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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1895
Page
3
The lion’s roar travels farthest among beasts with other calls following in order. Hyena cry, owl hoot, panther, jackal. The donkey carries sound fifty times farther than the horse and the cat ten times farther than the dog. Surprisingly the hare’s cry outdistances the dog and cat.
A jumble of patent medicine notices and travel advertising. Warranted corn salve promises cure or money back, with teething remedies for babies and other elixirs. Includes shipping and travel notes from rail lines and agents in Chicago and Omaha.
States set November 5 for elections while twenty nine senators’ terms ending in 1897 hang on contests. The piece lists who must be chosen by legislatures or voters in Alabama Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Florida Georgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Massachusetts Mississippi Missouri Nevada New Hampshire New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota Washington Wisconsin and more, with dates and offices. It notes shifts in leadership as legislatures elect successors to current senators and governors, and highlights the broad national money question shaping races.
Listings of proposed offices and terms for Nebraska New Jersey New York Ohio Utah and Virginia on the November 5 1896 elections include governors lieutenant governors state officers and a full state legislature with terms from two to six years. The states also plan elections for United States senators and various judges and officials.
A French paper lampoons Rapineau the stingy father who underbuys meals by charging his children two pence for breakfast and dinner, saving a meal a day. The piece also recalls a barbed quip from a barbaric monarch and a naval officer’s son who learns a grim lesson about how skin protects the body.
The Western Packing company builds a large horse abattoir near Linnton Portland. Foundations for engines and boilers are in place the machinery rests on the ground and will be installed soon. The plant will end the 5000 roaming cayuses and may prompt Swatzler to quit horses for bicycles or a bicycle factory.
A Knights Templar prospectus advertises a low rate excursion to Boston via Nickel Plate with Aug 9 ticket sales. Includes through trains, palace Sleeping cars and dining cars with colored porters and day coaches. Address inquiries to J Y Calahan, General Agent, 211 Adams Street Chicago.
The piece links cleanliness to health and curb of plague with authorities cleaning foul neighborhoods. It argues neatness preserves life and prevents mortality rising from unsanitary conditions.
August M. Merrike of Laporte Indiana married a woman who was 20 when he first proposed. She refused then but, after years of courtship, she consented. She is now 50, he 91, and they wed yesterday.
Travel advertisement lists a circuit from Boston via Nickel Plate Railroad to Chautauqua Lake Niagara Falls Thousand Islands St. Lawrence Palisades of the Hudson Hoosac Tunnel and Berkshire Hills with daylight riding. Tickets on sale Aug 19–25 at low rates and with dining cars and rapid service offered by J Y Calahan, 111 Adams St Chicago.
The piece warns against tobacco use with No-To-Bake claims and cites Montana hunting lore from August St. Nicholas describing antelope behavior. It notes pronghorn caution, badlands terrain, and the need for skill and good judging distance to succeed in hunting.
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