Government sweeps radicals in nationwide arrests
The article reports a wave of government raids led by the American Legion starting the new year, with 4,500 people detained or questioned as potential conspirators against the government. It notes Bolshevik influence and urges stringent immigration laws, while acknowledging native born radicals as well.
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American Legion
Washington
Bolshevists
Russia
Department of Justice
Eckward
Ottumwa
Sweden
Congress
Hanson Missing Rancher Found in Hills
Mitchell-John H. Hanson, a wealthy Oacoma rancher missing about two months, has been found in Deadwood. Authorities say he became mentally deranged after a November storm that wiped out cattle, but his wealth would not be crippled by the loss. He was in a pitiable condition when found.
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Mitchell
John H. Hanson
Oacoma
Deadwood
Hanson
Sir William Macgregor the Lagos Pioneer Sanitarian
Sir William Macgregor, famed administrator, long remembered for improving Lagos and West Africa through sanitation, clean water, and roads. He earned respect from Africans and Europeans, valued for his belief in the people and his cautious stance toward German rivals in the tropics.
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Sir William Macgregor
West Africa
William Macgregor
Western Pacific
Lagos
Yong
Macgregor
Tropics
Manchester Guardian
Trunk Carried by Governor Briggs Traced to New York
A Century old trunk once carried by George Nixon Briggs on his journey from Hudson New York to Adams Massachusetts is found. Briggs famed as Massachusetts governor and temperance advocate in 1832. The trunk held his entire worldly estate valued under ten dollars and was later repaired with a car's label.
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Daniel Webster
George Nixon Briggs
Massachusetts
Hudson
N. Y
Adama
Mass
Briggs
Massachusetts Legislative Temperance Society
Boston
Chrix Nap Science Monitor
Aoe
Mugwump Word Origins and Political Use Through History
The term mugwump derives from the Algonquin rmug quomp meaning a great man or chief and was used in Massachusetts and Connecticut in the 17th and 18th centuries. It later took a humorous sense for self-important persons, and in 1884 referred to independent Republicans who refused presidential nominees and often voted for Democrats or Prohibitionists.
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Massachusetts
Connecticut
U. S
Vas Hirst
Republican
United States
Democratic
Prohibition
Energy Released in Combustion and Radium Emanation
A coal fragment, burning, could lift itself about 2000 miles against gravity, roughly from New York to Panama. Hydrogen releases four times that, about the New York to Manila distance. Radium emanation, without burning, yields energy enough to lift to Neptune orbit, about thirty times Earth’s sun distance.
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New York
Panama
Manila
Neptune
Solar System
Earth
Deadly Liquor Myth Prompts Cautionary Note
A fragment claims extremely strong liquors can be consumed with survival, warning that initial small portions gradually increase in strength and the drinkers become hardened, a dubious assertion from an era when sensational health cautions circulated.
Thrifturgency and a Mobridge feeding yard plan
An editorial laments rising prices and consumer extravagance while urging thrift amid a looming economic shift. It notes no man or nation can defy moral laws of sowing and reaping, warns of waste, and highlights plans for a $200000 feed ing and stock yard project near Mobridge based on Milwaukee road access. F W Milen advertises shop repairs.
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Mobridge
Twin City
Milwaukee Road
Woman Instinct Hero Or Lectures On Reasoning
A lecturer told a gathered audience that women lack reasoning powers but possess an instantaneous instinct. He argued this gift is involuntary and superior to male deliberation, noting men often overthink while women instinctively reach correct conclusions. The talk aimed to praise instinct over cultivated logic.
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Woyren
Cliff swallows defend orchards by feasting on pests
The American Forestry Association of Washington promotes the cliff or cave swallow as a natural pest control. A cliff swallow can eat thousands of mosquitoes and crop-damaging insects in a day, nests on barn eaves, and forms colonies of thousands. Nests are gourd shaped, made of clay pellets lined with straw or feathers. The bird winters in the tropics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Forestry Associaton
Washington
I Trogiev
TRIS-CO FLOUR DEALER WARNING
A short, fragmentary note urges readers to ask dealers for TRIS-CO FLOUR, claiming it costs more land its worth and hints at a warning or caution about pricing. The text is informal and incomplete.
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Tris-Co
Sliver Cause of Death In Rapid City Man
A tiny sliver piercing Lewis Flatt’s left leg, initially seen as minor, led to blood poisoning and erysipelas. Flatt, 48, a partner at Flatt & Robbins, died after nearly three weeks with little pain. A South Dakota resident, he lived in Bijou Hills, Pukwana, and Lake County before moving to Rapid City.
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Rapid City
Lewis Flatt
Flatt & Robbins
Nue
South Dakota
Bijou Hills
Pukwana
Lake County
Huron Commercial Club Maps Northwest Road Network
The Huron Commercial Club assists the survey team in preparing an official road map covering the entire northwest from Chicago to the Yellowstone. The map, showing every trail and road in detail, will feature the Black and Yellow trail and is near completion.
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Huron
Huron Commercial Club
Surveyor General
Northwest
Commercial Club
Chicago
Yellowstone
Day Burner Promises Easier Cooking and Clean Heat
Ad says the Day Burner for stoves or ranges provides better baking and cooking with heat supplied by gravity pressure. It claims superiority to coal, wood, and rival air beef burners, pledging dust and dirt free operation. Local agent G. M. Johnson promotes Haakon and Jackson Counties in South Dakota.
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A. C. Kingsbury Lumber Co
Hills
A. C. Kingsbury Lumber Company
N. Farmer
J. C. Nelson
Mo King
R. L. Cheney
Edgar Watwood
W. H. Kertzman
Miastilo
Istrator
King Philip
Trail
F. W. Milen
Kingsbury Lumber Co
Durham
J. Gee
Philip
G. M. Johnson Philip
S. D
Haakon and
Jackson Counties
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