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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1920
Page
3
Bowbells residents discuss the need for fair compensation for weekly newspapers. The piece contrasts church and school fundraising with newspaper ad space costs, urging readers to recognize that papers must earn money to cover printing, ink, and operation costs.
A Bowbells reader recalls a brass drawer handle pitched at sixty five cents in a non advertising hardware shop, while another store with loud ads sold the same item for twenty five cents. The tale, told as enlightenment, notes averaging costs money yet helps sell goods and warns against trusting merchants who boast lower prices due to lack of advertising.
The passage argues that more sales reduce costs and that advertising boosts sales. without ads, many merchants would have quit long ago. It emphasizes common sense guiding business practice and pricing strategies to improve net earnings.
The discussion centers on whether pupils should settle quarrels with fists and then shake hands. The Chicago teacher argues such prompt action ends disputes with smiles and resolutions to improve, while many parents and teachers fear corporal punishment and moral suasion alone.
A collection of satirical quips on work, marriage, and social change. The note mentions Edison and talking to the dead, illiterate mountains in Georgia, chorus girls needing legs, neighborly costs, hog farming, timid brides, and opinions on professions versus jobs.
A Minneapolis man describes Tanlac easing chronic stomach pain dizziness and constipation after four bottles noting weight gain better sleep and appetite. He urges others to try the medicine, listing multiple local retailers selling it in Bowbells Powers Lake Portal Columbus Flaxton Lignite Stamped Northgate and Larson areas.
Brom Staff Correspondent reports on visits to Mrs John Stewart and family including Wel don and Albert Thompson from Kenmare. Local tradespeople and farm work fill the week with hay hauling, horse care, and a new large barn by John Engstrom. Dimond School No 2 resumes after illness. church services announced at Cor 1 Presbyterian.
Thanksgiving gatherings fill the community with relatives visiting in Powers Lake area including the Van Berkoms, Myrons, John Broughton family, Honrand family, and Opine, with Molgaards, Weinmans, and Summers families also hosting. A death obituary for Mrs. Jonea of Foothills township is noted, and the Parmera Club plans to sell 2600 pounds of sugar at 11.50 per hundred. Community notices include bylaw amendments for farmers and laboring men, and order for corn requests at Furniora Store.
The report mentions the Powers Lake high school team traveling to Flaxton on November 27 to play basketball, with encouragement to the players. Rosella Guiles visits her folks, Hugsell Porter returns from hospital, and many youths join the trip. Directors of the Farmers Club meet November 27 to review the old secretary C. S. and new secretary Albert B. Jensen, while locals anticipate Wheat Growers Association plans led by John Bryan. Concerns include corn orders, farm trading, and local moves such as Benton Cole returning from Iowa and the Andersons moving to Stanley.
Real estate transfers list numerous November 16 to 29 deeds in Bowbells Columbus and Burke County with buyer and price details including parcels, NW and SW quarters, blocks and lots. A separate notice of sale of land in Burke County North Dakota names Lars Tangen estate heirs and describes private sale terms and land parcels in short creek area with mortgages assumed and cash balance.
A garbled set of North Dakota court notices from Burke County announces several matters including summonses, mortgage and attachment actions, and probate filings. It references The First State Bank of Bowbells and The State Bank of Gowbella, with dates in 1920, hearings in Towebells and Rowhells, and orders for sale of real estate and final settlement of estates.
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