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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1914
Page
4
A Minneapolis Journal dispatch argues the National Convention of Dancing Masters endorses reviving stately minuet dances. It links dance style to public sentiment, noting that shifting tastes influence dress, speech, manners, and civic action as a broad cultural reaction.
The Office of Public Roads within the Department of Agriculture estimates about ten percent of U S roads are improved and posits that elevating twenty percent of public highways would boost efficiency and cut transport costs. Over five years to March 1912 the office built 215 objects totaling about 300 miles of road and aided formation of over 650 model country road systems while helping 26 states craft equitable state aid plans.
The Minneapolis Journal notes strong local sentiment over the possible loss of St John’s Chapel in New York as Varick Street widening proceeds. Critics argue the site lacks historic landmark status but many feel it embodies regional heritage amid urban development.
The piece laments Trinity Corporation plans to sell land near Wall Street and tear down the old chapel to avoid “pro fanation” while hoping to preserve New York’s early rural church heritage. It argues the chapel’s loss would diminish a remembered landscape and urges safeguarding the structure for future generations.
Twenty five and ten years ago Bottineau featured croquet clubs at Lake Metigoshe where a jolly group camped. Mrs Walter Bateson formerly Lizzie Winters died suddenly. A grand gopher picnic was proposed to send two parties to hunt and kill the varmints with the loser paying expenses.
Miss Annie Haskett suffered a runaway accident as the Bottineau diamond hosted five games with Phome team winning four. The Quamme family of Courant staff arrived from Hillsboro. Bottineau County bank expands with a rear addition. A two year old child of Richard Craft was struck and run over by a reckless driver.
The Abercrombie School District No. 24 invites sealed bids to furnish and install steam heating and ventilating plant at Russell schoolhouse. Plans are available at the district office in Russell North Dakota. Each bid must include a $50 certified check payable to the district. Bids due by 2 PM July 13, 1914. The board may reject any or all bids. Dated June 11, 1914. F. Hertel president J. E. Buchholz clerk.
The Berlin gold beaters showed leaves so thin that 282000 would match an inch thickness yet each leaf remains perfect and hole free. If bound in a book form it would take 15000 leaves to fill the space of ten ordinary pages.
A sharp quip defines pessimism as not warning of problems but resigning with a shrug and inaction. The comment frames doubt as a political temperament that yields quiet acceptance of decline.
A clipped OCR artifact shows a garbled line about a man and a remark, with stray quotation marks and partial phrases. The readable content indicates a brief, puzzling quote or caption from a New York piece, lacking clear context or complete names.
A roundup of North Dakota incidents: Harvey reports 48 diphtheria cases. fires and storms damage property in Morton and Mott area. Accidents include a man crushed under a freight wheel, drownings near Mandan and Square Butte, a fatal train strike at Gwinner, a man injured by a manure spreader, and a suicide near Edinburg. Safety, weather, and local notes follow with a cattleman’s lightning death and a bridge of news from Williams, N. P. grants, and the Mandan station project.
Wingate, a chief clerk, fears Mildred Winterfield will force him to marry her to inherit her father Samuel Wingate's fortune. A decoy plan with Elizabeth Darrow unfolds, leading to a dramatic breach of promise scene in which Wingate loudly proclaims he refuses to marry Mildred and to pay damages, compromising the hidden scheme and triggering court action.
The fragment lists Bottineau North Dakota residents and editors including Eleanor A. Heskett and Eleanor A. Boakett with ownership notes. A notary public, T. Neville, signs, dating the commission expiry as June 2, 1817, amid a discussion of reading development and a memoir of Andrew Tang describing early reading and a nursery legend about six books on chairs.
A collection of humorous snippets and cartoons from papers like the Boston Transcript and London Telegraph. Jokes feature a weary caddie, Mrs Falleigh, and a dog ad misunderstanding. The gags rely on wordplay and domestic misreads, delivered in early 20th century newspaper humor.
An exchange shows a lawyer accusing a doctor of examining a patient before certifying insanity while a physician notes the woman overstated her age by two years. The article reflects courtroom dialogue in a Boston transcript style.
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