Homecoming for Coe Crawford Draws Large Huron Crowd
The Republican gubernatorial nominee Coe Crawford arrives in Huron with a crowd at the depot. A carriage drawn by four black horses carries him to Third Street where a temporary platform is set. Crawford thanks voters after a brief speech as Col. Parker and Fr. Desmond speak in welcome. A reception is planned later.
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Coe I. Crawford
South Dakota
Hu- Ton
Third Street
Alford
Crawford
Huron
Beadle County
W. H. Parker
Deadwood
United States Congress
Beadlecounty
Desmonds
Crop Prospects Report From A. C. Johnson
Chicago and North Western agent A C Johnson, a Houronite visitor, says crop prospects are excellent after a state-wide tour. He notes wheat and corn in strong condition, early plowing in some fields, and hay assurance with ample rainfall needed for record yields. He traveled from Haurop to Winona and keeps updated on South Dakota crops.
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A.C. Johnson
Chicago and North-Western
Johnson
Wellj
South Dakota
Haurop
Winona
Steps in the Breach and Alley Picnic Highlight Huron Debates
Brookings Press defends Mr Crawford amid attacks from rival papers as the Huronite appeals for unity. The Pearl Creek Alley picnic set for Friday June 22 features speeches baseball games music and a professional program promising a day of recreation for all attendees.
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Pearl Creek
New Superintendent Elected for City Schools
The school board in a special session chose Clyde Sloan of Carrollton Illinois to fill the vacancy created by Prof Emm. Sloan has previously taught at Huron and was principal of Carro High School for two years. Miss Elma M Hadson was elected to the primary department, August Brown named janitor, diplomas awarded to three graduate students for back work.
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Crawford and Taylor
Clyde Sloan
Carrollton
Emm
Sloan
Huron
Caro
Elma M. Hadson
Hudson
Jean Urquhart
August Brown
W.C. Johnson
Huron Improvement Society Forms From Women’s Clubs
The Town Federation of Women’s clubs reorganizes into the Huron Improvement Society with enlarged membership and new officers. The first project is opening the Huron public reading room, inviting any woman to join. Officers include Mrs. Andrew Riegel president, Mrs. M. D. Waisman vice president, Mrs. Sherer treasurer, and Mrs. A. B. Fairbank secretary.
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Huron Improvement Society
Town Federation of Women’s Clubs
Huron
Andrew Riegel
M. D. Waisman
Mesrs Sherer
Treas
A. B. Fairbank
Sec’y
Crawford Governs A Progressive State With Strong Finances
The incoming governor will find ample funds in the treasury and a robust school fund exceeding four million in permanent assets. Taxation escapes many levies, railroads taxed higher per mile, and about 1000 miles of new railroad planned this year will expand South Dakota. The people are described as progressive, happy, and capable of political shifts with ease.
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Coe I. Crawford
Pierre
State Board of Assessment
South da Ota
Prairie Wheat Land Offer Up North Dakota Brokerage
Sunny Southern Alberta promoters push prairie wheat land sales with a June 13 and 20 excursion over the Soo Line. They promise land at $8 per acre with a one year payback and urge quick action as cheap lands grow scarce, directing inquiries to O. W. Kerr Co. in Fargo and Minneapolis offices.
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O. W. Kerr Co
Fargo
N. D
Guaranty Loan Bidg
Minneapolis
Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea Cited By Dealers
More than a million officials professionals bankers farmers and stockmen are claimed cured by Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea priced 35 cents for tea or tablets as sold by A. J. Bick & Co.
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Hollister
Rocky Mountain
A. J. Bick & Co
Races At State Fair Grounds Feature Fast Two Days
The Corn Belt trots continued Tuesday at the State Fair grounds with 45 entries from nine states. Queen Allie and Strange Wave each won heats in 2:23 and 2:24 pace classes, while Rosetta Boice placed on Wednesday among strong fields and Ada Mix claimed the 2:40 trot purse.
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State Fair Grounds
South East
North West
Fairgrounds
Huron ‘Band
Allie
Andy Stewart
Strange Wave
R. A. Tait
Arie Edna Russell
D. R. Wright
Sue Evans
J. W. Lawler
Lake Preston
Bessie G
Harry Boott
G. B. Patterson
Watertown
O. R. Wright
Miss Dinehart
John Cliford
Ashton
Haron
Rosetta Boice
Ada Mix
G. D. Cole
Brookings
Bobby M
S. W. Smith
Armour
Queen Anoca
J. W. Hunter
Omaha
Neb
Bobolink
Peter Holmes
Minneapolis
Baby K
Aston Nelson
St. Paul
Billy Sunday
Fred Jeffrey
Calumet, Mich
Maywood
H. F. McNutt
Oxford
Wis
Beadle County Republican Convention Candidacy Declared
W Smith announces candidacy for Beadle County superintendent, pending Republican county convention action. The brief notice states the filing intent and political affiliation.
