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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Marks of Past Illness
Shown by Hair and Nails

Signs Of past illness often re.
main long after the illness has end.
ed. These are to be found where
the circulation is poorest, viz, in
the hair and the nails, says a writer
in Pearson's London Weekly.
After. a severe illness, you will
often find that ridge appears run
ming across the nail and growing
with it, advancing towards the free
end as the nail gets longer. This
is due to the fact that the illness has
absorbed a good deal Of the patient
strength and the circulation, in con.
! sequence, has not been sufficient to
nourish the nails properly.
When anyone gets run down in
general health, the nails frequently
suffer in other ways, especially il
the condition is a chronic one. They
may become brittle and crack cas-
lily, while sometimes they are pit.
ted with small holes as though they
had been worm-eaten.
To restore the appearance of the
nails you must, Of course, first re.
store the general health. The prin-
cipal cause of the debility must be
treated, and when this has been
done improvement in the circulation
follows. AS soon as the nails be-
gin again to get proper nourish-
ment they quickly regain their
healthy look. ..,.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Nature Supplies Power
and Ice From Volcanoes

Sometimes Nature supplies power
for nothing. The people of Larder-
clio, in the Province of Pisa, Italy,
live at the foot of an active volcano.
Every unit of heat, power, and
light used in the town is obtained
from its fiery interior, thus saving
the citizens endless expense and
taxation. In addition, commercial
borax is obtained from ''blow
holes" in the hillside, relates a writ
er in London Answers Magazine.
The people of Syria, Austria. live
beside another kindly mountain.
This is der Erzberg," the Iron
Mountain, which is 5000 feet high
and contains about 300, 100000 tons
Of iron ore-ffty per cent of its vol
ume.
There is another iron mountain In
Sweden-Kiirunavaara-which is g.
ass feet high and contains more
high-grade iron than any other
equal area on earth, for seventy
per cent is pure iron.
Needless to say, both these noun
tains have been exploited by the
communities who live in the vicin-
ity.
Nature has also her own gas
works. Medicin, Hat, in Alberta,
has for years obtained gas and light
from inexhaustible subterranean
generating stations. There are a
number of wells which supply fifty
miles of houses and streets.
Welland, Ontario, also has a nat
ural gas supply, and so has some Of
the Mid-Western of the United
States, but in the latter case gas is
sent by pipeline from Texas-where
the wells are-800 miles away.
Mexico has a volcano that pro-
duces ice. This is Colima, which
sometimes bursts into activity. By
some freak, huge hailstones fall
continuously round the crater.
These are collected in special bins,
conveyed to distant towns, and sold
In cafes and hotels.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Many Famous Personages
Born In Summer Months

Are you a genius? For all you
know you may be, and If you were
born in April, May, June, or July
your chances Of fame are much
higher than if you were born in dark
December.
These conclusions are the result
Of large-scale investigations by
American biologists who have ex-
amined the careers of 10000 famous
English men and women. By far
the greatest number of them were
born between April and July. while
the worst birth month for possible
English geniuses is December, says
Pearson's London Weekly.
According to investigators, wealth
er and climate play an important
part in shaping the mental develop
ment of the unborn child. The
rhythm Of climatic change affects
our glands, and the human body
responds so as to adjust itself to
the weather. This mysterious change
affects the child as much as the
mother, and in some way, as yet
unknown, the child's brain is in
creased or retarded by the action
Of the glands.
But don't despair simply because
you are a winter child. Possibilities
of genius may seem attractive, but
they are accompanied by an equal
risk of lunacy. The summer baby
may be a genius, but he also may
be a nit-wit, while the children of
winter months stand a far greater
chance of growing up into normal,
easy-going citizens.
It has also been found that the
birthplace is an important factor. In
America, for example, where the
seasons are the same as in England.
the largest numbers of famous peo-
pie have birthdays in October, Nov
ember, and December-quite differ
ent from the English months Of
genius.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26

A. A. Schmitz, NJ. D., medical
services for Mrs. Ernest Han
SOu HO.VV
The following bill was rejected.
DR.. w. T. Pearson exam & ad-
Minnie sprandei .............. 200
On motion made and carried the
Board adjourned until October 18th.
1889 at nine o'clock A. M.
e. B. GREENWALD,
Chairman Of County Board
Attest:
J. E. THERRIEN,
County Auditor
(SeaD
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Honored for Trying to
Steal the Crown Jewels

