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‘News, May Haven the local market is worth iest any price the seller has the nerve to ask for it. A nine-pound son was born to Rey, and Mrs. Frik Tou, Wednesday morning, May Std, at 12:1 o'clock. All parties doing nicely LM, Carlson, local agent for the Merrick Lumber Company, left Mon day for Minot, where he will uile a homestead on the Berthold reserva tion, having drawn a lucky number last fall at Bismarck. Mrs. Sadie Thistlethwaite and husband came down from Bismarck Monday and are guests of friends in this vicinity. Mrs. Thistlethwaite was formerly Miss Sadie Lowery, and grew from childhood just west of town. Theodore Roosevelt is a most con scientious square-dealer or else “Tiddy Rozenfelt” is learnings politi cal tricks. D President Taft as first choice for presdent ran 3,600 odd votes ahead of Col. Roosevelt in Massachusetts; but, owing to the freak nature of the presidential pri mary law in the “Old Bay State,”’ the delegates were evenly divided between Taft and Roosevelt. Upon learning the facts Col. Roosevelt im mediately wired his delegates at ‘arge that he released them from any obligation to himself and re quested that they cast their votes for President Taft thus giving the lat ter twenty delegates and the colonel but ten. Then the ex-president’s eight delegates wired that they would be blamed if they would vote for the stuffed prophet and there you are. Anyhow, Roosevelt's prompt “square deal’ spirit and action has won friends and delegates if he doesn't get a vote from Massa chusetts.
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Emmons County record
Linton, North Dakota, US
Thu, May 16, 1912
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