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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1902
Page
3
A clipped column items satire on legal burdens and public affairs. Edits touch on crime, politics, inventions, royalty, and press. It cites editors, publishers, and public figures with wry, observational tone.
The passage notes a $50 million farming trust may relocate funds eastward if aid arrives and products hold until demand peaks. It also claims American women spent lavishly on jewels for a coronation, a detail customs officers will later examine in New York.
The empress dowager arrests another Chinese reformer and proposes sending him to a place where reforms are deemed unnecessary or impossible, signaling resistance to ongoing changes.
Texas railroad offers travelers cigars as a bonus, aiming to ease discomforts of travel. The incentive highlights the era’s rail passenger experience and promotional strategies to attract riders amid rough conditions.
A waitress serves pie after a customer asks for the kind that resembles him. The line invites discussion about egotism, but the piece focuses on a teased compliment and the reaction it provokes rather than a sworn accusation.
A New York woman suing her first husband for abandonment remarks that, after six other matrimonial attempts, she nonetheless pays him a high compliment.
A remark labels a wife as extravagant and hot tempered after she drenched her husband with vitriol, noting only a small amount needed and citing her temper as contributing factors.
A bold claim suggests researchers may locate the first shelter of Adam and Eve as archaeological finds in Samaria Green land and temple walls spur renewed search in biblical contexts.
Tolstoy argues English fiction died with Dickens and American literature ended with Emerson. The commentary targets Samuel Eberly Gross and Mary McLane as contemporary foils to his critique.
A New York mendicant testified in court that he makes about $1,800 annually from begging. The article laments how such a low income cannot allow any real standing in the large city.
A Boston man plans a residence to aid impoverished inventors and contemplate workshops. The facility would feature padded cells designed for inventors pursuing perpetual motion ideas.
A playful reader notes artistic watermelon serving methods and laughs at a small boy’s delighted reaction. The line blends culinary curiosity with whimsy.
A man in Allegheny City Pennsylvania is noted for drinking three quarts of whisky in a single session. Some observers compare him to Mr. Jeffries as a local hero in this unusual feat.
Boer generals are warmly greeted in England following a harsh reception of the British in Africa. The exchange hints at mutual respect and ongoing reciprocity in postwar relations.
The rumor claims Fitzsimmons lost the fight after yielding to the urge to pause and converse with his opponent. The report emphasizes a supposed distraction over athletic performance.
Dr. Yyrop of Copenhagen University gains vogue in literary circles with The Kiss and Its History translated by William Frederick Harvey. The eight chapter work surveys What Is a Kiss to The Origin of Kissing, citing Byron and Swinburne among others and imagining other chapters.
Aged woman in Throndhjem, given favored access at King Oscars visit, knelt and presented a floral crown while saying God bless the king and his queen. The scene moved Oscar to tears as he thanked her warmly.
A party of eleven including two clergymen and an engineer saw a sea serpent near Christiania Norway on August 11. The flat oblong head measured about two feet and the creature moved like a snake. About twenty feet of the body was visible and the length was estimated at fifty feet. The observers watched for three minutes and two of them for over ten minutes without alarm.
Hard times and strict conscription in Sweden spur a flood of Scandinavian emigrants heading to the United States this summer. Copenhagen ships show 15,000 emigrants in six months, many to the Northwestern states seeking farmland. ports fill as lines struggle to supply passages via Liverpool and Southampton.
Norwegian home rulers push the pending Swedish elections as a test of political apathy. Verdens Gang calls Sweden's lack of active leaders a sign of weak governance. The franchise reform issue dominates the campaign, but no capable Swede is guiding public opinion. Inactivity may spur the working class to demand reform.
Mme. Andree, held under arrest at Gothenburg, Sweden, confessed to setting fire to the Andree villa. A prior hearing was postponed due to illness. She admitted disposing of jewelry by burning and sinking a traveling bag en route to Gothenburg, with no motive suggested.
Evelyn Baldwin, American explorer, reports affidavits not received by Norway due to lack of jurisdiction. Johanson resented Baldwin?s bid to demote him from commander to sailing master. They have not spoken since Christmas 1901. Baldwin cites Johanson's refusal to obey the ice pilot's orders.
Dr. Axel Brustad of Lake Park Minnesota died after nine years in the United States. A Norwegian baker who saved enough from five years of work in St Paul to study medicine at Hamline University he graduated with high honors last spring and planned to practice in Wheaton Minnesota. He was thirty four.
Ole Glambeksen Fuglestvedt a member of the Norwegian Storthing for Lisler and Mandal was killed when a four year old bull gored him at a pasture on Aug 9. His body was found next morning with severe injuries. Born 1843 he was a teacher by training and a leading figure in debates in the Storthing. Alternate Th. N. Stousland will take the vacant seat.
Norway's army commissariat department proposes reviving a historic Scandinavian method of cooking meat for marching troops. After heating to boiling, portions are embedded in hay to finish cooking and stay hot for an indefinite period, even in cold weather, using beef or mutton.
