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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1897
Page
3
A flurry of visitors and residents travel through Huron this week. Notables include J. T. Schwine bookkeeping for J. A. Sauer, Dr. T. M. Shanafelt and Judge Crawford returning from Aberdeen and the Falls, and L. L. Lestatter visiting from Iroquois. The Woodmen plan a charity picnic and a concert at the opera house funds the Children’s Home, while the community prepares for electric lighting and new plant work.
A heated discussion argues whether prairie chicken hunting is legal before September 1 1897. The piece traces legal changes from 87 to 93, noting August 15th and September 1st dates, and concludes the current law status is unclear amid conflicting repeal clauses.
Send address to H E Bucklen Co and get a free sample box of Dr King’s New Life Pills proving their merits for constipation sick headache malaria and liver troubles. Pills are 25c regular, purely vegetable and toning to stomach and bowels. Also note Northern Pacific land offer of central Minnesota acres at 2.4 to 3.50 per acre on ten years’ time with maps from F W Wiley, St Paul.
The Lena community bid farewell to Mr and Mrs S H McEathron as they depart for Beadle County. The Baptist church hosted a touching evening with music by M O Naramore of Chicago and gifts of gold spectacles for the couple. Old settler W We Hall recalled their church work and their forty seven years in the area, praising their liberal help to the church and noting the impact of their departure on local citizens. Ice cream and cake were served as friends wished them safe travel and a prosperous life in a new country.
Huron moves toward electric lighting as H C Sterling secures a power well lease in Kirksville to supply lines. The council has yet to arrange street lighting, but residents favor the upgrade. Sterling promises affordable rates for city and private use, with a pro lighting push amid improving times. A mayoral proclamation invites citizens to a Children’s Home concert at the opera house to benefit Sioux Falls homes, featuring the Huron cornet band and local talent. Proceeds go to the Children’s Home with no expenses to attendees.
A salve advertised to cure cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rhegum feval sores tetter chapped hands and all skin eruptions and piles with a money back guarantee. Priced at 22 cents per box and sold by H Wheeler.
The editor praises Dr King s New Discovery as the true remedy for consumption coughs and colds claiming it cures coughs whooping cough and related ailments. A free trial bottle is offered at Wheeler s drug store.
In Eagle Bend Minnesota on August 9 Jess Babcock a well known young man chose death over marriage. He took strychnine just before the planned wedding to Miss Luella Gardner daughter of prominent hotel keeper Sherman Gardner. The coroner conducted the proceedings as the ceremony never occurred. The incident caused a stir in the community.
Seattle dispatch reports the death last April of Charles A. Blackstone and two others, George Butcher and W. Malinque, miners who traveled to Alaska in 1696 and perished while attempting to return to Seattle. Investigators seek full details of the trio’s deaths and motives, with a note dated April 4, 1897, referenced in the inquiry.
The Athens Daily Telegraph correspondent asserts a frontier line agreed by powers gives Turkey possession of river Salambria heights and nearby defiles, making the defense of Larissa and Salambria impossible for Greece and placing it wholly at Turkey's mercy.
British political officer at Malakand reports that practically all tribes joined the late attacks on forces in the Chitral district. He says about 2,700 enemy combatants were killed and many tribesmen wounded. The message notes continued resistance and morale among the tribes.
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