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Newspaper
The Dakota Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1903
Page
4
The article itemizes special appropriations totaling 637 749 18 and notes the house general appropriation bill, adopted with amendments, totals about 1 200 000 for the next biennium. It states the capital question resubmission failed for the word Haron and the county delegation supported Huron.
The piece argues insurance profits in South Dakota over ten years total about 750000 and says premiums should reflect state risk rather than cross state subsidies. It advocates state-based pricing like life insurance and endorses South Dakota’s anti-combine law as a path to lower charges.
The Press and Dakotan says Huron will host the state fair permanently despite no appropriation for fair buildings. Yankton lost the fair due to centrality concerns, and Huron's intents remain strong with Yankton noted as a fine city and home to the state asylum.
Des Moines Iowa speaker Father Nugent addresses a large crowd at Daums opera house on Monday evening. The talk captivates listeners but is marred by boorish disruptions from some men in the gymnasium beneath the lecture room. The disturbances deserve censure.
The governor will sign the bill creating the Ninth judicial circuit. C S Whiting of De Smet is likely to be appointed judge despite a failed attempt to push a Huron candidate. Kingsbury county reps had agreed not to back a local bar candidate to gain the circuit, a move criticised as reprehensible by the Huron bar.
In Saginaw a girls game featured rough play with a player kicked in the stomach sidelining her. Several others lost their bloomers or suffered leg injuries, a warning that similar matches may push basketball into the public eye.
The Watertown Public Opinion aims to show the writer favors all special appropriations passed. The record will barely support that claim, and the paper stands by the record good or bad while asserting it is not guilty of raiding the treasury.
The passage argues that lasting achievement cannot come from dishonorable methods. Temporary gains may appear, but eventual failure and disgrace follow, like fruit after the blossom. It emphasizes integrity as essential to enduring results.
The death of Hon John Colvin of Mitchell comes as a painful surprise to Beadle county friends. Colvin was a loyal friend and devoted to populist party principles.
In Beadle County South Dakota the guardian Daniel Healy petitions to sell real estate belonging to James Healey an insane ward. The court orders next of kin and interested parties to show cause why the sale should not be approved. A notice will be published three weeks in the Dakota Huronite before the March hearing set for 1903 in Huron.
Notice to stockholders announces a special meeting of Carter Bros Company in St Louis Missouri on March list day 1903 at 10:00 am to amend the articles and move the business office from St Louis Missouri to Bartlesville Indian Territory The notice is dated February 28 1903 and signed by KK Carter president and W N Carter secretary
A London Answers summary explains that volcanic action shapes crust while most tortuous valleys form from streams. The Cheddar gorge valley reportedly follows zigzag paths due to two nearly vertical joint systems in limestone. Water along these joints widens fissures, producing a serpentine channel.
A Times-Democrat account recalls railroad workers near New Orleans recounting a rapid crossing of the Rigolets marshes. A vacuum-like surge sucked water and fish into the rear coach as the train crossed, leaving one passenger with a bizarre tale of a platformful of fish.
The first accurate description of smallpox is by Rhases in the tenth century. Chinese and Indian texts also describe the disease. in China it was called the bean disease and linked to Emperor Kuang Wu’s era. Inoculation appears in Chinese records dating to 1323, with practice in the Sung dynasty from 960 to 1127. Chinese experts claim the poison is hereditary, present in all offspring, and activated by certain conditions.
The revenue marine service flag authorized by Congress in 1799 carried sixteen red and white stripes representing the states then in the Union. It originally featured the United States arms in blue in the white canton, replaced by thirteen blue stars in a white field in 1871, with the eagle design retained in the banner.
The text explains river gradients toward the Mississippi. Eastward rivers descend about three inches per mile on average, westward about six inches. The Missouri from the mountains drops about a foot per mile, Des Moines from source to confluence 7.38 inches, Ohio about five inches total, and the Mississippi from Ohio’s mouth to the Gulf falls 2.5 inches.
A humorous exchange portrays Mooney and Hogan in a lively Brooklyn Life blurb about friendship and money. Mooney insists he has no friends in the world, while Hogan retorts with blunt banter about loans and loyalty.
A man grouses at breakfast muttering about tough steak and cold coffee. His wife tells him to stop growling, noting no one will take it away. The exchange paints a sharp domestic moment with a grumpy mood.
A Newark News cartoon quotes Madge claiming she is twenty odd years old and a playful reply that she is more than forty. The exchange humorously hints at counting even years to reach the total.
A brisk quote from the Atchison Globe remarks that nothing annoys a busy man more than an idler book stirring curiosity. The line captures a sharp newsroom voice about distraction and diligence in daily life.
The article recalls George Eliot as kindly and witty, deeply attached to her manuscripts, fearing loss. Blackwood proposed sending Daniel Deronda by a sober footman, but she doubted him. He finally arranged for a family member to deliver the manuscript next day.
The article argues lightning kills by ground current when a highly charged thundercloud sits over land. It states the earth becomes negatively charged and a discharge from the cloud upward causes a sudden, violent current through any person or object beneath, producing instant death.
The German philosopher Kant kept a strict daily stroll along the Pregel and observed nature closely. He noted swifts throwing young from nests during a scarce insect season and reflected that only worship could respond to such a sight.
A fragmentary note recalls Edward III and Philippa of Hainault at Felixstowe Palace. It records repairing the queen's crown with a line about king throwing it into the fire and the cost, noted as 3s. 6d, highlighting the king's temper and the cheap repair.
The gardener bird the amblyornis shows the peak decorative instinct in animals. This plain native of New Guinea builds ground nests spreads moss and decorates with bright berries flowers and insects. As flowers wither they are replaced keeping the nest as a perpetual pleasure resort.
A Washington Star quote features Mr. Cromox debating the value of helping others. He questions whether beneficiaries mock or exploit helpers, highlighting the tension between offering aid and risk of being perceived as an easy target.
A lady asks a small guest at a fashionable children’s party if she’s enjoying herself. The girl replies with politeness and explains that her parents and she do not belong to the same social circle, illustrating class divisions in social events.
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