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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1901
Page
14
Courteuil council considers ordinance to ban stovepipe hats as ridiculous social badges. Advocates say the tall hat signals aristocratic privilege and humiliates those who cannot wear it, arguing it harms the poor.
A century ago a Thames experiment used a simple steam engine to drive a barge against the tide, achieving two and a half miles per hour. The tale highlights early feats of hydraulic power and human curiosity.
The Wabash announces greatly reduced rates for Buffalo and return at thirteen dollars and New York and return at thirty one dollars. Daily tickets are sold from Chicago with additional summer stopovers at Niagara Falls and Buffalo. Contact Harry S. Moores in Omaha or Crane in St Louis for details.
An OCR snippet promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Defiance starch with testimonial claims and sales appeals. It also mentions Hall's Family Pills, Red Cross Ball Blue, and a generic moral closing line about goodness and gold, all framed as home remedies and laundry products.
The Washington Evening Star describes fleas as fierce, ingenious tormentors with extraordinary leaping ability and surprising strength. It recounts fleas dragging gold collars and tiny equine figures, contrasts cat and dog fleas, notes their sharp beaks, and mentions rare cases of tubercular infection and plague spread.
The article outlines bridal cake traditions from box design and decoration to the bride cutting the cake in front of guests. It notes a change from ring superstitions to gifts within the cake, and cites a New York confectioner shipping a bride’s cake 6,000 miles to Libreville in West Africa.
The prosecuting attorney denounced the defendant with a long string of adjectives in alphabetical order from a dictionary. The defense mocked the method, noting the letters ran from a to p, and the jurors laughed, swinging the courtroom outcome.
Canada remains the sole nation offering free land to modest home seekers. Each year about fifty thousand immigrants reach Canadian ports and roughly 75 percent proceed immediately to the Northwest territory.
The latest fashion in corsets for swimming is a perforated rubber garment that is stiffened to resemble a traditional corset. It claims to meet all the support and shaping expectations while worn in water.
Mrs St Justin Beale plans a New York school teaching girls practical household skills. The program emphasizes cooking washing sweeping dusting and duties of the home plus tact politeness patience tidiness kindness and silence. Lunches fashionable dinners and ball suppers will be served on short notice with dressmaking millinery and related skills added.
Arthur Bird a wealthy Sidney New York resident has started a initiative among local school children to present a loving cup to Admiral Cervera the Spanish naval commander. Bird admires Admiral Schley but says the American sailor who sailed against Cervera should be seen as the counterpart in the Spanish service.
In Little Dunmow Essex a yearly bacon prize is given to married couples who swear on oath they have not quarreled and have not wished themselves unmarried for a year and a day. The custom began in 1444.
In Wabasha Minnesota on August 19 George Huber suffered kidney trouble and back ache. He recovered fully after using Dodd's Kidney Pills and now praises them as worth their weight in gold. The report touts daily cures for Bright's Disease Diabetes Dropsy Rheumatism and back ache, claiming many friends due to its splendid results since introduction.
A country curate was told to quit by his vicar who said the parish needs a good fast bowler with a break from the off. The London Telegraph notes the demand for athletic clergy rising even as the curate was otherwise exemplary.
Mrs E A Crozier of Minneapolis credits Peruna with lifting her from illness to strong health in two weeks and urges other women to try the medicine. Mrs William Henderson of Bordulac North Carolina reports relief from severe female weakness and nerve pain after Peruna, with no return of pain nearly two years. The ad promotes free winter treatment for women by Dr Hartman at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio with confidential handling and no charges.
A compact read of antique ad lines and social quips notes fashion tips with Ball Blue laundry use, census figures for Belgium, Montreal transit miles, claims about birth order, Mrs Winslow teething syrup, and a wry line on duty and love letters as court chronicles.
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