Wilson urges congress to finish rail program
President Wilson asks Congress to act on a broad rail reform agenda including enlarging the Interstate Commerce Commission, eight hour day for railroad workers, rate increases, mediation extensions, and emergency power to operate rail lines in war. He highlights urgency and proposes immediate passage of key measures.
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Washington
D. C
Wilson
Congress
The
Would_EKolary Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
House of Representatives
Senate
United States
Porto Rico
Business Men Volleyball Program Approved by School Board
The school board endorses a business men's volleyball class in the high school gym under Athletics Director Benjamin Wheatley. Two weekly meetings begin tonight at 7 PM for an hour, open to all local business professionals, with capacity for about 60 participants.
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Ben Wheatley
Recreation Place
Benjamin Wheatley
Wheatley
State Education Association Seeks $15000 Education Survey
Pierre South Dakota The state educational association at its Watertown meeting urged a legislative appropriation of about 15000 for a statewide educational survey. The survey by the Russell Sage foundation ranks SD twenty seventh in efficiency and would reallocate funds from the Beadle statue fund to a prize for local educational contributions.
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Ohio
Maryland
Vermont
Beadle
South Dakota
H. M. Gage
Huron College
State Capitol
Williamson Presiding Judge in Weller Case
Trial of James Weller son of a Plankinton farmer began in circuit court with Judge Williamson from Oacoma presiding. Change of judge occurred on motion by Joe Kirby. Juror examination started at 10 and continued through 3 with frequent objections from both sides.
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James Weller
Plankinton
Wm. Williamson
Oacoma
Frank B. Smith
Williamson
Joe Kirby
Local hotel assault case proceeds with 20 jurors excused
State's Attorney Lauritz Miller charges Weller with assault on Ellen Spangler at a local hotel last summer. Weller pleads not guilty. Defenders T. J. Spangler and Mr. Kirby sought a continuance because a witness who could prove innocence was in Europe. the request was denied and the case will be tried this term.
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Lauritz Miller
Weller
Ellen Spangler
T. J. Spangler
Kirby
Europe
Mystery surrounds disappearance of W J Carmon
Spirit Lake Township farmer W J Carmon vanished while helping his son shield a house from cold. Bloodhounds traced a circuitous path from his home to De Smet depot as neighbors searched. Authorities offered a theory he wandered off unintentionally during the task. wife and another son were away. Family ties described as pleasant and finances sound.
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W. J. Carmon
Spirit Lake Township
DeSmet
South Dakota Implement Dealers Open Eighteenth Convention
About 500 implement dealers, salesmen and jobbers gather in Sioux Falls for the opening session of the 18th annual convention of the South Dakota Implement Dealers Association. President R B Hubbard of Henry presides. George W Burnside mayor gives welcome. speakers include George B Tyler of Sioux City Iowa and A R Dempster and R P D Springer.
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R. B. Hubbard
Henry
George W. Burnside
Sioux Falls
George B. Tyler
Sioux City
Towa
A. R. Dempster
Civil War veteran Elias Thomas dies in Huron at 69
Elias Thomas a longtime Huron resident since 1883 died at his home after an acute illness at age 69. He was a Civil War veteran and had just been reelected clerk of courts of Beadle county.
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Huron, S. D
Elias Thomas
Huron
Thomas
Beadle County
Local notes recount births and visits in town
From Tuesday's Daily Born to Mr and Mrs Roscoe Satterlee a son is born December 1 at 718 South Minnesota. The Swedish Lutheran Ladies aid meets next Thursday at 1218 West Fourth. Various residents visit relatives in Mitchell Sioux Falls and Watertown. The police report 15 arrests this period mainly for drunkenness with $50 in fines and 74 meals served at $5.40.
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Roscoe Satterlee
Minnesota Street
Swedish Lutheran Ladies Aid
Albert Peterson
West Fourth Avenue
Sioux Falls
South Dakota Retail Implement Dealers’ Association
Veteran Editor Dies on the Coast in California
W G Brown longtime South Dakota newspaper man and pioneer Turner county settler died in Whittier California He founded the Hurley Herald in 1883 and ran it until 1905 then moved to St Paul and later to California He is survived by a widow two daughters and other relatives
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Sioux Falls
Whittier
Cal
W. G. Brown
South Dakota
Brown
Turner County
Hurley
Hurley Herald
St. Paul
Minn
California
Sudden Blindness Afflicts Hayti Woman Near Hayti
Mrs. William Wilson, an elderly resident near Hayti in South Dakota, was suddenly stricken with total blindness while sewing at home. She has remained unable to see since, though hope remains that her sight may be restored.
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Hayti
S. D
Wliam Wilson
Nineteen Criminal and Civil Cases Set for Kingsbury Court
De Smet hosts a Kingsbury county circuit term convening with Judge Taylor of Hinman presiding. Nineteen criminal and nineteen civil cases are to be disposed of, with the criminal docket notably larger than usual.
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de Smet
S. D
Kingsbury County
England Honors War’s Greatest Heroine Katherine Davies
England salutes Katherine Mary Davies as a wartime heroine for her work at Ris Orangeis hospital in France. She devised a sterilization system to prevent infection in wounded soldiers and exposed herself to gangrene poison to test an antidote with Dr. Taylor. The antidote saved her life.
