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Newspaper
Philip Weekly Review
Location
Philip, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1920
Page
3
The Philip Weekly Review is a legal weekly newspaper published every Thursday afternoon from its office on North Center Street in Philip South Dakota. It is entered as second class matter on August 2 1907 at the Philip post office under the act of Congress of March 3 1879.
A long, descriptive historical piece recounts the Washington and Independence Hall landmarks, including the 555 foot obelisk near the Potomac, its construction details, dates from 1783 to 1885, the Liberty Bell’s cracking history, and notable exhibitions across the United States. It also covers a massive 70 by 75 foot Portland gas tank moved 3 miles in 71 days.
Ames Smithson, an Englishman who died in Italy in 1820, left property to the United States to found in Washington a Smithsonian institution. It is described as a consultive library of objects rather than a formal college, with a park of 88 acres and multiple stations. Its expeditions, surveys, and displays span vast fields, housing diverse collections including presidential furnishings, weapons, medals, coins, stamps, timekeeping, musical instruments, textiles, natural history specimens, world data, and thousands of art objects.
A man sentenced to Sing Sing in May 1917 has overstayed by over seven months and refuses to go home. He works with a construction gang building the new prison, and the wardens say he does as much work as four men. Prison pay is 1 1 2 cents daily. He was told authorities would not suspend his pay to force him to apply for parole, which he has refused.
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