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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1897
Page
5
Directory listing national figures with Jno M Thurston and William V Allen for senate and WoL Greene for the sixth congressional district. Includes John M Adams and Griffith in the land office and receiver roles.
A partial OCR style list shows roles and names such as moderator Griffith, director Neubauer, member Ton Baker, teachers Chas Doran and Minnie Chase, Miss Whiteherd, Miss Pancha, Miss McKee, principal 7 assistant Minnie Chase, Mrs. L. F. Shelton and kindergarten notes. The fragment reads as a school staff roster with multiple departments.
Sunday services across Methodist Episcopal Catholic and Episcopal churches listed with times and officers. Numerous lodges and societies including A F & A M Sidney Lodge OOF Rebecca Degree K of P and U R I of B meet on various evenings with officers named. Also chapters and women's orders schedule meetings at Masonic hall and local halls with invited visitors.
The Culture Department aids mothers and teachers in studying each child’s tastes as a guide to proper development. They offer ten cents for a sample copy of the Phrenological Journal.
Arrangements completed for a through Pullman Tourist Sleeper from Minneapolis and St Paul to Los Angeles via Sioux City and Columbus without change. Depart Minneapolis Thursdays 7 40 p m St Paul 8 15 p m. return from Los Angeles Thursdays 2 00 p m. Sleeper praised for comfort and speed with strong demand for California travel. Contact a Union Pacific agent for space and through dining details.
Classified ad offering Rudy's Pile Suppository claiming guaranteed cure for piles and constipation with money back guarantee. Price 50 cents per box. Includes request for elfediar and free sample. Promoted by Martin Rudy, registered pharmacist, Lancaster, Pa, with distribution by West-class druggists and Deceanlan in Sidney, Neb.
A combined one year deal for the newspaper and THE TELEGRAPH priced at 82 dollars. Regular price for the pair would be 2 dollars 50 cents monthly.
Five Oregon Short Line through trains halted at Glenns Ferry Idaho after washouts near Pocatello and Indian Creek. A railroad dance for stranded passengers features a mysterious long haired fiddler who impresses with vibrant violin solos amid Union Pacific crowds, with M Ysaye and Berlioz referenced by Washington Star.
An English party in Paris on Christmas day cannot find a cook to make plum pudding. An English doctor uses a recipe turned into a prescription and an apothecary brings the dish with its flaming brandy halo. The joke ends with the apothecary joining the feast.
A New Orleans_Ficaynne letter describes how Black riders along Peters Avenue use a light waved across the track to signal motormen to stop cars at night. The practice helps both riders and operators when street lighting lacks along back town streets.
A Cornhill Magazine sketch depicts George III in Windsor rooms with Mrs Delaney and Miss Burney, noting his amiable manners and interests. It describes his literacy, taste for Voltaire and Rousseau, theater criticism, multilingual abilities, and a remark about Shakespeare as recorded for posterity.
A Chicago newspaper man recalls a Kentucky family supper with corn dodgers baked in ashes and bacon in grease. A butter piece bought months earlier provokes joked refusals as hosts urge diners to wallow dodgers in the dope. The anecdote contrasts regional diets and hospitality with humor.
A San Francisco Examiner correspondent recalls a Philadelphia dinner where Archbishop Ryan and Dr. Watson mingled warmly. The archbishop dismisses a belief that nine muses are unmarried, joking that suitors are too poor to propose to them.
Dean Farrar cites Tennyvon recounting a farmer who after a fiery sermon told his wife Never mind Sully that must be wrong No constitution could stand it. The anecdote underscores the preacher’s bold rhetoric and its impact on listeners.
A veterinary and an entomologist discuss umbrella failures with a wry exchange about action. The Chronicle-Telegraph notes bayonets are now machine made, stamping steel into shape, and mentions the long distance from Washington to Constantinople.
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