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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1897
Page
3
Huron items recount population at five in the county jail, visits to Chicago and Omaha, farm trades, rail and street news, crop reports, personal travels, and civic actions. Mentions harvesting wages, eclipses, and local business onlookers, with multiple notices from nearby towns and officials.
The Laube Manufacturing Company and Patent Agency debuts in the Reed block offering patent buying and selling, model making, and patent procurement for inventors. Notable products include the Laube patent roaster with 300000 sales, the trace fastener, straw burner, four stove pipe holdes, and a dozen radiator styles. The firm serves the United States with agents even reaching Klondyke, led by G Lambe, a respected mechanic and inventor. Advertising drives orders, with Mr. Laube predicting sustained demand and six months of work ahead.
An old advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs colds and lung ailments with a money back guarantee and trial bottle offer. It warns against substitutes sold by dealers and lists regular sizes at fifty cents and one dollar.
Editor Morrison of Worthington Indiana Sun extols Electric Bitters as a powerful remedy for constipation and sick headache. Mrs Annie Stehle of Chicago recovered from severe fatigue digestive troubles and backache after six bottles. Prices 50 cents and 1.00. Available at H Wheeler's Drug Store.
The North ern Pacific railway company lists hundreds of thousands of acres in central Minnesota offered to settlers at 2.50 to 3.50 dollars per acre on ten years. Prospective buyers are advised to contact W. W. Wilsey Eastern Land Agent in Paul for maps and full information.
A 19th century ad promotes Buckle's Arnica Salve as a universal remedy for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chill blains corns and skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded with a price of 22 cents per box sold by H Wheeler.
The Hot Springs in the Black Hills of South Dakota are praised for medicinal cures for rheumatism neuralgia and related ailments. The offer includes first class hotel accommodations and baths with tourist tickets at special low rates on the first and third Tuesdays monthly. Fall information available from C and N W railway ticket agents.
The Houronite Bindery manufactures blank books of all kinds and encourages home industries by inviting readers to place orders.
A Times dispatch from Simla reports that in Thursday night fighting the enemy suffered heavier casualties than any prior encounter. The Mullah was wounded and his chief disciple killed, a blow that may dishearten the fanatics. The Mullah claimed divine inspiration and aimed to seize Malakand. The leading head man of the rising is said to have absconded.
Ben Vaughn, 20, shot at a Sunday school gathering in Perry Oklahoma Territory injuring several children. He is jailed as residents threaten mob action and possible lynching before dawn.
Word from Secretary Sherman at Amangansett New York says his health has improved greatly since arrival. He plans to depart for Boston in a day or two, then undertake a sea voyage following his Boston trip.
Spontaneous combustion in Sioux City caused the burning of a carload of slack and engulfed John Manderscheid's beer warehouse tanks coalsheds 13 freight cars and Conway Coal yards and sheds. Total loss 25000 with 7000 insured.
Ottumwa Iowa July 30 two hundred Rathbun miners walked out amid agitator activity seen for several days a general strike seems likely as the labor action spreads through the camp and halts mining operations.
Scottdale Pennsylvania July 30 The Scottdale Iron and Steel company began operations with non-union men. There is no trouble reported from former employees.
The July crop bulletin reports nearly 600 correspondents noting broadly favorable conditions across Iowa Kansas Nebraska and Missouri. The Corn Belt predicts a phenomenally large harvest as July ends.
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