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Sisseton Weekly Standard

Location

Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America

Date

May 01, 1914

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The Boy and His Battles Speech by Judge Andrews

Judge J O Andrews delivered an eloquent address at the New Grand Theatre on The Boy and the Boy's Battles. He traced boyhood hardships from Minnesota forests to early life, noting battles with evil, education, and love, and praised the Boy Scout movement and Roosevelt's comment on its value for character.ersistent references to youth trials and the importance of discipline and imagination.

J. O. Andrews New Grand Theatre Minnesota Big Woods John New York Theodore Roosevelt Chile Santiago Reid Cross Boy Scouts United States Boy Scouts Organization Potsdam Baden Powell Spain South America

All Boost For the Boys Seek Scouts in Sisseton

Thirty plus boys in Sisseton aged over twelve petition men to aid in organizing a local Boy Scout Council. The list names Ivers Babcock Herbert Axness Harold Arrowsmith Harry Brown Boyd Palmer Lynn Warring Chas Babcock Homer Robinson Relph Knight Clifford Olberg John Johnson Millard Lion Adelbert Peterson Ober Rask John Thomas Robert E. Lowery Clarence Tallakson Harold Kirley Hobert Lion William Rask Charles Felton Lloyd Peterson Maurice Swanberg Albert Grover Leslie Horton Erwin Erickson Francis Warring Elmer Johnson Bernard Swanberg Laurence Staing Dewey Hanson Theodore Hannasch Clifford Rudie Howard Olberg.

Sisseton Scout Council Ivers Babcock Herbert Axness Harold Arrowsmith Harry Brown Boyd Palmer Lynn Warring Chas Babcock Homer Robinson Relph Knight Clifford Olberg John Johnson Millard Lion Adelbert Peterson Ober Rask John Thomas Robert E. Lowery Clarence Tallakson Harold Kirley Hobert Lion William Rask Charles Felton Lloyd Peterson Maurice Swanberg Albert Grover Leslie Horton Erwin Erickson Francis Warring Elmer Johnson Bernard Swanberg Laurence Staing Dewey Hanson Theodore Hannasch Clifford Rudie Howard Olberg Boy Scout Movement

Umbrella Repair Costs Earn Question From New York Globe

A short exchange cites an umbrella recovered for $1.50, sparking disbelief over the price. Smith boasts the repair is as good as new while Jones questions the total expense.

Smith Jones New York Globe

Australian Bushmen and their remarkable homing instinct

The bushmen of Australia display a rare instinct that rivals animal senses and even human reasoning. Despite being misled or blindfolded, they reliably find their way back to their nest homes, though the nests themselves remain very similar.

Australia

The Evil Eye and Medieval Beliefs

The article describes the superstition of the evil eye as widespread in the middle ages. It notes that some people were believed to curse others with a glance and that fascination could ruin a person. Amulets and practices like laughing spitting and turning ereault were used against it.

Ereault

New Grand Hosts Declamatory Contest and Concert

Lloyd, Peterson and Hilda Stavng won first, second in the declamatory contest at the New Grand Wednesday night. The program featured fine musical numbers with Miss Brester and Messrs Hanson and Dunn praised, Dorothy Brown lauded for piano, and a closing trio by Hazel Brewster Frances Carlaw and Gladys Lewis. Lloyd will advance to the Aberdeen district contest tonight and friends hope for victory.

Lloyd Peterson Hilda Stavng Miss Brester Messrs Hanson Dunn Dorothy Brown Newland Hazel Brewster Frances Carlaw Gladys Lewis Featherston Aberdeen

Lightning Blasts Gatchina Column Guarded Stone Monument

A century old column at Gatchina near St. Petersburg was struck by lightning. Water inside the stone likely turned to steam creating a massive explosion that caused the column to vanish and killed a lone sentry.

Gatchina St. Petersburg

Drama's Greek Birth in Athens and Attica

The drama arose in Greece with Athens as its heart in Attica. Pioneers included Aeéchay lus Sophocles aeonenes and their contemporaries shaping early theater amid the ancient upheavals that followed.

Greece Athens Attica Aeéchaylus Sophocles Aeonenes

Birds and the Greco Roman revival in literature

The piece discusses the Greco Roman civilization emerging from the dark ages and its revival through the literary renaissance led by Shakespeare in the Elizabethan era. It then shifts to a natural science note on birds, describing their vertebrate status feathered bodies toothless jaws winged limbs and bone structure for lightness and strength.

New, York American

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Judge Andrews Burdette Mark Twain Ben Rogers Hilda Stavig The Sisseton Band Joan Dacosta Alfred Strand Emma Johnson Warren Hastings Aubrey Knight Barytone Ocean Blue Petrie James Hanson Gordon Mildred Hicks Sergeant Prentiss Otis Marvick Connor the King of the Winds Trevelyan Vo, V. Dann Glover J. N. Safford Milbank Supt. Mosman Government School J. Willard Thomas Corona Schools
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