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Newspaper
The Bowbells Tribune
Location
Bowbells, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1908
Page
4
The Bowbells Tribune announces publication details for THOS. H. HURLY SON in Bowbells. This notice names the publishers and location but provides no further event or date.
A roundup notes the deaths of Sir Joseph Duveen in Hyere France the electrical engineer William Edward Ayerton in London and others including Oscar Mobi in Milwaukee and Admiral J M Miller in Philadelphia. It also cites Reverend Alfred H Harding elected bishop of Washington and Dr W R Gillette in New York along with several accident fatalities and a medical death in West Virginia.
Reports from North and South detail William Graham a black man on trial in Charlotte for assault confessing and to be hanged December eighteen. Oscar Huder of Wichita shot his wife and mother in law then killed himself. In Edwardsville James Vaughan killed Jackson Barker and wounded two others in a campus day fight over elections. Rowen Smith died from a gunshot at Pueblo. Albert Kennard says it was an accidental discharge while waking him with a prod.
Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalf has tendered his resignation to take effect December 1 due to ill health after a nervous breakdown. Assistant Secretary Truman H. Newberry will be named as his successor. Metcalf’s career includes service on the naval affairs committee and prior as secretary of commerce and labor.
Iroquois Club of Chicago announces that the March 15 Jackson day banquet will honor Democratic governors elected in Minnesota Ohio Indiana North Dakota and Nebraska. Despite Taft winning the electoral vote in most, Democratic governors will attend from these states.
Wilbur Wright won the Aero club prize of 200 dollars for the aeroplane reaching over thirty meters high at Le Mans France on November 1. He also started the aeroplane without the usual starting mechanism, and the performance was admirable.
Peoria Illinois November 15 1900 1000 plus in cash deposit certificates and deeds valued at four thousand dollars found sewn in the clothing of Mrs Mary McMasters an elderly woman regarded as poor by attendants at the Bartonville asylum.
Montpelier VI November 15 officials and legislators sought physicians for vaccination after a recent visitor to the state capitol tested positive for smallpox.
Four young men held for petty crimes escaped from Hanson county jail in Alexandria yesterday at 6 o'clock. Outlines the incident as reported in Mitchell dated November first.
An explosion at a Wise county sawmill in Platt Norton Virginia on November 15 killed three men instantly, fatally injured two others and seriously hurt two more, according to local reports. The blast damaged the mill and prompted emergency responders to the scene. Names of the deceased and injured were not released in the immediate dispatch.
Shamokin Pennsylvania November 15 fire broke out yesterday at the Cameron colliery owned by the Pennsylvania Coal company employing 1 450 men and boys and is fiercely raging with extensive smoke and flames reported.
Grand Forks Nov 15 John Henry colored pleaded guilty to murder in the first degree. Sentencing will be set by Judge C F Templeton. Henry killed Ellen Fitton his housekeeper in the residence case.
Mae Is Otis was arrested on four charges of plotting to kill her mother with hired thugs. A city physician ruled her sane after an interview with Mrs Otis, who arrived in Chicago and visited the police station. The mother and daughter shared a tearful scene, insisting on innocence as police consider possible disposition.
State Geologist Alfred C. Lane urged digging a proposed canal linking Bay City Saginaw Grand Rapids and Grand Haven, citing gold findings along the Grand River in eastern Tala county near Grand Haven as an additional reason for the waterway.
Mrs. Allen F. Read, who threatened to kill Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps with dynamite, remains critically ill from illness and drugs. Police say she may not survive to face prison or confinement after her extortion attempt last Monday. Chief Armstrong received late night word of her extremely precarious state.
Bessie Dowdy, arrested on a statutory charge, tells Fargo court she wed Miller J. Dowdy in Sioux Falls and previously married a Mr. Aving in Minneapolis. She claims she informed Dowdy of a former living husband and says she is a delamist, seeking to escape the charge.
Omaha November 16. Dr H Milliner an electrician at Union Pacific shops has fitted a locomotive with a wireless device. Railroad officials say it will greatly lessen the danger of collisions by letting dispatchers and station agents signal engineers between stations keeping trains in near constant touch.
