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Newspaper
Wahpeton Times
Location
Wahpeton, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1908
Page
2
The unreadable text fragment mentions fever, engagement, and a percentage or score, but provides no clear event, date, or identifiable entities. The garbled wire-service style appears to report a rating or measurement linked to fever and public reaction, without concrete details or names.
A wide array of brief items from Washington and beyond notes official turnover, Navy promotions, judicial and banking deaths, and notable incidents. Secretary Garfield tours Hawaii and western lands. Rear Admiral Goodrich slated for retirement. a court of inquiry to probe the Colorado grounding. various arrests, deaths, and accidents across the country, with international items on Belgium, France, and Persia shaping a busy news week.
The dispatch details multiple crimes and threats from different regions. Reports include possible Black Hand letters demanding money from Italian grocers, a Sicilian suspect in Chicago, a political union clash injuring a dozen in Chicago, armed band robberies near Cairo Illinois, and a Paducah crowd searching for a suspect accused of assault. A separate Iowa case notes a man’s attempted suicide linked to child death.
A vintage advertisement touts Kodol as a remedy that digests foods the stomach cannot. It claims the product acts like a healthy stomach, never tires, and will digest all food when stomach juices are balanced. Available at drug stores with a laboratory-made formula from DeWitt Co Chicago.
The report notes Japan acquiring Seal Island as a breeding site for a small herd of seals and stressing cooperation in their preservation. It also records two sharp earthquakes felt in Eureka California with no major damage, health officials in Fall River Massachusetts finding Mrs. Mary Costa missing after leprosy exposure, and a forged check arrest linked to Hugh Evans of Horton Montana Mining. Other items include the opening of the West Neobish channel on the George F. Baker with Lake Carriers’ president aboard, Seattle inspection of Puget Sound terminals by A J Farling, Governor Curtis Gulla Jr undergoing appendicitis surgery in Massachusetts, and progress on Pacific coast railroad track completion.
Complete threshing outfit includes a Buffalo Pitts Separator and a 20 H. P. engine with tarke. Fresh cows also for sale. For particulars call A. O. Hanson in Dwight, North Dakota.
For particulars inquire at A. Mikeche & Co's store. "Biemarck" best wines and liquors by bottle or gallon all kinds of bottle beer. tf.
A notebook extract shows Rose rising at five for a breakfast of a sonnet and cold water. The author notes retiring early with no supper to avoid disturbing neighbors with rattling knives and forks. The source is cited as the St Louis Republic.
A Chicago Record-Herald quote depicts Tired Treadwell recounting his initial blindness as he searched for employment. The exchange shows a compassionate response from a kind woman.
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