A royal commission proposes drastic measures to curb corporations exploiting forest lands in Northern Sweden to halt deforestation and its damage to agriculture. The plan targets operations regardless of land ruin and calls for stringent controls on timber industry activities.
The World's Y M C A congress opened in Christiania Norway on August 19 with more than 1000 delegates from 31 countries attending. The United States was represented by 38 official delegates. The congress closed last Sunday.
President Deuntzer of Denmark acknowledges the Danish Peace Society petition asking the government to join Sweden and Norway in a declaration of complete neutrality in all international matters. The ministry will consider the matter at the first opportunity.
Rich ore discovery at Vadsoe in Norway shows ore with about 50 percent high grade iron. Analysts expect mining operations to start promptly as assessments continue.
Weary Willy explains that his father was a Populist as a retort to a farmer about farming knowledge, reflecting dialogue from Leslie's Weekly.
The source quotes a Plain Dealer item humorously predicting a 1904 demand for balloon lamps at summer resorts. The speaker fears mounting responsibilities from golf, ping-pong, polo, and now balloon lamps will push him to quit.
A dialog from the New York Sun features a hotel proprietor offering a 25 percent cut if the entire company stays, while a press agent ups the deal to 50 to lure a large trout and a sea serpent sighting. The exchange reads like a light city humor item.
In a dime museum vignette a living skeleton explains a peculiar smell as rubber-skin burns from lighting a cigarette. A judge presides over the scene amid curious spectators and the manager’s wary oversight.
Phyllis and Maud tease a man who claims to be the world’s most adorable, beautiful, and intellectual woman’s paragon then asks for marriage. The Washington Times records the humorous exchange.
A Baltimore Herald report links a man’s death to deadly gasoline. The piece questions whether the peril came from an auto or stove and frames the case as a sharp legal query.
A wife questions her husband about giving a recommendation to a cook who drank his whisky. He replies that he noted the cook had a great deal that was good in her life.
A dramatic line from the Chicago Record-Herald portrays a medical scene where a doctor warns of heroic treatment for a son as a father and mother react. The father, recalling Philippine operations, orders a syringe and water from downstairs.
A fragment quotes Hortense Hen-Oh discussing the language of flowers. Puck notes the gardener often speaks it after the speaker has been digging in flower beds.
Paris reports government orders evacuation of Martinique's northern portion as Mont Pelee eruptions claim many deaths. Consul Jewell in Fort-de-France notes about 1500 killed and island deemed doomed, with Guadeloupe fearing tidal disaster amid widespread panic and business collapse.
Rios the outlaw led thirty riflemen and 150 bolo-armed men into Laguimanoc Tayabas on September 3 killing two women and a girl and wounding several natives. A native constabulary detachment routed the bandits, killed several followers, and rounded up 700 men for inquiry. One lieutenant claimed Rios is a direct descendant of God. Four constabulary detachments pursue the main band and a mountain stronghold is in custody.
Six men raided the Bank of Fremont in Steuben County Indiana early yesterday blowing the vault and storefront with dynamite. Residents were held at gunpoint as the gang loaded cash but left much of the money behind. The robbers fled in carriages toward the Michigan state line.
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on September 7 a mob wrecked the home of Lawrence Tarwoski a non union mineworker at Hudson six miles north of the city His wife fled in terror from the place amid the attack.
In Cedar Rapids Iowa on September 7 seven year old George Cerny drowned and five year old Sutton perished attempting to rescue him. The tragedy occurred at night with both boys losing their lives in the water.
At St Paul on September 6 a chestnut horse named Jupiter fell while attempting a hurdle in the two mile racing at the fair grounds. The jockey Bert Metcalf was seriously injured as the horse rolled over him.
Rear Admiral Rodgers, commander in chief of the Asiatic Station, cables word of his arrival at Hakodate to the department, announcing his presence and readiness for duties in the area.
Otto M. Thumler and Mrs. Antoinette Young died within five hours of each other aboard the St. Nicholas en route from Brazil to Portugal. Their bodies lie buried at sea a thousand miles off South America. An unsigned cablegram from Lisbon confirms the double death and burial.
George Stafford and Margaret Frack fled Wharton on a Lackawanna handcar to escape Oliver Frack the weary husband. The couple paused only after elopement, arrest, and a later reconciliation, while Stafford, an athletic Ohio native, had moved into the mine town and courted Frack’s wife on the veranda.
The Missouri river near St Joseph is eroding soil and forming a sand bar that diverts the main channel toward the Kansas side. Government steamers and barges are mobilized to counter the current as engineers warn the river may cut a new path, leaving St Joseph stranded without a key steel bridge worth about half a million dollars.
Harvey Logan alias Kid Curry the alleged ringleader in the Great Northern train robbery where 40000 unsigned Montana bank notes were stolen was turned over to federal authorities. Judge Sneed ruled that United States authorities share jurisdiction with Tennessee for Logan to be tried locally on possession of unsigned notes and forged bank official names.
A Naples dispatch reports a gas explosion at the Church of Santa Lucia as a lamplighter entered the sacristy. The blast damaged the roof and caused injuries and possible deaths among worshippers as panic sent people rushing to exits.
