This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 19 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1910
Page
5
A jumble of humorous snippets and stray lines from The Standard by C C Knappen in Sibleton South Dakota reads like a roughOCR collage. It parodies travel plans, politics, farming tips, marriage quips, and science musings with nonsensical phrases and inconsistent spellings.
Gun battle in New York City's Chinatown injures three, kills two, and leads to seven arrests as police seal off Pell Street during the 2000th anniversary banquet of the Four Brothers. Chaos erupts as On Leong Tong, Hip Sing Tong, and Four Brothers clashes spill into the streets amid a Sunday crowd.
In Mississippi River near Victory Wisconsin the excursion steamer J S burned after grounding on a sand bar. Capt Streckfus beached it to save 1000 La Crosse bound passengers and 500 more, but Emma Randall of New Albion Iowa drowned trying to escape. Three men perished in the hold. many rescued from the river, boat valued at $50,000 a total loss.
The wholesale price for refined oil drops from one and a half cents to one cent per 6 gallon, bringing the national price to seven and a half cents per 4 gallon. Standard Oil, controlling over 75 percent of refined output, enables a large impact on prices across the country.
In Washington the senate passed the house bill relieving Thomas J. Akins former assistant treasurer of the United States at St Louis from paying $61500 due to the shortage of his second teller in 1906 The measure was unamended and now goes to the president. Also reported a woman burned in Bronx City Iowa when denatured alcohol on a stove caused an explosion shaking the house and injuring Mrs John Lowrey wife of a prominent farmer. The King created the Duke of Cornwall Prince of Wales and Harry of Chester in London.
Eleven of the thirty Glidden tour cars remain and departed Wichita bound for Kansas City Missouri 282 miles away. About 2500 miles of the 4200 mile tour from Cincinnati to Chicago have been completed. No car has a perfect score.
Cattle market steady in Chicago with prices across steers cows and calves. hogs and sheep show varied bids. Minneapolis Duluth and South St Paul reports list grain prices wheat corn oats barley and flax with multiple grade listings and futures.
Ex President Theodore Roosevelt will spend four days in the Twin Cities during the state fair period to open and address the National Conservation Congress in St Paul. Gifford Pinchot confirms Sept 6 opening. a publicity bureau and tentative four day program are planned with local officials aiding preparations.
Cleveland chief of police Fred Kohler known as the Golden Rule chief was acquitted of gross immorality and habitual darkness by the civil service commission after a two week trial. An hour later Mayor Baehr reinstated him, amid charges the case stemmed from a political cabal aiming to oust supporters of former Mayor Ton Johnson.
Report from the steamship Tamba Maru describes Mindanao Moros murdering Dutch traders on a Celebes island area off northern Borneo under conditions that could trigger a larger outbreak. Eight Moros from the Tawi-Tawi group killed three traders and looted 40,000 pesos, pursued by a Dutch gunboat to Maunamanca in the Philippines. troops may be needed.
District of Columbia population tallies 331,069, with the 23rd decennial census results announced by the census bureau. The first public release, as data from enumerators and special agents is compiled and verified, sets the scene for broader city population tallies nationwide.
Congress closed a contentious session after attempts by insurgent and regular Republicans and a Democratic minority to block reform. Major actions included railroad law revisions, creation of a commerce court, admission of Arizona and New Mexico as states, postal savings banks, and broad land and conservation powers for the president. Other bills for Alaska, Panama Canal Zone, and health measures failed. The House also limited speaker control by reforms to faster bill passage. Over 27,000 bills introduced in the House and 9,000 in the Senate, with railroad legislation dominating time and prompting new reporting requirements on railroads.
Directors of the Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway Co declared a 2 percent dividend on preferred stock payable July 15. For five months ending Nov 30, 1909, operations showed all charges earned with a surplus equal to a portion of the total outstanding capital stock, amid storm and strike expenses.
The report details land allotments on Pine Ridge Rosebud and Fort Berthold reservations enabling homesteads of over two million acres, plus 150000 for water supply streams. Navy grows with two 27000 ton dreadnoughts six destroyers two colliers four submarines and 3010 new sailors. Also safety rail improvements, antitrust enforcement funding 200000 for Sherman Act enforcement, labor organizing funding, Maine recovery 300000, immigrant service reforms, Alaska seal protection, Glacier park creation, and a contentious Choctaw and Chickasaw contracts vote amid accusations of a lobby and a potential $4 million fee to attorney F Me Murray.
New York reports a 20 percent tire price increase after July 1 due to rubber shortages in European markets. Two months ago 3000 tons were available, 2500 abroad. now total supply is 2000 tons, nearly all of it held overseas.
Indiana Massachusetts and Iowa with 500 US Naval Academy midshipmen arrived in Plymouth for summer practice cruise under Rear Admiral Clark. Local authorities plan entertainments for the visitors. The midshipmen will be given five dinners by the lord mayor of London.
The Chicago American League club nears completion of a $750000 facility enough to begin dedication on July 1. The grandstand seats 35000 in a block on Shields avenue between 34th and 36th streets. The players' clubhouse includes baths showers rubbing tables and other conveniences.
Coroner Brasher ruled both shootings were suicides after investigating the deaths of Mrs W P G Hardin wife of a bank president and Guy R. J ohnson former VP of Alabama Consolidated Coal and Iron company. Both ended their lives.
Government schooner Chrissie Thomey departed Halifax to survey Hudson Bay approaches for wheat shipments from the west. The voyage aims to assess water depth and locate the best channel in Nelson River as part of a proposed Winnipeg to Hudson Bay railroad project.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.