A gang robs barns and granaries at night in central Otter Tail County Minnesota. Martin Johnson loses sixty bushels of barley, Oscar Bjorklund ninety plus bushels of wheat, and Mr Trapa sixty bushels of wheat. C G Hipple reports twenty five chickens stolen.
Webster City Iowa November 15 The infant child of Deputy Sheriff and Mrs Howard was found strangled in bed the parent had left it sleeping and on returning found it wedged between the bed rail and the springs.
Gaylord Minnesota November 15 in a personal crisis mania reportedly caused by excessive drinking J B Farrel fifty nine formerly of Alpha Minnesota attempted to take his life twice yesterday both attempts failed authorities report the man survived the episode and is not harmed by the acts
Four pickpockets rode the evening train on the Minneapolis and St. Louis line as it pulled out of Minneapolis last night and stole about 9750 in cash and several pieces of jewelry.
Passenger train and freight collided head on near Thurston Nebraska last night. Fireman Stauffer was instantly killed and Engineer McClaire suffered a broken leg.
Francis J. Heney, prominent in prosecuting municipal corruption, was shot in Judge Lawlor’s Superior Court during a recess. Morris Haas, a saloonkeeper and former juror in a prior case, claimed Heney denounced him as an ex convict ruined his life. Heney survived the wound to his cheek and vowed to continue prosecuting Ruef. Haas said he acted as a wronged man after Heney branded him an ex convict.
Denver dispatch reports police deny a clerk booked Mrs. Allen F. Read in connection with a dynamite threat against Mrs. Genevieve Chandler Phipps. Mrs. Read arrived unaccompanied, wrote the name Mrs. H. G. Cones, and remains in critical condition. Sister Jessie Campbell arrived from Pittsfield to aid, while public smallpox cases rise in Brattleboro and a double murder is suspected in Greenville. An unknown assailant kills Walter Ammong at a Jersey City railroad depot.
The newly enacted divorce law increases the required residence from six months to one year. It was approved on November 3 by a two to one margin, with unofficial figures reported yesterday.
Fire practically destroyed the town of Spurgeon Indiana on November 15 with an estimated loss of 22000 dollars, nearly wiping out every business house in the town.
A collage of North Dakota notes reports fires and crime in Ellendale Minot and nearby towns including a crossing dispute in Minot a cemetery hold up two men arrested for bootlegging and a mine of community events from phone system improvements to school sales. Growth figures show Methodist church membership up and church property values climbing with higher salaries for pastors and district superintendents across the state.
An advertisement extols Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as a gentle natural laxative. It asserts no debilitating after effects, natural action, physician approval, and guarantees genuine California Fig Syrup products. It ends with a proverb about sobriety and sense.
An 80 year old man recalls severe hemorrhoids with bleeding and itching eczema. After failing remedies a month of Cuticura Soap Ointment and pills led to improvement, with ongoing maintenance. Patient cites cost and final recovery following Hopkinton Massachusetts preparation in 1907. Nearly every parent desires daughters grand weddings.
List of patents issued last week to Northwestern Inventory reported by Lothrop Johnson patent imagers in St Paul Minn. Names include Gustafson Souris N D collar stay Holland Elkton 8 D smut machine Koubs Pisek N D mail box Link St Paul plane Moench Le Sueur Minn pole jacke W 8 Telford Duluth Minn H L McCoy Minneapolis Minn colander
A reflective line notes that relying on clever trickery or rash schemes will not secure success, urging sober judgment and prudent action over flashy but unstable tactics. The statement frames policy outcomes as won through steady, sensible effort rather than improvisation.
A complete telegraphy course including typewriting and penmanship offered for 350 at Asker's School of Telegraphy in Fargo North Dakota. Teacher has 25 years experience as operator and train dispatcher. Send for further information.
Fargo Tannery in N D advertises tanning hides and robes for sale with lined robes and feather hides. Price details sent on request. Dr J H Rinolaub, specialist in Eye Ear Nose and Throat, Forge ND, offers guidance and medical services.
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