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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1910
Page
5
A chaotic OCR mix touches on ethics of training cats, policing bathhouses in Chicago, wealth and foreign manners, quirky weather notes, farming shifts, a London play, and odd boasts from various U S locales. Mixed musings span history’s quirks and social satire.
Townsend accuses Dr. Cook of tempering to publish a missionary’s Yahgun grammar and dictionary as his own. The manuscript, lent by Rev Thomas Bridges, was never returned, with Bridges’ son Lucas pursuing recovery while Townsend and peers call the theft serious.
George Grigsby son of Col Met Grigsby, former Alaska attorney general, has gone to Washington after being ousted as U S attorney for Alaska. He seeks a hearing to present his side amid Guggenheim interests and perjury indictments tied to Alaska mining rights.
The court of claims sustains the government demurrer in the case of the former Hawaii queen seeking restored fortunes. In Cairo Illinois a tornado damages homes and barns with injuries reported but no fatalities. Elkhart Indiana sees the C G Conn instrument plant burn, causing $500 000 loss and a watchman killed.
A huge Barnum and Bailey tent collapsed in flames at a Schenectady afternoon show with about 15 000 spectators. Panic caused trampling and injuries. officials say only one spectator burned and no deaths, while staff moved stock and animals to safety.
Papal delegate and six bishops were consecrated at St Pauls seminary in Groveland Park. Bishops named include James O Neilly Minneapolis and P R Heffron St Paul with others from Fargo Winona Crookston Bismarck Dwad. Arch bishop MacEvay Toronto attended with Rev Burke.
A voluntary wage increase affects about 70 000 workers at the Standard Oil Company. The rise, retroactive to May 1, ranges from 6 to 10 percent and mainly benefits laborers across the company's works and factories and its subsidiaries in the United States. Office staff are excluded. The payroll impact is estimated at 6 to 10 million dollars annually.
Danish general elections across Denmark ended with the Radical party defeated. Premier Zahle and the interior and defense ministers were re-elected, while the worship and commerce ministers were defeated after a campaign focusing on defense.
Queen Victoria in Madrid announces the birth of a stillborn son in Spain. In New York, Frank West Kotling, former governor of New Hampshire, pleads guilty to conspiracy to defraud customs duties. Judge Hand in the United States circuit court considers the admission as willful and malicious, fines $2,000 for Rollins.
Seven steamships departed Europe with 2,695 cabin passengers, the largest daily departure from New York harbor on record.
Two days of fighting near Rama Nicaragua cost Estrada forces 14 killed and 29 wounded, per a state department report via Consul Moffatt in Bluefields. Madriz casualties not confirmed. Rock Island May 20. The United Christian party convention endorsed Senator Albert C Cummins of Iowa for president.
Glenn H. Curtis completes a forty minute lake flight along the northern Keuka coast circling 23 times. He lands safely after towing the aeroplane ashore with its water tight compartments and marine tests, the first planned water aviation effort.
An English visitor in New York recalls the countess of Cardigan and a memoirs themed murder plot. A girl, a young man, tea, and a little brother enter a room as the boy demonstrates standing on his head while enforcing silence with a whispered plea to not tell.
An Asheville obit notes Creston Clark as a capable actor who angered critics by defending artistic truth. A Philadelphia critic asked about native talent and taste. A Louisiana tale recalls Alec Trimble, valet to a physician, who buys a shirt like his master’s and jokes that both shirts are alike in size and price.
A fragment from Harber’s Bazar recalls a 1950 remark about marital union and jail housing. The quote contrasts opposition to a wife joining in unison with a disparaging line about the jail linked to the mother, reflecting period wit.
A humorous exchange notes that a woman’s small waist is no longer fashionable while Jewett remarks that long-armed fellows have an advantage. The dialogue reflects social commentary in a light tone.
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