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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1900
Page
2
In a tense chase through a moonlit jungle Major Rayburn guides Cleland to a desert trap. Rayburn vanishes after drugging Cleland, who awakens alone, struggles through a sandstorm, and determines to find the marching brigade or perish in the vast unknown.
A prisoner of war tale follows Cleland captured by dervish fighters after mistaking a Khalifa camp. He is led through a zareba to the ruler, who eyes him with cold, merciless judgment as soldiers murmur about a spy. The cliffhanger hints at a perilous trial ahead.
Cleland waits long under a humid canopy then succumbs to overpowering drowsiness after smoking Rayburn’s cigar. He drifts into unconsciousness as dawn breaks and the jungle glistens under pale sunlight and hot spray. He awakens to a jungle scene of towering palms and heat.
A celebrated astronomer suffered twelve years from an unknown leg trouble. Surgeons at Johns Hopkins identified a diseased nerve. He refused anesthesia and witnessed the operation as an experiment. The nerve was removed, the wound closed, and he recovered to walk and climb stairs within ten days.
The New York Chronicle reports visitors at the Paris exposition questioning an inscription claiming universal language abilities. A manager replies no interpreters exist, saying customers themselves speak all languages.
Readable bits mention Trath Lamdorf linked to Conte Mouravio’s successors and social entry in London society. Also references to a Russian topic and a clock striking hours, but most phrases are garbled and do not form a clear event or person.
Beatrice Beatrice Neb Oct 6 1899 details reveal misused state funds at the State Institution for Feeble Minded Youth. Claims include fraudulent vouchers, improper pay for idle staff, and manipulation by Superintendent Lang Judge Sullivan and Governor Poynter amid broader critique of fusion governance.
A Pennsylvania canvass explains the election law under which votes are counted for tickets rather than individual candidates. In Chester County, Joseph Hemphill was listed with 8,192 Republican votes, 4,371 Democrat votes, 643 fusion votes, and 374 scattering votes with no other candidates in the field.
Fragmented notice reports several elderly deaths in San Diego County California with ages cited as very high including a person aged 133 and another 106. The text is garbled but indicates obituary items and possibly tribal or local references.
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