Burnstad.— The 10-month-old child of Mr. And Mrs. John Miller, of this place, drowned in the slop pail while its mother was absent from the kitchen for a brief period. When Mrs. Miller left the house the child was playing on the kitchen floor. She returned a few minutes later to find that the baby had fallen over into the slop pail and drowned.
Turtle Mountain Star, 12/19/1912
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CAPITOL WORKER HURT— Walter Melli, Bismarck carpenter, is in a hospital with a serious condition as a result of an accident while working on the new capitol building. A steel worker eight stories up missed a hot rivet thrown to him by a fellow worker, and the rivet dropped the eight stories, hitting Melli on the head.
Turtle Mountain Star, 12/29/1932
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Jap Refused Marriage License
Medora — Two fond hearts, longing to beat as one, met a stern rebuff here, when a diminutive Jap and a white girl called on Judge Paxton for a marriage license and were refused. They came on No. 8 in the morning and having had no sleep, took rooms. Refreshed, they sought the judge; but on his sorrowfully declining to do anything for them, they went on east the same evening in quest of a county judge posessing more of the milk of human kindness. They claimed to be from Billings, Mont.
Turtle Mountain Star, 1/5/1911
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Stork Arrives When Mother Is In Wreck
Alexandria, SD - The daughter of Mr. And Mrs H. L. Serles got an initiation into the hrly-burly of this modern era early in life.
While Serles was rushing his wife to a hospital, the automobile and a truck collided headon. Mrs Serles gave birth to a daughter on the spot.
Although she was knocked unconscious and suffered fractures of an arm and leg Mrs Serles and the child were both reported doing well.
The Bismarck Tribune, 8-3-1940
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No Poisoned Arrows
Maj. Powell, who has carefully investigated the subject, comes to the conclusion that poisoned arrows have never been used by American Indians. The belief of Indians is that diseases do not come from natural causes, but are the work of evil spirits. Hence they would not be likely to conceive the idea of inoculating disease by means of poisoned substances. They do not know, for example, that rattlesnake poison comes from a sack in the reptile's jaw. What they call "poisoned arrows" or "medicine arrows" are arrows to which supernatural qualities are supposed to have been imparted by incantations.
Bismarck Semi-Weekly Tribune, 5-30-1877
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