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Newspaper

Sisseton Weekly Standard

Location

Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America

Date

May 08, 1908

Page

10

90 Bushels of Oats to the Acre from Western Canada

Regina Saskatchewan letter from A Kalten Brunner details farming yields on 160 acres with 90 bushels per acre on 80 acres fall plowed and 30 bushels on 80 acres stubble plus 9,000 bushels of oats from 160 acres. Wheat yields reach 20 and 25 bushels per acre on different plots. Mentions shipping oats at 6 1/2 cents per bushel and potential settlement lands in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta with government agent info.

Regina Saskatchewan Central Canada A- Kalten Brunner Moose Jaw Western Canada Manitoba Alberta Ottler Gan Western Masler M. Mac eAcayan Seath Dobota

Important to Mothers Castoria warning and personal notes

Examine bottles of Castoria carefully to ensure the safe remedy for babies and children. The message mentions over 30 years of use and the signature line. A friend writes about Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Jones, with references to personal life changes. The text also notes cloak and religion being a misfit for most people.

Fee

Congress Revame of the Week's Proceedings

Washington reports from April 29 to May 5 show the House and Senate debating the sundry civil and agricultural bills with emphasis on the Heprburn clause examinations and railroading reforms. Senator Davis of Arkansas sparks controversy over tribal rolls while the tornado relief aid bill gains passage for Alabama Georgia Mississippi and Louisiana.

Washington House District of Columbia Warner Brownsville Senate Davis Arkansas Secretary of the Interior Oklahomi Ways and Means We Stevens Townsend Michigon Comerce Commission Hepburn Wits Forest Service Jon Davis Elkins Senator Bulkeley Connecticut Miliary Bulkeley Twenty-ffth Regiment Alabama Georgia Mississippi Louisiana Committee On Appropriations

Six Die In Tenement Fire In Brooklyn

A Sunday morning blaze in a four story brick tenement at 17 A Humboldt Street Brooklyn killed six people and left four seriously injured. Police and firemen conducted dramatic rescues with nets and ladders as residents, including a mother and four children, perished in the crowded building.

New York Mays Humbold Stret Brooklyn

Britons Repulse Afghan Attack at Khyber Pass

British forces under Gen Willcox repulsed an Afghan assault of 10 000 to 20 000 across the border aimed at seizing the blockhouse near Landikhotal in the Khyber Pass. Factions remain at front lines near Landikotal and Bazaar valley as Jamrud garrison advances. Simla censors frontier telegrams while Calcutta reports aBomb plot to murder Europeans with bombs, arrests widespread and explosives seized.

Blackhouse London India Aduvee Khyber Pass Tlandikhotal Landiknofal Bazaar Valley Lisote Pass Willcox Jamrad Peshawar Simla Calcutta Bether

Convict Shot Dead by Warden in Monaville Penitentiary

In Wheeling West Virginia on a May day Jesse Briggs a life prisoner at Monaville state penitentiary broke from the lacketop and fled when ordered back in line he tossed rocks at Warden C G Drewson. The warden fired twice killing Briggs instantly. Trives and Ween sentenced to hutz for murder.

Wheeling W. Va Jesse Briggs State Penitentiary Monnaville C.G. Drewson Briggs Dawson Io Breast kIine Trives Ween Hutz

Policeman Beck Killed Pursuing Burglar in Store

Denver policeman Charles M. Beck was shot through the heart and killed instantly while chasing a burglar into a dark store after finding a window pried from its frame. No arrests have been made in the incident in Tunver, Colorado, reported in May.

Denver Tunver Colo Charles M. Beck Beck

Cleveland Improves Says He Suffers From Acute Indigestion

Lakewood May 1 The condition of former President Grover Cleveland, said by physicians to be suffering from acute indigestion, continues to show daily improvement and Mrs Cleveland hopes recovery may permit an early return to Princeton.

Lakewood N. J Grover Cleveland Cleveland Priceton

Philippine town Anal polo wiped out by fire

The town of Anal polo in Moron province was nearly destroyed by a lightning fire on May Day. Four hundred houses burned leaving hundreds homeless. Antipola, a 3500 resident town, saved its shrine as the blaze raged.

Manila Analpolo Moron Antipola

More Flax This Year Near Pierre Reported

Farmers north of Pierre expect a record flax crop this year with acreage higher than any since settlement, signaling robust agricultural activity in the region.

Pierre

Buying paint blindly and testing lead sources

The article warns buyers against guessing at paint quality and highlights pure White Lead and Linseed Oil as essential components in Bond paint. It explains adulteration can be detected using a blowpipe and offers guidance that correct purity ensures lasting paint. The National Lead Company in New York City offers blowpipe testing and instructions upon request.

Nk Ak National Lead Company Woodbridge

Fragmented dialogue about trust and temptation

A brief quip in which one says it is proper for a man to hide things from his wife if he intends to button her dress, and the other questions the propriety of such act.

Robert

Patents Issued Last Week to Northwestern Inventors

List of patents issued last week to Northwestern inventors reported by Lothrop and Johnson, patent lawyers in St. Paul. Names include Ahlberg, Hergaulel, Ly escoffle, Seluldt, J. M. Smith, and others from Minnesota towns. itemized entries show doorenten, shawberry picker, ram, door movement regulator, combined truck and juck, among others. text includes unrelated ad-like fragments and cut lines from various sources.

Northwestern Lothrop & Johnson Pioneer Press Building St. Paul Minn A. Ahlberg Ram F. G. Seluldt J. M. Smith White Park

Nature and a Woman's Work At the Ticker

An ad style piece extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy for female ills. It cites Mrs Bertha Muff of Louisiana Missouri and Mrs Mutt as testimonials to restored health after medical failure, praising herbal roots and womanly cures.

Baffe Lydia E. Pinkham Lydia E. Pinksham Bertha Muff N.C. St Louisiana

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