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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1936
Page
1
Insurgents attempt to seize the easiest route toward Madrid as a major conflict escalates. A dream of century unfolds with a bridge opening signaling strategic shifts in the area.
A 1920s local page features varied opinions from Dr R A Buchanan and others on openly addressing venereal disease. Debates center on education, public openness, and scientific methods to combat syphilis in society.
A garbled Nov 12 report from Troy and Hollywood describes a canceled ceremony after wrong ammunition causing a non explosion, a vehicle near-miss with a one inch margin to a crashed car, a Santa Clara resident delaying a Transbay Bridge visit, and a fatal deer collision in Sea Pass.
A humorous tale recalling Uncle Ukle famous for stinginess and bad sleep. The narrator meets him in Van Buren where Ukle laments denying his wife a bicycle, noting her constant talking and dreams of riding it. He admits sleep only comes when she coasts down the street.
Washington reports indicate the administration will ask Congress to extend the New Deal era monetary authorities beyond January, including the stabilization fund of 2.0 billion and the president’s ability to adjust the dollar’s gold content. Treasury officials favor indefinite continuation to support the tri power agreement with France and England, despite partial fund draws and uncertain future use.
Boston dispatch reports a Jacksonville Vermont father of three, unemployed and in debt, offering to sell himself for 20 dollars to settle bills and avoid eviction. He claims a loan of 2500 dollars for three years would cover rent, groceries, fuel, and housing for his family, and if the experiment harmed him, he accepts the risk for his children.
Reuben Darby runs a devuxe awakening service at the University of Maryland confessing he has yet to find a satisfied client. He sleeps, studies, then wakes customers at seven, but they resist waking and he strokes beds afterward. Rates are 10 cents per week per room.
San Francisco reports immediate opening of peace negotiations in the two week old maritime strike that has throttled West Coast and Hawaii trade. Assistant Labor Secretary Edward T. McGredy says talks must settle and no notices will resume today. Hearings by the Federal Maritime Commission are postponed indefinitely as unions and officials study materials and a judge orders perishable cargo removal contested by the unions.
DETROIT Nov 12 An 18-year old high school football player Fred Mangas Jr died after boasting he could drink a pint of whisky Police Lieutenant William Bring said Mangas made the claim after a theatre outing with two companions Walter Jaaskelainen and Carl Commerson both 18 and 17 respectively. They walked home as Mangas attempted to prove his sobriety and collapsed on the sidewalk. A physician pronounced him dead at home.
Washington November 12. Em Flaye representatives of the Carnegie Minois Steel Company planned to meet Secretary Perkins to present their protest against conditions attached to a sliding scale wage increase. They indicated they may seek Roosevelt's aid later to change terms of the proposed contract.
In Manchester England textile workers threaten a strike by Christmas as unions plan a membership vote for strike authority. Officials say voting should finish in two to three weeks and workers may quit during Christmas week if approved.
San Francisco opens the Bay Bridge to traffic with a 12 30 PM go signal amid ceremonies in San Francisco and Oakland. About 250 000 visitors expected, tolls set at 45 cents per car plus 5 cents per extra rider. Twenty four workers were killed in reconstruction accidents. the bridge has 51 piers and 1 000 000 cubic yards of concrete.
Five Pierre High School youths were hospitalized after a car crash near Blunt last night. Tom Eastman Jr and William R. Cochrane suffered severe injuries, with other teens receiving facial cuts, a broken jaw, a broken nose, and multiple bruises.
L. W. Crabb of Tiuron reported to police that his car parked on the north side of Hurst's Corner on West Second Street had items stolen. The loot valued about 15 dollars included an electric fan, a windshield defroster, a blanket and tools.
Fair tonight and Friday with rising temperatures. South Dakota also shows fair conditions tonight and Friday, with temperatures rising in the northeast and in the east portion on Friday.
London society columnist Lord Donegall laments the flood of American press clippings about Mrs. Ernest Simpson. He and colleagues sought to study coverage but now face an overflowing apartment and office piled with thousands more sheets. He pleads for the bureau to erase excess copies.
Vaudeville acts headlined the American Legion Elks annual style show in Elks Hall at the Hotel Marvin Hughitt. Leo Semh hosted and performed magic while Woodard Sisters tapped in three routines. Arvola sang danced and played xyophone drawing applause. Continuation note hints at further pages.
Nobel Prize in letters goes to Eugene O Neill of the United States in Stockholm. He receives about $45,000, with the 1935 prize, not awarded, added to the 1937 sum. The Alfred Nobel bequest funds the prizes via interest from the $9 million fund.
In Forked River New Jersey Herman Schan Sr. 60, wheelchair bound two years by a leg ailment, hunts rabbits from a chair on a pickup truck. His two sons Merman Jr and Feed drive him into the woods then hunt with dogs. He bagged six on opening day and would do it again.
London reports King Edward and a small entourage dined with Mrs Wallis Simpson at No 16 Cumberland Terrace after attending Armistice Day services in Albert Hall. The party departed for Portland later that night as the king inspected units of the Home Fleet.
Madrid amid heavy shelling in a driving rain fought insurgent forces near University City and Getafe as 2,000 additional troops and 6,000 firefighters were reported en route. Government gunners strained to halt a northwest thrust while fires spread in the Rosales area and near the Segovia bridge.
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