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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1909
Page
10
Chicago woman recounts avoiding a third operation after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad touts the remedy for female illnesses and urges readers to build up the feminine system and remove causes of ailments.
An old sailor on the steamer L. C. Hanna discusses how most people misuse life preservers. He explains that pulling the ring over the head worsens drowning and advises grabbing the near side and pressing with full weight to flip the far side up and over the head for rescue.
A city police court crackdown on lawyers soliciting business in corridors sparked a violent quarrel outside the second sessions. A young attorney argued with a man whose case he had just won, claiming the man refused to pay after the lawyer allegedly approached him in the corridor to offer trial services. The man challenged him to sue if he wanted payment.
In Flandreau South Dakota the jury found Mrs Moses Kaufmann guilty only of assault and battery in the case over the death of her servant Agnes Poirers. Judge Rice fined her $100 as the lawyers argued for leniency noting she had already been punished by the ordeal of trial.
D W Nickerson once Chicago’s Haymarket deputy sheriff was found dead at his Floyd county Iowa country home after years of anarchist threats. The inquest tied the death to apoplexy following routine tests for poisons, mirroring the fate of two earlier Haymarket officers.
A columnist riffs on paradoxes and aphorisms noting how a cavalryman undercuts bravado after losing his temper, a contractor’s business, slow youth, hard work before results, and the paradoxes people blur into double lives in newspapers.
Walter Terry a woodsaw operator was chased and struck by a rapidly whirling saw when a 4W fastener broke from a wagon bed at Ashland Oregon The saw ripped his back and severed his right leg He died thirty minutes after arrival at Ashland Hospital in a fatal accident involving unsecured equipment.
A Cadiz public school teacher in room seven asked students to draft personal-style newspaper columns in English. A younger pupil earned praise by writing The college have have returned to their schools to wait for another vacation.
Paris designers from leading houses to specialists in other trades devote attention to the chapeau taileur as it enjoys astonishing vogue. The headgear’s popularity draws even those not in hatmaking into its fashionable orbit, signaling a strong market from fashion centers.
A Denver woman describes illness after meals, then recovery after using Grape Nuts. She reports gaining 12 pounds after a summer of hard work and credits the food with restoring appetite and health. The ad cites The Road to Wellville and promises further letters.
Jamestown North Dakota June 20 a special meeting of railroad commissioners considered alleged grain rate discrimination in the southern state shipments to Minnesota markets. Duluth allegedly faced higher rates than Minneapolis with some routes 2 cents per bushel higher. Action by the commission was not announced.
Three robbers were arraigned in New Ulm Minnesota before Justice Ernst Brandt on a grand larceny charge for the Northwest depot burglary. They named themselves William R Nichols Floyd Bertrand and Harry Bertrand and waived examinations bound over to district court.
Mason City Iowa June 20 Col W A Burns expert accountant who audited the defunct Corwith bank exonerates bank officials and pins all blame on cashier John Stand ring who is now a fugitive from justice
The forty ninth Wisconsin legislature adjourned sine die after a five month session. Many subjects were postponed to a special session next winter. Governor Davidson vetoed the teachers compulsory pension bill, a veto sustained by both houses.
La Crosse Wisconsin June 19 Commissioner of Public Works Fred Schnell was jailed for contempt after defying a court order to pay a $29 judgment to a grocer. Schnell had previously refused to pay a five year old judgment and turned over his salary to his wife, ignoring court injunctions and a receiver named by the judge.
Circuit Judge B. C. Higbee in Crosse Wisconsin on June 19 appointed district attorneys in all counties of the Sixth Judicial district to handle divorce case investigations. Future court days will be reserved for divorce considerations.
Jacob Bachmann of Le Sueur will depart for Switzerland next week to settle his uncle Dr. C. E. B. Swiningson’s estate in Berne. The dentist’s passing leaves about seventy thousand dollars to Bachmann from the large estate.
In Crookston Minnesota Red Lake river takes its second life of the year as Ernest Kasthagen, eight, son of Mr and Mrs Godfrey Kasthagen, slipped from a boom while playing and drowned. Neighbors were alerted by his friends screams and a search recovered the body after several hours.
Mrs. Emile Dam died after a kerosene fire she started to ignite a blaze exploded and set her dress aflame. She suffered severe burns to the head arms and neck in Hudson town on June 19.
An unknown foreign laborer was killed near the Crivitz depot in Menominee County when he attempted to board a St. Paul freight train. His head lay 200 feet from his trunkless body after he slipped between the cars.
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