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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1903
Page
2
John Alexander Dowie presents a redesigned national flag in Zion City Illinois arguing the new pattern improves the emblem. The blue field is removed and stars and stripes are rearranged with stars forming a St Andrew cross across the banner. Dowie says the design is an artistic enhancement and may be used beyond Zion City.
President Roosevelt met with a Senate Finance Committee subcommittee but did not produce a currency bill draft. Aldrich Platt Allison and Spooner discussed procedures and next steps as an extraordinary session looms, possibly in October or November, focused on Cuban reciprocity and pending financial legislation.
A mining prospector who spent four years in the Mackenzie basin brought to Vancouver a relic from the Andre expedition. He arrived Monday with a piece of silk used in the construction of Andre's balloon.
In Saginaw Michigan American Sugar Refining of New York acquired a one half interest in Valley Sugar factory, among the largest in the Saginaw valley. The deal values the company at five hundred thousand dollars.
The Santa Fe announced it will transport grain to and through Kansas City to aid grain men unable to ship. It will deliver cars to Burlington, Wabash, Missouri Pacific and Kansas City Southern, a recent order against these roads having been rescinded, provided cars are promptly returned by other lines.
Denver hosts a meeting to fight the ban on exhibiting range cattle at the St. Louis World's Fair. The Colorado Cattle and Horse Growers' Association started the campaign in July with notices across the Louisiana Purchase states. A committee will seek removal of the order from Chief Commissioner Corburn, with a Roosevelt appeal if needed. replies from all targeted states endorse the effort.
At Manila a cable dispatch claimed Secretary Root would resign to join the Alaskan boundary commission with December retirement. Governor Taft, at a palace reception for Major General Davis, laughed off the report and denied any offer or resignation.
New York reports importers and merchants planning to amend the customs act at the coming session of Congress. A general commission of about fifty leading liners of trade oversees the plan. A bill reflecting changes will be introduced, but announcements await talks with Secretary Shaw.
Fourteen masked men believed to be cattlemen abducted a herder from Joe Sturgeon’s sheep camp. They carried him ten miles into the mountains tied to a tree and whipped him to death, then shot many sheep and drove the rest away. Sheriff Taylor leads a posse in pursuit of the whitecaps amid looming confrontation.
Henry M. Ward wins in circuit and supreme court that school pay continues when the Sherman county Ashton school is closed by the board of health due to smallpox. Ward taught nine months at $50 monthly. board later pays for eight months and a janitor bill, with further disputes over the remaining pay. Local items note Exeter auditorium efforts, death of Ira D. Brown, Hartington mill readiness, Ord business college plan, and delayed threshing due to rains.
State Game Warden Carter patrols western counties appointing deputies to curb poaching. He warns hunters not to assume September chicken shooting is legal, with open seasons starting October 1 for chickens and November 1 for quail. Local incidents include theft charges, weather strikes, a fatal quarry collapse, and a ghost scare in Custer county.
Charley Clayton a prominent young farmer living two miles west of Wymore was instantly killed by a bolt of lightning while unhitching a span of mules beneath a tree in his yard. One mule also died.
KEARNEY The state board of education visited the city to inspect the proposed location for a new normal school. Citizens extended a reception and supper to the visiting members.
Governor Mickey announced the reappointment of Mrs. H. H. Wheeler of Lincoln as a member of the visiting and examining board to the Home for the Friendless.
An aphoristic remark notes that individuals who fail to learn from past experiences are unlikely to finish their education. It emphasizes persistence and the value of experiential learning in personal growth.
Roy Hahn, released from the penitentiary last Sunday morning, was arrested after being caught attempting to smuggle morphine to former fellow prisoners. He was later released due to no statute covering the offense and being out of the prison jurisdiction. The warden and staff face ongoing trouble from people smugling drugs to inmates.
English and American Catholic representation narrows to Cardinal Gibbons in Europe while only one British cardinal may attend the conclave, as Cardinal Moran of Sydney is unable to reach Rome in time. The piece also echoess condescending ad copy about tonics and housekeeping products interspersed with quips.
Advertisement tone claim that Defiance Starch offers more durable results than rival brands and provides extra quantity for the price. The second line shifts to a provocative, unrelated analogy about love and smallpox, implying lasting scars.
A novel slot line allows diners to read religious mottoes on walls while eating. A penny drop yields a key that opens a closet for hats and coats. The locking hooks prevent theft, keeping items secure even if the closet door is opened.
The text recalls Nelson Morris starting as a Connecticut peddler and expanding in Chicago with one hog, Gustave Swift from a small Massachusetts town began with a single sheep, and Philip Armour, unable to afford transport to California, walked overland from Oneida New York to fund Pacific coast cigar ditches. Together they accumulated almost $100,000,000.
Testimonial claims coffee harms the liver and causes sallow complexions. A former heavy coffee drinker says switching to Postum and Grape-Nuts restored rosy cheeks, relieved headaches, and cured yellow skin, credited to Postum’s effect on blood chemistry.
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