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Newspaper
The Weekly Times Record
Location
Valley City, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1916
Page
3
The Times-Record argues for higher circulation and effectiveness of its service. It claims greater readership than Barnes county papers, promising prompt sale bills and urging readers to visit the office when in town.
Karl Sundahl visits with friends in Hannaford. Osborns return from Valley City. Ericksons from Scobey preview few days with relatives. Bergling and Esmond visitors stay in Dazey. Olson departs for Warren North Carolina after visit. Krantz couple back from Enderlin. Cannon from St Paul visit Stowman home. Ladies Aid meets September 5. Marquardt visits Cooperstown, returns. Thurston visits from Valley City. Roach family back from Carey to St Pat. Larson hall dance draws large Darey crowd. Rasmusson returns from Martell. Rev Dybvik conducts services, returns to McHenry. Dodge family home from Spring Valley. Dr Putnam instructs Dazey band, heads to Hannaford. Jacobson family: Dorothy operated on, returns. Nettie Tolstad ill with typhoid. Meyers family from Indiana report hot summer. Emmet Mosher returns from Michigan. Calnan promotes Better Farming in Wimbleton area. Larson family moves to Darey. Larson becomes Farmers’ elevator manager. Family to occupy Stowman house after move.
Community residents including Will Potter Edward Hannaman and families travel between Sanborn Valley City and Meadow Lake township for visits and shopping. Numerous callings at each other’s homes and road trips to Minneapolis hospital for Miss Startwell are reported among local households and neighbors.
A small period notice promoting Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea remedy. It stresses prompt treatment for sudden colic or diarrhoea before a physician arrives, claiming the product is suitable for every family and widely available.
The Graham Roach combined reaper and stacker impresses observers in the county fields. It operates beyond experimental stage and plans for market next year. The machine cuts labor and twine costs by about a dollar per acre, speeds plowing, minimizes grain loss, and yields higher grade wheat. If scaled, a $100,000 capital corporation may be formed to manufacture and market the device, touted as a major farming innovation since the self binder.
Des Lacs farmer Wesley White unveils a Ford field attachment using repurposed bull wheels and timbers to convert a car into a small plowing rig. The setup powers seven acres daily at three miles per hour, with the driver and family riding safely in the rear while plowing, hauling grain, or dragging discs.
Spiritwood merchant reported three mackinaws stolen with the thief escaping on No. 8. Marshall Au gust La France arrested a man in Sanborn, found in possession of coats, junk, two pearl handle knives, and tobacco. The suspect was sent to Jamestown for a preliminary hearing at Stutsman county jail.
The best way to give good advice is to set a good example. When others see how quickly you recover from a cold by taking Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, they may follow your lead. The remedy has a long history and solid reputation, obtainable everywhere.
Aug 31 Sanborn Enterprise reports weekend visitors from Wimbledon to D R Jones home and returns of Leonard and family from Frank Stillings home. Edmund Tabbert and Wm Gordon joined James McLees Sunday. Edwin Fitzgerald from Valley City visited Cowdrey home last Friday. Mrs. Ferguson and Ralph from Valley City visited locally. Ray Swarton and Valley City visitors came Saturday. Threshing dominates local talk with modest yields. Minnie J Nielsen enjoyed a pleasant week in the neighborhood. Mr and Mrs B A Marsh and children visited Sunday. Fred Bignall’s threshing outfit is active nearby.
Fargo dispatch reports John Smith of Chaffee brought in by Sheriff Ross and jailed after a threat to derail threshing work. He is an I W W, said to have stirred a county threshing crew to strike on the Otto Kaeske farm. Crew resumed work after his arrest.
Former North Dakota lad William Mandigo rises from poverty to a San Francisco real estate start, then Seattle and California fruit lands, amassing a seven figure fortune before a major setback in the big fire. He heads east for machinery to build a large Pacific coast canning factory as Aberdeen notes his remarkable climb.
An 18 year old, Arver, working for Anders Kjelby on a threshing rig in Litchville township, was injured when a fork leaned against his head and pierced his abdomen. He was transported to Fargo for surgery and was reported to be improving with a good recovery outlook after the operation.
Halstad Minn Sept 1 ten cases of Infantile paralysis have appeared in the city four in the past week and two deaths mark a severe outbreak. Dr A Oftedahl says no panic but fears the epidemic is not under control. The city is under quarantine minors barred from street play and precautions are in force to curb spread.
The wedding of Henry Kunitz and Louisa T. Dietsch of Plagree occurred at the Scandinavian Lutheran church with Rev. J. C. Wisness officiating. Witnesses were Leroy Seihert and Mary Christing. The couple began housekeeping on the groom's farm four miles west of Piasree.
A Valley City picnic ended with a dislocated big toe after a woman kicked a man in the toe while crossing a shallow river. First aid was given and the injured party went home. The caller later quipped about a man with a concrete bottom, adding local humor to the tale.
Inggart John son Brox, a Greenland township pioneer, died last Saturday night after a three day illness at age 74 years, one month and eight days. Born in Nordland Norway he emigrated in 1871, lived in Wisconsin 12 years, moved to North Dakota in 1883 homesteading Greenland township. Survived by wife and six children Mrs G C Berg Mrs Enus Severson Mabel Fred Mrs Willie Olson Roy Mont and Mrs Magnus Bakken Chetek Wis. Funeral Tuesday at 2 p m at the house followed by burial in Rosebud cemetery with pallbearers J B Christensen Tom Gudmestad Ole B Johnson Tom Nelson Hogen Hanson Iver Siverson.
The message urges readers not to envy successful individuals, noting personal gaps in knowledge or training. It promotes attending Mankato Commercial College and requests readers to send for their catalog to improve skills and chances.
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