North Dakota county notes on crops crime and rail plans
A roundup of state items notes Mandan water works talk, Westhope depot opening, and Creighton area progress. Reports of crop yields near White Earth, sheriff at Towner balking jail vacate, burglaries in Cando, and new artesian wells at Oakes. Also notes jail pieces found, threshing rigs sold, and a missing gun barrel incident near Cooperstown.
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Mteese
Towner
Cando
Mandan
la Moure
Ladies of
Sharon
Ward
Murray
Rolla
Rugby
Frank Ressler
Cooperstown
Leeds
Some Lawyers Fees and Odd Billing Tales From London
A London column recounts curious lawyer charges including a clerk receiving a diamond pin fee and a client billed for attending a dinner and a theater. It cites odd items in solicitor bills and amusing anecdotes about grateful clients and extravagant expenses.
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London
Cliant
Hampstead
Law
Westport Girl Collects Cigarette Fetish In Fractured Tale
A Westport girl collects cigarettes from dating partners, storing them in a box on her dress. One night the preacher visited and the father, smoking a pipe, offered a retreat with a second pipe, creating a humorous, uneasy moment in a local vignette.
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Westport
Truly German at uptown cafe shocks with sausage dispute
Bob Hilliard and friends dined at a German cafe where a platter of Bologna was shared. An unknown brand sparked debate about its composition. The waiter finally answered that the price was sixty cents including her last peers.
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Bob” Hilliard
Bob
New York Press
Odor and Taate Soap Trial Prompted by Barber Chat
A barber notes trying a new imported soap with a strong odor and flavor. The exchange mentions positive impressions, though spellings hint at slang or misheard words. The dialogue centers on curiosity about scent quality and customer reception.
Wife Confesses to Murder in Carbolic Acid Case
In Buffalo New York on August 29 Mrs Carrie Horner widow of John A Horner a dry goods store proprietor confessed at a police station that she killed her husband by giving him carbolic acid He died Friday after several weeks illness and authorities note the admission ends a long inquiry into the death
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Buffalo
N. Y
Carrie Horner
John A. Horner
Forner
Hanna Named Disbursing Agent for Fargo Public Building
L B Hanna vice president of the First National Bank of Fargo North Dakota has been designated as disbursing officer for the public building improvements in Fargo North Dakota. The Western South Dakota Telephone company has begun construction on the Pierre to Black Hills line and plans to extend to Hayes this fall. The line will use a copper metallic circuit.
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Hanna
Washington
L. B. Hanna
First National Bank of Fargo
N. D
Black Hills
Pierre
Western South Dakota Telephone Company
Hayes
Imperial Edict Makes Telephones Wireless a Government Monopoly
Shanghai August 29 An imperial edict proclaims telephones and wireless telegraphs across Ching as government monopolies.
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Shanghai
Boy Slips Into Four Month Sleep After Lamp Post Accident
In Yonkers eight year old Charles Canopi suffered a dizzy spell while whirling around a lamp post on April 6 and fell, striking the back of his head. Two days later he lapsed into an unbroken trance that has persisted for over four months. Medical scientists expect nervous disease specialists from New York to examine him as liquids sustain life through his mouth.
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New York
Yonkers
Charles Canopi
Police arrest preacher in church disturbance in Melford
Rev. R. W. Field formerly pastor of the First Baptist church in Melford was arrested during a service on August 29 for creating a disturbance. He was arraigned and posted bonds to appear in court after resisting deacons who asked him to sit with the congregation and yield the pulpit to Rev. W. A. Herrod of Hartford.
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Melford
Conn
R. W. Field
First Baptist Church
Field
Cimrch
W. A. Herrod
Hartford
Alderman flees after duel challenge over prison abuses
In Madrid on August 29 a city council meeting saw an alderman denounce prison administration abuses. A letter from the prison director challenged him to a duel which he accepted. A hired adversary shot at the first report of the clash. the director appeared to die, the alderman fled and has not been found.
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Swanson
Devils Lake
St. Thomas
Sharon
Williston
McKenzie County
Cavalier
Starkweather
Great Northern
Palermo
Oakes
D. W. McCanna
Cando
Minneapolis
Lisbon
Minot
Norwich
Water Users’ Association
Williams County
Benson County
North Dakota
Deadwood
Bottineau County
Canada
Madrid
Prisona
St John's Abandons Prince Louis Festivities
At a public meeting in St John’s Newfoundland the proposed ball and civic celebrations for Prince Louis of Battenberg were unanimously halted after his hint he would stay only one night. Indignation runs through all classes as merchants and politicians condemn the plan. Other local items note Tolley saxophone quarcen and a water famine, Bowden incorporation push, and Maddocks adding another barber shop with Kulm platting.
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St. John’s
Louie of
Battenberg
Prince Louis of
St. John's
Umemeeé
Saxophone
Quarcen Tolley
Bowden
Maddocks
Kulm
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