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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1913
Page
4
The Bowbells Tribune, a Burke County North Dakota paper, proclaims no premiums or solicitors and touts its large circulation. The edition reflects editorials on temperance, suffrage, politics, and quirky local anecdotes including a judge, a canning season, and a Reno divorce case.
A Chicago manufacturing company head faces bribery charges after giving five cent cigars to a Jardin official. The piece argues the act reveals graft and moral decline in a Western metropolis trying to mask decay beneath Gotham scale of corruption.
A Milwaukee man reportedly laughed heartily at an old joke until he could not stop, and is now dying of heart exhaustion. The incident is described as a rare, if morbid, display of infectious cheer that delighted life and the world by his sunny disposition.
The editorial notes 140000 Americans crossed the border this year to invest in Canadian farming. American capital into Canadian lands totals about 2140,000 last year. The piece argues Canada and the United States are converging commercially and financially, with closer sentiment and similar monetary systems.
A French shepherd learns of a 7 million dollar inheritance from a long lost uncle only to discover a nationwide hoax. Telegraphs and letters flood in offering marriage and guidance, revealing how money can distort modesty and spark eager, empty promises.
A Washington dispatch reports that the Department of Agriculture aims to breed a rooster that does not crow. If successful it would end crowing at unseemly hours, though details and methods remain uncertain and debated.
Secretary Bryan addressed graduates at a New Rochelle girl school urging the democracy of the heart over aristocracy of earning. He argued that intellect matters more than mere emotion and warned a dull head poses greater social risk than a cold heart, echoing Schiller on fighting stupidity.
The Late North Dakota digest reports many hoboes about the state and notes incidents including an eighty two acre Sheldon land sale at seventy five dollars per acre. A Tolley area horse died from pot hole water and a Belfield root cellar collapse killed Oscar Clark. An irrigation pump start at Williston is noted. A Maddock separator worker suffered severe leg lacerations from a run over. Minot fans complain about seven inning games. A Williston jail escape and liquor sale attempt to State's Attorney Burdick is mentioned. Injuries include Geo Watkins of Towner with broken ribs and Jess Kemper's motorcycle crash. Westhope horses struck by lightning. Haight Lumber elevator fire in Mandan. Deputy state auditor Carl W Lewis declines post. Pardons limited at state penitentiary. some modified sentences. Grafton Hall batter injured skull. Spike Spanton hurt eye. A Valley City man named Price arrested for swindling via lodge scheme. Page remarks warn North Dakota papers to expect mail blockages from advertisers.
A mishmash report covers a bigamist case halted by arrest, a Minot inmate returning to a police station, Koch charged with under reading the Babock test, Bartlette's collarbone injury, McDonald’s shotgun injury, Stone suing a railroad for damages, a shift back to horses in cities, a fatal riding accident in Neche, and Jack Johnson’s parole factors after his white slave act conviction.
Local news lists Civil War veterans from Burley County receiving passes for Gettysburg’s fiftieth anniversary reunion. Also noted are a Bowbells Catholic mission schedule, land sale listings near Coteau, a Tuesday farm sale by K. E. Mahoney, and social visits by Mrs. Geo Jowett and the Hagen family amid town activity.
Bowbells citizens form a committee to organize an old fashioned Fourth of July celebration including a band races and street parade at noon. Advertising program finance and logistics teams are set up with details to be announced in this paper. Local crime notes report a Portal meat market burglary nitroglycerine blast and rash sheriff activity.
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