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PURCELL'S BICYCLE FOUND
Wheel, Taken From in Front of Y.M.C.A., Discovered at Columbia Pool Hall
The bicycle, stolen Tuesday from James Purcell, son of R. J. Purcell, city justice, from in front of the Y.M.C.A. building, was recovered late Wednesday at the Columbia pool hall on DeMers avenue.
No clue was found to the identify of the thief, the wheel apparently having been merely left standing in front of the place.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 8/28/1913
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Mary Kicks Up an Awful Row With Baggageman and Is Jailed; An Old Offender
"Mary from Minot" tore things loose at the Great Northern railway depot late Wednesday afternoon.
She blew into town from Fargo on the Northern Pacific, and stopped at East Grand Forks i ntransit {sp}. As a consequence when she arrived at the Great Northern depot she was lit up with a 500 candle power illumination†.
She wanted a trunk. She didn't have any check for same, but was going to have one anyway or know the reason why. When no trunk was forthcoming she announced her intention of cleaning up the force in the baggage room.
Mary is a husky female, and before long she had the entire force of baggage smashers climbing the walls for safety. The agent heard the rumpus and cautiously looked in the door. Then he turned a riot call into the police station.
Several cops hurried to the scene and finally managed to corral Mary, who they recognized as an old friend. She was kept at the police station all night and this morning was tenderly placed on board a train bound for the Magic City.
Mary has been arrested here on several occasions.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 8/28/1913
† Ed: At the time, North Dakota was a dry state, but Minnesota (where East Grand Forks is situated) was still 'wet', so the implication is that when the train stopped in EGF, Mary got off and got very drunk before riding the train over the river into Grand Forks.
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Dakota Woman Loses Hat.
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 27.—Mrs. M. E. Gale, wife of Dr. Gale of Oakes, N.D., who, with her husband, stopped here to visit friends, suffered a peculiar mishap. While chatting with her husband and some acquaintances in a cigar store she drew too near a cigar lighter and ignited her hat, a straw and chiffon creation. It became a mass of flames and was torn from her head by her husband and thrown into the street, but not before her hair had been singed and her face and neck slightly burned.
The Hope Pioneer, 8/29/1912
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Thorvald Gram, section boss for the Northern Pacific railroad at DeMores, was badly hurt when a handcar on which he was riding was struck by a passenger train. Several of the man's rbs {sp} were broken loose from his spine and his head and shoulders badly cut.
Bismarck Tribune, 4/9/1915
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Youthful Robbers.
Grand Forks—After robbing his father's safe of $260, Samuel Garber, the twelve-year-old son of Moses Garber, a grocer of 602 Walnut street, divided the plunder with Herman Langord, aged 14 years, son of Hocken Langord, 1101 Belmont, and they made preparations to depart for the Montana plains, where they expected to reside.
Before departing they made purchases amounting to $22. Two pearl-handled revolvers at $8 each, two boxes of cartridges, two pistol holders, clothing and eatables were included in the list of goods acquired.
On foor they started for Grand Forks Junction, two miles west, shooting the revolvers as they traveled along, and were captured there by Officer Doty and Moses Garber, father of one of the accused. When young Garber saw the officer he started to run and threw his revolver away. He was captured after a brief chase. Langord stood his ground.
A revolver and a pocketbook the boys had thrown away were recovered and the youths returned to the city jail.
The Hope Pioneer, 8/29/1907
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Will Recover.
Wm. Murphy is reported doing well at the city hospital where he is suffering from a fractured skull, received when at work on the N. P. steam shovel. Owing to the breaking of a heavy chain he was thrown against one of the plates and his skull fractured for a distance of four or five inches. His chance for recovery, which were slight, are very good mow, his father says.
—Jamestown Capital.
Grand Forks Evening Times, 8/30/1906
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