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Newspaper
Emmons County Record
Location
Linton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1903
Page
2
A miscellany of wry observations and humorous opinions from the era. Topics reach from gambling and finance to fashion, travel and science. The musings include jabs at pop culture, cuisine, and technology alongside light sketches of public figures and daily life.
Andrew Carnegie predicts a future when Britain and the United States form one nation, trusting steel bonds to unite the world. James J. Corbett has fully recovered from his latest bout, ends his boxing chapter, and signs a theatre season contract.
The passage suggests Rockefeller is poised to control the global sulphur product and may secure a corner on brimstone, enabling him to compel terms from Old Satan and safeguard his future.
A critic mocks the idea of a luxury train for the rich traveling across the continent and jokes about a world tour in fifty four days. The piece remarks on the allure of Democratic simplicity and hints at a traveler’s potentially entertaining book about his world journey.
Report notes prominent local chemists in Massachusetts demonstrated the fuel value of swamp mud after drying and processing. Observers wonder about potential mud as an energy source, while a possible mud trust could emerge. Sir Thomas contemplates an international automobile race, stressing onshore stability for industry and perseverance against rival skippers.
The Washington Post reports President Baer is pursuing experiments aimed at reducing coal handling costs while he has been abroad in Europe, with speculation about his current whereabouts and activities.
The board of inquiry finds no one at fault for the Massachusetts grounding. Rear Admiral Cook retires. The Star Spangled Banner named national anthem. Filipinos seek greater civil service representation. German reports note peasant toy production with machinery. Moody to decide on 18 vs 17 knots for Minnesota and Idaho. $60,000 Indian chevel to be placed near landan, site near Bismarck. Nimis & Nimis win Fergus Falls federal building wiring bid at $1800. Germany complains of meat supply post inspection law. Commonwealth Lumber renews $15,000 settlement offer for green timber but rejected.
A roundup of global incidents notes the Trades Union Congress at Leicester adopting resolutions for an eight hour workday across trades. Other items report educational rights for Jews in Russia, Polish Catholic delegation to the pope, a Turkish embassy dispute, a Berlin author jailed for anti Jewish pamphlet content, and extreme transport speeds and accidents in the United States and Europe.
Judge Albert Ritchie of Maryland and Supreme Court died at Narragansett. Theodore Hamil of Jersey City learns a German sister leaves him 2 million. Prohibitionists in Massachusetts nominate Dr. Oliver Cobb for governor. William Gerken, Milwaukee pioneer, dies in Bloomington. Miss Morgan of the American Women's club dies in Berlin. James Kerr Kelly, former Oregon senator, dies in Washington at eighty four. Col. Richard Luthers, famed New Yorker, dies aged eighty four after Civil War era role. Ruth Bryan Bryan’s sister Ruth announces engagement of Miss Bryan to William H. Leavitt of Newport. wedding slated for October. Leavitt an artist.
A long list of world and national notes covers airship work by Sir Hiram Maxim, military enrollments in the Philippines, political upheavals in Servia and Montenegro, plague inspections in Marseille, and a spate of crimes and local updates across North Dakota towns including Bent, Towner, and Casselton.
The thirty third annual Sioux Indian Christians council opened September 10 at Cannon Ball with two thousand attendees from the Dakotas Montana Minnesota and Nebraska. Leaders from Presbyterian and Congregational missions outlined church growth including fifty Protestant congregations two thousand five hundred communicants and active youth groups. The meeting featured debates on Sabbath school improvements memorial gifts holidays and church pay, with strong Indian leadership and a grand Friday women’s missionary anniversary. The event closed with dawn prayers and a sacramental assembly for about twelve hundred people from both races.
A harsh storm sequence in North Dakota crippled threshing with rain and wind. Shocks blown down and grain wetted threaten a weeklong delay. much grain remains unthreshed or damp, with possible sprouting and smut, while flax, corn, and millet losses are feared amid low temperatures and labor shortages.
Aberdeen South Dakota September 20 Blackney and Lawrence Northwestern brakeman and fireman arrested for stealing goods from cars on the Gl ton Doland line pleaded guilty to petit larceny and were fined 100 dollars and fifteen days in jail each.
Washington dispatch reports Peter McKercher appointed postmaster at Sur Serjeant county North Dakota replacing Anderson who resigned in September report confirms the appointment and location.
Banid Oklahoma reports Douglas State Bank in Douglas robbed of five thousand dollars. The safe was blown open with dynamite. The robbers' team was found about a mile from Enid by the sheriff. A posse is out hunting them.
Fire last night completely destroyed the steamer Alma and the Norfolk and Southern freight depot in Elizabeth City North Carolina causing an estimated loss of 100000 dollars.
A woman refuses marriage citing age disparity as a barrier. The suitor notes she has celebrated twenty two birthdays while he is ten years younger, arguing the gap will shrink to twenty years with time. She remains unmoved in the Chicago Daily News item.
Evansville Indiana September 20 a gunman fatally wounded Chief of Police Houke and Police Captain Biennecke and seriously injured Councilman Frank Inte and Detective Thomas Bates before killing himself. The shooting stems from an old feud between Brenneake and Hutchens at the Tri State fairgrounds.
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