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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1910
Page
7
Domestic advice covers manure, spraying, pruning, and soil fertility. Notes on dairy handling, hay quality, and crop timing accompany guidance on pests, plant spacing, and lettuce varieties. Uses practical steps for orchards, fowls, and root vegetables with focus on efficiency and health.
Agricultural tips cover feeding hens dairying hogs and lambs focusing on year round profitability. Topics include clover for hogs silage for dairy cows rape for ewes and careful brooder management. Also notes on state governance, bank incorporations, drainage and railroad rate cases, and teacher certification statistics.
County records reveal that the Palasa Mining company gains full title to Harvey Peak and related properties near Hill City. Documents from Sir Clarence Crisy and various New York lenders transfer ownership to Palasa, enabling mine development and anticipated metal extraction.
Sioux Falls hosts the Northwestern Sangerfest with about fifteen hundred Danish singing societies and guests from Wisconsin Minnesota North and South Dakota. The event features street parades and two concerts led by Professor Emi Bjorn. trains ran hourly to the Sioux Falls area for attendees.
The Sunday cornerstone ceremony for a new Methodist church in Pierre attracted broad city participation. City leaders, church representatives, and business figures attended as a time capsule of articles was placed in the coverstone. The event recalled the 1883 laying when Governor Veazey helped spread mortar.
Ground plans at the state hospital for the insane in Yankton progress with the completed women’s building hailed as a national model. Dr Megl oversaw the project, costing thousands saved. A new infirmary for chronically ill patients and a greenhouse for vegetables and flowers are under construction to improve care and morale. Mitchel Father O Flaherty named pastor of Holy Family church by Bishop O Garman succeeding retired Mather Stiea after 30 years in the state.
The state receives word from Washington that the First South Dakota regiment under Colonel Frost is allowed a claim of 15 594 25 for service in the Philippine Islands. The money will be distributed among private soldiers who served, with each receiving a portion of the total.
A South California ostrich farm near Los Angeles and Pasadena houses 200 birds. Fifty were imported from South Africa years ago by Mr. Cawston, with many hatchlings and careful hand-rearing. Ostriches show strong pair bonds, brood by eight-to-ten months, and feed on alfalfa with gravel for digestion. Birds reach eight feet and 200 pounds, with males having glossy black plumes and females gray.
A historical note describes rising demand for rubber and the push to produce substitutes. It highlights artificial indigo and camphor as modern chemical successes, reports near-term synthetic rubber from caputchone, and mentions German compositions with glue and glycerine as promising, plus naptha-based rubber tests in the Caucasus.
A wireless telegraph device was shown by Professor Cerebotann during a scientific lecture before researchers. The wooden base carries the alphabet in a circle with a central pivoted indicator that reads wireless currents and spells messages. The unit is described as simple and slightly larger than a common card cape.
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