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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1909
Page
4
Brookings D D Ang E Chamberlain proposes a regional seed improvement plan led by elevator firms. Local stations select profitable grain varieties for their area, promote growing those seeds, and buy back high quality seed grain for re-sale. Farmers trade inferior seed for better stock, aided by price tweaks and storage options.
Emil Victor was found guilty today of murdering J. W. Christie his wife daughter and Michael Ronayne on July 3. The death penalty was fixed with sentencing set for September 20. Defense claimed insanity while prosecutors argued the case as a deadly holdup. State witnesses rebutted epilepsy claims, and the jury anticipated a death verdict.
Freeman Knowles paid his fine ending a long legal battle over an alleged obscene article in his Deadwood Lantern magazine. Convicted in U S circuit court, he failed on appeal, was ordered to pay the full fine, and briefly sought the debtor’s prison route before surrendering the payment.
The state Capitol Commission met last Wednesday and approved setting bids for grounds grading on the first of the month. Landscaping work is planned to begin next spring.
Roosevelt expedition members Alden Loring and Major Shares plan an extended journey through Kenla province in East Africa joining Colonel Roosevelt this November. Smithsonian confirms 2,500 more specimens—birds, mammals, snakes—have been shipped. On the steamer Rt Pauky from St Louis to St Pant, mutiny by twenty cabin boys erupts with injuries to Jesse Irwin and Washington Rhoades amid reported wage disputes and crew resistance.
A major blaze destroyed the west wing of the Toronto parliament building. Loss estimated around 100000 dollars, insured, with the Mowat Law Library severely damaged. Premier Whitney and Cabinet in session directed firefighting as smoke poured from the roof. fire crews arrived 22 minutes after alarm.
A Rock Island passenger train returning from the state fair struck a packed Fort Des Moines street car amidships, killing two and injuring 11 seriously. The wreck sent the street car 50 feet onto the engine’s cow catcher and against Des Moines river bridge girders, with passengers listed including Mrs. R. M. Rollins and Mrs. Ed Lawless among the fatally and seriously hurt. Injured were taken to city hospitals.
State Geologist Edwin Hall reports that northern Wyoming fraudsters have defrauded eastern residents of about 400000 in two years. He plans to ask Governor Brooks to act. In Sun Dance area, victims paid 101.30 each for 300 iron claims promising 20 acre sites at 40 an acre, though no work or surface testing was done. Similar fraudulent locating occurred near Douglas in Converse County.
Stockholm presses to keep liquor bans. A government committee will study the cost of maintaining prohibition under the Gothenburg system and ways to raise the same revenue if prohibition ends. If the report favors prohibition, further committees will examine sociological aspects before Parliament. The Minor Interests face a hard fight.
Fragmentary report notes demands for reparations and cooperation from China. Mentions British subject attached to a meteorological expedition in China, ties to Lt. A. Clark former American army officer, and references to June events in a Chinese province.
Advice on feeding, pasture layout, and disease prevention for hogs cattle and sheep. Emphasizes proper nutrition lime applications lime and tankage mixes for hogs avoiding hog cholera spread via water and gear, plus farmstead sanitation and vermin control. notes on Hessian fly flaxseed stage and cowtesting associations in Wisconsin with two plan options.
A patent medicine salesman in a small Maine village performed a misdirection sleight of hand on the street to attract onlookers. He claimed to pull a coin from a handkerchief and promised another illusion, drawing a skeptical farmer who boasted he could do better with half a dollar.
Mrs Hare of Henry Street South Shields recounts a severe scald on her baby from a frying pan of boiling grease. After applying three boxes of Cuticure Ointment the infant recovered with no lasting scar, and the skin returned to velvet. The case is dated March 22 1908 in England.
The General Land Office in Washington lists Le Beau and Aberdeen in Minnesota and Missouri as registration points for homestead entries. About 7000 quarter sections will be allotted to settlers. Any adult citizen or naturalized person not owning more than 160 acres may file for a 160 acre homestead on unoccupied public lands.
The Detroit iron worker Thomas Simpson, a grave and dignified man, jokes during a smoking party with Therda members. One friend struggles to keep an enormous cigar lit as it grows double in size, prompting Simpson to laugh at the unfolding blaze under the umbrella.
Fragmented OCR text discusses food purity laws and claims about Quaker Oats as a pure food, noting muscle and brain strength. References may include Hill's Tweters Beacon and The Hill’s products with unclear context. Mentions biochemical purity and consumer expectations, with garbled market jargon.
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