Local society notes and travel in the city
Prom Briday's Daily reports visitors from Lestow, Carri N Dy and others spending the day in the city. Several residents plan trips and returns, while threshing progresses with fair yields and early completion hoped. Pan Motor reps Tom Weinandt and S. Guargaard toured in a new Pan car, and Tom Castello returns to engineering duties after a Montana trip. E Lum of the Moore Bros. Corp visits with tractor and auto sales notes.
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4. Weinandt
Pan Motor Company
St. Cloud
Minn
S. Guargaard
Yestern
Pan
Barretts Visit Chas Hollinshead in City
Mr and Mrs Barrett of Watita Kinhora visiting Chas Hollinshead Jr in this city. They toured Montana and report the severe forest fires there are now under control.
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Joe, Barrett
Watita
Kinhora
Chas. Holfiied, Jr
Montana
Broken water main disrupts Fourth Street traffic at post office
A broken water main on Fourth Street between the post office and telephone office creates trouble while crews seek the break. Water service is out. residents hope the source is found soon. In other notes, Dan Rapey moved from the Thomas House on Upper Avenue, planning to renovate and live with his family in their new property.
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Fourth Street
Ds, Rapey
Upper Avenue
Thomas
Dan
Dance at Clarks hall draws large winter crowd
The second dance of the season at Clarks hall drew about eighty couples, confirming the venue as the favorite indoor event this winter. A promising city broadside for a special Tuesday dance was also noted.
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Clark
Clark's
Roosevelt Cabin at Capitol Grounds Draws Attention
The Roosevelts log cabin from Medora, North Dakota, is on display at the state capitol grounds, showing Theodore Roosevelt's early life 1883 to 1886. The 16 by 28 foot one room cabin features autographs and monograms on walls, with shells and a Maltese cross once at the end of a log, and has traveled through St. Louis and Portland exhibitions before settlement in North Dakota.
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Bismarck
Theodore Roosevelt
Capitol
Teddy
Medora
N. D
Roosevelt
Dakotas
Cert Butter
Elkhorn
Chimney Butte Ranch
Portland
Ore
Fargo
See
The
Plate of
North Dakota
Valley City visitors and local updates provide busy day
Prom Thursdays Daily notes several visitors to Valley City including Mr. and Mrs. GH Harris of Pargo, W C Moulton of St Paul, and George Merrill of Fargo. Many townsfolk travel for business, funerals, or family visits, with remarks on local farms, schools, and a looming new barn and silo project by C S Brown of Springdale Stock Farm near Rogers.
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Geo. A. McFarland
Williston
Mr. McFarland
Times-Record
McFarland
GH. Harris
Pargo
Valley City
W. C. Moulton and
St. Paul, Minn
C. 8. Brown
Springdale
Rogers
Mr. Brown
Attorney Ritchie Family Move to Rudolf Hotel
Attorney L B Ritchie and his family have moved to the Rudolf Hotel temporarily while awaiting a house. Ritchie is having a residence built on his east town lots but labor and materials delays leave completion uncertain.
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B. Ritchie
Rudolf Hotel
Evenson party visits from Moorhead for weddings
Mr. M. M. Evenson and the Misses Amy and Edna arrived Tuesday morning from Moorhead to visit friends. Edna will travel to Lake Williams North Dakota for the wedding of Florence Tilson to R. A. Ring and plans to teach in Buhl Idaho next year.
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Page
N. D
Visi
Fargo
Wis
Eerin
Meauba
Parsons
M. M. Evenson
Amy
Edna
Moorhead
Lake Williams
N.D
Florence Tilson
Normal
R. A. Ring
Buhl
Idaho
Fire destroys Brown’s barn at Windsor North Dakota
C.8 Brown of Springdale Stock Farm reports a large barn fire at Windsor North Dakota. Eight horses are missing or lost. Causes are unknown but blamed on a smoker’s match or cigarette and possibly seven ashes from a pipe. The fire’s origin remains undetermined.
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Brown
Springdale Stock Farm
Windsor
N. D
Fargo Man Sues Bank Employee for 35000 Dollars
Fargo resident F Saunders of Dunseith sues G Warner a bank employee at Hope claiming damages of 35000 dollars. He alleges strict mink of Fargo ge the plain.
Mrs Thomson Burns Face In Backyard Gasoline Fire
While the Lymes Record editor was away Mrs J H Thomson attempted to burn refuse in the back yard. She poured gasoline on the pile and struck a match, fracturing and burning her face. She is recovering and doing well, with hopes for full improvement.
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Lymes
J. H
Thomson
Waste Paper Raise U S Waste to 150000 Tons per Year
The United States lauded for rapid expansion in waste paper collection. In 1914 about 1000 tons weekly. by 1918 it rose to 6000 tons weekly, a near ninefold increase. Waste paper substitutes for wood pulp, with one ton saving eight trees. Urban dumps hold roughly 38 per cent of usable waste per person, about 150000 tons annually, translating to power equivalent to 1200000 mature trees.
