Weathering Wit and Witless Tales in a Local Timepiece
A collage of jokes and trivia from a 19th century humor column recounts quips about Mary and a white liver, a fortune teller, and common folk. It includes mock dialogues, skeptical takes on patent cures, social antics, and a humorous, Tennyson inspired Price and Seller’s store spoof about a bargain sale crowd.
Watertown Divorce Trial Draws Crowds With Saloon Keeper Case
In Watertown last week a saloon keeper and his wife faced a colorful divorce suit. Courtroom crowds enjoyed lurid testimony about home fights and the wife alleged infidelity, with commentary on manners and gender roles as observers debated decorum.
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Steen
Watertown “Society
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Cory
Ave
City Bakery Bread
Huron
Dak
St. Paul & Minneapolis
Minneapolis
St. Paul
South Dakota
The
R. Kinner
Huron, S. D
Mary
Puck
Harry Wentry
Pikwana P.A
Howard Spirit
Woonsocket
Mitchell
John
Cupid
Lesterville
Lesterville Ledger
Yankton County
Light Brigade
Tennyson
Mart of Trade
R. M. Cooley
DAK. Ave
Keim Brothers
Frank M. Wakefield
ST. Huron, S. D
Betwee
St. Paul and
Seattle
Great Northern
D. Ss. Ss.rah
Orient
Alford
Seth Thomas Admantine
J. W. Griffith
Willery
City Sales
A. J. Baldwin
Sonntieante