Do you know that the Crown jew
els were stolen from the Tower Of
London more than two hundred and
sixty years ago?
At that time, the jewels were kept
in small iron cage on the lower
floor of Martin Tower, relates a
writer in Pearson's London Weekly,
and here they attracted the atten-
ton of Captain Blood. a notorious
Irish swashbuckler.
Blood disguised himself as par
son and paid regular visits to the
Martin Tower. Soon he was friend
ly with the eighty-year-old keeper.
and suggested that a marriage
might be arranged between his
nephew" and the keepers pretty
daughter.
He appointed rendezvous for the
couple at the unromantic hour of 7
a. m, on May 9, 1871. But, instead
of the nephew" Blood turned up
with three lusty swordsmen, who
knocked down and gagged the old
keeper. Blood snatched the Crown,
and while one accomplice seized the
Orb with its giant ruby, another
sawed the Sceptre into three parts.
But at that very moment the keep
er's son returned from a long cam
paign in Flanders. He gave the
alarm, and guardsman captured
Blood at St. Katherine's wharf.
Charles II treated the whole af-
fair as joke. Not only did he par
don Blood, but he received him into
court, and granted him an estate
in Ireland to console him for his
failure to bring off the most daring
burglary in British history.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26

Pine City, Minnesota, County Audi
tors Office. October II, 1889 at y o'clock
A. M.
Pursuant to adjournment the County
Board met with all members present.
The meeting was called to order by
Chairman e. B. Greenwald.
A petition of freeholders in School
Districts Nos. 81 and 125 was presented
to the Board requesting that the NE of
Sections 5 and 6. Township A. Range
Il. ny and SWA Of SECTION ga I and all al
set off from School District No. 81 to
School District No. 125 and the Board
set November IA, 1889 at 2 o'clock p.
M. as the date of hearing on said petit
ton.
The Board adjourned at 10 o'clock
A. M. to allow committee of members
to attend a hearing at Friesland, said
meeting being called by the Minnesota
Railroad and Warehouse Commission
relative to the construction of an over
head crossing over the Northern Pacific
R. No. crosses said Right-of-Way.
The following applications for reduc-
tion and settlement of taxes were fav-
orably passed by the County Board:
c. o. Lundquist, SWA of NEA, H.
ALT, approved at $500.
approved at $135.00.
The following applications for re-
duction of assessed valuation of Real
Estate were favorably passed by the
County Board:
Blanch T. Greenly, SEA of NWA,
and NEA of SWA, 19-42-18, approved
at $4,000.
Adolph Klande. NEA of NEA, 1888
81. approved at S155.0O.
The following application for reduc-
ton Of assessed valuation of Homestead
was favorably allowed by the County
Board:
Louis Novy, NEA. 16-40-21, approved
at S317.0O.
The meeting adjourned until Novem-
Der IA, 1899 at 10 o'clock A. NJ.
(TVIS)
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Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Pixies Peak Devised Own
Coins and Paper Money

At the time the nation was cleo
trified by Pixies Peak gold rush the
country around the present site Of
Denver was a part Of Kansas. In
1858 and 1859 hundreds Of covered
wagon trains entered the district
and Denver grew up almost over
night to the status Of large city,
relates writer in the Philadelphia
Inquirer.
Clark, Gruber & Company, John
Parsons Company. and J. J. Con-
way & Company, bankers OF the
city. issued their own gold coins OF
$21s, S., $40 and $40 denominations
which were exchanged for the loose
gold brought in by miners. Paper
money was also used by Clark, Cru
Der & Company.
The diverse of one of these notes
was inscribed in large letters across
the top pixies Peak Cold" and
had the denomination, IS Dollars"
in each of the lower corners. The
ISVSISS SlOc OOlS LII do0llAOil w Viz
bankers name, the words Terri
tory of Jefferson, Denver, 1861"
making this note one Of the few
mementos of any kind of an inter-
esting episode in Colorado history.
AS the Pixies Peak region was
without protection from Kansas or
the federal government, the leading
men of the district in 1859 called
a convention out Of which grew the
Territory of Jefferson. A legisla-
ture and governor were elected,
laws passed, defense of the territory
was provided for, neutrality in the
impending struggle between the
North and South declared and
commission sent to Washington to
apply for recognition as new ter
ritory. The authorities in Washing
ton, however, were too busy with
other affairs to pay much attention
to the "Pikes Peakers," and, when
they did finally take up the ques-
ton, organized the district into the
Territory of Colorado.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Catacombs Under Palaces

There are nearly eleven miles of
passages and grottoes underneath
Fortress hill. which rises like an is.
land of antiquity among the more
modern buildings of Budapest, the
pleasure loving capital of the Hun
garians. The hill is built up with
the older palaces and newer man
sions of the Magyar aristocracy,
who didn't know until a generation
ago that their homes were under
mined by the deepest of man made
tunnels. Some of the passages ex-
tend out beneath the bed of the Dam
ube. The catacombs date back to
the days when the fort of Buda was
held by the Turks, marking the
farthest fortified advance Of the
forces of Islam into Christendom
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
PR0CEEDINCS0F|
COUNTY BOARD.

