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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1902
Page
3
The Dakota Huronite reports Monday attendance for Lucky Bills Wagon Show in Hitchcock on the 25th. Local items note Rev. Maccaud's Sunday service, travel of J C Kiemme, Reverends Wiard and Wilcox plans, and various community movements including estate sales and family visits across Huron and nearby towns.
A Kirkman Iowa woman suffered a severe burn from a gasoline stove. Doctors could not heal the running sore, but Bucklen’s Arnica Salve fully cured it. The ad touts Arnica Salve as infallible for cuts sores boils and other skin troubles and notes it is sold for 25 cents at Holland Wheeler’s.
Sunday worship occurred in most churches with Episcopal absent as Rev Maccaud served in Pierre. First Methodist in Huron reports 11 new members on confession and 2 by letter plus 4 baptisms, active roll at 336 of 880 total. Union evening services at Baptist Congregational and Presbyterian with Rev F H Richardson delivering at Congregational on Peter's Christ.
It claims to dazzle the world with unprecedented medical impact and lists cures for consumption pneumonia hemorrhage pleurisy bronchitis and various respiratory ailments. The seller Holland Wheeler guarantees satisfaction or refunds. Large bottles cost 50c and 1.00 with trial bottles free.
Mr. T. H. Hagen, longtime Huron resident and active Baptist worker, has accepted the post of superintendent of Baptist Sunday-school missions for North and South Dakota. The 25 year old says he will base his headquarters in Huron, with family remaining there, and he expects to be the continent's youngest missionary. The appointment follows F. D. Hail of Fargo who resigned.
An old advertisement touts Buckien's Arnica Salve claiming to clear sores blotches and pimples and to cure eruptions fever sores boils ulcers carbuncles felons and other conditions. It also claims feline use and says it is infallible for a variety of ailments with a two cent price at Holand.
The Huron Nursery reports spring planting for future sale including 22 000 apple and crab grafts 40 000 transplanted shade tree seedlings 5000 ornamental shrubs and bulbs 2000 transplanted roses 5000 strawberry plants 5000 other small fruit plants three acres of tree seeds and 1025 apple 350 plum and 175 cherry trees planted in permanent or chard.
A Poor Millionaire Lately starved in London because he could not digest his food. Early use of Dr. King's New Life Pills would have saved him. They strengthen the stomach, and digestion, promote assimilation, improve appetite. Price 25c. Money back if not satisfied. Sold by Tolland Wheeler, druggist.
A letter to Hawarden Iowa court seeks information on a divorce case for Mrs Candace Williams, filed by W. L. Williams. The writer asks when the trial is set and requests a copy, noting the envelope is addressed to the clerk of the courts at Huron.
Week ending July 25 uncalled letters at Huron post office include Barn M. Barrett James Barrett James E Beasley T C Brusport Mrs Mary Cambell Mr Robert Hopkins C E Jenks Mr William Kelley Mr John Laird Mr H A Markham Bert McNelley Meathon Mrs Roas Mosey Mr Charley Oggelston Mrs L Persons Mrs N C Reed Miss Pearl Sander J Somers B H Taylor J S V Stark and C Weig man Postmaster Wenzel Mr Jack Williams Mr E J C N Coorer
Porterville, California. James McKinney, ex convict, shot five men, stole a rig, and fled into the countryside after wounding four pursuing officers and a bystander. He claimed he would die game and warned rivals as he headed toward Fresno County with a shotgun rifle and revolver.
William Nixon, posing as outlaw Tracy to win a woman’s affection, was beaten unconscious by a police officer and the theater proprietor in Seattle after claiming identity. Investigators later compared his features with a Tracy photo and noted a $7000 reward for the desperado dead or alive.
A local ad urges readers not to delay eye care. It promotes expert eye examinations to determine if glasses are needed and stresses perfect fitting guarantees. Located on Dakota Avenue near Third Street in Huron, South Dakota.
Huron South Dakota ad notes a doctor will be at the Depot Hotel on Monday August 4 from 9:00 A M to 6:00 P M with monthly returns and calls for consults while the opportunity lasts.
Minneapolis July 29 Superint endent of Police Fred W Ames has returned to Minneapolis He says he has been within 150 miles of town since he left and denies he planned to run away or evade indictments He is tired and wants to avoid letters and telegrams and will not state if he will resign his post.
A burglar named James Marvin from Chicago was fatally shot while attempting to flee from the rear of Samuel Treloar’s West Granite street residence. Neighbor Hugh Anderson fired after the robber refused to stop, the bullet striking the burglar in the abdomen.
Judge Dunne notified State's Attorney Dineen he would soon release Charles W. Spaulding former treasurer of the University of Illinois and president of the Globe Savings Bank on a writ of habeas corpus unless the law under which Spaulding was convicted of embezzlement is shown to be not special legislation.
The eldest daughter of A. Van Selus, who lives four miles from Faribault Minnesota, disappeared at dawn and her body was found an hour later in a nearby lake. She tied a stone to her neck and died by strangulation in shallow water. A love affair is blamed for the tragedy. She was twenty years old.
Manila reports sixty one new cholera cases in a day while a cyclone at Camp Vicars last Saturday causes significant property loss and widespread village destruction.
A Minneapolis physician claims no disease resists diagnosis and that any case he cannot identify within five minutes earns $60. He lists a vast array of maladies including catarrh, eye ear nose throat diseases, lung and stomach disorders, rheumatism, nervous disorders, and many chronic conditions. He promotes injections for cancers tumors goiter fistula piles varicocele with bloodless methods and claims lifelong cure though only select cases accepted. He signs as DR. DORAN Boston Block Minneapolis Minnesota.
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