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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1911
Page
4
A candidate for re election as Sheriff of Cheyenne County announces he will appear on the Democratic ticket in November. J W McDaniel pledges to continue duties to the best of his ability if re elected. The page also carries odd asides on autos and social musings from a 19th century reader crowd.
A lighthouse keeper advertised for a wife and received many responses, suggesting booming interest in lighthouse keeping. A boarding-house keeper notes meat prices rise but no money in bash, while a rare item is found in hash remains.
Beattie described as an alleged wife murderer is noted as a heavy cigarette smoker. He reportedly smokes about sixty cigarettes daily and swallows the smoke. The court is not advised to worry. the trial may be before a higher tribunal soon.
A surgeon, while operating on a woman with many prior surgeries, discovers a pair of scissors kept as a memento from a previous procedure. The narrator muses on absent mindedness and notes the surgeon likely earned enough money to buy new scissors.
The piece notes men mock women’s clothing yet ask who remains unmoved by a well dressed woman. It contrasts women limited by money with those who deem dressing frivolous, sided with stylish sisters.
The groom's sister gifts a handwritten cookbook to the bride with family recipes and notes on the groom's preferences. The owner suggests such a guide may prevent culinary misunderstandings and free time for planning the family budget.
The public expresses mixed reactions to high society unions as foreign nobles wed wealthy Americans, underscoring enduring tensions in elite marriage patterns and national sentiment.
A narrator laments that birth and wealth dictate marriages, arguing that love should have free rein in the one minor matter of marriage. The piece contrasts a successful match with Colonel Astor marrying a comparatively poor girl, highlighting social constraints on union.
The Omaha Trade Exhibit promotes Nebraska as a model for prosperity and growth. Pieces note Norfolk County’s land as a rich, undeveloped area and urge citizens to improve their towns and stores. Ancillary items touch on industry, culture, and quirky anecdotes.
A Crawford Courier editorial warns that citizens who avoid public service pity the town’s fate. Indifference to civic work and refusal to promote local enterprise are equated with digging the coffin, while stinginess and avoidance of advertising are linked to burying the town in sorrow.
A humorous old panel shows Mosquito Buzzer slain as he was about to bite. The second mosquito laments the grim fate of hunger and death from lack of food.
A meditation on ordinary life and hidden meaning. The speaker contrasts a sunlit commonplace city with a world of sorrow where flowers fail and the sun hides. It concludes that God, who sees each individual soul, forms a beautiful whole from ordinary lives.
Spare Moments describes Chancellor D Aguesseau’s habit of awaiting his wife for dinner ten to twelve minutes daily. He used those moments to compose a substantial work, finishing it after fifteen years in three quarto volumes. The book saw three editions and gained high repute.
Catherine B Derickson, her husband, and William C Hickox executors of Irving B Hickox deceased against McNish Land Company petitioner sue to enforce a contract for purchase of the NW quarter of section 15 in township 1 north range 6 west of the 6th principal meridian in Kesenne County Nebraska and foreclose vendor's lien with specified purchase prices and interest and to require executors to retain funds to cover any deficiency. answer by September 4, 1911.
A viewpoint by John C. Winston advocates limiting tenements in smaller towns in favor of one family houses with yards. He argues flats deprive families of space and sunlight while promoting overcrowded, poorly ventilated living. He notes city trends spreading to smaller towns and urges policies favoring individual homes for healthier, more livable communities.
Department of the Interior U S Land Office at North Platte Nebraska gives notice Norman McCurtain of Sidney Nebraska filed intent to make final five year proof to establish claim to the s 3 nw 4 Lot 5 and 4 section 4 township 19 range 49 west of the 6th principal meridian before the county judge at Sidney on September 7 1911. Witnesses Gust Schmidt Hans Anderson Clint Thompson and William Thompsett all of Sidney Nebraska.
A French pavement system uses blocks formed from molds filled with iron shavings and iron excelsior then fully saturated with fluid cement. The resulting blocks promise high strength abrasion resistance and resilience against impact and vibration.
The article notes crabs and lobsters use large and small claws for feeding and fighting alike. It includes a humorous exchange about Fontenelle and a quip from London Answers on marriage and in law.
Albert D L Winner of Potter Nebraska filed notice of intention to make final five year proof to establish a claim to the northeast quarter section 4 township 16 north range 52 west of the sixth principal meridian. Proof to be made before the County Judge of Sidney Nebraska on September 19, 1911 with witnesses Philip T Higgins Clara Nebraska Daniel Herboldsheimer William Goding Potter Nebraska Peter Nelson Sextor Nebraska and J E Evans register at North Platte Nebraska.
Creditors of Peter Neslund deceased must present claims to the county judge of Cheyenne county Nebraska at the county court room on September 1, 1911 at 10 a.m. For six months claims may be filed and one year to settle the estate. Published in the Sidney Telegraph for four weeks before September 14, 1911. Henry E. Garey county judge.
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