Pine City, Minnesota, County Audi
tors Office, October 10, 1889 at 10 o.
clock A. M.
The meeting of the County Board
ment. All the members were present.
The meeting was called to order by
Chairman E. B. Greenwald.
The minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
A delegation from Markville appear
ed before the Board in behalf of the
so-called Pansy Bridge across the ST.
,CroiX River and submitted the follow
ing resolution adopted by the Mark
vile Community Club:
WHEREAS, the County of Pine has
received governmental approval for
project to build bridge across the
St. CroiX River at point about one
and three-Quarter miles south Of
Markville, Minnesota, known as Pansy
WHEREAS, the Executive Council of
the State of Minnesota has appropri-
-ated SS50O.0O as Sponsors Contribution
to carry on said work, and
WHEREAS, the residents of Mark
Vile and vicinity have contributed the
sum of $4,000 as their share of the
costs of this work, and
WHEREAS, the State of Wisconsin
donated spans for bridge 10 wide
and dilivered same on the Wisconsin
side of said st. CroiX River. and
Highway Department has refused 10
approve said spans for the reason that
they do not comply with Minnesota
State Highway Regulations as to width,
and
WHEREAS, a law was passed in the
last session of the Legislature increaS-
ing the width of bridges across streams
in the state to "a, and
WHEREAS, we are informed that the
State of Minnesota Highway Depart
ment might have an old bridge on hand
which would meet their requirements
and be suitable for our purposes,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE-
SOLVED, that we the Markville Com
munity Club petition the board of
County Commissioners of Pine County
to ask the Minnesota Highway Depart
ment TO furnish Pine County with suit
able secondhand spans which meet
with their approval, to build bridge
across the st. CroiX River at the place
above indicated.
BE 1T FURTHER RESOLVED that
a copy of this resolution be sent to
the County Auditor of Pine County to
be presented to the County Board at
their next meeting. Adopted this 3rd
day of October, 1889.
MARKVILLE COMMUNITY
CLUB
BY A. E. Mclean,
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26

