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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1907
Page
3
The article argues for fair profit division across producers, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers. It stresses that prices reflect costs of raw materials labor and distribution, and that middlemen add value. Consumers should understand value and avoid ill advised bargain methods.
The piece outlines common fraud schemes including seedless apple promises, premium canvasser arrangements, and so called cooperative mercantile stock schemes. It notes large losses, warnings from the agriculture secretary, and post office fraud orders, urging careful scrutiny of firms offering fruit trees, goods on consignment, and cooperative investments.
Citizens should keep shade trees along sidewalks properly trimmed to prevent rain evaporation and muddy streets. The article urges towns to maintain existing trees and plant new ones where needed.
A Western town tale warns that cheap advertising can mislead buyers. A resident sent money for a stove advertised as a bargain, faced repeated part replacements, delays, and a warped top before burning out. He then paid a local dealer more, and the stove lasted years, illustrating the cost of bargain hunting.
Silk stockings are costly and easily ruined by a small break. The common over and over stitch makes a fuzzy visible seam. A neater method is to pick up stitches and crochet the edges with fine silk to create an invisible join.
Discarded white shirtwaists can be repurposed into corset covers, chemisettes, or child guimpes. Cut a pretty front for a neck and sleeves, reuse turn over collars, and bind edges with narrow bias braid. A plain waist serves as a foundation for sheer chemisettes, with careful cutting and stitching to secure the fabric in place.
The passage explains methods to use plums for jelly by scalding and removing oily water, then cooking until juice is red for jelly with sugar. It notes remaining plums can be used for pies or sauce, and that skins’ bitter oil affects flavor, with stewed plums good over batter or pudding.
A historic recipe describes making a honey cake using two pounds of honey and flour plus one-half pound of butter, six ounces of almonds, and several ground spices. The mix bakes into a sheet cake half an inch thick, finished with white frosting after overnight rest.
Poach eggs in salted water until not firm. Arrange on a plate and cover with dressing made from sweet milk butter vinegar two eggs corn starch pepper celery salt and salt to taste. Boil until thick gravy forms and pour over. Eat cold or warm. Garnish with parsley.
A recipe fragment describes combining one gallon fresh corn one half gallon cabbage cut fine six green peppers six red peppers six yellow peppers cut fine with corn and cabbage. Add one tablespoon mustard two tablespoons mustard seed cover with white wine vinegar sugar and salt to taste simmer two hours. Serve hot.
A simple wire hair pin bent at tight angles holds a thread spool or ball. The pin hooks over the waist button to prevent soil or silk from dropping, reducing risk during crocheting.
A recipe to cook lettuce for 20 minutes in boiling water then drain. Dress lettuce with a vinegar based dressing boiled with water salt sugar and two finely chopped hard boiled eggs. Pour dressing over hot lettuce and garnish with another hard boiled egg.
Instructions describe washing and cooking rhubarb until tender with water to prevent burning. Strain through cheesecloth and to each cup of juice add one cup of sugar and the juice of one lemon per quart, then boil for twenty minutes.
Western auto agents report scarce production but strong demand from Nebraska and Kansas farmers. The runabout is preferred for its low cost and utility, allowing farmers to replace work horses for transport and speed up business, with wheat and corn crops on the rise this season.
A seven year old boy from Minsk is journeying alone to Omaha to join his parents. He traveled via multiple cities with tags on his coat and clothes to show railroad handlers where to ship him. An uncle placed the tags and a bath request to be performed at each stop, leaving him scrubbed in many places.
At a charity fete for the aged in Buckinghamshire prizes for flat races went to two men aged 83 and 86. A 92 year old woman sprinted well in one race but was defeated by a younger rival.
A Bowery motorman halted a Third Avenue car for about 15 minutes to retrieve a 25-cent coin wedged in the track groove. Crowds surged as police and bystanders searched under and around the wheels, finally yielding the coin after a scramble near Grand Street.
Dr. Charles J. Bushnell argues the nation spends six billion dollars annually on criminals and social vices, while wealth grows by five billion. He notes this sum rivals spending on churches libraries and benevolent institutions and claims average factory workers earn 440 dollars yearly versus criminals costing at least 1200.
Newport leads a national bridge whist craze spreading from Narragansett Pier and Bar Harbor to Newport. Prominent women gamble heavily at the tables with large sums won and lost daily, prompting talk of an anti gambling crusade while golf clubs shift to host bridge play and recreation alongside stakes and debts.
A Wheeling, West Virginia man named W H Hearne, a Pennsylvania railroad official, reportedly married a beautiful brunette from the summer season at the Waldorf Astoria. The bride’s identity was kept secret and Hearne claimed the public has no right to know. The couple reportedly met recently in Kansas while Hearne visited his sister. Hearne’s daughter learned of the match by telegram and hastened to Wheeling, but Hearne and his bride later arrived together at the Waldorf Astoria.
A Washington man attempting a dangerous handcuff escape at a Roscoe home died after becoming trapped and unable to free himself. The 22 year old, Thomas Garbert, reportedly practiced self restraint and released locks, but excessive strain led to fatal internal injuries.
A baby weighing 1544 pounds was born to Mrs Wa ger at the Cecil Van Berger farm near nee in Johnson County Kansas. The child is the sixth for Mrs Wa ger and is described as healthy and well. Doctor E P Chace calls it the largest Kansas birth he has seen. The baby’s Belgian origin is noted.
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