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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1911
Page
4
A reader urges premises sprucing with spring coats of paint to improve the town after cleanup shows more work to follow. The New York holocaust is blamed on state labor inspectors after a building was once approved, and now repairs start as a safety campaign aims to save lives.
The speaker argues that Americans have learned the need for extended vacations beyond two weeks. He cites a founder of the idea: long rests rejuvenate health, energy, and productivity. He recalls Justice Strong taking sixty days yearly to live in the woods and breathe fresh air, and notes women and children especially deserve a change of air for health.
China plans a modern fleet to be ready in 1915 featuring eight battleships ten protected cruisers twenty gun boats and flotillas of torpedo craft built to contemporary standards. The program signals a shift toward a capable national force with global implications.
An exchange notes fifty Sundays this year with three Sundays remaining, an event not seen for 110 years. The piece urges wholesome uses of the extra Sunday, from church to family and scripture reading, before predicting the cost of indulgence a century and a decade hence.
Nebraska notes report Alliance cooperative delivery success and severe storms in Omaha Lincoln and Wilcox. Scarlet fever quarantine at Union College Lincoln. Fires in Wilcox caused 65000 loss. Stanton native James McKensey dies at 99. Snow storms blow down 65 telephone poles Norfolk to Foater. Boswell-like fatal shotgun accident. teachers exam death Wilma Shaffer. Nebraska Press Association to meet in Omaha June 5-7.
Report notes Albany suffers an $8,000,000 fire loss while other items include a 600 foot wireless tower planned for Fort Myer Virginia and the death of Felix Alexandre Guilmant in Paris on March 30. Officials in North Platte see changes with E Davin as postmaster and Ira J Bare as land office receiver.
Fragmentary quip from a girl about the Virginian and a suitor as fears of cholera and pneumonia sweep infected regions surface. The exchange hints at social expectations and rumor while noting illness and mortality.
In McCook Nebraska on April 4 extraordinary interest grows over where the agricultural college will be located. Southwestern Nebraska communities including McCook and western district areas under the bill eagerly await the decision on the school’s site.
Hastings Nebraska April 5 Harry Palmer who shot and killed his wife and then attempted suicide is in stable condition with a small chance to recover He was held responsible for the murder by the coroner s jury.
Chicago and South Omaha report April 5 prices with wheat up modestly in May and July futures. Cattle receipts reach 14,000 in Chicago with beeves and western steers advancing. hogs rise slightly. sheep weaker with natives and westernsboth weaker market-wide. In South Omaha, cattle and hog receipts show small gains and price ranges for steers, cows, stockers, and calves.
A vintage ad extols Chamberlain's liniment as the best remedy for sprains bruises muscle soreness and rheumatic pains sold by all dealers.
A fragment notes a woman talking with neighbors at a back fence and using the Home Paper for news. Regular delivery would feed her hunger for information and keep dinner on time.
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