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Newspaper
The Citizen Republican
Location
Scotland, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1920
Page
2
The clipping surveys postwar issues from German propaganda claims about Poland and Breslau to Polish and Hungarian postwar conditions. It notes Prohibition effects, Salvation Army hotel closures, a Ku Klux Klan action in Waterloo, and immigration and crime stories, including a Rio de Janeiro resident, traffic policing plans, and financial upheavals in Europe and the United States.
The county board of vigilance, with the state commission, assessed elevated property values triggering higher taxes. Officials cite revised valuation and formal notices while residents face surcharges totaling 23 248 dollars and a 30 percent rise in taxes for the city.
Toe Lise of Lyman county found a mud stained packet of papers in a sanidbar along the Missouri River. The documents, damaged but salvageable, bore the owner’s address at Curtin on the Cheyenne river. They likely floated from Curtin to a point below Mucoma after flood damage last spring.
Otto Schreck and Clarence Goodenough are bound over on charges of shooting in a manner likely to cause death with intent to commit a felony. Bail set at 7500 dollars each after a seven hour preliminary hearing. Witness JR Bryant to testify when able.
Sioux Falls August 31 Bende Austad a Kingsbury county farmer died in a threshing machine accident after falling into a thresher cylinder His left leg was mangled from the knee down and the engine was stopped just in time to save his body He was 42 years old.
In Sioux Falls creditors in the $1,500,000 Magnuson bankruptcy case agreed on selling cattle for the estate. The hearing before Judge J D Billott followed an adjournment two weeks earlier due to absent creditors.
New York August 80 mourners learned Jacob had returned telling his family they buried the wrong man and that the real Jacob remains unidentified. The Levine family now faces the undertaker's bill and questions who was buried in the cemetery plot.
A traveling group stopped at a secluded farm near Onida South Dakota and while some read fortunes others stole into the kitchen and ate the evening meal cooking on the stove. The farmer did not discover the theft until after the band had vanished.
Aug 20 Pierre reports ongoing handling of wheat as opening of the era brings complaints to the state market department. Prices vary between local and terminal markets due to uncertain shipment timing and freight rate changes. The department seeks to clarify conditions to settle final crop pricing, while noting instability persists.
In Rapid City last Monday night at the Elk club rooms sixty new members were welcomed into the Moose Lodge with Gov. Peter Norbeck named a life member and leading the class. The event was conducted by Sioux Falls lodge officers.
In Sisseton, South Dakota on August 30 Stephen Murray, a mill proprietor, had his right hand caught in a feed grinder. Bystanders stopped the machine and he used his left hand to grip the wrist and knee the mill to avoid complete injury.
Eight year old Janet Adams from Yankton South Dakota danced in the Lyndale park children's pageant in Minneapolis this August visiting her grandparents at 1777 Colfax avenue South. Her father is superintendent of the state hospital for the insane. Parkston South Dakota sewer project nearly complete with upcoming water mains work pending pipe delivery.
In Rio de Janeiro Morris Fox, a Dryden crew member held as Eugene Le Roy, denied to United News Friday that he is the suspect wanted for murdering his wife in Detroit and sending the body to New York in a trunk.
Sioux Falls jurors selected for the September 7 session in the federal court and Deadwood jurors for the September 14 term are listed. The long roster names special session jurors and grand jurors for Deadwood as well as petit jurors for Deadwood with many individuals and towns across the state.
Canton South Dakota Aug. 28 Sheriff Kundert arrested D. A. Robins sought by Missouri authorities for abducting Miss Zellia Lawson of Ozark County. Robins and the girl had lived together since last April and planned marriage. she said Robins had a wife he did not live with.
Dr. Charles Orrin Solberg was chosen as president of Augustana Lutheran College in Sioux Falls. He accepted at a Minneapolis board meeting and will assume duties when the college opens on September 6. Solberg is a nationally known figure and was highly regarded by Lutherans during the selection process.
Huron, Aug. 25. George Hebron of this city is the victim of sleeping sickness and has been in a coma for a week.
Huron August 27. Word reaches Yankton that Katherine Newell Adams longtime dean of women at Huron College has been appointed associate professor of English at the College of Constantinople. Adams has taught the past year at Yankton and will likely accept the Constantinople post.
The custodian of private Chicago elevators must seal shipping bins and loadouts, secure the engine, and ensure prevents removal without cancellation proof. A locked metal device blocks car movement. The custodian also oversees insurance levels and verifies certified checks for delivered commodities to protect buyers from unfair practices.
Viscount Grey defends the League of Nations against claims it would drag the United States or Britain into war. The article argues membership imposes little obligation beyond economic action and only Congress can declare war, with the U S remaining free of automatic mobilization today. It stresses the league’s purpose is peace not aggression and warns against misreading its powers in the Polish-Russian crisis.
The piece notes drastic predation by wolves mountain lions and coyotes across the West. It cites a wolf killing 150 cattle in six months, a Wyoming mountain lion destroying $1 000 of livestock in a month, and six coyotes killing 300 sheep in Texas in three months. It estimates 3 percent of cattle and 165 000 sheep in New Mexico lost to predators, totaling about 20 million dollars, plus 150 million for crops eaten by rodents and over 200 million by house rats.
A damaged fragment describes a sunken submarine stranded on the shore. The poem-like text portrays the craft as a ruined, unmanned relic. Waves lash its decks as the sea mocks its downfall and the iron hulk becomes a forsaken target of time.
A humorous exchange about a missed visit to fix an electric doorbell, noting the household’s absence and the doorbell’s three rings with no response. A sly conversation reveals a mistaken identity involving a sock and a planned marriage for Edith.
The Kansas City Star recalls a prepresidential slander case where William Henry Harrison, then governor, sued a critic for misconduct with Indians. A quick verdict of 4000 dollars was awarded, property sold to satisfy the judgment, most later returned to the slanderer or to orphans of soldiers.
An anonymous verse laments the urge for the best in life, contrasting princes and peers with simple pleasures like water, wine, or beer. The speaker questions whether mankind truly needs superior goods to enjoy life.
A terse exchange mentions avoiding a trip home to Stoner and failing to trouble with sending an item already removed from a coat pocket. The note hints at a planned meeting or confrontation and notes an urgency to avoid personal travel.
A fragment notes a Hudsons Bay Company factor ordering a wife through the company as part of provision of life necessities for agents. It mentions Received one wife in fair condition and a dubious tone about the match.
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