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Beadle County
W. Smith
Card of Thanks for floral gifts and kindness
We the undersigned extend sincere thanks for the beautiful floral offerings from the church Ladies Relief Corps and many other friends. Also the kindness of neighbors and friends during her sickness.
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Ladies’ Relief Corps
Neigbors
Fire on Baltimore waterfront kills three and devastates harbor
A massive blaze on Baltimore's waterfront causes about 1 million dollars in damage. Three crew members of the steamship Essex perish. five others are rescued as barges burn. The Minnie Wheeler and a Moore Brady packinghouse suffer partial destruction while residents flee.
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Baltimore
Ers’ Transportation Company
Essex
Mary
Moore & Brady
Minnie Wheeler
Merchants and Miners’ Transportation Company
Black Street
Agrarian Disorders Spread in Russian Interior
Dispatches from the interior of Russia paint a gloomy picture as agrarian disorders and partial strikes spread to twelve provinces. New disturbances reach Kieff and Tver with peasant clashes against rural guards. A Twentieth Century correspondent reports six of eight Riga executions were coerced confessions under torture.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Kieff
Tver
M. Vladimiroff
Mlle. Spiridonovo
Baltic
Riga
General E M Pope Dies At 68 In Minnesota
General E M Pope aged sixty eight died at Grand Marais Minnesota after a career as state senator public examiner under Governor Lind and banker. He led a Civil War corps in the Army of the Potomac and later ran an abstract office and lumber business before burial in Mankato.
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Grand Marais
Minn
E. M. Pope
King Edward Hosts Dinner for Longworth in London
King Edward attends a June 14 dinner at Dorchester House honoring Representative and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. The event drew vast crowds on Park Lane as guests in high society passed to the residence, which has welcomed Americans since Reid’s acquisition last year. The gathering included cabinet ministers and leading political figures.
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London
Reid
Dorchester House
Nicholas Longworth
King Edward
Roosevelt
United States
Park Lane
Re'd
Edward
Mrs. Longworth
Second hand engine for sale by H Wairey
Advertises a good second hand engine for sale at a low price by H Wairey residing at 1045 Second Street.
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H. Wairey
Second Street
E L Abel Debuts New Auto and Machine in Beadle
E L Abel, longtime enginee r from McCook County, brings a new machine to Beadle for the first time after ten years of operation. He expects to learn its use with time, remarking machines are similar as learned in Sioux Falls. Burk's Big Double Company presents Uncle Tom's Cabin with a traveling show train, large stage, scenery, electric lights, and about 100 staff plus animals. A grand street parade is planned at noon followed by a thrilling free event.
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M. Wilcox
Dakota
Towit
Fisher & Foster
Beadle Ee Tee Briegronpnerds Wana
H. J. Ward
B. E. Beach
A. B. Farnpann
Hie
Atttorney
E. L. Abel
E.L
McCook County
Beadle
E. L
Sioux Falls
Burk
Pavilion Theatre
Excursion Tickets to Mitchell Reduced For Race Meet
Excursion tickets to Mitchell via the North Western Line will be sold at reduced rates from June 18 through June 21 inclusive with return valid to June 22. Apply to agents of the Chicago and North Western Railway.
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Mitchell
Chicago & North-Western Ra Y
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Promises Payouts
Frank J. Cheney a senior partner of F. J. Cheney & Co. in Toledo promises one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh not cured by Hall's Cure. The oath sworn December 6 1886 before Notary A W G Leal Gleason notes the firm will pay the sum for each uncured case.
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Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
Pranx J. Cheney
A. D
A. W.gleal - Gleason Ee
All Druggiste
Norfolk mob guards hold accused assailant after confession
The negro William Lee charged with criminal assault on Mrs. Robert Barnes and Miss Frances Powell was sent to Norfolk by state troops after Governor Swanson ordered protection. Lee confessed to assaulting Mrs. Barnes and attempting to assault Miss Powell, sparking continued Somerset County unrest and militia disbandment once the prisoner arrived at Norfolk jail.
