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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1909
Page
7
Poem reflects Mary at Jesus tomb and her awakening to the risen Christ. It frames grief turning to joy through Jesus word and presence, urging readers to trust divine comfort. The verse emphasizes faith, consolation, and the promise that morning brings joy after sorrow.
In a small town on Easter morning, Tom Brennan, once heartbroken over Maggie Harrigan, joins firefighters at a convent and orphanage fire. Amid flames, nuns and children are saved by brave crews, with Tom risking life to aid the rescue and confront his sorrow.
In a dramatic New York Herald account a fireman named Tom Brennan climbs to a convent window under a gilded cross. He places a crippled boy with Sister Mary Beatrice and saves him, then dies as the convent walls collapse. Maggie Darlin is invoked as the moment’s beloved.
Across Russia Easter observances unfold with midnight processions and triumphant chants. Priests depart to seek the risen Lord, returning to a dark church now filled with light as a chorus proclaims Christ is risen and worshipers pass glowing tapers, candles kindling incense and flame.
Evelyn asks Myrtle what she thinks of an Easter gown. Myrtle sarcastically comments that the dress looks like it was made by a man. Evelyn confirms the gown was indeed made by the highest-priced tailor in Paris.
Easter weddings introduce a novel feature a white prayer book used as a bouquet substitute. Three ribbon markers extend from the leaves and fall to near the gown hem while six ribbon ends form a shower effect with double bowknots.
In Greater New York about 400 churches collected roughly 250000 on Easter. Twenty large churches averaged 2000 each, seventy five averaged 500, and the rest raised less than 500 per church.
A reader outlines a small Easter shopping list including a dress for 10 dollars and a hat for 12 shillings, plus shoes and gloves costing 30. He then pens a note about writing a check for the total and recalling Jenny’s expectation of him attending church next Sunday to sing with a thankful heart.
Willie plans to raise funds by selling Easter eggs for seven cents as he explains to Pa the need to collect money for Fourth of July fireworks.
The Wooster divorce case in Central City district court was dismissed with out prejudice. Multiple local notes cover notaries, accidents, crimes, and civic matters across Nebraska towns including Beatrice, Beatrice Evergreen Home road trees, Kearney, Wymore, Lincoln, and Ewings.
Willie Whitla is reunited with his mother in Sharon Pennsylvania after five tense days with kidnappers. In Cleveland two men and a woman are jailed as police report a satchel holding nine million eight hundred forty five thousand six hundred fifty dollars. Crowds fill the streets as public schools dismiss and Sharon celebrations erupt with cheers, songs, and tears of joy.
Miss Charlotte Clang of Town travels with the Roosevelt group toward Africa on the same steamer. In Alexandria she will wed Dr. Thomas Lambie. The couple plans to travel up the Nile to their destination after marriage. Clang is a Monmouth College graduate.
J R McCormick eighty five, Mexican and Civil War veteran, died at the Confederate Home in Higginsville, after a fist blow by Jim Cummings. Cummings, follower of the James and Younger gang, struck the fatal blow. A jury ruled McCormick died from the punch, but Cummings was held blameless since McCormick was the aggressor.
Bank of Hemple in Hemple Missouri twenty miles east of St. Joseph was wrecked by safeblowers using dynamite. Vault uninjured but fixtures ruined. Explosion alarmed nearby villages as thieves fled toward St. Joseph.
Captain A E Mueller and five Pasadena companions landed near Mount Wilson after a perilous journey through the Sierra Madre. The group endured a blizzard and cold, reached Colby’s ranch, then reunited with rescuers and proceeded to Switzer’s camp.
In Simsbury Connecticut the bodies of Mrs. Amos Miller and her two children were found in the Farmington River. A note by Mrs Miller suggests she killed herself and the children after taking their lives. Mr Miller discovered the note and notified neighbors. three bodies recovered at Weatogue. Mrs Miller, thirty, was a France native. the children were three and five.
Doon post office is robbed by blast from nitro glycerine. Cash taken from the safe. stamps spared. Bandits escape on a Great Northern handcar later found abandoned at Perkins six miles south near Sioux City.
The piece lists varied topics from moon mountains at 36 000 feet to world trade and health. It notes Turkey exports about 100 million dollars annually, a tuberculosis sanatorium in Naperville, and Mrs. Keith Spalding’s donation of land. It covers crime in Savannah whisky stores and Japan’s document rules. It mentions women graduates, taxes on New York women, and Tokyo policy changes.
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