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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1905
Page
5
A New Zealand tree yields a sticky seed fluid that traps flies and small birds. Birds attracted to the ripe fruit become coated and unable to escape, eventually falling prey to other animals.
The text notes Count von Moltke’s varying toast forms for the Emperor William I. At private occasions he proclaimed “Long live the emperor.” At mid events he prayed “Long life to his majesty the emperor.” In public banquets the toast culminated with “Long life to his majesty the emperor, our most gracious king and master.”
The Thousand Mat Hall, a sixteenth century Miyajima structure, rests on many piles and fifty pillars, with 18000 cedar floor feet. Hideyoshi used it as a Korea invasion council chamber, now a show place where visitors pin rice ladles with names and dates and shout Dai Nippon Banzai.
A woman in a stylish Paris shop buys a costly silver set while a well dressed man lingers at the door. After paying, she is robbed by the man who claims to be her husband, but the woman insists he is a thief and she has never seen him before. The shop staff mistake it for a quarrel and offer regret.
In a French theatre tale, Alexandre Dumas handles a sleeping spectator with sharp wit. Soumet points out similar slumber in Dumas own play, Dumas replies that the man is the same audience member from the previous night who has not woken.
The Tondon Athenaeum printed Gray’s 1761 letter about shipping goods to Cambridge. It notes two Americanisms like “I guess” and “I reckon” that now sound American to modern readers. Gray, famed for learning and taste, uses them as plain English forms once common in Britain.
A San Francisco Bulletin snippet questions a reader’s mastery of English literature. It lists Milton Dryden Spenser Browne Donne Swift Johnson Burke Berkeley Defoe Richardson Fielding Smollett Sterne Hume Robertson Gibbon Coleridge Wordsworth Austen Edgeworth Disraeli and more. The piece argues a true gentleman should be familiar with these works and estimates many are not.
A sailor after payed off saved 700 dollars at the Brooklyn Navy Home. He returned drunk asking for 50 more and received two one dollar bills. The next morning he claimed 48 as overpayment, joking that he had as much fun with 2 dollars as with 700.
A Saturday Evening Toast laments the decline of “great men” and the old monopolies of brains. It argues that today’s age offers opportunity and that many past achievements relied on the ignorance or incapacity of earlier generations.
Elephants in Burma employed in India as versatile laborers carrying timbers across distances. A single elephant can replace a score of men in work. In rest hours they bathe, with keepers riding on their backs as the animal swims a lake or river, carrying beans held aloft.
A witty exchange between Mr Winkle and Mrs Winkle about absentmindedness and memory lasting years, highlighting domestic humor. The banter centers on the idea of a forgotten letter and long absence of mind.
The Telegraph Directory lists national body members and political districts with names such as Burkett Lincoln Jods Millard Omaha and J. McIntosh Jr for congressional sixth district. It includes noth senatorial and representative district entries with various officials like W D Ghin and G C McAllister.
H M Grimes records in the 13th Judicial District as E A Gary serves as official stenographer in North Platte with the stenographic duties acknowledged.
Commissioners Robt Emanuelson Frank X Riha W C Dugger and others named for the 1st and 3rd districts. The school board includes Jas L McIntosh moderator Joseph Oberfelder treasurer Leroy Martin director C C Burton member M J Sanders John Daugherty. Teachers include C C Danforth principal Minnie Chase assistant GP Chimbers grammar Miss Alice Jolson second intermediate Miss Myrtle Hiett first intermediate Miss Anns McFadden and Miss Valeska Newbeuer 2nd 1st Primary.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church announces Sunday worship at 10:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday school starts at 10:00 a.m. Prayer meeting is Wednesday evening at 7:90 p.m. Pastor J.S. Deamen.
Methodist church lists Sunday morning and evening services Sunday school at 9 45 led by C J Osburn junior league Epworth League at 6 90 pm preaching at 7 30 prayer meeting Thursdays pastor J T Magee man Catholic church offers Masses at 8 and 10 am with Ogallala trip every third Sunday Sullivan Pathen priest Dunkard mission holds Sunday service and Sunday School at 2 pm with preaching at 3 pm Elder J U Slinauury describes church activities.
The page catalogs monthly meeting schedules for numerous fraternal orders and auxiliaries including Royal Neighbors Camp No. 12, Frank Welch Lodge No. 75 AF&AM, Sidney Lodge 911 OOF, Rebecca Degree, IOOF, Masons, AO U W, KOTM, Providence Chapter OES, Degree of Honor, Loyal Mystic Legion, Lady Kittenhouse Hive, Woodmen of the World, and Knights of Pythias. Details include meeting days, times, and hall locations, with officers named where legible.
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