On motion made and carried all bids
were submitted to the County Engin-
eer for tabulation.
On motion made and carried the bid
of the Wheeler Lumber and Bridge
Co. for 10000 at $3.50 per 100, No. l
fir ?" iath snow snow fence and 9 Doc 1oOO-6 IS
was accepted.
Hearing on the petition of certain
free-holders of School District No. 81
to be set over in to District No. 125
laid over from the last meeting was
taken up and upon request OF both
ton on motion made and carried was
denied.
Pursuant to notice duly given the pc
tition of Esther Carlson and Hildur
Alters to be set off from the village
Of Sandstone to the Township of Sand
stone was taken up and the petitioners
Appeared in their own behalf and Mr..
NJ. Bulls, Trustee of the Village of
Sandstone appeared in opposition. At
Ter thorough discussion of the matter
the petition was on motion made and
carried denied.
Hearing on the petition Of Thomas
J. Dignan to have his land set off from
School District No. ia to District No.
80 was laid over until the November
18th meeting of the Board.
The application by J. J. Madden for
cancellation Of Certificates Of Forfeit
ure under Laws 1889, Chapter 312 was
approved.
The application of the Rural Credit
Department for the cancellation of
Certificates of Forfeiture on the E1a of
SEA Section 21-43-19 and Lots 2, 3,
4, & 5. Auditors Subdivision of Sec
tion 13-4121 was on motion made and
carried approved.
The following applications for re-
duction of assessed valuation were fav-
-,orably recommended to the Department
of Taxation:
Cor. of SWl4 of NWA, 1882 SlOO
Mary Hayden, w. 10 rds. of So. 80
rds. of SEA of NWA, 26-42-16 $50
Paul A. Pahos. Lot 9, Blk. 8. Clover
ton $40
Carl A. Lund. 4.4s acres of sls Of
James Hejny. Lots and 4 Bess
Eugene vettling E1A of sEA Is 40.
Arthur E. Perso VIZ of NWA of
NWl4 & WIZ of SWA of NWA. 9-42-
20 1891
Anna Benson Lots 9 & 10. Blk. 10
Townsite of Sandstone $210
J. j: Folsom. Lot Il Blk. iis. Town:
s't Clara ri N. Matters, Lots & 5, Blk E.os
Eastside Add. Hinckley $12o
Peter ter II III NybeT r. 1.so acres of Let ct
Edw. A. Pangerl, Ek of NWA Of
Mel. & SEA of NEA 1882 $40
The following applications for home
stead exemptions were favorably re-
commended to the Department of Tax
alton:
Charles Broten, WIZ of SWA
of NWA 4-45-N S $500
Chas. S. Hansen SEA of NWA
less RW, 26-41-H $500
Louis Dick, SEA Of NWA G.
SW14of NWA, 22-42-21: SWA of
MEL & VIZ Of SEA, 15-42-2 $403.
The following application for correc-
ton of personal property taxes was
favorably recommended to the De-
partment of Taxation:
T. B. Hawkes., Land & Tax A
gent for Mimi Power & Light Co.
Personal Property Will. of Sand
stone 3I2O.CO
The following applications for abate
ment and settlement of taxes were fav-
orably recommended to the Department
OF Taxation:
Harold Hamm Me- of NEA. balls;
So of Sb of SEA 12-41-18 $4,000
Fred A. Hansen NWA of SEA
N. 80 &C. of SEA of SEA, SWA
Of SE14 less Ry. & sen Of SWA
less Ry. 19-41-17 184.OO
Kazimir Waytkawech Ek of
NW4. 2-43-18 5O.73
Fred A. Breezley SEA of SWA
25-42-16; NE of NWA 36-42-16 $500
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Among Coral Formations

There are strange alliances down
among the coral formations. The
sponge-like sea anemones grow to
large size in these tropical waters;
some are two feet in diameter. They
are armed with singing tentacles,
and they feed on small fish and crus-
taceans which have been shocked
helpless by the hair-like darts shot
at its victims by the ansmone. Ger
tain species Of tiny fish swim into
the apertures in the anemone when
danger threatens, and the creature
gives them sanctuary and never
harms them, permitting them to
seek shelter deep down among the
death-dealing tentacles. Larger fish
chasing them are captured, killed.
and eaten by the anemone.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Sign of the "GO-Getter"

The square type of hand is one in
which the back of the hand (ex-
GLIDING the fingers) is almost square
in shape. This is the hand Of the
practical materialist. The man or
woman who pushes things through
to a decisive conclusion, according
to a writer in Pearson's London
Weekly. Possessed of a hand such
as this you are determined and
forceful, possess little imagination
or creative ability, but can be re-
lied upon to make success of any
occupation where sheer grit is re-
quired. Methodical and painstaking,
once you get your teeth into thing,
like the bulldog, you won't let 60.
You must see it through.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Ben Franklin's Magazine

Benjamin Franklin in 1740 planned
to issue a general magazine and
outlined his project to John Webbe.
an attorney, who was to be the edi-
tor. Webbe revealed the plan to
Andrew Bradford, a printer, who
proposed to issue magazine in op.
position to Franklin's. On Febru-
airy IL. 174l, Bradford announced
that the first issue Of the American
Magazine, or a Monthly View of the
Political State of the British Colo
MES, would be published the next
day. On the same day Franklin an
nounced that the first issue Of the
General Magazine would appear In
four days.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
President
By Mrs. Carl Isaacson

