Legislative plans loom for state issues and reform
Editorial notes upcoming lawmaker actions including prohibition, tax classification, equal suffrage, a free text book bill, and a demand to abolish the legislature. It cites Senator Dowdell visiting Detroit to consult Henry Ford and hints at a joint Iowa Nebraska North Dakota effort to curb harvest band activity and a budget system to curb wire pulling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tax Commission
Dowdell
Iowa
Nebraska
North Dakota
Plso
R. E. Dowdell
Artesian
Detroit
Mich
Henry Ford
Oliver Leader Exchange Notes Report Local Happenings
Wm Morton moved to Scotland on Tuesday. Dr Leighton of Scotland was called to the Irvin Daily home Monday night for Mr Daily who is seriously ill with heart trouble. Ward Asche bought a new car, unclear if real or a Ford. The Ford is alright regardless of rumors. Lieut How ard Warren arrived from San Benito Texas due to his brother Robert Warren’s death. Mrs H K Warren accompanied him. Warren says Fourth Regiment in good shape. Company M especially eager to return home amid heightened homesickness.
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Wm. Morton
Scotland
Dr. Leighton
Irvin Daily
Daily
Ward Asche
Yankton P. & D
Howard Warren
San Benito
Tex
Robert Warren
New York
H. K. Warren
Warren
Night school in Yankton teaches aliens citizenship aims
A free night school in Yankton trains about thirty pupils to pass the citizenship exam with lessons in reading writing arithmetic American history and practical civics. The nationwide movement to educate aliens in rights and duties is praised while noting native born voters often lack basic knowledge of government.
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Yankton
Naturalization Bureau
Department of Labor
Farmers Elect Officers for Mitchell Warmers Union Co op
About 200 farmers from Hanson Aurora Hutchinson Davison and Douglas counties met at Mitchell to form a Warmers Union Co operative Supply Co The group plans a Mitchell warehouse in spring and will trade in all farm supplies Officers elected include Chas Koregon president M R Bates vice president R C Warne Jr secretary and John H Hohn treasurer.
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Hanson
Aurora
Hutchinson Davison
Douglas
Mitchell
Union Co-operative Supply Co
Chas, Koregon
Davieon
M. R. Bates
Sanborn
R. C. Warne, Jr
John H. Hohn
Ethan
Vermilion Republican A report on state game wardens data
The report by State Game Warden H. B. Hedrick notes 206 deer killed in the year 144 bucks and 62 does. For the fiscal year ending June 30 1916 office receipts total 42545 41 an increase of 2553 26 from the prior year. The department’s total operating expenses for the same period were 20835 34.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermislion
Hedrick
Tyndall Player Sidelined by Rheumatism and Lumbago
Olver McNeill has stayed home ten days due to a severe attack of rheumatism and lumbago. The Scotland bowling team visited Tyndall and lost 268 pins in a matched game.
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Olver McNeill
R A. Lorenz
Freeze
Atascadero
California
Scotland
Morris Ide
Joe Lie
F. Bouska
C. Plattner
Thompson
Tyndall
L. C
Champaign
Illinois
Parkston dances draw big crowds to city hall
Marie Murphy comedy company billed for two nights at Parkston city hall draws crowds as dancers lure audience youths for short lively dances. Patrons paid up to several dollars as the troupe earned money from quick waltzes and one steps, while other notices include farm trades and local social updates.
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Parkston
Marie Murphy
City Hall
Parketon
Ita
John Carpetbags and the unreadable order
A rogue traveler named John Carpetbags earns a big company order by deception but the senior partner’s handwriting is illegible. A pharmacist finally deciphers the prescription then dispenses medicine for fifty cents, exposing the ruse.
