Roberts County Teachers Seek Higher Certificates in Exams
Forty four young teachers, mostly girls, sat second and third grade certificate exams at the Roberts County courthouse Friday and Saturday. County superintendent Miss Andrews notes teachers show strong effort to raise professional standards, aiming for higher certificates through individual study and testing. The list includes names and towns across the region including Wilmot, Sisseton, Browns Valley, and Veblen with several Minnesota addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrews
South Dakota
Minnesota
Anna McGuckin
Wilmot
Jennie Johnstad
Grenville
James L. Oliver
Effington
Dorothe DeWolf
Kittie Morrison
Efington
Hazel Sauby
Browns Valley
Archie
Household Recipes and Canning Guide from Old Issue
A page of household guidance covers canning vegetables with sterilization steps and proper jars and bands. It also lists a weights and measures table and several fruit and vegetable based recipes including pea salad and a mixed fruit salad with nuts and cream.
German Inventions Show New Lighting and Testing Devices
Science Siftings notes a German invention to light and extinguish gas lamps by wireless waves. It mentions a micro photographic apparatus by a German scientist that magnifies 2 500 times and an estimate that Earth's rotation on the gyroscopic compass used by the US Navy is 291 times stronger than magnetism on the magnetic needle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Navy
State License Tag No 13 Goes to J L White Sioux Falls
After many refusals, the state assigns tag number 13 for auto licenses to J L White of Sioux Falls via special application. Many wrote requesting the number once it was publicized as refused, while officials worried 13 would stay unused in South Dakota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. L. White
Sioux Falls
South Dakota
Bison Courier
New
Tax Commission
Volga
Broolings
Vola
Volga Tribune
John Soule
Chas Hughes
Moreau
Finery Carlson
George Carlson
Spink
Sentences for crimes in Aberdeen cases
States Attorney Manji and Sheriff Minder brought Lot Max Abraham Grant and Joe Kruger to Aberdeen before Judge McNulty to plead guilty. Max and Grant stole a pony buggy and harness, sold the pony for $20, and each received ten months in the penitentiary, with Grant’s term suspended on good behavior. Kruger pled guilty to assault with a knife, claiming drunkenness. he was fined $200 or 100 days in jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manji
Minder
Lot Max
Abraham Grant
Joe Kruger
Aberdeen
Judge McNulty
Max
Grant
John Erickson
Bossko
Browns Valley
Andrews
McNulty
Kruger
Summit
Notable Women Movers From Washington and Melbourne
Miss Margaret Wilson, daughter of President Wilson, backs the University of Wisconsin social center work. Mrs. Thomas Riley Marshall, wife of the Vice President, made forty five calls in ninety minutes, setting a social speed record in Washington. Mrs. Strong, Alaska governor’s wife, studied music in Europe after Seattle schooling. Sarah Bernhardt plans a new Henry Bernstein play with a striking role, with details to be announced. Mine. Meth prepares a retreat at Lilydale near Melbourne and signals future permanent residence. She shows strong interest in Melbourne University Conservatorium, lecturing to students.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Wilson
Wilson
University of Wisconsin
Bureau of Social Center Development
Thomas Riley Marshall
Marshall
Washington
Strong
Alaska
Europe
Schoola of
Seattle
Sarah Bernhardt
Tristin Bernard
Lilydale
Melbourne
Conservatorium
University of Melbourne
Haw
Electric Sparks and Bold Power Advances Abroad
A proposed telegraph cable from England to Hong Kong is described as the largest yet built. In the United States twelve billion horsepower comes from 7,500 central stations. Brooklyn engineer Rudolph Drambourg claims a near solution for storage batteries with a single cell six volt stomee battery offering up to 100 ampere hours and higher power, lighter than existing cells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Hongkong
United States
Rudolph Drambourg
Brooklyn
Aerial Flights and German Aircraft Industry Stance
The International Commission of Scientific Aeronautics will hold its next triennial meeting in 1915 in London. A German hangar roof opens in two sections to launch a dirigible from its anchorage. German aeroplane production is weak financially with thirty five works, mostly government-ordered to a few leading firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International Commission of Scientific Aeronautics
London
Germany
Team Runaway Wagon Driver Bert Benning Disappears
Bert Benning a 19 year old Sisseton driver vanished after a wagon tipped into a ditch near Effington while transporting a moving picture crew. Miss Bessie Hart escaped unharmed as the team continued, and a full night search found the team and left Benning missing suspected frightened by wreckage. Authorities circulated notices to nearby towns seeking information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bert Beining
Sisseton
Bert
Effington
F. D. Chausse
Bessie Hart
Young Benning
Mrs. Chausse
Benning
Miss Hart
Messrs
Borené
Cook
Class
Lewis Jackson
Steve Barnett
Chausse
Batson
Thomas
Payne
Martin Anderson
Town Topics and City Uniforms Across Newspapers
A New Zealand visitor calls Pittsburgh “a city in overalls” while noting New York’s shift in attire. Brooklyn is described as a “baby carriage suburb” of Manhattan, with Chicago’s mayor debating police uniforms. The Philadelphia Inquirer suggests copying New York’s ex-officers’ gear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
New York
Washington Post
Brooklyn
Manvhattan
Loulaville Courier-Journal
Chicago
Philadelphia Inquirer
Pert Personals and Public Remarks
A collection of satirical lines notes Mrs Cutt’s reelection as president of an international suffrage body with polite restraint. It also jokes about Miss Sylvia Pankhurst in and out of prison. Sarah Bernhardt is quoted praising her youthful look from living freely and touring the United States.
Forest Notes on Canada's Forest Areas and Returns
The article notes Canada’s forest area at about 000,000 acres with patrol and transport use in Alaska’s coastal forests. It compares German forests with an annual net return of 11 dollars per acre and mentions film projects showing federal forest service activities including planting, timber cutting, patrols, and lookouts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Noual
Alaaka
Federal Forest Service
Three Strikes and Baseball Dreams Across Cities
A witty collage notes that even future presidents may not become pitchers, while St Louis and other papers joke about rain and delayed scores. It mentions a New Jersey bettor with weather pigeons reporting innings and a Cleveland Plain Dealer quip about waiting for papers in extra innings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul Pioneer Press
St Louis
St. Louis
New Jersey
Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Roberts County
Ernie Miller
Diamond
Alice L. Miller
June McNown
Blanche Sauby
Edith Peterson
White Rock
Martha Ward
Emma Erickson
Laura Adlard
Carrie Boyd
Julia Darling
Mabel Foss
Veblen
Katherine Otto
Anna Cahlin
Blanche Connelly
Browns Val
Agnes Lundstrom
Peever
Kathryn Nelson
Ella J. Sater
Eddy
Opal E. Otto
Belle Tallakson
Alice L. Jackson
Eldora Robinson
Minnie Moeller
Belle DeGreef
Big Stone
Nellie M. Oliver
Julia Hennessy
Woodstock
Elsie Sycora
Matilda Teigh
Ortonville
Minn
Esther LeLachure
Lena Olson
Elvina Erickson
Jay Spink
Corona
Margaret Thill
Wheaton
Eva Thill
Fred Stanley
Edward Foss
Franklin
Indies
Congressional
Science
R.w.schoomaker
News-Messenger
Frankfort
State Insurance Department
J.N. Talley
Sanborn
County
Pert Personals
Forest’ Notes
Ohio River
Gulf of Mexico
Mexico
Central America
Lyman Abbott
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