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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1894
Page
3
Judge Fuller attended city events on Saturday while Charley Fitch and Herb Fisher visited Huron for the Fourth. The Huron baseball team schedules a July 14 game at Wessington. Local news covers residents, shop whistles, farming rain needs, social dances, and civic notices including a K P lodge installation.
Coroner E H Boos returned home from Cavour to hold an inquest into Henry Champion found dead in his barn. Neighbors reported Champion was last seen July 4 at the farm, where a rope and broken board suggested suicide amid suspected mental distress and local quarrels. Funeral Thursday drew a large turnout.
The text praises Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a cure for ailments common to women including irregularities weaknesses nervous debility and spasms. It claims the medicine restores vitality and cheer to Yankee girls and matrons facing health burdens.
E F Sturgeon leaves Thursday for an extended eastern sojourn after seven years in the dry goods trade. He may marry before returning to Huron and plans to visit much of the continent. A light quip about health remedies follows, urging Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery to cleanse blood and combat incipient consumption and scrofula symptoms.
A dispatch from the C. and N. W. president orders unemployed firemen to Chicago on the division. Firemen meet and refuse to go until requirements are clarified. They will work in place of discharged men only if asked to, not to replace strikers.
Six weeks ago Supt Hioed suspended several boys including Hugh Cameron for obscene conduct toward the gatle. The school board investigated, found no evidence, and reinstated Hough. The move prompts calls for investigation before punishment and stresses schools serve children.
From Haron July 6 a black mare colt three years old with mane and foretop clipped and a scar on the right shoulder and breast from wart removal. Also sore heels from rope burn. A reward offered for her return or information leading to recovery. Address Statz Journal Huron D. i ibaa.
The South Dakota Press Association selects subjects for the Mitchell gathering July 24 to 26. Topics include Country Correspondence, The Successful Country Newspaper, Advertising in Auxiliary Sheets, Offering Premiums, Editorial Page and Booming Candidates, A Publisher's Choice, The Local Page, Three Vital Features of a Country Newspaper, The National Press Association at Asbury Park, and Collecting Subscriptions with each paper followed by a general discussion.
List of letters remaining unclaimed for week ending July 7 1894 at Huron South Dakota includes Berney Peter Hese O F Coulson Mrs Ada Shannon A J Dodds Robert Young Grace Miss. Claimants must say advertised in the HuronITE and provide publication date and pay one cent at stamp window J B Cogan P M
An association of medical men offers a complete scientific treatise on ailments affecting young men. Mailed in a sealed plain envelope to any sufferer sending ten cents with this notice to World’s Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main St. Buffalo, NY.
Mrs. Dick A. Lewis of Independence Co cites Peruna and Manalin as saving her life after fourteen years of nervous debility and chronic catarrh. The piece also notes Judge Fuller’s brief Huron stay, a grand social event, a boys outfit offer, and local surveying work by Harrison and Griffee for irrigation lines along the James River.
The regular semiannual examination for clerk and carrier in the Huron South Dakota post office will be held on Saturday August 11 1894 at 9 a m in the post office building. Applications must be filed by July 23 1894 using blanks provided by the U S Civil Service Commission. Age limits are 18 for clerks and 21 to 40 for carriers. The exam is open to all reputable citizens regardless of political affiliation. Frank T. Davis, Secy.
The July issue emphasizes love of country as the foundation of progress and calls for teaching patriotism to children from an early age. It advises that the young American will learn history and loyalty through this publication.
The Huron Fire Department records a formal resolution honoring Arthur Hilton for valued service and noting his planned move to Fairfield Maine. They express deep regret at his departure, commend him to the new community, and order copies to be filed and published in city papers.
In Justice Grant's court Harry Higby and Edith Watson faced adultery charges. Judge warned the pair and released them after a riot act reading. A community note then announces Thursday's baseball game on capitol hill between the Huron regulars and a top city nine, for the Free Reading Rooms, urging public attendance and donations. Also listed are reduced price tourist excursion tickets to major U S resorts via the Chicago and North-Western Railway.
Northwest Line advertises excursion tickets to Denver Pueblo and Colorado Springs on July 21 and 22 with very low round trip fares. Return passage valid through August 25. Details and purchasing locations available on request.
In celebration of the Baptist Young People's Union convention the North Western Line offers round trip excursion tickets to Toronto Ontario at one fare. Tickets go on sale July 17 and 18 and are good for return passage until August 7, 1804. For tickets and details contact Chicago Northwestern agents.
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