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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1917
Page
8
Auctioneer R U Brown offers sale at 10 A M on Section 32 Township 153 Range 75 6 miles northeast of Linton. Items include horses cows calves wagons hay tools and gear with cash terms under 910 and credit on larger sums to Sept 1 1918 at 10 percent interest 5 discount for cash. Annie D Pitcher clerk.
Customs officers boarded a Spanish steamer in Gulf Port as it prepared to sail for Europe and seized 40200 dollars in gold hidden in a salt pork barrel. Three crew members were arrested for violating President Wilson's September 10 proclamation prohibiting export of gold without a license. The money was reportedly obtained by the ship cook from a local bank in Havana, linked to a Spaniard named in the graft.
Briefs from across the state report a freight car fire near Rhame destroying a tea load and costing about 15000. Appointments include Walter Page and Kenneth Bertrand to Annapolis, and Dr E F Ladd as state federal food administrator. Major changes cover Northern Wacking stock, a boxing win in Mandan, and a prairie fire at John Czapiewski's farm. Grain losses from drought, legal moves on citizenship denials for Germans, and a poison in green flax threaten cattle. Bowman reports grasshopper havoc threatening wheat, while Adolph Lehman faces murder trial in Golden Valley. Robbery at Selz leaves residents tied, and Fort Yates funds aim to upgrade the Indian school.
The report mixes a garbled German sleep guide with a detailed North Dakota community notice. It describes an Elbowoods wild west show on Sept. 25 26 27, a three day fair with Indian sports and agricultural displays, land filings for 6200 acres in the Slope country opening Sept. 19, and a push by Governor Frazier for grain grading reform and flour pricing. It also notes a mass portrait project by the North Dakota State Historical Society to document over 10 000 soldiers from 1917 for archival preservation.
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