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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1909
Page
10
An old style ad compares Defiance Starch to others, claiming its strength allows thinner application for better fabric appearance and wear. It features quips about teaching, stage drama, and a mix of quotes and medical notices, reflecting a nostalgic collage of era advertisements and proverbs.
In San Francisco on October 16 Jack Johnson defeated Stanley Ketchel by knockout in the twelfth round to claim the heavyweight title. Johnson, bleeding and dazed earlier, surged in the final round with a rapid flurry of lefts and rights, lifting his arm in victory as Ketchel fell. The crowd of over ten thousand watched in stunned silence as Johnson secured the win and promoter Coffroth announced a $40,000 take.
Water from the Belle Fourche project discharges onto the Wands area below Vale. Two siphons carry flow from the smaller dam toward completion of the two and a half million dollar project. The 160 foot long main siphon under the Belle Fourche River and another beneath Whitewood Creek are five feet in diameter.
A prairie fire started Thursday afternoon from locomotive sparks near Bowdle damaged telephonic lines and burned a broad stretch between the Milwaukee tracks near Bowdle and the Minneapolis and Atchison line. Details from Amiden indicate the blaze extended about 20 miles south with unknown width, and damages are expected to be large on a heavily settled station area.
An ad style piece highlights backache as a sign of kidney trouble and promotes Dean's Kidney Pills as a remedy. Includes a nurse testimonial from Parsons Kansas and a joking anecdote about Dr Edward Everett Hale at a Bar Harbor dinner.
A collage of medical claims and anecdotes appears with advertisements for Hall's Catarrh Cure offering a one hundred dollar reward for cures, plus rough jokes about miscommunication and a printer’s warning on coughing aids and teething syrup. The writing mirrors early 20th century print quips, ads, and moral anecdotes.
In the Youths Companion 1909 article Dr Browne calls oatmeal the most nutritious cereal boosting fats organic phosphorus and Tecithins. He cites British use and Scottish laborer diets, claiming oatmeal builds big bones and mental energy, enlarges the thyroid, and helps Northerners’ vigor.
A fragment from a Lippincott's Magazine themed piece shows a cartoonist's wife recounting a friend’s quip about Fred not wanting to work last night. The anecdote links character to work ethic and personal integrity, reflecting broader quotes on value and virtue.
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