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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1908
Page
7
Women joining the Wandsworth Rifle Club in England are recording high scores with 36 out of 40 in matches. The club committee seeks more women sharpshooters to arrange a contest against men.
Report by Lothrop and Johnson lists patents issued to Northwestern inventors in the prior week. Names include Benson Spring Valley Minn, W A Gabler Janeville Minn, W W Klima Hutchinson Minn, A J Munson Garretson SD, F Peters Col Spring Minn, C L Holland Minneapolis Minn, and others. The items cover iron shears, sash fastener, car door, wrench, game board, ear trumpet and related tools.
A Richmond lawyer, asked by a colored man, records a comic plea for not paying a debt of three dollars. The debtor professes the money was eaten by interest over fifty years. Also notes an advertisement from Charfeur seeking work with a 100 horsepower machine and other quick quips about reading and diplomacy.
A candid plea urges women to write Mrs Pinkham for personal health guidance. The letter promises strict confidentiality and cites decades of experience with sick women. It portrays her correspondence as potentially providing crucial knowledge to aid individual cases.
A historical advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for female diseases. It includes a testimonial from Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allen town Pa describing relief from organic disorder headaches and nervous issues after using the product. The copy claims thirty years of use and cures for various female ailments including displacements inflammation irregularities and pain.
In a melodrama style scene a heroine in simple dress faces dramatic danger from dogs as a mother chides her child. The dialogue shifts to a bottle of CASTORIA praised as a safe infant remedy and a boy named Tommy tries to interrupt his mother and Mrs. Gaddie during their discussion.
Mrs. Gobea Golde laments her son Fuller’s escalating extravagance and hints he may start a daily newspaper in New York. Gobea Golde sighs relief, joking he feared grandiose plans or ronantics, and approves the idea.
In Washington and across the Capitol, President Roosevelts message on capital labor and corporate public responsibility sparked factional critique in the House while the Senate passed an urgent deficiency bill over 24 million dollars. Beveridge urged a non partisan tariff commission as debate focused on tariff revision and the presidents message. The week closed with further discussions on Indian appropriations and a war claims omnibus bill advancing in the House.
Helena Montana February 12 The federal grand jury yesterday submitted its final report to Judge W H W Hunt and was discharged. The expected indictment of Helen Pierce Gray the Eastern Helio paper and Dude writer on the charge of defrauding the Indians did not materialize. The grand jury criticized officials alleged to have aided her exoneration through counter charges against government employees at the Eastern Monty reservation.
A fragmented 1908 advertisement touts Emperor William Oats and Salter’s Silver King Barley as top yields with potential earnings cited for 50 and 60 acre plantings. It promises free seed catalogs from John A. Salyer Seed Co. and hints at other farm seeds, urging readers to mail for samples despite scattered rhetoric and unrelated quips.
Vallejo Cal Feb 12 Boller tubes on the cruiser St Louis blew out at noon yesterday off Bausalite E EB Scott coal passer F Thompson water tender E W Baker fireman first class and D Lewis fireman second class were badly scalded outlined cause unknown though believed cold water entering hot pipes. None of the injured are expected to die as a rigid investigation proceeds.
Mines at Simpson in McGraw Coal company territory known locally as the New York mines caught fire two days ago and are still burning. About two hundred men work to extinguish the blaze as efforts continue.
A man was struck by a south bound Chicago Great Western train near Iowa eb.8. He was ground to bits in the incident.
A grim incident surrounds Skinner's tombstone defacement with the epitaph altered by adding the word friends. The exchange notes astonishment and questions about the vandalism while referencing the attempted resolution and the lingering sting of the insult to the deceased.
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