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Newspaper
Golden Valley Chronicle
Location
Beach, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1908
Page
4
Beach North Dakota newspaper marks itself as official paper of Billings County. Printing note lists Brinton Brothers Punishers and Proprietors with dubious wording. Entry details postal classification and second class mail status.
Editor notes campaign fairness for Taft and Bryan and urges clean discourse. Farmers Elevator meeting praises directors, profits at LaMoure, and Beach town pride, urging residents to promote local growth and unity.
The Chronicle announces an eight page all home printed issue to improve cleanliness and neatness. The change increases effort and expense but frees space for advertisers and removes patent print ads. Serial stories will appear and more up to date matter is promised weekly. The paper claims official status for Billings county as the region's sole home printed publication.
Some farmers report threshing machine crews run engines over newly built culverts. Many culverts lack heavy supports, so planks should be laid to protect the culverts when threshing outfits cross.
Burkey reports Francia Snow in Beach on business. Ove Petersilie retires from the bad Jande. Petersilie learns of recent storm loss only at home to find his residence demolished. Mrs J W Page traveled to Sentinel Butte after J W Saturday. Services held in church Sunday with sisters of charity noted. The church will be rebuilt soon as haying season starts and mowers are heard nearby. W W Page was in Sentinel Butte Thursday.
A dialogue reveals Mrs. Abigail Jennings deeming Miss Rachel Gregg eccentric and sometimes crazy. The exchange recalls a bag of eggs sent to Mrs. Cole, a boxed laundry mix up, and a shirt waist ruined, illustrating community gossip and perceived folly rather than outright malice.
An ethnologist cites Darwinian ideas in describing gorilla displays of power. The passage compares human vanity to a gorilla beating its breast, noting how inflated lungs echo a drum like Memorial Day, illustrating the phrase we show the monkey blood in us.
A prominent clergyman laments music taking precedence in worship and recalls anecdotes. One South Carolina preacher was cautioned to keep sermons short because of music. Another supply preacher faced the choir leader's interruption as the choir dictated the order of service.
An East Side observer describes crude wound treatments used on cuts by youths and sailors, noting they rely on hair from biting dogs and tobaccos as poultices, while urging scientific care and clean wounds. The tale highlights stubborn traditional remedies despite modern medical advice.
A reader notes a school opposite their home teaches music with a unique semitone drop. The playful rhyme imitates mispronounced words and accents, offering a favorite school song about flowers and butterflies arranged as a whimsical garden scene.
A London Globe anecdote recalls a humorous scene where a child asks for a penny for food, and the adult deadpans that sixpence is in hand to tip the waiter, highlighting a sly street wise exchange.
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