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Katherine Mary Davies
England
Ris-Orangeis
France
Sbe
Taylor
Woman Doctor Leads Fight for Automatic Marriage Law
Dr Waite of Chicago heads the National Council of Women Voters effort across suffrage states to push a law that would automatically recognize marriage between the parents of children born out of wedlock. The campaign centers on protecting nameless children and expanding legal recognition.
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National Council of Women Voters
Dr. Waite
Chicago
Blackleg Outbreak Alarms Kingsbury County Cattle Farms
Alarm spreads among Kingsbury county farmers as blackleg kills six of sixty cattle in Tenry Johnson herd. County agent on site with precautions to halt further deaths and curb spread to neighboring herds.
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Carpenter
S. D
Kingsbury County
Blackleg
Tenry Johnson
Boe Campaign Spent 365 60 In Rail Way Candidate Run
Jorgen Boe the defeated Democratic candidate for railway commissioner filed his expense account showing total campaign costs of 365.60 dollars.
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Pierre
S. D
Jorgen Boe
Wealthy South Dakota owner survives acetylene gas blast
Irene Aggergaard, a prominent South Dakota businessman, narrowly escaped death when an acetylene gas buildup ignited by a lantern exploded at his home. He had been in the basement tending the furnace and reached the kitchen as the blast shook the house and blew out windows.
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Irene
P. N. Aggergard
South Dakota
Seminary Punished After Dead Man Assaults Over Remarks
In Lead, a Hot Springs man was fined $10 after making remarks about another man’s wife while dead. The remarks led to a Lead man assaulting him. the Hot Springs man was punished and the assailant discharged in court.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Hot Springs
Not Springs
Bankruptcy petition for discharge in South Dakota district
I O Brock of Mitchell Davison County South Dakota filed for discharge in bankruptcy No 1023. The court set a hearing for February 5 1917 at Sioux Falls and ordered notice by publication in The Mitchell Capital to all known creditors.
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District Court of the United States
S. Dak
I. O. Brock
J. D. Elliott
I. O. Brook
Mitchell
Davison
South Dakota
Ira O. Brock
District of South Dakota
Sioux Walls
James D. Elliott
Sioux Falls
Higher Express Rates Denied in South Dakota Ruling
The South Dakota supreme court granted a permanent injunction against intra state express rate increases proposed by the Sioux City Commercial clubs and shippers. The decision upholds South Dakota shippers' contention that rates were too low to permit effective competition with interstate shipments from the Iowa city. Mitchell Sioux Falls and Aberdeen clubs and area jobbers filed the action for the injunction.
Peever Farm Hand Dies in Accidental Shotgun Blast
Lois Wacker, 27, a farm laborer on Knut Olsson’s Peever, South Dakota, farm from New York state, died instantly when a shotgun in his hands discharged while he sat on a wagon. A coroner’s jury labeled the death accidental after witnesses saw the weapon slip and fire in a corn field south of Peever.
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Peever
S. D
Lois Wacker
Knut Olson
New York State
Gregory Council Revokes A Saloon License
Gregory South Dakota saloon license for Jacob Reuther is revoked by city council after repeated disorderly conduct warnings. The saloon, operated in Gregory, has been closed with no statutory appeal available to the licensee.
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Gregory
S. D
South Dakota
Jacob Reuther
Marinies
Ha’ Heen
Beritier
Manson Auction Sale At Kibbee Farm Near Mitchell
H E Manson will sell personal property at public auction on Saturday December 16 starting at 10 am on Kibbee farm one mile west and one half mile south of Mitchell. Free lunch at noon. Items include horses cattle hogs hay grain farm machinery household goods harness and poultry. Terms: cash under $10, over $10 on bankable paper with 10 percent interest until November 1 1917. Judge Bros auctioneers with J W Bryant clerk.
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Manon
Kibbee Farm
Stitchell
Judge Bros
J. W. Bryant
Sugar beet price rise aids 1917 crops
Belle Fourche reports agricultural expert Phil Dale says Great Western Sugar raises beet price by 1.00 per ton from 4.50 to 5.50 for the 1917 crop. Worsiloed beets pay 1 more per ton instead of 75 cents. The change boosts growers profit by 10 to 20 dollars per acre with nearly two thousand acres signed for 1917.
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S. D
Belle Fourche
Phil Dale
Great Western Sugar Company
Cleveland Society Woman Files Divorce Suit
Mrs Theodor Kundtz a prominent Cleveland society figure aged 20 sues for divorce citing cruelty. She says she did not believe in marrying young and believes people should wait until they know more about the world and if they are properly mated.
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Kundtz
Cleveland Society
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John A. Bowler
Harry Parsons
Gann Valley
KX. Sullivan
St. V. Fitzgerald
W. Io. Weller
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Watertown
S. A. Boyles
Lews Boyles
Yankton
Virgil Boyles
John Bingham
Chamberlain
Boyles
Lucy Waite
Boe
Oliver S. Pendar
C. C. Schwarz
South Dakota Supreme Court
Gregory Council
H. E. Manson
Berey
Judg Bros
Theodor Kundtz
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