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Great Britain
H. L. Baldénsperger
United States Department of Commerce
Never-Failing Death Test by Terson Proposed
The French Academy of Medicine is urged to adopt a new test by Dr A Terson to determine life or death on the battlefield. A 3 percent ethylmorphine solution in glycerin would be placed in the eye. if alive, the white of the eye reddens and swells briefly, then subsides without lasting effect, while no reaction signals death.
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A. Terson
French Academy of Medicine
Icard
Fact of Sanity in Brutal Murder Case
A quoted anecdote reflects jury bias against mental illness. Lord Kingsburgh, also Sir J. H. A. Macdonald, notes a defendent deemed sane by jurors despite doctors declaring madness. A pulse test failed to reveal distress as the prisoner predicted his hanging date with calm certainty.
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Lord Kingsburgh
J. H. A. Macdonald
Scotland
Miller
The Little Prude in Alfred Noyes Childhood
A New York literary agent cites Alfred Noyes as a modesty paradox within verse saying he was a prideful child. The anecdote recalls four year old Noyes reacting to a bath towel by shouting to his nurse and aunt to leave, questioned as a congenital prudish flare.
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New York
Alfred Noyes
Au ‘Art Gallery
Cement Output Law Reflects 1938 Decline Since 1917
Complete statistics of hydraulic cement output compiled under the direction of Ernest Burchard of the United States Geological Survey show a marked decrease from 1917 and indicate that Portland and other cement production in 1915 was the lowest since. The drop results from wartime government restrictions on fuel, supplies, transportation, labor, and private construction.
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Ernest #. Burchard
United States Geological Survey
Scotland Turns Toward Peace as Industry Rejigs for War Hit
Scotland moves from war to peace with firms shifting to peaceful production. One company now makes interwoven combut engines for ships, a class formerly imported. In the northeast a chocolate machinery maker pivots from German claims, while Glasgow bunting replaces tar in new manufacturing, creating jobs.
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Scotland
Amfinition
Germany
Glasgow
No coal price combine found says national coal chief
J C A Morrow, representing the National Coal Association, told a Senate subcommittee there is no nationwide cartel among bituminous coal producers. He said prices at mines have fallen versus last year due to competition, with about 5,000 producers and 7,000 mines, and that many mines can be opened anew if prices rise.
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C. W. Nelson
Bismarck
Tax Commission
Mr. Nelson
Barnes County
Washington
J. C. A. Morrow
Vie Fin
National Coal Associaon
Senate
Morrow
United States
National
Coar Association
Maine
National Coal Association
Morcow
United States Fuel Administration
Mc. Morrow
Huddleston
Almbauld
Olnetar General Hines
Raitique Ndatatsteation
Unite State
United Staten
France
Architects Alarmed by Shortage of Draftmen
Washington reports a tenuous shortage of drafters in architecture across the building industry. The shortage arises as former war time drafters shift to other vocations with higher pay.
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Washington
Division of
Public Works and Construction Development Information and Education Service
United States Department of Inbor
Architectur
Ft Te Ditigust
Sale of British warships threatens historic vessels
Nearly 200 Royal Navy ships, many long past usefulness, are to be sold to highest bidders once guns are removed. The list includes vessels linked to Nelson and other famed officers, with more than 100 destroyers classed as noneffective and torpedo boats being cleared, including torpedo boat No 079 once commanded by King George.
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London
Admiralty
Nueleus
Nelson
Severnl
King George
Leutenant
Claims kinship to Kaiser as German princess in own right
A girl named Daisy Irving testified at Bromley England that she is innocent of jam tyranny and has a double who is a thief. She claimed birth at Potsdam January 1 1893 and said she is Diamendo Wilhelmion Hohenzollern, daughter of Prince Victor Wilhelm Hamburg Hohenzollern, linked to ex-kaiser. She described travels and a Germany English life and admitted using Miss W Raymond to rent a cottage at Hayes and allegedly sell household goods. She was held.
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London
Jam Ceny
Daisy Irving
Bromley
Kent
Potsdam
Diamendo Wilhelmion
Girlle Irving
England
Paria
Bungalow
W. Raymond
Hayes
Day Wins License to Wed Brother’s Widow in Topeka
In Topeka Kansas Ernest D Day 32 of the city secured a license to wed Katie Day 21 also of Topeka The unusual scene occurred at the marriage license desk in the probate judge’s office, where the license was issued The story notes a legal prohibition under local statutes and seems to reference a forbidden marriage by consanguinity or affinity.
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Topeka
Kan
Ernest D. Day
Katie Day
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