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John Carpetbags
Carpetbags
County School Letter Highlights Desks and Diploma Rules
Bupt M E Fites wishes Homme County youths a Happy New Year. Clear Lake No 18 orders new single desks to be installed soon. At the Tyndall teachers meeting music was provided by a Vic tress loaned via Mr Hoch. County boards improve schools with sanitary supplies. Thanks extend to Kingaburg No 88 Cass No 10 Plattner No 14 pupils and teachers for Christmas booklets. Reminder: Eighth grade condition diplomas require ninth grade satisfactory work reports due by Jan 1. Census clerks wrongly age children to claim school money. this practice is illegal and harms truancy checks as some listed names do not exist.
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Tyndall
Hoch
Kingaburg District No
Cass District No
Plattner District No. 14
Eskimo Education Programs Shape Village Life
Government run Eskimo schools in Nome Alaska train youths in reindeer herding boat and sled building and village skills. The education system links classroom work to daily village needs with the school republic becoming the village council and the bench work directing crafts.
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Department of the Tector
Walter C. Shields
Bureau of Education
Nome
Alaska
Eliss
Deer Hunt Yields Four Bucks in Berkshire County
Otis Massachusetts residents William Winters Newton Frost and Raymond J. Snow each shot a deer during a hunting trip in Berkshire County.
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Signs of the Times
Otis, Conn
William Winters
Newton Frost
Raymond J. Snow
Berkshire
Missouri women join farming boom across state
The Springfield Republican reports Missouri hosts about 3,000 women farmers who farm scientifically and profitably. They study state agriculture bulletins, compete at fairs, and emphasize city rural cooperation. Examples include a 260 acre wheat and stock operation and a Missouri greenhouse shelter during a blizzard. Berkshire hog expert wins prizes and a San Francisco corn exhibit earned a gold medal.
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Springfield
Mass
America
National Beekeepers’ Association
Philadelphia
Missouri
State Board of Agriculture
San Francisco
Supreme in His Egothism and the Fear of Loss
The passage argues men possessive due to presumed ownership and wealth while women possess only precarious conquest. It notes jealousy over wives fidelity, claims unfaithful wives trigger harsher critique in men than vice versa, and describes aging as diminishing a man's power to control love.
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WW. L. George
Atlantic Monthly
Roy
Work of Japanese Silkworms Advances Silk Quality
Japanese growers perfected a new silkworm hatching method by immersing egg curds in diluted hydrochloric acid for five to ten hours. After about twelve days the eggs hatch, yielding stronger healthier larvae and longer silk. Reported silk lengths reached 1200 feet versus 700 feet for standard hatchings.
Gas-filled lamps supplant arc lamps in lighting
The advent of gas-filled incandescent lamps reduces the role of the ordinary enclosed arc lamp. While vacuum tungsten lamps competed with the arc lamp, gas-filled units have superseded the enclosed arc lamp for both home and factory lighting in this period.
Chance for Heroiam in Wartime Dialogue
Fragmentary dialogue pits Miss Grabeoin against a count as one character asks another to risk life for the country. The scene hints at a patriotic duty and personal tension amid a wartime setting.
Genial self-made prodigy Moses Boguslawski rises to fame
A Chicago-born pianist from a Russian refugee family debuts in New York at Aeolian hall. He performed from childhood, practiced during class, and through a chance encounter with Dr Pachmann impressed the maestro, becoming one of the nation’s leading pianists without study abroad.
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Moses Boguslawski
New York
Aeolian Hall
Chicago
Pachmann
Boguslawski
Boy Pitches 1 000 Stones in Juvenile Sentence
Lynn Massachusetts ten year old Leonard Crowder served a one hour thirty minute sentence by pitching one thousand stones in a gravel pit under counting by Probation Officer Thomas A. Farmer after destroying a companion's eye with a pebble.
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Lynn
Mass
Leonard
Crowder
Henry T. Lummus
District Court
Thomas A. Farmer
Lummis
Ideal Conditions at the Modern Hotel
A dialogue about a strictly modern hotel praises its service. Guests note features like provided evening suits and extra pyjamas. The exchange jokes about replacing an orchestra leader with champagne and an assistant ready to step in.
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