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Newspaper
Sisseton Weekly Standard
Location
Sisseton, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1908
Page
4
A buyer is urged to choose genuine white lead from National Lead Company to avoid adulterated paints. The ad highlights Dutch Boy Paint er trademark as proof of purity and offers a free painting test book and equipment, plus a quip about a dentist visit in New York.
A Whitesboro Texas clergyman Rev G M Gray testifies that after four years of lumbago pain Down's Kidney Pills quickly removed the difficulty. He allows his name to be used publicly to help others with kidney trouble. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Mulb urn Co Buffalo NY.
Telegram from Cherbourg reports market clashes as fishwives protest over a bylaw infringement by a police inspector. Market women block stalls, bids halt, and fish are returned to boats. The unrest ends only with the inspector's removal, leaving Cherbourg's 75 000 inhabitants without fish.
A Virginia mother credits Grape-Nuts with restoring her health and enabling breastfeeding. She reports her four month old baby thriving after adopting the cereal, recommended by her doctor, and notes she can work fully while nursing. The letter promotes the product’s benefits and ends with the familiar "There's a Reason" slogan.
Sept. 6 in St Paul heads Schollert family painters and decorators home where Peter J Schollert his wife and Lewis Christianson died in a gas leak. Cousin Hans Hendrickson is in City Hospital, not expected to survive. The source notes a bath heater gas tube detached from a chain. A visiting relative witnessed the tragedy.
Earl Nixert, a colored man, was spirited from the county jail to the Anamosa penitentiary for safe keeping after a mob beat him near insensible and threatened lynching. He was arrested on a charge of assaulting Miss Lizzie Agee, a white woman, in her home.
In Herman Wisconsin on September 6 a Bielke boy born to Mr and Mrs August Bielke weighed twenty pounds at birth. The couple hopes to exhibit the baby at the Northern Wisconsin state fair this month but may decline. Herman residents raised a $100 purse to support a challenge for the heaviest born baby in the Northwest.
In Pittsburgh on September 8 bankers urge appeal to the controller of the currency to reopen the Cosmopolitan Bank after its Saturday closure by state and federal authorities. They allege no liquor influence and claim the bank is in better condition than six months ago.
A Berne dispatch reports Swiss authorities advised against naturalizing Herr Woelting formerly Archduke Leopold of Austria. State Counselor Comtesse notified cantonal officials that Leopold was an unscrupulous spendthrift who instigated his sister the Princess of Saxony to flee.
A major blaze destroyed the wool house and the fertilizer plant of Armour and Co at the Union stock yards in Chicago. The seven story brick structures covered an entire block and the damage was estimated at 500000 dollars. The fire brought the fiercest experience in seven years for the stock yards district.
An earthquake struck San Juan Porto Rico causing widespread alarm as residents rushed from homes on Hye Street. No material damage or casualties were reported and the city began to regain calm after the tremor yesterday.
A crowded scene shows Job, Linny, John and May sharing a chair then a string of fragmented lines and stagey asides. The passage shifts to adverts from a bygone era with references to drugs, Kodak processing, Buick cars, and Allen's Foot-Ease, ending with a quip about truth and wrong roads.
Tony Feig supervising inspector of country elevators for the state rail road commission says oats are the poorest in thirty years. Wheat is a full crop and corn may be best if trout delays two more weeks. Grain prices are high and farmers could save money this year.
Billings Montana September 6 coal mine shutdowns in Wyoming trigger a surge of orders for fuel in Rocky Fork area. Authorities say many mines will reopen and demand can be met before cold weather. Pepin Wisconsin September 6 two painters fell forty feet at Durand high school building. Joseph Schlimpf injured lightly Mat York seriously hurt.
Leon Delagrange, president at Aviation ely or Prongo, established a key world record with a long flight yesterday. He remained airborne 2 minutes 54 seconds and circled the field fifteen and a half times, covering about 15 miles 4,727 yards in distance.
A 1907 testimonial cites three summers of eczema cases cured by Cuticura Ointment and Remedies. A Indiana mother notes her daughter’s success with Cuticura in curing a child’s eczema, while a Michigan resident adds another successful case.
A promotional notice extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a relief for female troubles. It cites veterans of ailments like displacements, inflammation, fibroid issues, irregularities, and backache and invites sick women to seek guidance from Mrs. Pinkham at A Lynn Mass.
A fragmented dialogue shows a romance noting a daughter’s marriage to a stranger. Mr Compox references a face drawn from a cheekbook, debating whether it is true resemblance or sight. The odd exchange hints at social curiosity and identity.
The body of Frank P. Sargent former commissioner general of the bureau of immigration was cremated in Washington after a brief service. The ashes were placed in a silver casket to be sent to Philadelphia for funeral services there.
The Tony Wisconsin town board bans all fires from September 1 to October 1 due to dry conditions and high winds, causing anxiety among residents.
Evelyn Hollis, serving at the Isaacson ranch fifty miles north of Williston, accidentally shot himself while duck hunting. He was sent to a hospital in Williston with injuries not described.
Sioux City reports Edward Downard aged sixty two committed death by own action yesterday on his son's claim a few miles north of Draper South Dakota. He hanged himself with a halter in the barn after periods of melancholy.
Gasoline explosion in the basement of a three story Taylor Palmer garage in Borton wrecked about eighty autos and damaged the building interior. Loss estimated at $200,000.
Two Harbors volunteers assist in quelling forest fires near York north of the city as the blaze spreads through the region.
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