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Newspaper
Journal World Spirit
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1908
Page
3
The article urges Huron to establish a vegetable canning factory to use regional produce, create substantial employment, and keep dollars from leaving the state. It argues the venture is affordable, demands are strong, and local boosters could organize it with a favorable outlook and profitable returns.
A Dakota farmer argues for sending older children to school despite work demands. He criticizes keeping youths home for extra farm labor and urges access to state and church schools near home. He cites Ward Academy costs and notes growing adoption among better farms in the Dakotas.
Gavour items note Kooh Brothers erecting new buildings on the town's far north. A Gemmel buys Aug Baum's saloon for 3500 dollars. Shutter the camera man boosts local post cards. Several residents take a lake picnic.
Beadle County commissioners approve fiscal year 1908 disbursements and set levies on property equalization with a total 9 mills plus $1 per poll for schools. Rail and town line valuations for Chicago & North Western and Great Northern lines across precincts are itemized, with line lengths and total values noted. Bond of W M Wales & Co for Yale school book depository approved. annual auditor’s report filed and adjournment follows.
The Republican party advocates a state law to allocate a portion of convict earnings to dependents. It argues current punishment harms innocent families by losing livelihood while inmates work for state profit, calling the plan humane by sharing profits and preventing pauper risk.
The St Paul Dispatch argues the direct primary reduces factionalism by ending convention fraud and chicanery. It claims parties long in power breed factions, and direct primaries in Iowa Kansas and other states restore unity after fair contests.
A fragment discusses public knowledge of imitation whisky and the pure food bill. It notes debates on methods to counterfeit aged whiskey, the fierce industry fight over the bill, and continuing references by the attorney general after passage.
Revenue officers in Cincinnati pursued the ruling that rapid process liquor labeled whisky could be imitation under the law. A distilling company sought to bar enforcement, but Judge Thompson dissolved the preliminary injunction, affirming the legal basis of the classification.
Mitchell Clarion argues against teaching youth that labor is dis graceful and that idle prestige suits society. It warns that miseducated boys and girls risk ending in poverty or prison, urging appreciation of crafts and honest work.
The author extols grandfathers and grandmothers who endure life’s furnace and reach the cool evening with optimism. They have not lost faith in mankind and remain a beacon of philosophy for those who still hope in humanity.
Engineer Frank Sherman serves as road foreman of engines amid heavy business activity.
State Engineer Samuel H. Lea completed a comprehensive irrigation treatise for South Dakota. It covers climate, rainfall, temperature, population, industries, water resources, lands, irrigated crops, irrigation history, laws, settlement under irrigation, and future farming development.
A magazine of commerce argues courtesy is a valuable, costless lubricant for business, noting few can sustain constant courtesy and urging practical observance by all in the commercial community.
The article recalls Bismarck’s affection for nature and his daily long walks. He said the vastness of life awed him and that faith was needed to believe an all seeing eye could notice every living atom in the world. He asked if you have ever sat on the ground and examined it closely.
A Washington Star exchange shows farmer pride as Corntessel reflects on watching his son play football. He says he is proud to see the boy out there and compares him to the young man he once could whip. The dialogue echoes old sports and family pride themes.
Person quotes Herodotus on the power of deeds over words in a concise aphorism reflecting character and conduct as the true display of a person.
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