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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1910
Page
3
Government troops in Philadelphia have kept order around the United States mint for over two weeks. They have fired on rare occasions to push back curious crowds, while workers inside count Uncle Sam’s coin. Strikes show no intent to attack the mint and disperse when soldiers advance.
Austrian economist Dr. Racowski reports 6,000,000 Roumanians in severe physical and moral misery. Millions live in dug-out pits, one-room dwellings, and rely on maize with pellagra rising. infant mortality is high, literacy is low, and revolts are met with harsh force. Wealth concentrates among a tiny elite, widening class division.
In Ferris MacWilliams village a collie named Santa earned thanks by recovering two heifers and eleven sheep lost in a blinding snowstorm. The dog guided MacWilliams and his sons to the scattered animals, leading to a cold, arduous search and eventual shelter for the livestock in a field near the home.
At the annual X Banquet of the National Deaf club about 100 members and guests attended. The event featured silent toasts and lively talk through fingers and sign language while A J Wilson, deaf since age 12, gave a spoken after-dinner speech with interpreters and oral-system lip reading accompanying the remarks.
In Traverse City Michigan Miss Bertha Stewart and Miss Cornelia Morrison drew for honors in the class of 1910 at the high school. After four years of tied standings both maintained a 97 percent average. Stewart won the valedictory Morrison the salutatory.
Boonville Oregon opens the world’s largest salmon hatchery on the Columbia River as the central state facility. The 55 by 230 foot building houses 248 sixteen foot troughs with a capacity of 60 million eggs and 20 million eggs on hand. Water is supplied by a 12 inch pipe from a nearby creek at 3000 gallons a minute. Nursery and feeding ponds support 3 million young fish.
A western piano house agent tours New York churches seeking old cabinet organs used in chapels and missions. He notes country churches will pay nearly new organ prices if the instrument is proven used in a New York church. The phrase New York church organ has strong appeal.
Dr Benjamin Ide Wheeler returning from six months at the University of Berlin notes the German socialist movement toward practical reforms and its strength after the Von Buelow era. He rejects talk of war, praising the army as a training school and recounts meetings with Emperor William. He also urges farmers to eat more oatmeal and praises Quaker Oats for boosting work output.
Theodore M Lilleberg of Woodstock proposes a movable theater that can roll the foyer and auditorium onto the street in case of fire. The design uses heavy motor driven trucks and an electric system to relocate the entire auditorium within 20 seconds, allowing the audience to remain seated during the move.
A quotation asks how gamblers who prey on the unwary resemble stars and ponders when they sin, provoking discussion about vice in a great city. The exchange contrasts celestial imagery with urban vice and questions the timing of wrongdoing.
A railroad official recalls calming an infant in a Pullman car by gently rocking the baby on his knees after claiming to have helped raise five children. Drummers in the car opposed the act, and at 2 a.m. the infant woke again, prompting a gruff question about who had put it to sleep earlier.
An advertisement states deafness cannot be cured by local applications and argues the only cure is constitutional. It claims nine of ten cases stem from catarrh and offers a $100 reward for a catarrh deafness cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Includes Toledo firm contact and seeds catalog humor about life size illustrations.
Knoxville Iowa resident Mrs Crana A Frawss reports years of pain and weakness relieved after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Liver Pills. The ad claims the product treats displacements inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities and other feminine complaints with free advice from Mrs Pinkham of Lynn Massachusetts.
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