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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1910
Page
6
A collection of witty vignettes on spring fashion millinery and cakes, social quirks, and international curiosities. Mentions rhubarb pies, strawberry shortcake, eggs aged in storage, and oddities from Paris fairs to New York society. Includes quips about base ball in Japan and a New Orleans baby gift tale.
A half hour delay in sailing Mauretania due to missing cream cans sparks irony about the ship lacking dairy facilities. Other items mock medical jargon with appendicular gastralgia and report New Jersey farmers embracing instructional trains. Plus notes on corporate tax compliance, regulation, and a San Francisco endurance dance halted by police amid public unrest.
Col John Jacob Astor, noted head of the Astor estate, hosts a $28000 dinner celebrating his wife’s divorce and pursues a varied career. He served as lieutenant colonel in Cuba, equipped a mountain battery for the Philippines, oversees vast New York real estate, sits on numerous boards, writes books, and patents inventions from road material removal to steam turbines and peat gas production.
Theodore Roosevelt angrily rejected a Vatican clash tied to Rev Bertrand Tipple of Rome who accused the Vatican of blunders after the Fairbanks incident. Tipple’s stance on tolerance sparked the admission that Roosevelt canceled a planned reception for the American colony in Rome. Tipple, educated in New York and New England, led multiple churches before 1909.
Rockefeller intends to donate his fortune through a plan led by his son Starr J Murphy and Frederick T Gates with John D Rockefeller at the helm. Murphy, 50, educated at Amherst and Columbia Law, has long advised Rockefeller and directed much of the philanthropy via the General Education Board.
The nation watches as Emil Seidel, a Socialist, becomes Milwaukee mayor. He signals gradual change, pledging city cleansing and reform, noting likely staff shakeups and new department heads as a “new broom sweeps clean” for the big city.
A New York-raised woman recounts transforming a small farm into a profitable poultry operation. She and family leased land, built brooder houses, installed incubators, and expanded to 1,200 Leghorn hens. The venture cut living costs, produced feed, milk, and eggs, and supports a city life with outdoor work and social life.
A leading Austrian theater reports a nightly haunting as a tall dark man in evening dress appears from the back of the dress circle. He stares with a fixed glare and twirls his mustache before vanishing after the first act. Actors, officials, and attendees search the auditorium with no result.
Mrs Myles notes that some German railroads issue platform tickets for non travelers to say goodbye to friends. Mrs Stylee considers paying to greet departing friends, reflecting social customs and railway practices.
Park Rapids Minnesota and Brookville Ohio women report long term suffering eased by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Testimonials claim weight gain improved health regularity and steadier nerves after six bottles and ongoing use. The ad notes the product is made from native roots and berries with no narcotics and invites free advice from Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
A candid friend tells an old fellow he overuses the phrase As a matter of fact. The response apologizes and vows to avoid the expression, noting it is not at all necessary.
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Remedy cures catarrh by acting on the blood and mucous surfaces. The ad claims $100 reward for any case that fails to respond and invites readers to send for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, Ohio, with bolded mention of the reward and testimonials.
In a Cleveland Leader snippet, a repairer accepts a car as part payment, denying embarrassment over charges. The ad-like text promotes Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as regulating stomach liver and bowels with tiny granules.
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