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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1936
Page
4
A quirky tale from Madrid reports Moorish soldiers dining on lab animals filled with germs after seizing a medical lab. The piece uses the episode as a wary moral about grim prophecies, arguing life’s probabilities often fail to follow dire predictions.
Novelty makers offer gifts aimed at keeping husbands at home including a rubber driving mat that re-toes a golf ball and a basement target trap that swallows and spits out bullets. The items, while entertaining, may not satisfy dedicated hunters or serious golfers.
Senator Peter Norbeck spent decades in politics and built a wide network of friends and foes making fair assessment hard. Yet all agree he was a great artist whose works transcended canvas and resided beyond museums, painting in broader, enduring forms.
A tribute to Senator Norbeck lauds his creation of the Needles Road Iron Mountain Road and Bad Lands Road. The piece credits him with transforming South Dakota with monumental highway art and notes future generations will enjoy his legacy and its global influence on landscape design.
Jabor notes many attorneys claim agencies and loan firms eye a harvest in old-age insurance claims. He argues ambulance chasers seek profit from the needy, while the Social Security Board says its system will be simple enough for workers to file without help, with aid available at many field offices.
A wartime column notes Hitler warned Nazi leaders to stop attacks on Christianity while reports claimed officials like Joachim von Ribbentrop left the Protestant Church. It argues anti religious policy under Communism and notes royal marriage papers to defray costs. The piece also critiques Supreme Court and the fleeting trailer fad.
A brief note invites readers to study select editorials from the Iareéat collection of American newspapers in South Dakers. It describes theme files open during office hours for private and school study and political review. The collection is in the library of the Evening Huronite Building.
The Philadelphia Record critiques the British Labour Party for not championing King Edward VIII during the Simpson affair. It argues Labour could have defended the king as a private rights advocate without aiding dictatorship, suggesting Baldwin used political maneuvers to manipulate Labour on housing, Ethiopian crisis, and royal influence.
Governor Tom Berry travels to Washington to plead for relief funds for farmers. He wins a promise to raise the number on WPA projects from 10,000 to 20,000 as WPA funds near exhaustion, earning praise from South Dakota residents for securing help in hard times.
Washington reports military and diplomatic speculation on General Franco in Spain. Analysts say his hold on Madrid rests on rapid success or risk from rear uprisings, while diplomats suspect European powers impose delays. Madrid defense shown weak but stubborn as Franco lacks reserves to finish the job.
A December diary entry from a farm woman in South Dakota notes holiday tasks and farm pressures. She details fondant yet to dip, lunch duties, and a husband upset over chores. She laments fodder mold, drought, and anticipated WPA funding cuts affecting feed. She recounts turnips, cows, and rabbits, and observes neighbors' survival strategies amid hardship.
Walter Ahlstrom, Platte County highway superintendent, died Sunday morning at St Marys Hospital in Pierre after collapsing Friday. Born 1903 in Superior, Wisconsin, he moved to Gettysburg in 1923 and was appointed highway superintendent in 1935. Survived by his wife Myrtle Kempt, a son Gary 15 months, his mother Mrs George Fenn, and sister Mrs Peter Larson. Funeral conducted by Rev Louch in the Church.
Burton Howard, bachelor of Blunt and longtime Sully County resident, died at St Marys Hospital in Pierre Sunday afternoon after an extended illness. He is survived by his sister, Mrs Isabel Miles. Local obituary notes his employment at the Fletcher Funthelware factory and reports a strong demand for skilled labor. William Fraser, with whom he worked, will remain longer.
In New York a striking profile notes Adalet born in Constantinople daughter of a major general who rose from harem life to Broadway. Her story spans Istanbul theaters Persia and Paris before Clifford Fischer brought her to New York as the first harem girl to perform the hootchy kootch on Broadway. Also a comic item on a Fifth Avenue shoe shop customer who buys a hundred pairs amid a jest about ex husbands and luck.
SDU Museum exhibits diverse shoes from across the globe including a 19th century homemade boat shoe from Clay County Dakota Territory. The exhibit features crude cliff dweller sandals, a Greece maroon slipper, Chinese black cloth slipper, Philippine caste footwear, Holland wooden shoes, and a U S handmade leather child’s shoe with copper toe.
In Washington returns to daily briefings Rodney Dutcher reports that Harry Hewstine resists resignation as WHAS boss while administration aides push for gradual WPA relief reductions. Roosevelt officials discuss cutting payrolls, shifting workers to the Resettlement Administration, and curbing expenses from November to December. Hopkins faces potential clashes with Morgenthau Bell and a possible challenge from John J. O’Connor as Congress weighs the future of WPA funding and staffing.
Twenty years ago today residents recall events in ae including visiting relatives Bob Whomes and daughter arriving to join his wife at her parents home Ms and Mrs RD Wharton. Mise Margaret Ferguson district red cross nurse serves in Hitchcock schools while Buron college students from Huron prepare to leave for home across the state. Class recitations for 1917 end Thursday with a break until January 3. J H Fensberg retires as installing officer and B W Feige acts as grand marshal as Huron Lodge No 26 A F and A M installs new officers W E Jackson C Rayburn treasurer H S Rice William Cole S W Kenneth Parke J R Johnson S D W Feilingham J D RD Wortan tar. After service RAM officers are installed under B E Jackson. Officers include C H Weir H B Beach King Henry Lamp scribes George C Fullenweider treasurer H J Rise secretary E W Feise E of Hs BM Whisman P S Glen Waite V W Weston 27 M1 Hagen and DE Wharton.
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