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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1908
Page
6
A damaged shipwreck scene unfolds as a man and Marian cling through life saving ropes amid roaring surf. They promise to endure together or not at all, choosing love over ordinary life as sailors haul them ashore and prepare another couple to face the peril.
In 1870s Newton, Kansas, Sid Bloodsaw avenged his friend Bland by barricading a dance hall and firing on eight Texans, killing eight and wounding one as the front door and rear entrance were blocked. The massacre left the room littered with dead, marking a brutal clash amid the town’s rough, cattle-driven era.
A British colonial report notes a commissioner asking a dusky chief for a trading agreement copy and finding the labeled deed attached to a Skeet Sleek firm label. The scene highlights humorous use of trade labels as a makeshift deed stamp in colonial commerce.
A humorous pun piece plays on optical terminology about a Coptic figure and an optician. The page also includes light society notes from the New York Weekly about Mrs De Fashion and fashionable marriages, with jokes about wealth and family in society circles.
A hotel clerk quips about Miss De Swelle preferring the Smith house stationery with a finer crest, noting it looks more genteel than her current hotel, as she contemplates leaving. The exchange appears in a Chicago Daily News item.
A collage of cheeky exchangepieces from Chicago Daily News and Tribune comic items, including jokes about flying fish and rooftop gas leaks, farmer banter, ballooning Peggy, and light social quips. Quotations capture era humor and public notices from urban press.
A Yonkers Statesman cartoon caption joking about why doctors are needed in colleges during the football season. The exchange features Bacon and Egbert debating medical staff and season demands with light humor.
Death Valley Magazine will publish the life of Death Valley Scotty and the Jayhawkers of 1849 in its May issue. Survivor John B. Colton, then 16, recounts the 49-member party formed April 5 at Galesburg Illinois, marching to California on foot the last 52 days. The tale covers humor and pathos with four survivors including a 94 year old woman who carried a child. subscription is $1 yearly with five shares stock in Death Valley Quartz & Placer Mining Co as a premium. Rhyolite Nevada. Strawberries weekly shipments.
The Bottineau school board will receive bids until May 25 1908 for furnishing plans and specifications for a brick school building with complete basement. Bids are to be directed to the clerk McFetn Bottineau North Dakota. The board reserves the right to reject any proposal.
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