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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1920
Page
6
The Chicago board of education's penny meals attract 40 000 to 50 000 customers daily in the citys famous three cent and six cent offerings. The piece notes wide patronage and mentions prices and menu items while touching on other varied items in the issue.
A transfer case describes the sale of school lands to a park. The document notes a payment of 46,000 and mentions officials, a governor, and prospective terms. It references a tract of land and potential penalties or obligations tied to the transfer.
An African royal party visited South Dakota for a state event with discussion of permits, authorized explorations, and county notices. The report notes involvement of Fall River and Frye counties, approval processes, and pending legal steps for the expedition.
Ice again closes the Missouri River near Plovte South Dakota causing river traffic disruption and jeopardizing bridge usage for team crossings as cold weather persists. Forty five neighbors with teams and wagons gathered to husk and pick corn at Albert Schnapen's farm. Schnapen hospitalized at Sacred Heart in Yankton.
Congressman Christopherson invites targetable youths under 21 with high school education to apply for Annapolis Naval Academy. He has an appointment in the district but no current applicants, urging qualified students to respond. Also notes highway project completions and possible $2,000,000 state funding next year as announced.
Estey Draphal and Irvine Arnold were sentenced to five years in the penitentiary after pleading guilty to robbing the express company of $1,000 in currency sent by the bank to Ree Heights. The sentencing caused a tragic scene among the large audience at the courthouse.
City officials weigh appointing a police matron after complaints of underage girls attending dances without chaperones. Mayor Kelley endorses the plan amid a weekly council meeting. A separate petition seeks changes on a road stretch from the river to Yellow Trail, linked to recent highway work.
Dec. 24. County sheriff Tinles arrested John Cowan, a young man from Life wicinity, for allegedly butchering a man named Uelencioe tad. Swerd Jones and Tanelien Cowan aided the inquiry, claiming the meat was procured from the victim and hidden in a haystack. authorities said the hide was found in Phillip and nearby residents.
The article reports on unidentified bear raiders pressuring stocks including Ryan, Replogle, Vanadium, and related firms. It notes suspensions, large asset movements, and investigations by exchange authorities into masked operators linked to Ryan and supporting directors.
Congresa decrees November 29 as a new national holiday to commemorate Francisco Madero's revolt against the Huerta regime. A separate discovery reports a 2000 year old prehistoric graveyard unearthed by German investigators, with glittering substances believed to be ancient adornments for men and women.
In a century old exchange Dr D analyzes malaria and mosquito links from malarious regions. He notes horses hogs and tsetse history, calls for US Public Health Service reports, and suggests testing with hog baited mosquito traps to assess if vectors affect malaria incidence.
From Mitchell South Dakota Gazette: The Saturday Evening Post claims officials follow local public sentiment when enforcing laws. The piece argues that oath-bound officers must enforce statutes as written, not bow to prevailing sentiment, and that officials are not lawmakers. If laws clash with sentiment, remove them, but as long as laws exist, enforcement must not falter.
A Seattle Chronic le editorial warns against anti Japanese sentiment infiltrating Washington politics and urges restraint to avert potential war. It contrasts with New York calls for a cultural wage and notes price rises in department store goods, while citing farming waste in tomato seed canning and savings opportunities in oil and stock feed.
A London Times critique describes Bolsheviks as ordinary people amid terror and hunger. It portrays leaders Lenin Trotzky and others with human flaws, and condemns the desolate Moscow under the regime. The piece warns about the brutal future and questions the socialist experiment.
Buzzard's Bay Massachusetts Mrs Charles Garland once Boston society belle now tender mother explains she does not want or need her husband Charles Garland's 1 million bequest. She supports his renunciation as a personal principle, stressing the couple will live simply with their baby Margaret while advocating voluntary sharing rather than wealth.
A curious batch of brief items notes anxiety over removing the ice cream tax, imagining civic tableaux and grand statues. Other snippets report on the Baltimore child phenomenon showing activity across domains from math to evangelism, and Odds and ends from Louisville and Answers on fashion and barbering.
Halifax Chronicle notes Mrs. Ralph Smith of Vancouver as Canada's first woman elected to a legislature. After her husband Hon. Ralph Smith died, she filled his seat and won reelection atop the Liberal ticket, leading by about 4,000 votes. Also reported are drastic 1921 cotton output cuts urged by St. Louis agriculture delegates to lift cotton prices.
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