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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1912
Page
4
A Scots tongue market note lists wheat and corn figures with barley rye and prices. The issue also carries notices of residents visiting relatives, travel updates, eye specialist visit, and local family arrivals and movements in Scotland South Dakota.
The Northwestern Develop ment League announces a five thousand dollar prize for the best five bushels of wheat grown in the American Northwest. The winner receives a Big Four 30 farm tractor and Emerson Brantingham plows, with judging including milling and bread baking tests. Entries from Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon are eligible, to be judged at the Minneapolis exposition November 12 to 23.
An illustrated dialogue contrasts old and new views on marriage and finances. Grandmother recalls arranged prudence and home crafts while younger women want independence and lavish comforts, then muses on uncertainty yet optimism as the “going is good.”
South Trimble, clerk of the house, spoke on diplomacy in a remark that drew attention to informal or undiplomatic phrasing during a discussion on foreign relations.
A public figure urges steady diplomacy for officials in power. A late night encounter with a boy seeking two cents worth of chewing gum exposes petty conflict, as the boy scolds the druggist for waking him and storms off, refusing service.
Stockholm constructs Sprendia Stadium for the 1912 Olympics using hand made purple bricks and cranite. It will seat about 25 000 with temporary bleachers. A running track, grass football ground that becomes a skating rink in winter, vaulted gates, granite inlays and sculpted Swedish heroes adorn the brick walls.
The fragment shows a tense exchange where one speaker recalls asking Ethel for commitment and receiving an emotional response. Maud confirms familiarity with the scene, noting she had rehearsed it with Ethel, indicating prior planning or anticipation of an intimate moment.
A debate over a philanthropist who is described as überal but impractical unfolds. One woman scoffs while another concedes the donor’s generosity, noting an idea to send alarm “Jocks” to Africa to aid sufferers of sleeping sickness, a plan viewed as ambitious yet unfeasible.
Albert Scott Cox reflects in the Metropolitan Magazine on the ethics of consuming animals suggesting oysters, unlike larger animals, demand to be swallowed as whole beings with their joys and sorrows. He compares savoring their flavor to preserving empathy and restraint in eating.
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