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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1901
Page
2
An article urges working women to seek open air exercise and climate suited to lungs, promoting Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for respiratory illness. It claims high cure rates, notes no alcohol or narcotics, and includes patient testimonials praising lung and overall health improvements.
The advertisement claims Dr Pierce's Pleasant Pellets promote healthy bowel action, essential to overall health. It notes special value for business women whose occupations limit exercise and impact vitality.
Relatives of the late Queen and royal household members gathered at St George’s Chapel Windsor for a memorial service attended by King Edward Queen Alexandra and other royals. Guards kept watch as the body lay in the Albert Memorial chapel. The service featured prayers for Victoria’s death and Edward’s accession, a choral anthem, and a funeral discourse by Bishop William Stubbs.
Lord Kitchener reports Medderfontein post attacked by 1000 Boers near Krugersdorp. Relief columns failed. prisoners arriving at Verering. British forces occupy Petersburg at Bloemfontein scene. No details yet at hand on captives.
A former figure states he prefers law to politics, finding greater comfort in legal work and profitability in the legal field than in political endeavors. He emphasizes no political candidacy is intended at this time.
Cape Town reports a coordinated Boer movement from the north and northeast toward the Cape Colony. British forces mirror the push with rear-guard actions and reinforcements sent from the south. Skirmishes occur near Clanwilliam and in central districts. several Boers killed or captured, others retreat to the Kongas. Small Boer parties linger between Steynsburg and Venterstadt. In New York, Senator Hill is declared not a candidate for the 1904 presidential nomination, focused on his law practice instead.
London's streets overflowed with mourners as Victoria's funeral procession moved from Buckingham Palace toward Windsor. Crowned heads and 35,000 troops joined a display of regal pomp, while minute guns and tolling bells signaled the royal passage. Hundreds of thousands watched as the cortege drew through Hyde Park and St James, the nation marking a monumental end to Victoria's 60 year reign.
Sydney reports funeral services observed in the federated colonies for the queen's funeral. In this city about 4,000 children gathered at the queen's statue to lay wreaths as part of the mourning observance.
Lourenzo Marques February 5 report says a commando of 2000 Boers has crossed the line into Portuguese territory. It is believed they aim to rescue fellow Boers in the area. The Portuguese plan to remove Boer refugees who refuse British surrender to Madras.
Fred Rosemann a nearly ten year U S railway postal service clerk in Chicago admits only to mail pouch thefts and blames his downfall on the lure of policy. He was seized as he left the Chicago and Northwestern depot and produced a watch and several stolen packages at the chief transfer clerk’s office.
Anaconda Copper Mining Company will apply the eight hour day in its Montana smelters immediately. The mandate follows the Montana legislature passing the bill and Governor Toole signing it. The move will hire several hundred additional workers, though the 8-hour system had already been used in the Butte mines.
A tornado in western Delta county damaged many structures. The Moody home at Honest was destroyed with the 14-year-old daughter fatally injured. Tink Surrett was killed and two daughters seriously hurt at Rattan where several houses collapsed. An oil mill in Denton was wrecked but no injuries reported.
William Chapman Baker, wealth holder and philanthropist formerly of Morristown New Jersey, died at his daughter in law's home in Grand Rapids Michigan at age 92. He was Princeton University’s oldest living graduate and had strong ties to General Lafayette.
The wrecking of joints at Hiawatha Kansas, led by the temperance pole, has completed its work with no joints remaining in town. Proprieties have fled amid the campaign.
Indianapolis reports an explosion at a magazine near Alexandria five miles northeast. Pery Fort a carrier for Gas Belt Torpedo Company and his team were blown to atoms. A 15 by 40 foot crater remains where the magazine stood. The blast was heard across several towns including Kokomo Muncie Marion and Ellwood.
Oaxaca dispatch reports a nine mile engagement near Santa Cruz where government forces defeated a large Maya Indian force. Rebels suffered about 300 killed and wounded, with hundreds more reinforcements joining General Brava. About 60 white officers believed to be Englishmen from British Honduras.
Herman Reel of the Milwaukee Produce Company has engineered a peas corner, claiming Scotch peas may reach 1.59 dollars per bushel before the new crop and could rise to 1.75. He has secured control of about 30,000 bushels in the United States and pledges to take profits without squeezing the market.
London reports a Berlin dispatch claims Russia and the United States have secretly agreed that Russian sugar enter the United States without differential duty. In exchange Russia would make concessions to the United States. The source notes the assertion as city chatter via The Daily Mail correspondent.
Official orders from Adjutant General Corbin direct the first class of cadets at West Point to graduate on Monday February 18 Colonel Mills reports the action was met with elation by the cadets on the campus in New York state.
Berlin reports from Count von Waldersee dated Peking state that railway communication has been restored between Peking Feng-Tai and Pao Ting Eu. The German war office confirms the restored lines aiding troop and supply movement.
A concise reflection on Adam craving the forbidden apple to justify defying God. The speaker argues the real error was not forbidding the serpent, as that would have led to eating the serpent instead.
A historical quotation contrasts care shown to a starving dog with human behavior. It asserts that aiding a dog transforms it into a loyal creature, while a man may not respond similarly, highlighting a perceived difference in character and gratitude.
An old warning notes October as one of the most dangerous months for stock speculation, joining July January September August December February April March June November and May in a list of risky periods. The quip appears within a satire on investment caution and consumer products.
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