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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1905
Page
3
The Garfield report shows packing industry profits at about two percent of business. Census data from 1806 suggests mill margins near seven percent, while Illinois slaughtering and packing margins are around two percent. The contrast implies packers earn far less than millers despite industry agitation.
Random clippings show humorous exchanges and ad like lines. A teacher explains recuperate to a pupil while a girl exclaims about a calf and a country tale muddles with a joke. Other fragments mention a medicine ad and a quip about a ill tempered wife, reflecting light gossip tone.
A promotional notice extols Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a trusted female remedy. It highlights Mrs. Pinkham’s confidential, women-only letters, claiming over 100,000 yearly case reviews and twenty years of experience helping women with female illnesses. The text urges sick women to write for free, professional guidance in Lynn Mass.
J W Walls, Lebanon Ky streets superintendent, credits Doan's Kidney Pills with quick relief from kidney pain and irregular function after failed doctoring. Ad copy urges readers to try the remedy. Also a physician warns that catching a cold is largely a matter of nerves and drafts, advising awareness to avoid symptoms.
A jaunty poem notes Fourth of July revelry and its dangers. It laments bangs and crashes injuring children and discusses fears of accidents, missing fingers, and medical calls while urging decency and safety as the holiday approaches.
A collection of excerpts from 19th century speeches emphasizes the core federal pillars: a perpetual union under a federal system, public justice, a strong peace establishment, and peaceful interstate relations. It argues liberty as the foundation, government as a free people’s contract, and patriotism tied to enduring national principles. The passages also stress trust in republican institutions, the moral duty of citizens, and progress through educated, virtuous individuals.
Excerpts from Thomas Jefferson letters discuss government by the people and a press free to read. He favors frugal government, limited diplomacy, free commerce, and avoiding entanglement with Europe, urging distinct American interests and independence.
The piece notes Filipino enthusiasm for Independence Day with Americans abroad in Manila decorating shops and streets with the Stars and Stripes. It describes arches of bamboo or cloth in towns, flags, portraits of national heroes, and celebratory displays as a reflection of American holiday spirit abroad.
A school lesson turns to a joke as Jimmy tells of a baby elephant fed on milk gaining ten pounds daily. The teacher dismisses the claim and questions whose baby it was. The note includes quirky asides and a vintage ad line, showing humorous misreadings and moral quips from Harper's Weekly style.
The World’s Greatest Skin Soap Cuticura Soap with Cuticura Ointment touted as the purest emollient cure. For preserving, purifying and beautifying skin, cleansing crusts and dandruff, stopping hair loss, softening hands, treating baby rashes, itchings and chafings, and many sanitary uses for women and mothers.
A Chicago Daily News excerpt shows Warber urging a bald chair with talk, asking if the man tried his hair ten se. The victim replies that the issue is not hair loss but his marriage. The exchange hints at blame and embarrassment in a social scene.
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