On motion made and carried said
resolution was accepted and ordered
placed on file and the County Auditor
was ordered to take the matter up with
the State Highway %. Department art1s Gcn.srvo
ton Department appeared before the
Board relative to the County's selling
dead and down wood on tax forfeited
land and on motion made and carried
said matter was laid on the table.
State Relief Agency appeared before
the Board and discussed the matter of
the County Welfare levies and finances
for the coming year.
Pursuant to Laws Of 1889. Chapter
1928. the following notice of sale was
adopted and the following resolution
was unanimously adopted.
NOTICE OF SALE OF AGRICULTURAL
LANDS
day the 9th day of November 1899 at
ten o'clock A. M. at my office in the
Village of Pine City, in the county of
Pine, l shall sell to the highest bidder
the following described parcels Of land
in said county, which have been for
of taxes, and which have been classi-
fled as agricultural lands and appraised
as provided by law. Said sale will be
governed by the provisions of Laws,
1889, Cnapter $50.
RESOLUTION
BE 1T HEREBY RESOLVED. That
the parcels of land forfeited to the
State for non-payment of taxes, APP
pearing on the list filed with the
County Auditor, which have been clas-
sified and appraised as provided by
Laws 1899, Chapter 1913, shall be Of
fered for sale by the County Auditor,
said sale to commence at III o clock A.
M, on the 9th day of November 1889,
and the County Auditor is hereby dir
ected to publish a notice of sale as
provided by law.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That
the terms of sale shall be cash up. TO
$4,000 balance up to $4,000 in five
equal annual installments and on a.
mounts over $4,000 not to exceed ten
equal installments from date of sale
with interest at four percent per an
mum both principal and interest pay
able annually on or before the ami
versary date Of purchase according 10
usual terms of contract.
Mr.. Tom Ryan appeared before the
Board relative to the Indian Project in
the Township of Ogema. On motion
made and carried the matter OF rails
ing funds was referred to the County
Auditor for investigation.
On motion made and carried the care
Mary Smith of Sturgeon Lake at All
gwah-ching.
On motion made and carried the care
and keep was guaranteed for Joe Uh-
er at Ah-gwah-ching.
Pursuant to notice given the follow
ing bids were received for snow fence
and posts:
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Woman for President

It is often said that Belva Lock
wood, who headed the Equal Rights
party ticket in 1884 and again in
1888, was the first woman nominal
&c for the Presidency. but Mrs.
Victoria Claflin Woodruff Qater
Marin), was nominated in 1872 for
the Presidency at Vinelan6, N. j.,
by a convention styling itself the
Equal Rights party. Frederick Doug
lass was the nominee for Vice Pres.
ident. Mrs. Woodruff, like Mrs.
Lockwood, received no electoral
votes and only few scattered popu.
lar votes.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Author of First Biographies

Jedidiah Morse, author of the first
American school books on geogra-
ply, was born in 1851. He was edu-
Gated at Woodstock Academy and
at Yale College, where he was grad
uated in 1888. After teaching for
few years, he entered the Congrega-
tional ministry. His most important
work was the authorship of school
books which included Geography
Made Easy" Q7SO; Elements Of
Geography" Q79T, and Universal
Geography" I81N. He died in 1926.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Formation Of CLAW

Clay is formed by the decomposi-
ton Of rocks-a process of nature
taking centuries. That's why Hawaii,
new land geologically speaking.
has little of it. Early Hawaiians
substituted the imu, or oven pit, for
cooking utensils. A fire built in the
pit heated stones. Then food was
wrapped in green leaves, put ia the
pit and covered by more hot stones.
1t took four hours to cook a hog.
Plates and other utensils were made
of wood.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
India ElephantS Not Bred

In India elephants are used Cor
hauling and big game hunting. De-
spite popular belief, they are not
bred. It's cheaper to capture wild
adult, which is easily trained. The
African elephant, on the other hand,
is untamable. His ivory tusks are
his only assets to man.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Disarmament Conferences

Disarmament conferences were in
the news nearly century ago. In
copy of an English illustrated
weekly dated December S, 1868, it
was reported that the Great Powers
England, France, Prussia, Rus
STA, Austria, Italy and Turkey-with
various other smaller countries, had
resolved to limit their ornaments.
Among other things, they signed a
convention to "relinquish on both
sea and land the use of explosive
projectiles weighing more than 400
grammes. Two years later came
the Franco-Prussian war!
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
Fire of st. Anthony

The name fire of st. Anthony was
applied to a form of erysipelas. A
distemper of this character became
epidemic in France in 1889. Many
miraculous cures having been eff
fected by the imputed intercession
of st. Anthony, the order of Canons
Regular of st. Anthony was founded
the next year for the relief of those
afflicted with this disease. The or.
der continued to exist until 1870.
Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1939-10-26
How Racing Pigeons Fly

When racing pigeons are released
from their crates, they spiral up
ward for twenty seconds, level off.
and streak for home. Their eye
sight, like their memory for land
marks, is remarkable. Apparently,
they can see many times as far as
human beings, says writer in Lit
erary Digest. In flight, pigeons don't
follow an absolutely straight course
for the home loft. They take it the
easiest way, and will fly miles
around storms Of fogs. Moisture is
bad for their wings.