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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1913
Page
10
Local notice lists subscription at $1.50 yearly in advance and post office registration details for Valley City North Dakota. The fragment notes the second class mail designation and city posting context with minor administrative specifics.
The article analyzes shifts in Progressive Party support since 1912 across St Louis Michigan Maine and New Jersey with impacts on Republicans and the White House. It notes President Wilson pushing allies in several states and districts while Progressives struggle amid threeway races, predicting outcomes on upcoming contests.
A Fargo Courier News clipping warns that most US fire waste stems from carelessness and lax enforcement of building rules. It urges personal responsibility for preventing fires and notes foreign property owners may be liable for neighbor damages. The passage also contains an advertisement for a “Gambler's Secret System” with a dubious Pine Ridge origin and a tongue in cheek endorsement from a local writer.
The text argues that regulation is avoidable if individuals act with personal responsibility rather than waiting for laws to enforce behavior. It emphasizes self discipline and accountability as the preferable path to social order.
A sequence of appearances listed with performers and dates from October through March. Names include Tage Kortaohak, The Prince of Tonleht, The Oxford Company, Montuville Flowers, Boston Musical Co, Zoullner Instrumental Quartet, Gov. B W Hock, C Edward Clark, Kellogg Haines, Katharine Ridgeway, Thye Burnham, Mme Hortense Paulsen, Glenn Frank, and Sarah Mildren Willmer.
A Lincoln State Journal social item reports the marriage of Gertrude Hilborn to Stanley Morrie of Mitchell at 2:30 p.m. in Lincoln. The ceremony, attended by forty relatives and friends, was officiated by Rev. E. D. Hull. The couple departed for Fulton, South Dakota, where the groom works at the First State Bank. The bride, a Dakota Wesleyan University music graduate, was given in marriage by her father. Additional notes cover cattle feeding shipments and a public suffrage address by Mrs. Lulu Shepard.
In a country town Daisy learns her friend Hattie must move to the city. Grandpa and mother ease the sadness with a farewell party filled with gifts, dreams of candy shops, and promises to visit. Hattie and Daisy vow friendship across distance.
Albert Hollinshead shot forty seven ducks yesterday afternoon. The Eclipse baseball club leaves for Jamestown tomorrow to seek victories with an imported pitcher passing through town. The Northwestern Telephone Company weighs a Mandan to St. Paul link. President Arthur and party rode through Valley City on a special train. A vagrant alert and a lighthearted note on subscriptions appear alongside local business and farming updates.
The dying colonel asks a young physician to keep him alive till his son, a captain in the Pacific forces, arrives home. Amid storms and scientific measures, a platoon conducts a symbolic volley to awaken him. The son returns, the father greets him, then eases to death after imparting last instructions and gratitude.
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