Blenkner Describes North Country Woes and Prospects
In a letter Blenkner notes fierce mosquitoes and deer flies northward, with many travelers from the U S and Canada visiting Prince Rupert. He says the country improves only with the railroad and that most gains come for prospectors and trappers. A placer miner claims up to 10 to 20 dollars daily 300 miles north of Ft George, but high provisions and short seasons erode profits.
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United States
Canada
Prince Rupert
Ft. George
Ortland Family Guests Stay With Tate in Bowbells
Mr and Mrs Eugene Ortland and their Velva children arrived yesterday and will remain in Bowbells for a time as guests of Mrs Tate and her husband J E Tate.
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Eugene Ortland
Velva
Bowbells
Local notes include hires and retirements across towns
Bob Kinning visits Paynesville and oversees Advance Threshing Machine Co interests while J P McCusker departs for Weyburn to lead an International Harvester Co territory at a good salary. George Burke recovers from heart and stomach trouble. A socialist local forms in Hartman with L L Griffith speaking. Bowbells members shift locals. George Bryant reports excellent harvest prospects and strong crop outlook in the hills south of town. Mrs E J Remington and daughter Esther depart for Elgin Illinois for months, attending Elgin Academy graduation tonight. The First National Bank report shows a conservative, safe local institution. Subscribe for The Tribune.
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E. J. Remington
Esther
Elgin
Ill
Elgin Academy
Evelyn
The Girl Who Led a Bandit Co when Defeated
Lieutenant Hnrique Gonsalez leads fifty men to hunt bandits in the mountains sighting a female leader named Concia aged about twenty one or twenty two. After a battle the band is scattered and Concia is captured but spares her life and declines reward. A year later Gonsalez pursues remnants and is saved from defeat by Concia who leads a night assault and annihilates most robbers then disappears saying she did not seek pay or favor.
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Hnrique Gonsalez
Gonsalez
of Concia
Leutenant
Concia
Gonsalex
Gonsales
Senor Leutenant
Concla
Too Precious Caps and Creases From Parisian Ropes
Miss Ann M. Rust, a Salem milliner, imported French caps with crushed strings. An aunt balked at smoothing a crease from Paris, illustrating how an imported label once carried prestige while today such crossings are less remarked.
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M. ©. D. Bilsbee
Salem
Ann M. Rust
Rust
Paris
A Famous English Clock at Wells Cathedral
A remarkable clock built in 1320 by monk Peter Lightfoot at Wells Cathedral displays celestial and terrestrial beads indicating day hours the moon’s age planetary positions and tides. On the hour two armed horsemen charge from opposite gates and strike the hour as a mounted figure kicks bells.
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Wells Cathedral
Peter Lightfoot
Harper's
He Made Them Listen Beidler Elected Sheriff in Montana
Beidler, longtime vigilante leader in Montana, is elected sheriff of Lewis and Clark County. During his term the jail is rebuilt with steel cages. He invites governors, officials, and prominent citizens to view the cage, then locks them inside and forces them to listen to his stories for three hours as his complete budget of tales is told.
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Beidler
Montana
Lewis and Clark County
Helena
Max O'Rell's Races Joke Dinner In Montreal
Max O'Rell offered a humorous anonymous reading of national traits at a Montreal dinner. He demonstrated his views on the Scotch English Irish and French with silent gestures that drew a hearty laugh from the assembled guests.
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Max O'Rell
Max O’rell
Montreal
A Good Shot Tale From A Sportsman
An anecdote recalls a sportsman boasting of a perfect shot that felled two partridges and a hare. He claimed the second partridge was pulled down by the first in its fall, then the hunter’s gun kicked him backward, letting him land on a hare as it ran by.
Old Christmas Law Repealed After 22 Years in Massachusetts
The Massachusetts Bay Colony general court enacted a 1659 law punishing Christmas observance with a fine of five shillings per offense. The act, modeled on English Parliament precedent, prohibited abstaining from labor or feasting on Christmas. It was repealed in 1681.
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General Court
Massachusetts Bay Colony
It Got Warmer. Little Willie Says It Gets Colder
A humorous exchange between a father and son about a falling thermometer. The boy asks if it gets colder when the thermometer falls, the father agrees, and the boy notes the thermometer has dropped about five feet and broke when it hit the hall floor.
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Willie
Willo
Railroads under fire this era of trust busting
In Brooklyn Life and New York Press fragments a humorist and a trust buster exchange quips about railroads. A caller proclaims the aim to attack railroads while a pear humorist offers guidance to uncover tracks. The dialogue hints at public skepticism and protective laughter amid reform talk.
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Brooklyn Life
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Blenkner
Mettler, Proprietor
Bob Kinning
Paynesville
Minn
Advance Threshing Machine Co
J. P. McCusker
Weyburn, Sask
International. Harvester Co
Jack
Harvester Trust
George Burke
North Star Township
L. L. Griffith
Lignite
Hartman Builing
Richardson Hotel
C. W. Davis
Peter Rasmussen
Guy Morse
C.F. Edwards
F. D. Kaser
Fred Kahler, Jr
George Bryant
Hills Country
The
Tribune
George
First National Bank
Langworthy Lumber Co. Winds
Ywhells, N. Dak
Avery
Cockshutt-Avery
ip_bu
Donovan Bros
N. Dak
Howell
New York Press
Alfred Austin
Paris Green
Mickelson
Krueger Drug Co
Rexall
North Dak
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