sibley camping near this state during an 1863 Indian expedition. Flaxton notes Nick Kohn found dead after a Canada trip with purchased Canadian whisky. Hannaford reports Joseph Bagley shot by F W Nolan when refusing to exit a freight train.
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Arthur
Des Moines
Jamestown
General Sibley
Flaxton
Nick Kohn
Canada
Hannaford
Joseph Bagley
F. W. Nolan
Great Northern
Local hospital cases report multiple serious injuries
Dorothea Schlosser underwent an operation at Wolverton Hospital for appendix tonsils and adenoids. Mrs Diede faces a critical recovery after emergency surgery for a ruptured gangrenous appendix in Linton. Peter Weiszbeck has extensive burns from a gasoline explosion. A barn fire destroyed Bichler farming contents. Melchair Wagner injured a hand in wagon coupling. Mrs Schulz broke her right forearm after a basement fall. John Elwess sustained head injuries after a buggy accident.
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Dorothea
Sebastian Schlosser
Napoleon
Wolverton Hospital
Jacob Diede
Zeeland
Linton
Mike Bichler
Bichler
John Gr Schulz
John Elwess
E. Doolittle
Lingon
Mr. Elwess
Will Johnson
Sod Filter for Sewage Experiments
French experiments show ordinary sod can serve as an efficient filter for sewage. The method uses layered grass roots to trap solids and clarify wastewater, suggesting a low cost option for community sanitation.
Catholic Mass Schedule and Charity Talk By Rev Dr Klotz
The parish lists Sunday Masses at 6 and 10 a.m. A charity presentation on the plight of poor children in Tryrol and southern former Austria will be given by Rev Dr Klotz of Salzburg.
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Tryrol
Former
Austria
Klotz
Salz
For Sale Farm Auction Inquiries By George S Nelson
Owing to poor health a 310 acre farm is offered for sale. 100 acres under plow includes 7 horses 20 pure bred Duroc hogs 4 cattle and a feed mill. Also 6 registered boar pigs six months old priced at 25 each. George S Nelson seeks buyers.
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MAGUE
Polly Weisenberger
State Bank
Gus Arndt
Pollock
Fred Kist
Linton, N.D
F. H. Carpenter
H. B. Johnson
Mgr., Braddock, N. D
Miss Evelyn Smalley
Melchair Wagner
Little Beaver Flat
City National Bank
Paul H. Marshall
North Dakota
Burg
George
Nelson
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