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Sisseton Weekly Standard

Location

Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America

Date

Dec 29, 1916

Page

4

Indian Welfare Gains Shown In Cato Sella Report

Walter L. Johnson notes from the commissioner of Indian affairs report for year ending June 30 1916. The data show more Indians adopting white attire and learning English with literacy rising to about 75 000 or 80 percent, churchgoing up, and rising incomes and livestock value. Farm numbers grow and death rates fall notably from 1915 to 1916 due to health improvements. Short Course begins January 2 1917 at Northern Normal and Industrial School Aberdeen S D.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sella Weed Ibave Tonni Colton Milling Coy Chicuen Ardmore Ollayd Millitix Co Ardmore Okhi Asie Superior Hit Gas New Prague Mini's Brat Aku Mill Fil Co Siete City Kimball Moller Kimball Euiaysis Akron Mithive Co Sioux Jones Seal Co Sioe Malle Soo Nak Ates Claes Kinstell Beresford Miner Co. Milling Wit A.juhtinx Co Howard Grevory Milly Northumper and Sons Grevory Excetnior Yankton Armour Roller Mills Aurora Cy Milling and Lighting Co Mecésiore Armour White Lake Biling Co White Lake

Big Enrollment Day at Aberdeen Business College

Aberdeen Business College promotes a big Enrollment Day on January 2. The ad urges prospective students to start the practical program with at least three months of study and promises a free catalogue.

Aberdeen Business College

Hides and Fur Prices Offered by Old Reliable

Northwestern Hide & Furco advertises high cash prices for hides and furs with no commission and prompt returns. It offers free illustrated catalogs and price lists, listing hides at 24c per pound, veal calf at 40c, veal kip at 9c, and horse hides from 5 to 5 plus extra for skilled workers, inviting trial shipments.

Perth

War declines crime in London and among criminals

A wartime UK report notes crime in London fell due to conscription and police enforcement while the war increased penalties and military control. The study observes fewer petty offenses, with imprisonment eased for some and harsher regimes for habitual offenders, reflecting wartime social strain. The piece links police statistics to population displacement and the call for able-bodied workers.

London Wietn Airis Vinetot Milisiey

Roots High Living on Eighty Cents a Week

A cotton mill worker Me-Stillman M. Kenney claims eighty cents per week covers his living costs. He abstains from most luxuries, cooks with kerosene, and uses no phone or utilities. His weekly earnings total 101 dollars with a 9.20 contribution to savings.

Roots High Me—Stillman M. Kenney Kenney Melannes

Carries Wildcat Home by Bare Hands in Pennsylvania

Carl Palmquist of Haverhurst Pennsylvania towed his car near Campbelltown and, without a weapon, captured a well grown wildcat alive using his gloved hand. He restrained the animal by gripping its hindquarters and carried it to his car, placing it in a cloth bag for the journey home.

Uthat Bradford Carl Palmquist Haverhurst D Hiatt Palnquist Campbelltown Palmanist Anita Palmquist

Digging a cistern uncovers Indian burial grave near Mitchell

In Mitchell South Dakota C P Saylia digging a cistern one mile north of town unearthed the skeleton of an Indian buried unusually deep in a seven foot grave. The grave lies in a wide pocket along the mounded Firesteel creek bluffs where many remains have been found the burial ground extends along the bluffs for about a mile and a half.

South Dakota Mitchell C. P. Saylia Firesteel Creek

Wall Chasing Woman Killed in Williamport

A wolf weighing pounds escaped from Colonel Bboe maker’s Zoological Collection appeared in Mablin Sexton Park. The incident in Williamport follows a prior escape last year and ends with a fatal outcome for a woman chased by the animal.

Williamaport Colonel Bboemaker McKihattan Park Mablin Sexton

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