17 Dec 1906
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Newspaper
Fargo Forum And Daily Republican
Location
Fargo, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1906
Page
1
Readable times listed as 5 23 pw 6 00 a m 5 35 p m 7 40 a m. The fragment shows a sequence of clock times and meridiem indicators without context or events attached. No names places or actions are evident in the legible text.
Official paper notice lists contact numbers for the Cass County Forum staff and departments including Business Office Editorial Room Local Reporters and News Room with listed telephone extensions 4 L 604 M 639 L 639 M.
A dense time card lists arrivals and departures from multiple rail lines including N P G N and F S W along with Casselton and Larimore connections. The roundup notes rail efforts to curb coal shortages, Roosevelt’s messages to Congress, travel season for salesmen, real estate outlook, and calls for school attendance and local protection urged by a Walsh County editor.
Secretary Shaw reports from 1900 to 1906 three thousand one hundred sixteen new national banks formed with 178 million dollars in capitalization. North Dakota accounts for ninety nine banks and twenty seven hundred ten thousand dollars of capital, while South Dakota has fifty six banks and one point five three million dollars. North Dakota outpaced several states in growth, with faster development than New Jersey and Nebraska and much higher growth than Washington, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, and Utah.
Frank Braclin appointed manager of the local exchange for Northwestern Telephone Exchange Co in Grand Forks moving from Anoka Minnesota where he acted as manager for a year and a half Blakely named district manager and resigns his post
An old Bluffton Indiana newspaper item promotes going home for comfort and reform and notes Chamberlains Cough Remedy as a quick cure available from all dealers.
Samuel C. Milliman of Minneapolis learned his brother George C. Milliman died of natural causes near Driscoll North Dakota. The undertaker who aided the coroner confessed to stealing 105 dollars from the deceased and provided a note for repayment. The undertaker was arrested and bound over to the grand jury after the confession. Funeral services were held in Anoka where George Milliman had formerly lived.
The notice lists nerve disorder symptoms such as twitching light sensitivity limb jerks sleeplessness and headaches and promotes Dr A W Chase's Nerve Pills as a remedy. It notes pills revitalize nerves build tissue and supply vigor and offers 60 cents per box through dealers or the Dr A W Chase Medicine Co Buffalo NY.
Traveling salesmen swap odd anecdotes about aches of lost limbs and frightened spouses. A Texas game scouting scheme by Southern Pacific official T J Anderson offers humorous fines for hunters, then a legal notice in North Dakota cites a probate petition for Harry D Noyes.
County auditor invites sealed proposals from Cass County banks for county deposits. Bids must include interest rate on average daily balances and require a county-approved bond on a least double the probable deposit. Proposals due January 7, 1907. board reserves right to reject all.
National Capital gossip recalls Senator Perkins, long a sailor, noting his committee on appropriations naval affairs and agriculture. J S Williams jokes about silk underclothes for rheumatism, and Acheson dodges a salary vote as stories roam the cloak rooms. A rooftop shinny game hints at a young Roosevelt.
Final standings list numerous recipients led by Mary Dick Wimbledon 10280 Mary Boyle Enderlin 1 Mary Delmore Jamestown 3478 Mollie McMahon Arvilla 3476 A M Almaross N Rockford 3327 Mary O'Reilly Langdon 2698 Gertrude Ryan Ardock 2306 E Redmond Starkweather 1900 France Moran Valley City 1560 Eva Tracy Rugby 850 Grace Malloy Williston Clara Hemmer Litchville 470 Gertrude Devine Minot 400 Rose Malloy Grafton 250 Theresa Bower Page 225 M Caskelly Dickinson 150 Ethel Brooks Devils Lake 84 Mary King Grand Forks 74 Mary Schram Hankinson 66 Anna Koehmstedt Mt Carmel 52 Gertrude Montewski Minto 50 Lillian Sturm Crazy 44 Mary Byrne St Johns 30 Ora Burrell Edmonds 3 Andrew Blewett Sec
James Donahue of New Britain Connecticut reports diabetes relief after Foley's Kidney Cure. He says after two bottles improvement appeared and five bottles cured him, noting he passed a life insurance examination. The remedy treats back-ache and kidney and bladder troubles as advertised.
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