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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1910
Page
3
Marjorie questions the stop in a dialogue with Harold as he notes the anchor is caught on and wireless. The brief exchange hints at an on-air mishap and the era’s telecommunication setup.
A shopper asks for two pounds of tripe but the shopkeeper explains no tripe is available today. The exchange reveals a joke about tripe being in season while the heries commission blocks its catching. The woman grows frustrated and considers trying another shop.
A reader story credits coffee with pale sickly health and claims quitting coffee and starting Postum restored strength. The testimonial describes years of weakness, bed confinement, improved appetite and sleep within a week, and five months to a revitalized condition weighing 148 pounds.
British parliamentary correspondent for a London paper, W. HR Holt, arrived in Washington and toured the capital by car. He met President Taft at the White House, visited the Treasury and Post Office, and spoke with Speaker Cannon and Vice President Sherman. Holt planned eight hours of impressions before sailing tonight on the Lusitania to New York and then for London. He will be entertained in New York by Mme. Sarah Bernhardt and continue his metropolitan investigations.
Washington reports Farmers & Merchants National Bank of Anson Texas closed by its directors with a national bank examiner appointed. It follows Quanah National Bank shutdown earlier in the week due to drought and poor crops affecting the Panhandle region.
Fishkill Landing N Y Dec 18 The first issue of the Weekly Loongtic a Mat teawan Insane asylum inmate publication appears Thaw not listed as editor but to contribute later The salutatory condemns confinement as wasteful and urges educated reform while noting annual asylum costs and taxpayer burden The inmate journal seeks funds from profits for inmate entertainment and self aid
James Berry, who resigned as chief clerk of the United States Weather Bureau last August, accuses Willis L. Moore of gross mismanagement and irregularities in the bureau. He charges Moore wrote a meteorology book using government workers in working hours and used a mailing frank to promote it. A second item notes a bank robbery in Prue, Oklahoma, where the Prue State Bank cashier J. Comer was robbed at gunpoint. amount stolen is unknown and a posse is forming.
Kansas City report says coroner's jury probing four murders at Earnhardt farm in Johnson County resumes sessions in Olathe. John Fongle, jailed in connection with the crime, to undergo a severe sweating process today as part of the investigation.
New York reports Dr Frederick A Cook the Brooklyn traveler will reappear next week after a year in self imposed exile. He confesses he did not know if he reached the north pole and describes mental strain and optical illusions that distorted distance during the polar journey. He claims to have found a spot he believed to be the pole despite uncertainty.
London reports yesterday's elections yielded one gain for Liberals coalitionists and one for Unionists. Liberal coalitionists total 377 seats, Unionists 264. Liberals are the only party to increase representation, with two additional seats won in the new parliament.
New York December 18 the federal probe into Gaylord Wilshire the socialist editor of Wilshire's Magazine and promoter of gold mines widened after Postoffice Inspector Tooth returned from California. Wilshire now in London selling stock. authorities believe he will stay away to avoid arrest. The government estimates he has obtained about 3,250,000 from credulous investors in Bishop Creek Gold Arema Rubber and Gold Limited British Guiana and American Gold companies.
New York endured a harsh cold wave with nine degrees above zero in the city and ten degrees below zero further upstate. The northwest sweep grips the entire northern sector, causing widespread suffering and inconvenience as temperatures plummet.
Washington reports a caucus of Democratic House members will meet January 19 on the floor to discuss matters chosen by the caucus. It plans an immediate selection of the next Ways and Means Committee to draft a tariff bill for submission to the next Congress. Eli Perkins dead. Yonkers, N. C., reports Melville Delaney Landon known as Eli Perkins died at 71.
A Chicago Tribune summary notes since 1908, sixteen state sanatoria, twenty eight county and twenty one municipal hospitals have sprung up for tuberculosis. Public spending has more than doubled. over six million in two years. Yet the association warns not one tenth of needs are met and 250000 patients lack proper institutional care. A second item tells of Dr. James A. Mullican’s family umbrella stolen after fifty years of use.
Prominent promotion of Cuticura skin and scalp treatment emphasizes relief from itching burning scaling and hair loss. Potter Drug and Chem Corp Boston mass sole proprietors offer a free 32 page Cuticura Book on skin and hair to requestors.
A cartoon exchange shows a boy praising a fishing spot while an angler questions what can be caught. The boy’s remark that nothing leaves the area hints at abundance. A second caption jokes about a cured round-shouldered son becoming an aviation enthusiast watching birdmen.
An old advertisement touts CASTO as a safe remedy for infants and children, claiming thirty years of use. A dialogue about a dance begins at nine with plans to arrive by 8 30 so the speaker can fix hair in the dressing room.
An old patent medicine ad touts Pettits Eye Salve as a tonic for eye strain and weak eyes and Hamline Wizard Oil as a lung pain remedy. The copy stresses cost savings and the superiority of the products over others, claiming strength and cleanliness.
Richmond Va December 18 John J Smyth a bartender who killed his wife and daughter at their Norfolk home last August was executed in the penitentiary here today Jim Sittington colored who robbed and murdered a 70 year old white woman in Rockingham last August was also put to death.
A sensational medical pitch promises free expert guidance from Munyon's Doctors at 53rd and Jefferson Streets in Philadelphia. It asserts top physicians are available without cost, urging readers to mail in a request for treatment of diseases and conditions, stressing discretion and no obligation.
The St. Louis Star notes a playful claim that Missouri, not Kentucky, is the true home of the mint julep. It cites a mint crop of 7,653 pounds last year, enough to make 1,224,320 juleps, including taxed and untaxed preparations, reflecting regional pride and beverage lore.
A three year old boy accompanies his grandmother to a chicken fork where a crowd feeds the flock. The child exclaims as youngsters wade into a water dish, saying the chickens are putting their feet on the table.
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