Crop Bulletin No. 5 May 11 1903 regional conditions
The May 11 1903 crop bulletin notes better weather with beneficial rains improving vegetation after late April frosts. Wheat oats barley and other grains show healthy root growth with minimal permanent damage to wheat. Fruit trees are blooming. some oats reseeding in Day County. corn flax millet sowing underway with rain delays. Livestock ranges report improved condition and potato planting progress appears favorable.
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Black Hills
Missouri River
Clark
Codington
Edmunds
Grant
Marshall
McPherson
Roberts
Bon Homme
Charles Mix
Davison
Douglas
Hanson
Lincoln
McCook
Turner
Yankton
Potter
Stanley
Sully
Walworth
Custer
Lawrence
Meade
Pennington
S. W. Glenn
Huron
S. D
Regional crop report summaries from South Dakota counties
The northeastern and middle eastern districts report frost damage limited to some fruit and early grains while wheat oats barley rye and spelt generally recover. Seeding is near completion in many counties with corn planting underway and grass lagging but improving amid recent rains and milder temperatures.
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Speltz
Deafness Cure Claim Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure
An old advertisement states deafness is incurable by local applications and can only be cured by constitutional remedies. It asserts deafness comes from inflammation of the Eustachian tube caused by catarrh, offering a $100 reward for any case of deafness due to catarrh that Hall's Catarrh Cure cannot cure, with pills sold for 75 cents.
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Hall
F.h.chenevix& Co
Toledo
Ohio
Homeseekers Excursion to the Northwest and West
Excursion tickets at greatly reduced rates are on sale to the north western territory. Standard and tourist sleeping cars and free reclining chair cars are available aboard the North-Western line. For full particulars apply to agents of the Chicago and North-Western railway.
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North-Western
Chicago and North-Western Railway
Russians Retire From Newchwang Occupation Report Questioned
The United States confirms AP dispatch that Russians entered Newchwang and withdrew. Peking reports the occupation of the Liao river forts was temporary and that Russians have withdrawn. Officials in Peking express mystification and doubt the Friday report.
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Peking
Newchwang
Russia
Manchuria
Liao River
China
Russian Ambassador Defends Manchuria Move As Self Defense
Count Cassini met with Secretary Hay to discuss Manchuria amid conflicting reports of Russian and Japanese actions. Washington pressed for facts as discrepancies and motives cloud the situation, and officials indicated that any decision would be deferred until the truth is established.
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Washington
Count Cassini
Manchuria
Russia
Department of State
Hay
State Department
Alarming massacre reports in Beijing false says AP
San Francisco May 11 The Peking correspondent of the Associated Press reports under April 6 date that fears of a massacre of foreigners by Chinese are untrue. He says foreigners move about Beijing freely with no molestation seen.
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San Francisco
Peking
Associated Press
Transvaal loan draws unprecedented subscriptions
London May 11 reports the Transvaal loan attracting record subscriptions both in total and in number of applications. Individual subscriptions under 500 dollars alone could cover the loan, with estimates of 6 to 7.5 billion. Major banks like Rothschilds Panmure Gordon Credit Lyonnais Dresdner Bank and Deutsche Bank seek large sums. No large American applications are noted. The heavy funding ties up liquidity, though early allotments and check returns are hoped to ease the market.
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London
Transvaal
Rothschilds
Panmure & Gordon
Credit Lyonnaise
Dresdener Bank
Deutsche Bank
Rail road strike tampering causes engine derailments
Melbourne reports indicate railroad lines were tampered with resulting in engine derailments. Police stand ready for possible events as street car service increases. Premier Irvine received at the mayor’s luncheon and defended government actions to avert calamity while vowing not to yield control of property to a faction.
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Melbourne
Victoria
Irvine
Interstate Oratorical Contest Won by Culver of Cornell College
The interstate oratorical contest held in Sioux City Iowa on May 11 was won by Harry C Culver of Cornell college Mount Vernon Iowa with the speech A Political Problem. Florence Hope Grand Island college Nebraska was second Irvin B Wood Hamline university St Paul third. Six finalists represented six states among forty four colleges taking part.
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Sioux City
Harry C. Culver
Cornell College
Mount Vernon
Florence Hope
Grand Island College
Nebraska
Irvin B. Wood
Hamline University
St. Paul
Garland C. Greeve
Central College
Fragmentary Times A.M. P.M. Marks
A sequence of unreadable numeric timestamps appears as 9 50 a m 10 23 a m 3 50 p m 7 3 p m and 9 55 p m with no accompanying context or events to identify the precise meaning or event associated.
Railroad Schedule For Huron Dakota Minnesota Lines
Rail timetable lists departures and arrivals for the Minnesota Dakota routes and connections at Huron. It shows trains such as No 502 Chicago Express No 504 Mail and Passenger No 14 Freight and Accommodation and No 31 for midweek service, with outbound and return times and cross connections at Sioux Valley Junction and Redfield.
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Minnesota and
Dakota
Chicago Express
Mail
Neominnesota
Dakota Passnee
Sioux Valley Junction
Watertown
Redfield
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U. 8
Department of Agriculture Climate and Crop Bulletin of the Weather Bureau
Kingsbury
Moody
Missouri Valley Section
Campbell
Hughes
Hyde
Meyer
Black Hills Section
Homeseekers
Tion
Czar
Conger
Tooowa Man
Sapolio
Great Northern RR
Paton
Sma
Minneapolis
Tenson
Fargo
North Dakota
R. Kinner
G. N Ry
Ieee
Fqn, W
Chicago
Eapoene
Freday
Lund
Ny Ae
Mail and Express
Resiere
Esdaimodiation
L. H. Jones
Parker
Entleman
United States Medicine Company
West 14Th Street
New York
Masury
Sporting Goods
C.h.longstaff
Morris Land Agency
Beadle County
South Dakota
Towit
Township
Richland
Banner Twp
Clyde
Wessington
L. C. Burney
Beadle
A. D
Enry C
Castorta
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