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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1921
Page
4
Uncle Johns quotes a homely verse urging cheerful living. It contrasts misery with happiness and urges living, learning, loving, and labor. The poem links joy to neighborliness and forgetting sorrow through positive action.
The Sisseton Standard lists J Fowers as manager and editor with postal service details for Sisseton Dakota and subscription price of 2.50 per year. Foreign advertising representation is noted by The American Press Association.
In a June issue column the Sioux Falls state prison is denounced for revolting sanitary conditions, lack of plumbing, and misgovernance. The piece accuses Governor Norbeck and the republican machine of neglect, calls for reform, and highlights a 1920 plea for $35 000 to improve housing and health facilities, urging humane treatment and parole as avenues to reform.
The piece denounces Zion City leader Voliva for enforcing strict dress codes on women including sleeves to the wrists and high necklines. It cites Mrs. Sarah Johnson of Winthrop Harbor jailed for not meeting these rules and urges appeals to higher courts with support from readers.
A Paris cable dispatch notes French grape growers and wine merchants lament the slow increase of wine shipments to the United States after the war. Only 8,000 more bottles of champagne were shipped here during the five months cited, reflecting disappointing demand.
A call for constructive publicity to support agriculture and farming. Farmers should invest in newspapers through subscriptions and farm ads, while publishers must promote local agriculture and farm products to aid the county's rural economy.
The New York police chief warns of a red conspiracy to seize great ocean going vessels on the high seas and drive crews toward Russian ports. Details of boarding the ships in the central Atlantic remain undisclosed and police hint at possible smaller red threats beyond the main plot.
The wife of a noted novelist launches a business venture, with advertising in the Standard reaching nearly every farmer in Roberts County, signaling broadened regional commerce and the writer’s family ties to local enterprise.
Judith Barnes and friends debate love at first sight amid a chatty circle of Amé Rogers Nancy Staples and Dot Blair as April weddings near Judys upcoming marriage to Don after a winter of balls and debates about fate and romance, unfolding in a lively social page vignette.
French aviation circles anticipate a practical helicopter within two years. Inventor Marquis Pateras Pescara, long tied to experiments, was jailed as a spy before being deported to Spain, where he continued helicopter work under army supervision. The device uses opposing rotating horizontal planes to rise vertically.
The Bank of North Dakota has established a free information service for investors wishing to investigate North Dakota state bonds now on the market. Those seeking information should write to the Bank of North Dakota Bond Department in Bismarck, North Dakota.
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