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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1901
Page
7
A wounded man in a mountain road hideout waits with a revolver as Cy Grandy nears. The killer misreads the approach and a shot mortally wounds both men, the horse bolting away as both combatants die beside the road.
A dying, scarred man with six gunshot wounds looms by a Kentucky roadside. He clutches whisky and vows to avenge a shooter named Cy Grandy, plotting to survive long enough to strike back with a pistol. The scene captures his grim resolve amid ravens and a buzzing fly.
A well known Omaha youth, famed for artistic swearing, swears through the afternoon round leaving pebbles and clods in the clubhouse. He dumps 100 pebbles symbolizing stronger words as friends attempt to halt him. The tale comes from the Omaha Bee.
Mrs Edwin Knowles, Brooklyn, new president of the Professional Woman's league, dismisses suffrage as ridiculous and warns enfranchising women would add voters and trouble. She instead champions club life as a means to broaden women. King Edward VII accepts American bronze turkeys from Scott Montagu to be housed at Sandringham.
In Cornhill Magazine, a playful history traces money from barter with metal hatchets to tin hatchets and the first coins, noting how early Chinese commerce used improvised tin halved for trade before genuine coinage appeared, long before Lydian electrum staters.
In Cortlandt street fruit stands near the Pennsylvania railroad ferry a man tries to buy five cents worth of cherries but is refused at each stand. Vendors insist on at least a dime, while another seller jokes about spending a nickel. The seeker then buys cigarettes with the five cent coin.
A Washington Star writer recalls a Whitechapel dining saloon in London where a hearty half penny pie with sheep liver onions and turnips plus gravy satisfies the poor. For a penny more, two slices of bread and tea are added between noon and two, drawing shoeblacks costermongers and young clerks with modest salaries.
A clergyman's wife mends clothes when a neighbor visits. She spots a large basket of buttons and recalls two exact matches from her husband’s last winter coat. The visitor abruptly excuses herself as the remark unsettles her.
Judge Rice of Novena, famed for punctuality, leads the Sun day school reforms on attendance. He announced to workers and children that only one person was absent, Maggie Wynn, and expressed hope she is sick.
Hawaii Delegate to Congress Hon Robert W Wilcox praises Peruna for dyspepsia and stomach catarrh in a Washington letter. He claims it benefits sufferers and urges proper use. Dr Hartman of The Hartman Sanitarium promises guidance and free advice if results are not prompt.
A collage of joviality quotes, patent medicine lines, temperance society mentions, laundry ads, and dubious product pitches. It notes Wizard Oil cures pain and Red Cross Ball Blue prompts, with statements on poverty and novelists’ earnings and a fictional DEPFTANCE SPARC claim.
Greatly reduced rail rates via Wabash include $13.00 Buffalo and return and $13.00 New York and return. The Wabash offers through trains from Kansas City St. Louis and Chicago with many summer special rates and stopovers at Niagara Falls and Buffalo. Contact Harry Moore General Agent Pass Dept Omaha or C Crane G PL U AL St. Louis for details.
An advertisement urges customers to ask for DERPIANGCH Starch the only 16 a4 package for 10 cents. It claims all other 1 cent starch cans cost 102 and guarantees satisfaction with money refunded.
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