Real murder on the stage as Julia Pakey shoots Julius Bardor after a failed engagement. The revolver was loaded with bullets, not blanks, and Bardor dies. Pakey then kills herself by slashing her veins.
Philadelphia public schools will heat in winter with coal imported from Europe. The coal arrives on tramp steamers under the British flag, marking the first time the city’s schools must obtain fuel from outside the state.
The new militia unit at Whitewood has been mustered as Company K of the Second Regiment, South Dakota State Guard. Officers are Captain Robert V. Carr, First Lieutenant P. M. Bonniwell, and Second Lieutenant Alexander Blundell. The muster roll lists forty names.
Des Moines Iowa September 7 Thomas Lewis twenty eight unmarried miner of Marquisville was arrested charged with the murder of sixteen year old Lena Peterson on April 12 last.
An eight year old, Johnnie Rusk, son of a farmer near Lake Preston, is accidentally killed when a gun goes off while his sister handles the rifle. Details indicate the tragedy occurred in September of 1907 as family members attempted to retrieve a weapon.
La Crosse Wisconsin detectives arrest William Morrow a farmer from Eastern Illinois driving into town with three horses and a wagon suspected of horse stealing Morrow admits stealing harness at Mabel Minnesota and police expect a confession implicating other gang members in the ongoing horse theft case
Milwaukee reports the Wisconsin Democratic state convention completed nominations for governor David S. Rose lieutenant governor John W. Wattawa secretary of state Louis A. Lange treasurer Ed L. Luckow attorney general Olaf R. Skaar superintendent Karl A. Mathie railroad commissioner W A Redner and insurance commissioner William Ferber with Ferber and Lange elected by acclamation Lange defeated McNally for secretary of state. A motion to reaffirm the national platform failed and the gathering adjourned sine die at 5 20.
Crookston Lumber company begins clearing 100 acres by Bemidji lake to build a large saw mill. Six months of prep and construction projected. Estimated cost about $300,000. Timber to come from headwaters of the Mississippi and along the Minnesota International Railway in Beltrami and Itasca counties.
Authority has been granted for the organization of national banks in Minnesota. Names and capitals include the National Bank of Commerce in Mankato with 1,200,000, Security National Bank of Albert Lea with 50,000, and First National Bank of McIntosh with 25,000. Reuben J. Steffa named postmaster at Ryan in Goodhue county, succeeding Philip Ryan.
The infant daughter of Mr and Mrs B Terping of Galesville Wisconsin died after falling into a pail of boiling water. The burns covered from shoulders to lower limbs and proved fatal soon after.
Ottumwa Iowa September 6 the strike by linemen of the Ottumwa street railway is active police report says sympathy may spread to telephone linemen and the men seek a higher pay increase the action halts electrical service in parts of the city
Mrs. George Huff of Merriam Park was badly burned when her clothing caught fire while using gasoline. The wind fanned the flames as she ran outdoors calling for help, and doctors fear she cannot live many hours.
Mrs Eouis Stevenson of Salt Lake City sworn by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after relief from ovarian and womb inflammation. She reports pain fading within four weeks and cure in three months, claiming she avoided surgery. The note invites others to write to Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts for guidance.
A brief dialogue contrasts wealth with wings while a reader is told about nightly itching. The ad touts Dean's Ointment for piles with a claim of reliable relief available at drugs stores for 50 cents.
A prospect asks an attendant about fees and then startlingly requests a box large enough to hold a load of coal, prompting a puzzled exchange as the conversation unfolds in a Cleveland Plain Dealer anecdote.
A reader quotes a new nursery rhyme collection claiming it is fully up to date. A sample verse presents a pun involving needless pins and a punctured wheel, illustrating modernized illustrations and humor aimed at children.
Listings for Saint Paul and Minneapolis venues include Chauncy Olcott in Old Limerick Town at the Metropolitan Opera House and Rose Melville in Sis Hopkins at Bijou Opera House. Also shows at Grand Opera House Star Theatre Trocadero Burlesquers and more with City Club Burlesquers and Is he competent Is he is indig nant remark from Detroit Free Press clipped.
Nurse Mother Gray of the Children's Home in New York promotes her powder as a cure for feverishness teething disorders and stomach issues. The product claims to move regulate bowels and destroy worms with over 30 000 testimonials. Available at all druggists for 26c with a free sample by Allen Olmsted LeRoy NY.
A quoted exchange from the New York Times contrasts safety and presence of mind with a question about absence of body, inviting reflection on danger and perception. The fragment highlights philosophical aside rather than a full news item.
An advertisement claims old reliable Coleari 8 guarantees satisfaction or refund for catarre remedies. It asserts guarantees from druggists and uses masculine insult anecdotes about talking to women and remaining silent to label a man a coward.
A distorted shopping note touts Dr. Fowler's Wild Strawberry as a safe cure while lamenting a woman's control over her wishes. The garbled text mentions cholera infantum dysentery and spectacles as a metaphor for permission.
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