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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1897
Page
3
Reverend J P Kester of London Mills Illinois praises Dr Miles Heart Cure for heart trouble and nervous prostration from ministry overwork. He reports revivals of ten weeks with near nightly preaching and cites lasting relief. The advertisement guarantees money back if the first bottle does not help.
Huron items list Friday visitors and Saturday callers with names like Dr. Lewis McLouth L. L. Lostatter J. F. Hickey and Miss Nora Batee. Reports on council meeting chores railway workers, national guard ball January 29, and various notices on medicine and storms.
United States Minister Albert S. Willis died January 6 in Honolulu after several months illness from pneumonia. Flags were lowered to half mast. Funeral services were held January 7 at Central Union Church led by Rev. D. P. Bierne and Rev. J. M. Monroe. The casket was to be shipped to the United States aboard the Australia after a temporary vault interment at Nu’uanu cemetery.
An intense January blizzard hits the region with heavy snowfall and strong winds. Rail service stalls as trains are stranded near Cavour and Brookings, crews clear tracks, and towns report eight to twenty inches of snow locally. Weather officials note widespread coverage into North Dakota and Minnesota.
The United Mine Workers national convention in Columbus decides a joint conference with Ohio and Western Pennsylvania operators. Hocking valley operators withdraw from the Ohio association but may attend as individuals. A scale is fixed: pick mining 69 cents in Pennsylvania, 60 in Hocking valley and Indiana, 53 in Grape Creek Illinois, and 1894 Illinois rates elsewhere. Machine work scaled at fractions of pick mining rates, with Indiana entering, loading, drilling and machine coal prices adjusted accordingly.
Bradstreets notes wholesale merchants nationwide show little change in trade with slow collections. Some Chicago St Louis Baltimore and other large cities report stronger demand for dry goods hats shoes hardware and groceries for spring delivery. Texas Louisiana Georgia Tennessee and South Carolina dealers see better hardware and agricultural supply demand. Prices rise for leather pork lard petroleum and cotton while hides wheat corn coffee pig iron and steel billets fall.
In Hidewood township about ten miles northeast of Estelline a vast deposit of dark sand reportedly rich in gold has been found. A single prospector is said to have washed half a bushel of material daily yielding pure gold.
West Superior Wis Jan 18 at the annual Duluth and North Dakota railroad meeting in Drayton North Dakota a quorum of stockholders approved a leadership change D W Hines was replaced as president by R S Munger of Duluth
Patrick Donahue, married Jan 9, is jailed on murder charges after his bride was found dead in bed with a blackened face, a bloody head wound and finger marks on the neck. He denies involvement.
A printed ad touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as the only constitutional remedy for deafness caused by inflamed eustachian tubes. Separately, the city notes no sidewalk snow clearing ordinance and the marshal will not issue notices, citing safety concerns after several accidents on impassable walkways.
Exhilarating sense of renewed strength and internal cleanliness follows Syrup offige, a contrast to cheap substitutes ignored by the well informed.
Bishop O Gorman, stranded in Huron Saturday, could not reach Pierre for Sunday services. He conducted services at St. Martin's Church Sunday and Monday, staying with Col. M. J. Dinneen and wife who introduced him to many Huron residents.
Over fifty years the syrup aids teething by soothing the child and easing pain. It softens gums, relieves wind colic, and helps diarrhoea with a bottle priced at twenty five cents.
Residents move bay to safety as snow buildup threatens a flood similar to 1881. Workers cut through six to ten foot drifts to reach salvage routes and transport the bay to higher ground.
Readers are invited to spend the winter in Florida along the Indian River for hunting, boating, fishing, and bathing. Send 10 cents in stamps for the Weekly News to Melbourne for fall information.
Persons planning travel to a foreign country are advised to contact O. and N. W. rail way ticket agents for complete information and guidance on European trips.
List of letters remaining unclaimed in the Huron South Dakota post office for the week ending Jan 9 1896. Names include De Bingham C M Blackledge Miss A E Chapman Miss A Chase Beecher DeWelff B Shay John Shay J M Taylor Amanda 8 Parties must say advertised in the Huronite and provide publication date and pay one cent at stamp window. J B Coay Postmaster.
An old classifieds snippet advertises a free medical reference offering remedies for private diseases and female troubles. It mentions charges of two cents and references leading physicians in the country. The ad lists Hatry & Cor at 4th and West Streets Sioux City and notes a weekly periodical offer with the Houronite and New York Tribune for one year at $1.25.
Send address to H. E. Bucklen & Co. Chicago for a free sample box of Dr. King s New Life Pills. Promoted for constipation sick headache malaria and liver troubles with claims of safety and vegetable composition. Regular size 25c per box sold by D. K. Bryant.
The Payton company brings a four night engagement to the Grand Opera house starting Monday January 18 with The Life Lights a four act western melodrama. Company K of the South Dakota National Guards assists with a twenty strong cast a full band and orchestra and new acts by Miss Carrie Louis and others. Ladies admitted free Monday with escort holding a 30 cent seat ticket. seats on sale at the opera house news stand and demand is strong.
Mr. Gilman Brown of 34 Mill St South Gardner Mass faced a typhoid malaria lung case for his son who doctors said would not live a month after spending 375 dollars. He credits Dr King's New Discovery with restoring health enabling work and offers trial bottles free at D K Bryant's Drug Store.
In 1892 A L Geldwater, owner of three New York City drug stores, learned of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy. He ordered supplies for customers and sold over two gross that winter. He says it gives the best satisfaction of any cough cure he has handled. Available at 25 and 50 cents per bottle by all druggists.
Funeral services for the late Misa Mase Bond were held at the Congregational church Friday afternoon conducted by Rev. B. H. Burtt. Many school mates and her Sunday school class attended. Floral tributes were numerous and beautiful. Pallbearers were Harrold Wilde Clifford Joy Leighton Steere Arthur Phillips Clinton Joy Harry Lampe. Interment followed at Riverside.
An 19th century classified style ad promotes Bucklens Arnica Salve as a universal cure for cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands and more. It guarantees satisfaction or money refunded with a price of 22 cents per box, sold by D. K. Bryant.
Major C T Picton, manager of the State Hotel in Denison Texas, praises Chamberlain s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as an infallible cure and recommends it to guests and his family. Sold by all druggists.
A man claims the liver is not where the surgeon thinks it is. A witty retort says DeWitt's Little Early Risers would reach any mislaid liver, even if in the big toe or left ear, and shake it for him. Blount.
E. E Hemmuingway, a public examiner, was seen in the city on Saturday during a routine inspection and civic outreach effort.
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