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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1938
Page
4
A five day strike shut Portland newspapers halting ads and public notices. Businesses missed promotions and hiring paused while events and marriages remained unreported. Readers suffered lack of comics and major world and national news, exposing the vital daily service papers provide.
The piece discusses Roosevelt's attempt to veto individual items in appropriation bills via a rider, a tactic rejected by Senate committees. It notes 22 presidents before him failed and suggests future hope that a president might master selective veto power to curb private claims riders.
John Marsh, a Cumberland County carpenter, refuses to vaccinate his son Eugene. Teachers return the boy home after every school session, and Marsh is jailed for violating compulsory school attendance laws, having served 65 straight five day terms in jail.
A fragmented excerpt recalls a school board clashing with a defiant carpenter and a boy named Eugene, with mentions of a niece going blind and another dying after vaccination. It also notes an Interior Department investigator denying wiretap spying and Joe DiMaggio valuation, ending with the Giants’ confidence.
A note announces daily editorial selections from American newspapers for archival collection in South Bakota. The editor invites readers to consult the Evening Hutonita News Room on the building’s second floor for private study and political merchandising reviews.
The Federal Circuit upholds TVA against private utility challenges, endorsing government competition with private firms as lawful though potentially ruinous. The decision hints at eventual public ownership paths, noting TVA dams serve navigation and flood control with power as incidental, and that TVA can sell surplus power at Authority-set prices.
Brown City Tribune notes a pending endorsement hesitation over a compact farm radio set for tractors and harvesters. The piece contrasts past isolated farm work with modern devices, warning the promise of leisure may erode independent thought and curb the farm boy’s solitary reflection.
Mitchell Republic A dispatch from Washington reports former South Dakota Governor Tom Berry is expected to seek the Democratic nomination for the United States Senate. Although no formal announcement has been made, indications point to a run, with Berry reportedly consulting Senator Hitchcock and balancing ethics on stepping aside if he enters the race. Governor Jensen previously defeated him, suggesting a tough path.
A diary entry blends farm life with national politics as mentions touch on Wall Street stock schemes, Robert Jackson and Farley in Washington, and a political shift toward New York governance. Personal scenes include oyster stew, pearl talk, and lessons about nature, land, and resilience while a reporter probes Mrs Roosevelt and Steve Early.
The filibusterers claim gains from their tactics, though official tallies vary and remain shy of a majority. The fight stirs southern anti New Deal forces and unsettles party lines while a New York publicity figure wagers Roosevelt seeks a third term. Treasury tax plans face House hurdles as committees weigh effects on department stores, furniture dealers, textiles, and newspapers.
Yankton mayor Ernest A. Crockett, a candidate for the first district, withdraws his declaration as a Republican contender. He says leaving the field open will allow others to run and his priority is finishing a Missouri River development plan rather than a spring campaign. He adds the withdrawal is without urging for any single candidate.
The Bureau of Agricultural Economics predicted that fed cattle in the corn belt will be marketed later than usual this spring. Most marketings are expected after May 1, with feeders reporting many yearlings and average feeder calves, and fewer cattle over 750 pounds than in the past four years. Overall, cattle fed for market in the corn belt is about 15 percent higher than January last year, while the 11 western states show a 2 percent decline. More cattle fed this year across corn belt states except Kansas and Michigan, with western belts showing the largest increases last year due to drought. TEACHER IN HOSPITAL ARE January reports say Marc Selma Enac, an English teacher at the local high school, is a patient at a Red Cross hospital with a throat infection.
A jumble of scattered word clues and translations about military terms, ranks, and subjects from a historical French English word puzzle. It lists items like commander, infantry, cavalry, indicting a lexicon or crossword style exercise with various cross references and unrelated fragments.
Radio editor notes a new Pit Cairn Island station may broadcast soon as the British colony expedition arrives to set up gear. The islanders descended from mutineers may host the transmission, with wind driven recharging and dual voice code capability. Also lists extensive radio programming across stations and times and a weekend visitor in Bonilla.
A South Dakota district grand jury returned three true bills involving Lee Bradter alias Harold Baker and others. The cases cover a New Year’s Eve blast murder, a wife murder, and an attempted robbery tied to a Lake Preston operator. Several defendants faced state charges. one ex-bank president was acquitted on prior embezzlement.
Six Doland high school debaters and coach Mrs. Hilda Calvert traveled to Watertown for an invitational tournament with sixty teams. They competed in 12 rounds, placing seven students on the list of top debaters and securing three wins. The group plans to travel to Aberdeen this week.
Jan 25 week end visitors Mrs John Humburg and daughter Ariene and H G Kuchnes of Gaylord Minnesota were guests at the home of Mrs Bersha m Roberts and dined with Mrs Humberg's sister Mrs Guy Gllec.
Harrold experiences its first real cold snap of the week as the thermometer drops to zero. A sharp northwest wind and occasional snow flurries accompany the frigid conditions, creating a biting winter day.
Mr and Mrs Frank Bruha announce the birth of a daughter named Sharon Lee on January 15 at a Woonsocket nursing home. The event was reported from Forassburg on January 2.
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