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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1914
Page
7
Persuasive, upbeat notice promoting a Chautauqua event with promises of entertainment, sociability, recreation, uplift, and inspiration. Encourages arranging affairs to attend and highlights the program as one of the biggest, brightest, and best.
A party at a house leads to discussion of a burglar’s visit during a daughter’s friend’s stay. The dialogue frames a social event and a security concern noted in a newspaper item.
Mrs Brown seeks a four o'clock steak, but a prankster shop boy misidentifies the caller. After she discovers the mix up, she declares the bet off. The exchange ends with Mrs Brown clarifying she is the one speaking.
In a terse exchange the witness confirms receiving several degrees in different cities, revealing a pattern of ongoing recognition. The dialogue highlights the phrase the third degree as a recurring reference to earned honors across locations.
A vintage advertisement touts a hair treatment named Sage Tea and Sulphur Hair Remedy. It claims natural color restoration for faded or gray hair, reduces itching, stops hair loss, and darkens hair evenly within one or two applications. Sold at drug stores for about 50 cents.
Tom plans to work to support himself after eye trouble sidelined him from college. His parents confront his engagement to Halle Lane and his friendship with Mrs. Gaynor and Lucie Goodrich, while Aunt Laura warns of risky romantic entanglements and urges his return home. Tom reveals the engagement to his father, who reacts with surprise and mixed approval.
The Washington inventor patenting a pneumatic headlight mechanism to flash colored signals from locomotive lights prompts Egbert to warn of misidentifying a train as a moving drug store. The exchange highlights practical concerns over new signaling devices on railroads.
The Chautauqua program features Imperial Ladies Orchestra with star soloists, and speakers Hon. Harry Phillips and Dr. John Merritte Driver. Other highlights include Sara Ruth Bates and Her Girls, Arthur Kachel theater pieces, and a strong lineup of noted lecturers plus a dedicated Children’s Chautauqua program. Season tickets are on sale.
Kerr Boyce Tupper, famed preacher and author, comes to the Chautauquan with an optimistic message. The renowned pulpit orator and author, known in America and abroad, will address men with a secularly powerful appeal in his lecture on inspiration and good cheer.
Dr Tupper delivers an uplifting Chautauqua lecture titled Seeing the Bright Side of Things. He is praised as refined, scholarly, and memorable with a voice noted for grace and strength, promising an optimistic, thoughtful, and witty presentation.
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