Mail and Wire Business Gains Reflect Huron Growth
Huron shows steady expansion in post office, telephone and telegraph services. Postal receipts rise 39,385 from 1925 to 1929, with 1929 at 388 83.41. telephone installations up about 22 percent. Western Union telegraph business up about 35 percent. Political mail boosts 1926 and 1928 totals. postal savings slump in 1929 as bank deposits rise. Special delivers and machine counters record high activity.
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Huron
Tve
Postoffice
Western Union Telegraph Company
Festmaster A | Blake
Blakewold
Postal Savings Department
Post Office and Telegraphs See Mixed 1929 Results
The 1929 business showed mixed results with money orders and general mail falling behind 1928 while political mail rose. Money orders totaled 36 123 with a value of 283 709 67 dollars, down from 1928. The post office added 15 new boxes to handle increased business as telephones rose to 2 974 stations. Western Union records a 16 to 20 percent gain in 1929 with plans for automatic telegraplers to arrive by July 1.
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Ing
Algo
Western Union
Western Union Telegraph Company
Com~pany
Bayer
Pioneer Huron Man Authored Western Frontier Memoir
Zack Z Sutley a former Huron man now in Oklahoma City writes of plains mountains and rivers from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico in a forthcoming book The Last Frontier He recounts trapping with Kit Carson and Jim Bridger guiding General Custer and his 1875 cattle drive from Yankton to the Gulf of Mexico and his long livery business ties in Mitchell and Huron with mentions of Brigham Young and other frontier figures He notes his 27 year partnership with a woman in Huron and that his daughters attend Huron College
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Hudson Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Zack Z. Sutley
Sutley
Hurox and
Mitchell
Oklahoma City
Okla
Buffalo Bill
Western
Kansas
Indiana
Kit Carson
Jim Bridger
Mr. Sutley
Brigham
Brigham Young
Fort Gary
Canada
Winnipeg
York
Churchill River
Old Fort Churchill
St Paul
Minn
Old Jim Bridger
Wind River Mountains
Wyoming
Black Hills
Montana
Yellowstone River
Black File
Ft Pierre
Sidney
Neb
Bismarck
Cheyenne
Wyo
Blackfoot
Idaho
Yellowstone
Madort
MN. D
Plains
Civilized Fe
Huron
Butley
Huron College
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Bentalice
Telestone A
Telegraph Companies
Dakota Central Telephone Company
E. J. Calendine
Dakota Central Telephone Com~pany
Rocky Mountains
Colorado
Lyric Amuusement Company
National Bank of Huron
Miller's Jew Shop
Langeniela’s
Western Union Telegraph Office
Zack T. Sutley
Oklahomai City
General Custer
Fort Lincoln
Wisconsin
Omaha
Billy
Fort Pierre
A. Wollman
Huron Dental Clinic
Olympia
Candy Kitchem
H. A. Johnson
James River Implement, Company, Inc
Deere & Webber Company
South Dakots
John Deere
South Dakota
Most
G A. Thompson
James River Implement Co., Inc
G. A. Thompson, Vice Pres
Mgr
Dekota Ave. S
Great
Northern
North Western Freight House
Brand Brothers
Dakota
Fane
Home Owned Stores, Inc
Northwest
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