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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1903
Page
2
Retired U S Army major W W McCammon died at his Vancouver Washington home aged 65. A Missouri native, his death follows a long career. The report adds brief notes on international and national events from the era.
The Nebraska House advanced and passed multiple measures including H. R. 374 salaries bill at 920,000, H. R. 446 current expenses at 180,000, and H. R. 15 for Hastings asylum land purchase 915,000. Other actions covered clerical, educational, boundary, and public works topics with debates on railway rate enforcement and state accounting.
S. F. 83 the pure food bill was passed in the senate after a committee of the whole fight over hardship to state manufacturers and benefit to foreign wholesalers. It requires labeling of ingredients, analysis samples for the food commission, and imposes a fine or jail for violations. Other measures advanced include S. F. 212, S. F. 41, and a revenue bill committee accord. appointments were made for a house-senate conference on amendments.
The appropriation bills were read in the senate on the Ist for the second time and referred to committee. Several measures passed third reading and final passage including bills for real estate mortgage assignments and pipeline construction. Debates included voting machine provisions and salary actions for state officials.
The legislature reviewed and recommended passage for multiple measures including penalties and school board hiring rules, appointing an officer to cooperate with the Bureau of Public Roads, and penitentiary salary rules. Senate and house actions covered drainage, library mailings, desertion crimes, and municipal finance, with third readings granted to several road, charter, and jail bills. The salary bill was amended with numerous reductions across state offices and departments to fit the budget.
SANTA FE New Mexico. Joseph Telles was hanged in the jail yard Friday near the spot of the Jailer Galle gro murder. As the hood went on he cried goodbye, and with the drop his neck broke. He confessed to killing a man near Bowie Station and another in Kennedy Arizona.
Quote asserts a person reveals less of self than when imitating others. attributed to Jean Paul F. Richter, highlighting irony of self and performance in portrait through mimicry.
Salaries for Fremont teachers rose and Beatrice library building cornerstone laid. M M Newbecker named pension examiner at Ord. Charles Sperry to serve 20 days in Gage county jail for hog stealing. Wm Gebersig sues Nebraska County for 500 dollars over a railingless bridge. Remains of Wm McClellan not yet recovered after drowning at Plattsmouth bridge. B M Conlee injured assembling cars at Tecumseh. left arm badly damaged. J J King reelected Albion schools superintendent at 1200 dollars yearly. B & M surveyors finish second route from Homer toward Great Northern. last survey west of Dakota City. Wahoo residents puzzled by hoboes and thieves in county jail. Hazel Hogrefe wins spelling prize at Stella grammar contest. Albert Keller killed by live wire accident in Albion. Lawrence man, 21, single. March mortgage records for Gage county show farm mortgages filed and released. city mortgages filed and released. Frank Hart of York scuffles with mother, injuring her. Team near Red Cloud bridge overturns, two mules killed, driver saved. Abram Sinclair dies at 60. pigs mutilate face. Hastings Woman’s Home Missionary Society officers elected. Unknown man killed on Omaha road near Emerson. deaf man struck by train. Richardson county athletic association organized. George E Martin elected president. Hastings art merchant Richardson fined for encouraging gambling.
Special round trip fares offered by the Wabash Railway for Omaha to destinations include New Orleans and back at 29.50 with selling dates April 11 to 13, St Louis round trip 13.60 with selling dates April 1 3, 27, 29, 30 and May 1, and New Orleans round trip again 29.50 with selling dates May 1 to 4. Leaves Omaha at 5:55 p m and arrives St Louis at 7:00 a m with the "Last to leave First to arrive" slogan. Tickets available at City Ticket office 1601 Farman or from Harry E Moores G A P D Omaha Neb.
A vintage ad urges asking dealers for Allen's Foot-Ease to rest feet and treat corns, bunions, swollen and aching feet, sweaty feet, and ingrown nails. It claims to ease new or tight shoes, is sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents, and warns to accept no substitute with a sample mail offer from Allen 8 Olmsted in Le Roy New York. Misfortunes usually come in pairs yet the first arrived with an apple.
An 1886 affidavit from Frank J. Cheney of Cheney & Co. of Toledo offers a hundred dollar reward for any catarrh cure not achieved by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The firm claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and promotes testimonials, with medicine sold by local druggists.
Grocers say Mt Some brands stock 12 oz packages while Defiance Starch offers 16 oz for the same money. The ad urges customers to choose Defiance for no cooking and a larger quantity, implying smarter buying. A maxim about intelligence and money closes the note.
The quotation argues that men desire purpose more than talent, emphasizing not the ability to achieve but the will to work. It frames labor as the decisive factor in success and fulfillment, reflecting a moral about perseverance and effort.
Mrs King of Corpus Christi Texas is described as owning more land than any other woman in the country, with holdings estimated at no less than 1,300,000 acres across Nueces Hidalgo Starr and Cameron counties. Her late husband Captain King was a cattle baron. She maintains about 65,000 cattle on the lands and under his will the estate cannot be divided until his oldest grandchild reaches age. Mrs King has one son and three married daughters.
Henry C. Moore of Sioux City argues that interbreeding the Arctic musk ox with temperate cattle could yield stock able to endure severe U S winters. He cites favorable views from Peary and notes the current western range losses as motivation for hardier bloodlines.
The Postum Cereal Co. invites household cooks to compete for 735 cash prizes totaling 7600 dollars by July 1st. Winners must show general cookery improvement per test rules. No purchase required. Send a postal card to the Cookery Dept No 349 at Battle Creek Michigan for rules.
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