Side-Lights From Ora Williams on South Dakota Life
Ora Williams editor of the Sioux Falls Daily Press shares observations from ten months in South Dakota and ten years on the Iowa border. He notes climate dryness, milder winter hardship, and a future easing of semi arid region farming, plus social mix including Norse and Bohemian communities and French churches shaping local life.
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Frontiersmen and the New Cosmopolitan American Race
In the frontier belt of the Northwest South Dakota and nearby states mix diverse peoples including Sérvians Mennonites Indians and New England descendants. The piece lauds open political inquiry Bryan speeches in Sioux Falls and Lake Madison and notes socialism municipal franchise control and Indian voting while praising the region’s growth potential with the Black Hills and valley soils and the prospect of railroads and sugar production.
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