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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1906
Page
2
Mrs A Taylor of Wharton New Jersey suffered severe kidney trouble with backache dizziness and frequent burning urination. After using eleventh boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills her pain weakness and fatigue disappeared and her strength and health returned. Poster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sold for fifty cents a box.
A partial diary style entry states the writer understands the person died of a complicated disease. It mentions private physicians at the bedside and that death occurred during medical consultation, with uncertainty about exact cause. The text reflects confusion over the circumstances of death.
A parent voices pride in Gwendolen for her intellectual talent, while noting her appearance in short sleeves sparked comment. The overheard exchange hints at social perceptions of youth, propriety, and style within a family context.
Northwestern inventors receive a set of patents reported by Loitropy Johnson, patent lawyers. The list names James J. Cole man Farzo, John J. Betz Ho Wampach and others with items including a wire twisting implement threshing machine carburetor matchbox and grain backward tle.
Diamonds have appeared in four U S regions with unknown origins. Reports show no domestic production until 1899 onward, with rising values from 1900 to 1903. Searches by geologists and river dredging in California have yielded no confirmed finds, keeping the source of native gems uncertain.
A Waubu family narrates a ten day trial of Postum Food Coffee after years of stomach troubles and sallow complexions from coffee. They report improved digestion, clear skin, and better breath after switching, with all members feeling healthier and more balanced.
In a tense chapter, Grimaud spares Aloysius while Alexis pleads, Billery faces moral costs, and the Brangwyn case grows murkier. Grimaud declares nine keys exist to the mystery as Alexis inches toward ruin, and a Parisian suspect emerges in Scotland Yard’s probe.
A Connecticut boarding house proprietor guides a servant in prudent buying. He counts chickens and asks for nine of the toughest, letting the tender birds go, then claims his boarders are big eaters and selects the three he prefers.
Uncle Abe a grizzled negro visits a zoological garden and stares at a chimpanzee. He speaks to the animal and the chimp makes no reply. Abe chuckles and warns the chimp not to talk or the white man will put a hoe in his hand and make him work.
Dialogue between Corker and Sinkera centers on Reel ton, remarked for his hook nose and fishlike eyes. Corker notes his tendency to tell fishy stories, hinting at a sly, humorous exchange about reputation.
Egbert-Well she looks as if she would say she was about that old in a brief Yonkers Statesman note, reflecting a witty exchange about age and appearance.
A New York observer lauds the National Children's Home Society founded in Sioux Falls South Dakota. The writer argues the society’s work to place and supervise sheltering foster children is more impactful than libraries, noting the society operates twenty seven branches and claims high success rates.
During a violent electrical storm in Fergus Falls Minnesota lightning struck the home of war veteran O B Sweet. The bolt shattered the chimney hurled his brother in law Alfred Lindquist from bed and burned a hole in the mattress.
Hiram Borse, aged eighty two, a county pioneer, died suddenly. He worked in the harvest field the day before, drove the binder, retired in good health, and was found dead when neighbors tried to awaken him. The death occurred in Parker on August 21.
A fragmented line notes that still water may hide depth or lack thereof in a stagnant pond, contrasting surface calm with hidden conditions and potential connotations about unseen depths.
Comic quip about a farmhand who was a former bookkeeper. The speaker notes the man’s habit of pausing work and attempting to tuck a pitchfork behind his ear, a sign of his bookkeeping past. The routine line plays on occupational memory and nervous ticks.
A professor examines a man's unusual head bump and jokes that the wearer might be both married and a roller skater, noting the bump’s extraordinary size while interpreting the man’s air and appearance.
Frank Trenholm died when a gasoline torch exploded, August 21 in Henry County. The accident occurred during work on a project, with investigators noting the fatal blast as the cause of death for the laborer.
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