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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1908
Page
10
Ambitious players at Commonwealth Country Club battle on the links when a string of drives sails into a pond. A nearby curious girl asks in blunt simplicity what makes the game fun, highlighting the scene with a child’s plain question amid the mishap.
A little girl ran to report a mad dog to observers. She described the animal as mad and furious, using strong phrases like mad mad and furious to convey the danger of the sighting.
Northwestern inventors received patent issuance notices reported by Lothrop and Johnson in St Paul Minnesota. Inventors include D W Allen Osakis Minnesota for bill coupling B J Anderson and S Hanson Houston Minnesota for pine lifter RB A Cole Fergus Minnesota for envelope B H Farrell Deadwood South Dakota for waiter s cabinet L S Dackney St Paul Minnesota for ventilating device T O Helgerson Minneapolis Minnesota for fanning mill J D Lewis St Paul Minnesota for meat roaster.
Browne notes Guiley faced a $20,000 damages judgment from an abandoned romance. The exchange hints at his motive to marry the girl for her money amid chatter on raising funds.
A damaged notice-style text promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy and Moon Lrewtwient claims to restore health by strengthening the body. It offers a $100 reward for proof of false cure and directs readers to F J Cheney & Co Toledo for medical potions. The piece also mentions Hall's Family Pills and local Wayside Notes with casual humor about garb and Garfield.
In Sunbury Pennsylvania on February 5 seven workers were killed and several others injured when a boiler exploded at Van Allen and Co's rolling mill in Northumberland nearby. The disaster drew state officials and rescue teams to the scene for investigation and relief.
A garbled notice offers John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wis mailing a free catalog to gain 2000 new customers in 1908. It promotes strawberry muskmelon radish and cauliflower mail order offers for 12c prepaid postage. Also contains unrelated ad tidbits about tanning hides and moral anecdotes.
A playful exchange features Mildred accepting a marriage proposal from Dick after he announces his salary has risen to $5000 a year. The dialogue captures a light, era-appropriate tone.
Louis Hoffman of New London Wisconsin reports discovering about 30000 dollars buried in a tree in his orchard on Nordman’s hill two miles south of the city. The treasure was found several weeks ago and kept secret until now though rumors had circulated. The source of the money remains unknown.
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