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Norfolk
William Lee
Robert Barnes
Frances Powell
Kingston
Somerset County
Eastville
Swanson
Lee
Weather forecasts for rural mail routes proposed
Postmaster General Cortelyou considers a plan to provide farmers on rural free delivery with weather predictions twelve hours fresher than current forecasts. A separate dispatch notes a clash in Tsaritsin, Russia, where Persian workers hired to back strikebreakers fight longshoremen, leaving several injured.
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Washington
Cortelyou
Prominent planter tied to peonage case in Missouri
United States Marshal Mersey and deputies arrested James Smith in Staunton Mo under orders from Washington. The charge alleges Smith and others held enslaved people in peonage and forced labor on a swamp land plantation in New Madrid County. Preliminary hearing set for Sikeston on June 21.
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St. Louis
Washington
United States
Mersey
Staunton
James Smith
Smith
New Madrid
Sikeston
Supreme Court Grants Patrick Stay of Execution
Canton Ohio June 14 Justice Day of the United States Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for Albert T. Patrick of New York until October.
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Supreme Court
Canton
Justices Day of the
United States Supreme Court
Albert T. Patrick
New York
Meat inspection questioned in Washington inquiry
A House of Commons question raised by William Field asks how reliable the U S system of meat inspection is and what limits exist for British checks. Mr Burns replies that boneless beef and pork from America used to make sausages sold as English products have been found, noting difficulties in inspecting imported foods and stating local authorities are urged to enforce powers fully.
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Washington
Bureau of Animal Industry
House of Commons
William Field
St. Patricks
Dublin
Irish Cattle Traders and Stock Owners’ Association
Burns
America
Taft Declines 1908 Presidential Run
Washington reports Secretary Taft will not seek the presidency in 1908. He is said to prefer remaining head of the War Department, possibly until Philippine affairs settle, and will not decide on the Supreme Court vacancy until December.
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Washington
Taft
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Justice Brown
War Department
Philippines
Heavy verdict in Lind versus Keefe suit at St Paul
In St Paul on June 11 the jury awarded Charles E. Lind Jonas Keefe, 12,261.51 to Lind in a bitterly contested case. Lind sought 11,260 as half of a Soo railroad injury settlement plus about 1,100 interest. Keefe, Lind's attorney, kept half the settlement under a contract Lind signed while hospitalized.
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Lind
West Point Class Head Named for 1906 Graduating Class
West Point June 11 Ca det Harold S. Hetrick of Connecticut will graduate at the head of his class next Tuesday. He is editor in chief of the Howitzer the class annual and lieutenant of Company B. He stood second in the class a year ago and will be listed among the top five in the army register.
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West Point
N. Y
Harold S. Hetrick
Connecticut
United States Military Academy
Hetrick
The
Howitzer
Leutenant
Army Register
Women Declare boycott of hotels for late lone women
The National Women's Business League in Chicago on June 11 declares a boycott against hotels that refuse to receive lone women after six each evening. The resolution cites a delegate who faced an affront and calls for prosecuting ungallant landlords. It will be circulated to women's clubs for adoption.
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Chicago
National Women's Business League
Nellie Mundell Lewis Freed in Contempt Case
A writ of habeas corpus released Nellie Mundell Lewis from jail and juvenile court contempt, ending her confinement for breaking a promise to marry Bud Lewis. Judge Wheaton A. Gray of the district court of appeals ordered release on $100 bail posted by her husband.
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Los Angeles
Nellie Mundell Lewis
Wilbur
Bud Lewis
Wheaton A. Gray
District Court of Appeals
Pessimistic Note From Count Witte on Russian Parliament
A private letter received in St. Petersburg on June 11 quotes Count Witte as saying Russia risks a conflict by pushing parliament issues aside. He notes the government’s aim to appease parliament is failing. Witte departed Russia May 29 for Brussels and planned to proceed to Germany.
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St. Petersburg
Count Witte
Russia
Brussels
Germany
Dying Man Admits Murder In Enid Shooting
Enid Oklahoma June 11 Cole Ward a well known young man was shot and killed by members of a sheriff's posse after being fatally wounded Ward confessed to having killed a man near the scene.
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Enid
Okla
Cole Ward
Ward
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Groton Independent
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Ada Barr Spawn
Lewis Spawn
Belle Appelman
Norvegs Appelman
Archie Appelman
State of
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D. R. Spadt
Tee
Huron Huron
Asugi
Bovey
Jane
General Pope
Minnesota
Ohio Coal Company
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M. A. Hanna Coal Company
Eberle
Ambassador Reid
Ohio
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Tsaritsin
Missouri
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Military Academy
Witte
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