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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1915
Page
4
The notice column from the Sisseton Weekly Standard includes subscription details, advertising rates, and local notes. It reflects a 1910s era newspaper tone with jokes about the June bride and mothers doing the dishes, plus mentions of Memorial Day in Europe and President Wilson.
A late census bulletin reports a decade long decrease in tuberculosis deaths, noting ongoing public health progress. The piece references general health messaging and cautions against overestimating praise for newspaper coverage.
A fragment notes that of applicants for a job opening on the Alaska railroad only 800 have been employed. The text remarks that many others face an uncertain fate and warns that not all that glitters is gold in Alaska.
The piece contrasts Edison’s steady if modest earnings from invention with Jess who quickly profits and grows rich. It notes the romantic fate of a “fluffy maiden” and the era’s labor roles while musing on communication ideas like telephone transmitters and their odd effects.
A garbled passage describes a chest mounted transmitter and talking into air to transmit voice vibrations over a telephone. It mentions Italy joining air nations, and questions who will come next as the world changes, with unclear context and inconsistent framing.
Fragmentary OCR reading describes a man moving with a horse team and a buggy through crowded streets. A six cylinder vehicle appears later, but readable details are limited and inconsistently phrased.
The passage extols laughter as the sunshine of the soul and a cure for sadness. It lauds happiness purity and innocence, calling humor the glow of a clean conscience and the birth cry of mirth, attributed to a Stillwater Minnesota Gazette piece.
A Tuesday evening automobile accident near the steel bridge by Big Stone involved John Hubson and four companions in a newly purchased Case car. Hubson mis-shifted to reverse on a hill, the car overturned, pinning three occupants briefly. two women jumped free. All aboard escaped serious injury. the car was righted and moved to town, with only a broken windshield reported.
The article extols baseball as simple and inexpensive, praising public participation and urging fans to root loudly from the stands. It notes that spectators often judge players better than officials and champions the communal aspect of the game over silent card play.
Sisseton traveled to Veblen last Friday and won four to thirteen as Jackson pitched and Quinn caught. Veblen fielded a strong battery, but Sisseton’s lineup produced enough power to overwhelm the pitcher.
At a well attended Ancient and Oriental Order of Base Ball Nabobs gathering in the local park on Tuesday, a heated dispute produced a decision favoring the Sisseton side. Cannon Ball Jackson impressed as pitcher, stifling the visitors with floaters and benders as Eastman and Horton fielded swiftly. Beardsley games follow Havana and Beardsley, with Effington’s six Hankinson players among the lineups.
A Sisseton team invites Watertown to play, boasting a large traveling contingent and supporters. They call for any town in South Dakota, North Dakota, Minnesota, or any state that adopts the national colors to arrange a game, asserting readiness to compete in the national game.
The plan calls for the Star Spangled Banner to be sung at noon across the United States as part of Independence Day celebrations in Philadelphia. Governors and mayors are asked to issue proclamations urging public participation, with approvals already from state executives and governors Goethals of the Panama Canal Zone and Stone of Alaska.
Edwin Seboin of Waubay who stayed with the Mannes family the past week returned home Wednesday. Legal blanks at this office.
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