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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1920
Page
4
Advertising rates listed for The Sisseton Standard Nonpartisan include fifteen cents per inch for electrotype ads and light or bold face locals, five to ten cents per line for locals, one cent per word for want ads with a twenty cent minimum, obituary poetry at five cents per line, and weekly press deadlines with Tuesday noon copy and Thursday noon press.
The article critiques wartime government housing for female workers in Washington, noting a 2.9 million dollar hotel complex housing about 2,000 women. It highlights low costs to guests, with monthly charges around 45 dollars covering rooms meals infirmary and services, plus features like laundry and private protections. It questions private profiteering in housing and food postwar.
The Minnesota Working People’s Nonpartisan Politics league forms branches in towns over 1,000 population. Six organizers report unions and lodges joining in St Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth, and the Iron Range as the league aims for 50 000 members by January and 100 000 by 1920 campaign openings per Minnesota Union Advocate.
A recent Presbyterian Church convention endorses wealth disclosures, Christian principles in industry, fair wealth distribution, poverty abatement, child labor abolition, regulated industrial conditions for women, weekly rest, conciliation methods in labor, and a more merciful attitude toward offenders.
Cass county farmers demonstrated seed treatment increasing potato yields by about 22 percent. Peter Mc Laughlin of Hunter harvested 140 bushels from treated seed, Willson reports 70 bushels from treated seed and 100 from untreated, J B Akison of Grandin produced 86 bushels from treated and 60 from untreated.
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