19 Jan 1911
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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1911
Page
1
Rev Charles Wilcox will preach at 10 30 a m with Sabbath school after. Epworth League gathering at 6 30 p m and a long service at 7 30 p m followed by a gospel sermon Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 p m The public is invited and strangers are welcome. Seats are always available.
An investigating committee is to probe the Hot Springs soldiers home while legislators depart Pierre for the assignment. Northwestern road clerks resign over workload under a Washington post office retrenchment plan. Carl Sherwood of Clark hints at a U.S. Senate bid to succeed Gamble, viewed as a compromise candidate against Dean Sterling. The South Dakota Press Association met in Pierre endorsing higher moral tone, civic reform, a state publicity department, a constitutional convention, and broader publicizing of state and local affairs.
The Merital line is advertised as pure and of real merit selected by association directors. It claims endorsement by leading physicians druggists and newspaper men nationwide. Local rep in this place is Bruhn and Stonebraker drug store.
The grand sale will be held in Mitchell pavilion on February 1 and 2, 1911. It features 110 head of horses, cattle, sheep, and swine with horses, sheep, and swine sold on Wednesday and cattle on Thursday. Catalogues available from secretary James W. Wilson, Broskings, 8 BD.
Secretary CG Melloane reports the state fair balance sheet shows total receipts of 89 652 95 dollars including 3000 state appropriation. All expenses were paid including 4000 for permanent improvements and there remains a 200 12 balance in the treasury.
The state senate is praised for retrenchment while the house ignores Dillon law on staff pay. The chamber seeks to classify door keepers and watchmen as state employees, shifting costs to taxpayers. In Niobrara an acetylene plant explosion in Kendall hotel basement killed four and injured four others. Kendall, Kenneth Kendall, Amy Duseke, Roy F Crosby died. injured include Mrs Crosby and Pearl Kendall. Kendall had warned about gas before the blast.
Hon. Chauncey L. Wood of Rapid City, the late Democratic gubernatorial candidate, died in Seattle after two operations for appendicitis. His wife had been in Seattle for health reasons. The article also attacks Senator Lorimer seating and notes opposition beyond self styled progressives.
War veteran A. K. Smith of Erie Pennsylvania says years of indigestion constipation and liver trouble ended after taking Dr King’s New Life Pills. He claims the remedy fixed him and recommends it for stomach liver or kidney issues. Available for 25 cents at Bruhn and Stonebraker’s.
A legendary eighteenth century figure, John Elwes, famed for vast wealth and odd charity, endured poverty’s pull while rejecting small costs. He injured a leg in an accident and arranged with a doctor to amputate one leg, claiming the other would heal by his wager. He boasted of beating the doctor by a fortnight with the outcome unknown.
The piece traces boxing from ancient Greece with cestus to freemen and professionals, noting Virgil and the Aeneid reference to Dares and Eutellus. It cites English history from the era of King Alfred, describing pugilism as a long standing male sport.
A brief exchange notes nature as marvelous with a playful reference to the Untest Insect having its Latin name. The dialogue format suggests a salon or lettered conversation remark from a London source with no clear date.
Gov Vessey appoints a three member revenue commission to draft a new tax plan with six year terms and 1800 annual salaries. The report shifts responsibility to a proposed state tax commission, while a dispatch outline remains brief and unclear on specifics.
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