Fire Ravages Bancroft Business District
A night blaze destroyed the Bancroft business section including Jones & Summers store, Dr. Clark’s drug store, the Bancroft Register office, the Opera House and telephone exchange. Total loss around 40000 dollars with 20000 in insurance. heavy rain aided suppression and no homes burned. reconstruction planned quickly. Admiral Togo received in the city with grand reception, visiting city hall and Mayor Gaynor before continuing a US tour.
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Jones & Summers
Dr. Clark
Bancroft Register Office
Opera House
Theown
Fragmentary OCR Note Mentions Hotel and Individuals
The readable bits reference a hotel setting and named individuals in a fragmentary note. No clear event or outcome is established.
Mitchell to be in new district in reapportionment
Taft to sign bill increasing House members to 458 with future rise with New Mexico and Arizona enactments. South Dakota redistricted into three districts under new apportionment gaining one seat.阅读
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Mitchell
Washington, D. C
House
New Mexico
Arizona
Taft
Sherman
Clark
South Dakota
Congress
Coroner Rules Suicide in Mrs Max Bundell Case
In St Louis Missouri the coroner s jury returned a verdict of suicide after finding the body of Mrs Max Bundell beneath a hotel window. Peter K.
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St., Louis, _Mo
Max Bundell
Peter K
Three Punished Under Food Laws
Reports from Vermillion South Dakota show prosecutions by the State L oad and Drugs Department. Chris Symann a Gettysburg butcher was fined ten dollars and costs for selling sausage with a deleterious preservative. M J Creed a Ptresho butcher was fined twenty dollars and costs for a dirty shop. John Hoff a farmer in Yankton county was fined five dollars and sixteen dollars costs for selling rotten eggs. Schedules note other prosecutions and a park camp meeting with President J S Ireland arriving from Tampa Florida.
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State Load and Drugs Department
Chris, Symann
Gettysburg
Jean H. Sargent
M J. Creed
Ptresho
John Hoff
Yankton County
Centre Point
A. S. Bogue
Centerville
S. 1
Turner County
Mount Pleasant Park
J. S. Ireland
Tampa
Ila
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Aaron W. Honey
the Ingersoll of Spiritualism
Sunny Jim
Roosevelts Testimony Before Congress on Trusts
Former president Theodore Roosevelt testifies before the Stanley steel trust investigating committee. He discusses the 1907 Pennesse merger and his prior permission to absorb the Tennessee company, urging closer control of big firms and opposing direct director involvement across railroads and steel.
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Pelle Fourche
Belle Fourche
Dhsidite Engineers Department
New York City
Col
Roosevelt
Stanley Steel
Tennessee Coal and Troan Company
Steel Trust
Col. Roosevelt
White claims all Democrats paid bribes in Lorimer vote
Washington D C. Charles A White former Illinois legislator testifies before the Lorimer investigating committee that he believes every one of the fifty three Democrats who voted for Lorimer did so for money. He says some Republicans may have been paid too and declines to name them. White cites his own bribery and others confessing as basis for his view. The cross examination by Rep. Beckmeyer continues tomorrow.
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D. C
Lorimer
Charles A.white
Illinois
Senate
White
Aldbridge Henney
Senator Lorimer
Beckmeyer
Central telephone murder leads to saloon discovery
At midnight in Chicago a call said I'm shot central followed by a fall and crash. Police found John Dolzall, a bartender at Mathey Strow's saloon, unconscious with the cash register broken and money missing. Dolzall likely will die.
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Chicago
Central
Monroe Street
Chicago Telephone Company
Mathey Strow
John Dolzall
Dolzall
Free Range Question Opened For Public Expense Test
In Harding county South Dakota ranchers seek court review of the free range law with funding coming from the state. Townships including Filmore voted against free range and ordered pounds to hold trespassing animals. The case, argued in circuit court, may head to the supreme court for final settlement.
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Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Senate hostile to new arbitration treaties stance
Opposition in the Senate to arbitration treaties with England and France grows likely to shape the current session. Some senators fear the pacts may fail ratification. Foreign affairs committee members condemn Taft for not consulting them. Irish American and German American groups oppose ratification.
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United States
England
France
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Taft
Worms Swarm Brown County Farm Devouring Thistles
H S Miller of Brown county reports a green worm about one and a quarter inches long with five leg pairs has appeared in his area five and a half miles east of Aberdeen. They move in large numbers feeding on weeds and turning Russian thistles black though they do not affect cultivated plants or pigeon grass.
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Aberdeen
H.S. Miller
Brown County
Wool tariff bill lingers as Congress mulls compromise
Democratic leaders in the House predict enough votes to pass the wool tariff revision over President Taft's veto if needed. Subcommittee talks between leaders Underwood and La Follette signal no firm settlement yet on wool, free list, and cotton measures. Anxious to adjourn, senators weigh timing as iron and steel schedules loom and Cummins urges parallel revisions.
