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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1909
Page
3
A column of varied musings on language, travel, and global notes. It references summer, turf life, a princess of Orange, and jokes about motor cars and bicycles. Mentions cigars in the United States, China’s loan talks, English taxes on American tourists, and a Congo wild coffee plant thriving in Java.
The War Department calls for young men with engineering knowledge to assist surveying for intracoastal waterway improvements from Boston to Florida. The duties provide solid training for aspiring engineers and reflect steady progress in waterway work with benefits for future national transportation interests.
Reports from England say an air ship perfected in France by an English company could fly from Paris to London. The craft appears to answer the Zeppelin challenge, signaling improved air travel and potential new flight tests.
The weekly mortality list again shows tuberculosis as the leading fatal disease in Baltimore. Agencies are exerting effort but lack of funds limits progress. greater philanthropy could save many lives and intensify the fight against this devastating illness.
Uri Sorenson, Berwyn blacksmith and local aeronaut, tested a balloon assisted flying machine that rose 3500 feet before wrecking. He emerged from the crash with only a limp and plans to try again once funds allow for another craft.
Israel Swartz of Boston, lost on a desert trek 30 miles north of Searchlight, cut a vein and drank his blood after three days without water. Miner Victor Durand found him near Black Canyon dying. Swartz sought missing friend A O Ellis and headed toward Searchlight before collapse. Ellis later appeared in Nelson, Arizona.
San Bernardino utility Hugh Craney justice of the peace at Silver Lake owes his life to a can of peaches left in a miner's cabin by Tom Cunningham a negro prospector. Craney and Frank Trautman separated while prospecting for Mexican placer mines and lost water and bearings. Craney found Trautman later near a water hole after carrying his exhausted dog that died.
Miss Marie Best bailed water with her slipper from a small boat as she and Gale Whiting rode out a Lake Kampeska storm. A gasoline launch, Harriet, could not catch them. waves swamped the craft, yet they reached shallow water 60 yards from shore and walked to safety.
Herman Wilcox of Chicago was killed by alligators while bathing at Good Time lake near Pensacola. He was vacationing with his mother at Camp Walton, a Chicago resort. Four days after he disappeared during a swim, his clothing was found and his body recovered almost skeletonized.
Daniel K. Pearsons, known as Die-Poor Pearsons, says he will give away the rest of his fortune before turning ninety next April. He has donated over 4 million dollars to 43 small colleges, mostly in the west and south, to fund education and personal investment as his own executor. He notes he has been an administrator of estates and aims to die a poor man, seeking to focus resources on education for needy students and for the country’s benefit. He recently gave 25 thousand dollars to establish a women's department at the Chicago Theological Seminary and has contributed about 150 thousand dollars to needy students at various times.
Sir Henry W Lucy receives knighthood for a lifetime of journalism. Known as Toby M P for Punch since 1881 his humorous parliamentary sketches shaped public opinion in Britain. Born 1845 at Crossley he rose from Liverpool hides trade to Shrewsbury Chronicle and London press with work in The Strand and Punch abroad.
Henri Lemoine, the French inventor who claimed to create artificial diamonds, received six years in prison a 600 dollar fine and 2000 dollars in damages to Sir Julius Wehrner head of De Beers. The case raised debate among European scientists whether he proved a real discovery or was a trickster.
General Ignacio Andrade, ex president ousted by Cipriano Castro, is named minister to Cuba and travels from the United States toward that post. Once president for two years, Andrade led minor revolts that failed and may run again in Venezuela’s next administration shift. He has spent time in the United States in the past.
The article recalls General Jacob Sechler Coxey and his two Washington advances as a free trader and protectionist. It notes his 1894 Capitol protest with 100000 unemployed promised, the 1000-strong parade kept off the grass, and his arsenic mine profit angle. It also mentions his Missillon sand quarry ruin after the 1893 panic.
A Minneapolis reader shares a testimonial praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for female troubles. The letter claims severe prior illness, restoration to health, and calls for public sharing to encourage others to seek the remedy. It notes confidential advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
A witty dialogue where Mrs. Rant questions gender cleverness and Mr. Rant retorts that only single men fit the stereotype. The exchange highlights humor about romance and social roles in a light, period voice.
Under the Swedish National League Against Tuberculosis the International Tuberculosis conference met in Stockholm from July 8 to 10. American speakers included Dr. Hermann M. Biggs of New York and Dr. John C. Wise, medical director of the United States Navy. Key topics were Care of Tuberculous Families and Tuberculosis and the Schools.
An annual fire marshal report from Kentucky quotes an old reflection on attic odds and ends including vanished furniture grease rags paint oils and broken toys of former residents. The excerpt evokes neglected items prone to ignition as a cautionary image.
A Kansas doctor reports on his son recovering from pneumonia after starting Grape-Nuts. He notes the boy gained eight pounds in a month and grew strong. An elderly patient with stomach trouble also recovered after two to three weeks on the cereal, gaining 22 pounds in two months.
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