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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1923
Page
10
The Selznick comedy Love Is An Awful Thing opens at the U S A Theatre on April 15. A spring rush of romance drives the plot as a sequence of different girls captures the young man's heart.
A transformed crook Bud Doyle received a call for help from a girl who once aided him. The old gang had bound her hand and foot after a coup. The narrative unfolds through thrilling moments in Skin Deep, showing evolution beyond Once a Crook Always a Crook. The show runs Monday and Tuesday, April 16 and 17.
Bruce Guerin, two years old, plays Nan Brent's child in RA Walshs Kindred of the Dust. Born in Old Massilon Ohio, he moved to Los Angeles at three months and this is his first film. He is the youngest child to direct on a set and has a gift for music and dancing. Show dates are Wednesday and Thursday April 18 and 19.
A nostalgic notice recounts Pop Grant's life as he battled bills while his wife and children enjoyed society. The piece promotes a film titled Remembrance at the U. S. A. Theatre on Friday April 29 with four vaudeville acts on the same date.
The U A Theatre offers every child under 12 a bag of candy with each paid admission on Saturday April 21. This special day invites all Sidney kids to attend. manager Mrs Zollars requests a headcount of attending children.
The Illinois Central Railroad Purebred Sire Special toured Mississippi and Louisiana but left no purebred dairy bulls in Louisiana. Officials cited cattle fever ticks as too great a risk, delaying dairy improvements until ticks are eradicated.
Sunday callers visited S N Southard and J C Syreader while families such as the Eckerts and Wilsons shared meals. Friends and neighbors dropped by to see Emma Morrow Helen Mor row and the Chas Luteavish home hosted Broadwater visitors. A Friendship Quilt project was unveiled by Mrs C Guill as club ladies gathered. George's birthday celebration drew S W Eckert Frank White E L Weed W F Osborn Clyde Click and families.
Auriol Barron of the London Daily Telegraph laments travel in Europe noting border indignities. Officials ransack trunks confiscate books forbid chocolate and even tax fur coats unless provenance and stamping are proven.
The article surveys disputed etymologies for Mephistopheles from antiquity to Goethe. It notes theories mixing Graeco Hebrew roots and Greek forms, cites Goethe noting Mephisto as meter convenience, and mentions Schopenhauer criticizing abbreviated usage in German.
Popular Mechanics Magazine describes a new safety signal system for coal mines and other underground work, usable above ground too. It combines bell and light signals in one electric circuit, mounted for the hoisting engineer to see, with a colored lamp lighting when the bell rings on a mine signal. A second lamp shows the system is operating, and a circuit closer lets the engineer repeat or send a signal.
Popular Mechanics Magazine reports a new German process that combines distillation and burning to extract tar and other by products from coal. Coal is fed to a retort above a boiler furnace, gases pass to an extractor, and tar ammonia liquors and other by products are recovered, claimed more efficient than separate gas and coking plants.
A bricklayer, successful and saving, sought two or three piano lessons weekly for his daughter. Eminent pianist Professor Blunk offered one hour weekly for payment equal to the bricklayer’s hourly wage. The bricklayer called it extortion and left in indignation.
Two Tacoma inventors are perfecting a wood coal briquet made from lumber mill waste bark sawdust and mill refuse. Tests show 97 percent carbon 2 percent volatiles and 1 percent ash and smokeless operation. Briquets rank with the best anthracite coal by British thermal unit tests. Plans call for production plants in districts and cost reductions through larger machinery and faster processing.
Maj. Jack Allen recounts methods in Wide World Magazine story titled Trapping Wild Animals Alive. He claims to never use a gun except in self defense and describes capturing Jaguars Leopards and Tigers with Inssoes chains and bare hands. He notes tiger strength rivals lion and his reputation for courage, yet reports no mishaps despite many near escapes.
A car stops and three passengers flee into traffic to a safer platform. One young man, pink rose in hand, drops the flower and rushes back after paying fare. He retrieves the token, brushes mud from the petals, and proves romance alive in a common day moment.
A Paris police instrument enlarges fingerprint marks tenfold. A box device on a short column pushes the specimen to a window lit by a 1000 watt bulb, with a lens and movable mirror projecting the magnified image onto paper for rapid side by side comparisons of the suspect’s print and the object touched.
A Pyrenees peasant family near Pau traces nine hundred years of farm ownership from father to son. The current head, Poublan, receives the French Cross of Agricultural Merit and is urged to add the farm name Lucgarrier to his surname, becoming Poublan de Lucgarrier and a pioneer of peasant nobility.
In a dialogue the characters discuss Phyllis wearing a fine engagement ring. Regrie notes the ring has been worn by five girls and that each wearer has paid six duilars so far, underscoring the ring’s popularity and financial details.
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