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Sisseton Weekly Standard

Location

Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America

Date

Dec 11, 1908

Page

2

Through a Woman's Heart Chapter IV continues

Stephen Ruben compels Olive away from a murder scene and hides her with a plan to keep the tragedy secret. He wrestles fear, analyzes danger, and takes decisive action as a blind organist nears. Olive drifts in fevered sleep while Stephen seals the night with resolve to protect her from the truth.

Dolly Mough Stephen Wbuken Stephen Ruben Olive Comal Philip Hume Cross Ways Stephen Tilthen Shane Stephen Bates Armechair Tilda Nate Bank of England Rafe

Discount Mindset Shifts Chicago Railroad Cash Flow

A sales manager recalls pressuring a Chicago railroad to pay promptly by offering a tiny cash discount. The firm settled on a quarter of a percent for ten days. The railroad began paying earlier, chasing the discount. The manager refused higher offers, noting the thin margin and risk of seeming too eager.

Chicago

Careful talk on duty sparks playful exchange

A satirist quips that to mission in fire is to place the office cap on others. A friend warns to be careful, yet adds you won’t catch cold, in a light exchange about risk and responsibility.

South Dakota Corn Growers Meet At Sioux Falls

The South Dakota Corn Growers and Breeders Association plans a relocation meeting in Sioux Falls from June 21 to 24. The event features sweepstakes prizes including corn prizes, planters, grinding mills, and other agricultural equipment valued up to $110, with multiple districts offering best ten ears of corn and various classes and divisions across central northern and southern districts.

South Dakota Sioux Falls Yell Gund South Pakota South Makota Mackhawk M. Sachler Carriage Company Moling Nora Springs Manufacturing Co Nora Springu Lows Central District Sandwich Manufacturing Co Council Bluffs Iowa van Brunt Co S. D

Coyote Visitors Frighten Newlywed Bride Near Miller

Northeast of Miller a new wave of wolves and coyotes roams the timber, the first sightings in years. A Dakota husband said the pack arrived after winter, howling loudly, spooking the bride who had prepared a feast for them. The animals ate the baked goods but she refused further hospitality after a second, louder display.

Miller Dome Birge Pratre

Allotment Work Ends for Cheyenne Reservation Wintering in Pierre

Reservation work on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation ends for winter as Allotting Agent Deets and crew arrive at Pierre. Deets will maintain an office for the season and plats completed this year will be sold. Geological efforts halt until spring. civil service reforms place allotment and irrigation under government leadership with Deets as Northwest superintendent based in Pierre. The state has sold remaining east of the Missouri River lands in Hyde Potter and Faulk counties totaling 4 846 acres for about 30 000 to the building fund.

Wil Cheyenne River Indian Reservation Deets Pierre Civil Service Northwest Missouri River Wanik Hyde Potter Hyde County Faulk

Wheeler farmer nets 12000 bushels grain with two men

G. W. Wilkins of Wheeler, aided by a single helper, harvested 12000 bushels of grain this year. He sold 6000 bushels of corn at 45 cents per bushel, and his group expects about 5200 dollars in profit.

G. W. Wilkins Wheeler

Tragedy at Baltic Shaft House No 2 in Houghton

William Rowe aged nineteen employed in Baltic shaft house No 2 at Houghton Michigan slipped while replacing an electric light globe and fell twenty feet. He was instantly killed with a broken neck.

William Rowe Baltic Houghton, Mich

Wolf Bagged by Hounds Near Pierre

A black wolf was pursued and killed by x. W. Lumley near the county line northwest of Pierre. The quarry ran, with only a white spot on its breast noted, described as a rare animal in the report.

X. W. Lumley Pierre

Substitutes for Beer Barred From Prohibition Towns

In Mitchell circuit court a case on selling substitutes for beer like lugerine treemo and malt foam ended with a guilty verdict for Jacob Bujer. Chemical tests by Prof. A E Koch showed freeme as brewed malt with .86 percent alcohol and malt foam with .46 percent. court ruled any brewed or malted liquid is intoxicating under the prohibition statute.

South Dakota Cffcuit Mitchell Jacob Bujer Corn Palace Bujer A. E. Koch Freeme Prof Koch Spangler Preston Smith

Flowing Wells Rise in Lyman County Water Boom

Lyman county in the Missouri river region gains fame for numerous artesian wells drilled by homesteaders and ranchers. A Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Railway spur spurred settlement, saturating ground and creating water abundance. A well on Edward Bucous’s farm yielded 50 gallons per minute, with deeper drilling boosting flow about 600 percent. Anticipated in twelve months many more small wells will be sunk across the county.

Lyman County Missouri River He County Chamberlainblack Hills Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company Lyman Voulty Ben Clark Edward Bucous McClure

Prisoner Commits Suicide In Deadwood Jail

A jailed man named Lea from Coeman near Sioux Falls attempted self destruction twice before ending his life in Deadwood. He cut his throat with a pocket knife then ripped iron from his cell to fashion a noose and choked himself with a handkerchief. He was about thirty and jailed for drunkenness.

Lea Coeman Sioux Falls Deadwood Lee

Woman Sentenced for Manslaughter in Vermillion Killing

Christina Clark received three years and ten months in state prison after a verdict of second degree manslaughter. Judge Smith handed down the sentence for the killing of her former husband in Vermillion.

Christina Clark Smith Vermillion Sioux Falls

Dakota Mews to Paragraphs in Dakota News Blast

A late Dakota dispatch reports multiple incidents including a Gettysburg house fire with no deaths and partial insurance, a suicide at Sam Jacobson farm near Walondia, and a Hutchinson County fall death. It notes bank formation approval in Gary, thefts at Clark store, fires at Lacy post office area, resignations in Mitchell police, jail escape, and a Sturgis shooting ruling as accidental. The piece closes with church fires in Aberdeen and state mine and mica production figures.

Jens Haar Sam Jacobson Walondia Ferdinand Golder Hutchinson County Bill

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