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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1916
Page
2
In a debate carried by the Rugby Tribune and other papers, editors spar over treatment of the Nonpartisan League. The Omemee Herald and Bottineau papers face criticism for bias while North Dakota farmers confront costly road conditions affecting auto owners and road funding.
The Courant has added about fifty new subscribers weekly for the last month, many from the Omemee area, while the Omemee Herald notes the Courant’s fairness toward the Nonpartisan League does not affect its prestige.
Souris Messenger and Omemee Herald publish their official verdicts on the Stair Teigen dispute. The newspapers declare the outcome, signaling renewed attention to the ongoing controversy and its broader implications.
Heat and horses are described with sunstroke caused by direct sun on the skull and heat stroke from overexertion. Symptoms include restlessness spasms red mucous membranes and high pulse with fatigue. Treatment is cooling the animal with cold water and ice packs to the head and body if available.
A silvery pocketknife pistol, a 22 caliber firearm disguised as a knife, has reached New York. Police are told to be vigilant when frisking prisoners and not be fooled by the device. The weapon hides two blades in the handle and fires by pressing a side spring after a rotating front.
A poem urging civic duty, calling readers to help keep roads in good condition. It references the cycles of seasons and urges folding time into service with a steady, purposeful effort. The piece invokes spring summer and winter as backdrop for volunteers to drag the roads for an hour or two.
West Virginia roads waste about 50 million dollars yearly says A D Williams Morgantown state road engineer to a Washington Post representative He cites millions of tons of fruit garden produce and food rotting in orchards and gardens because routes to market are impassable He notes a local editor paying a dollar per bushel for apples and a neighbor sixteen miles away facing similar costs
The article notes the automobile spurring the good roads movement and cites high costs of living as factors. West Virginia plans 5 million dollars for highway improvements this year, with counties voting bonds, and national road spending nears 260 million, up from 200 million last year. A Judge quips that income could rise by hitching it to an airship.
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