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Under- Weont
House Democrats
Congress
Penrose
Underwood
Senate
House Committee On
Ways and Means
William J. Bryan
Uinderwood
House
Cummins
Mt Vernon News Briefs Highlight Local Moves and Weather
Mt Vernon residents report numerous trips and visits including Mrs Harry Martin returning from Mit Chotl and Miss Stellaine Oppendahl visiting Ethan. Lightning struck Grant Trone and Mrs Porter in White Lake area. several new houses planned or under construction by Walter Scott Welgerson A. Borsett and J W Johnson. Concert to raise funds for ministerial bills planned at the opera house with five piece orchestra.
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Mi. Vernon
Harry Martin
Mit- Chotl
Kirsch
Chita
Stellaine
Josie Oppendahl
Ethan
Lollie Noli
J. R. Mabbott
Danghter
Black Hills
Mary Garey
Plankinton
Honius Wubman
Adolph Romenich
Riiay
Wis
Mt. Vernon
Opera House
Atl
Mld Kittleson
Dane
Owens
Mitchell
W. N. Owens
A. Borsett
Mathison
Dentist Reid
Parkston
Lee
Gorsett
Frank Reynolds
Gladys
Colorado
Chris Butler
Constance Page
Correctionville
EK. W. Jones
Grant Trone
White Lake
Porter
Homer Anshutz
Anshutz
Davion County
Walter Scott
Sturney Welgerson
J.W. Johnson
Sioux City
Chamberlain Offered Post With Jim Hill Railroads
Fulton South Dakota reports that A. E. Chamberlain, superintendent of farmers institutes in South Dakota, has been offered a job with the Jim Hill railroads and is likely to accept. He has resided in Brookings for several years, and Dr. A. H. Stoner of Highmore is mentioned as his possible successor.
Regents Decide Superintendent as Education Plans Loom
Regents oversee education policy while deciding who will lead as superintendent. The outcome will shape future reforms and the implementation of the proposed plans at the district level.
Iowa Drops Short Bad Drought There
Aberdeen real estate man J W Smith tours eastern and southern South Dakota and northern Iowa to inspect crops. He reports South Dakota yields about half a crop while Iowa areas expect 75 percent or more, with some localities failing. A G B Darling and C M Henry trip west of the Missouri river finds drought hitting homesteads in Ziebach Dewey Carson Meade and Perkins counties with little crops. Farmers hold out for high prices and banks provide finance to get through till next season.
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S. D
J. W. Smith
South Dakota
Iowa
Ihe
A. G B. Darling
C. M. Henry
Redfield
Missouri River
Ziebach
Dewey
Carson
Meade
Perkins
Showing Good Yield After The Threshing
Despite poor reports of wheat yields county wide, some areas report strong harvests in the Northeast of Mitchell. Wing brothers recorded 100 bushels per acre on 65 acres, with 45 acres at 12 bushels. Marion Kendall on 25 acres averaged 15 bushels. Ray Kenton on 20 acres averaged 16 bushels and 1 peck. All the wheat is in improve.
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Mitchell
Wing Brothers
Marion Kendall
Ray Kenton
Eastern papers rage over Senate tariff plan backlash
Eastern newspapers attack the Senate tariff revision push as an “unholy alliance” between progressives and Democrats. The New York Sun mocks the Laborate organization while the Philadelphia Record brands the LaFollette Bailey blunderbuss as a failed shot. The Washington Post notes drought risks if tariffs stay, and the Washington Star urges adjournment to finish revisions.
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Cignant
Repubcan
Senate
New York Sun
Laboulette
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Tribune
New York Tribune
Jeff Davis
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Woman earns top salary as chief of U S mint
In Washington D C Miss Marga ret lely aged thirty five now heads the mints and runs Uncle Sam money making operations in Director Roberts absence. Her $3000 yearly pay makes her the highest paid woman on the federal payroll with prior ranks from stenographer to chief clerk and beyond. Leona Wells in Havana also earns a high salary at $2500 as assistant clerk to the Senate Appropriations Committee. In Havana workmen on the battleship Maine uncover a skeleton fragment possibly linked to Assistant Jengineer Merritt with teeth filled in gold and sent to Washington for identification.
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Aiss
Margaret Lelly
United States
Uncle Sam
Roberts
Bureau
Kelly
Director Roberts
Leona Wells
Senate Committee On Appropriations
Havana
Maine
Jengineer Merritt
Washington
Wheat yield reports and rain impact on local farms
A report from Sam Tuicks north of Loomis notes 47 acres of wheat yielding 14 1 2 bushels weighing 59 pounds. Other reports say some farmers fared worse due to timing rain shortages, while others show similarly low averages. A drug advertisement promotes Dr Coxs Barbed Wire Liniment 25 cents for various injuries with money back guarantee at local druggists.
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Sam Tuicks
Loomis
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