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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1911
Page
6
Potter community reports building work at the school led by Mr Brown of Kimball. Notices express sympathy for Mr Rose after his brother’s suicide. Local social life features weddings, visits, stag parties, slumber parties, and a Struble hosted evening for Anna Anderson with guests and a light collation.
Pleasant View reports wheat headed for harvest with Dan Heimer directing Will Godling over about 70 acres. Farmers haul coal and thresh as weather stays mild. Wells drilled at Potter by B E Robinson. Charles Stanton returns from wells. Weather brings wind damage to Will Gustafson barn. hail damages small grain noted. Pleasant View residents attend primary and discuss local voting place needs.
Henry Ehmke attended church Sunday after a siege of illness dating from July 2. Several families and individuals were noted in the area, including Paul Collart building a granary, Mrs. Dye of Sidney Draw visiting L. F. Cunningham, and Walter Nelson with his wife in the neighborhood. School house 76 nears completion as families attend to farm and market tasks locally.
The town is deep into threshing with three threshers within two miles as residents note the season in full swing. W. C. Milthrop, formerly of this town now in Sheridan Iowa, visited two days with Halston's and reports Iowa as a fizzle.
Lora Adams of Potter visited E Hiett and wife this week. Dell Weskett returned to Platte County. Will Fulton came up from Peetz Monday and reports threshing is going well. Myrtle Hiett left for Denver and other Colorado points. Bruce Robinson bought cattle on the South side. F B Tobin built a large cement fruit and vegetable cellar on his farm.
Never leave home on a journey without a bottle of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. It is almost certain to be needed and cannot be obtained on board cars or steamships. For sale by all dealers.
United States Geological Survey analysis shows surface erosion at about one inch every 760 years across the nation. Mississippi River carries 136.4 million tons dissolved and 340 million tons suspended annually, with Ohio and Missouri contributing large shares. Colorado delivers 387 tons per square mile, totaling 100.74 million tons. Rivers move 270 million tons dissolved and 513 million tons suspended yearly, totaling 783 million tons and hundreds of millions of cubic yards of material. If focused on Panama Isthmus during early American occupation, erosion would have carved an eighty five foot canal prism in ~73 days.
The article explains that cold water plants thrive only in frigid polar waters and cannot survive warm water. Laminariae seaweeds grow to immense sizes in the polar oceans, with stems like tree trunks. Warmth kills them, while polar blasts prevent tropical flowers from blooming.
New England states mined more granite by value in 1909 than any region of equal size, with Vermont first at 2.81 million, Massachusetts second at 2.16 million, and Maine third at 1.94 million. Wisconsin and California were strong individual producers, while the national total reached about 19.59 million.
A specimen of the African fresh water flying fish is on display in the reptile house at the London Zoological Gardens. It remains motionless by day near the water surface and at night darts about catching insects. The British Guiana species skims with its deep keel abdomen immersed.
A speculative note claims a single potato could yield 10 billion seeds in ten years with careful cultivation, potentially supplying the world’s seed needs again. The piece emphasizes massive reproductive potential and agricultural optimism.
Petticoats first appear in the fifteenth century worn by both men and women. The historical note highlights early adoption and gender use in fashion.
General George W Gordon former commander in chief of the United Confederate Veterans died in Memphis Tennessee at age and will be remembered for his wartime service as a Confederate brigadier general. He was captured and held at Fort Warren before pursuing a law career and later serving in Congress from 1907 until his death.
In an outing at Riehl's Station above St Louis three sisters from Upper Alton Flora Mary and Ella Broglie daughters of toolmaker Joseph Broglie perished when a skiff struck a river snag. Flora fell first Mary jumped to save her sister and Ella then leaped in to help all three drowned in the Mississippi River tragedy.
Sen Cummins of Iowa accuses the monetary commission of extravagance and politics. Sen Burton says the National City company, linked to National City Bank of New York, is against the law and not in national welfare and would back a bill to outlaw such firms if legal questions are resolved.
Wheat and corn futures edged mixed with September wheat at 94 0.0 2c and December 99 4c while corn September held 64 4c and oats around 41 4c. Live cattle at Chicago and Omaha mixed with cattle receipts and hogs trading higher. hogs 7.05 to 7.45 at times, sheep prices easing slightly with lambs 5.00 to 7.00.
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