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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1905
Page
2
A Brooklyn woman plans a Bret automobile ride to celebrate her 105th birthday. Other notes report Postmaster General Cortelyou starting a six week vacation, and Secretary Shaw ousting Asa Rogers for inefficiency in the Eastern Virginia revenue office.
Mrs. Caroline Cable of Waupaca Wisconsin reports that Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills cured her husband’s salt rheum and left his hands smooth. The letter urges others to try the remedy. The piece also notes many women become tedious bores by endlessly recounting ailments and domestic woes.
Grocers differ on Defiance Starch stock citing competing 12 ounce brands. Defiance offers 16 ounces for the same price and claims no cooking is needed.
A compact reflection on restraint argues that restraining speech elevates a person toward a godlike state even when in the right. The maxim emphasizes measured talk as the first virtue guiding conduct.
A quotation attributed to Lord Bacon extols reason as humanity’s glory and its defining virtue that elevates humans above beasts in the natural order.
An advertisement describes AUSTRALIAN-LEAF as a monthly regulator from The Mother Gray Co. It claims to cure female weaknesses backache and urinary troubles and offers samples by mail for free or 50 cents at druggists. The company is based in LeRoy New York.
A bright girl asks half day off from school claiming company arrives. The teacher checks the official reasons for absence and the girl points to domestic affliction, insisting it fits. The exchange highlights rigid attendance rules.
Little Tommy claims rain helps playing ball by making mud slicker for stomach slides. His mother questions the idea while a moral quip hints that proof lies in eating, yet indigestion corrupts good morals.
A Welden Indiana woman describes severe stomach trouble and sick headaches. After trying various foods she found relief with Grape-Nuts, gaining weight and strength within weeks. She credits Post cereal advertising and a test of nutrition that helped her two sons thrive.
In the chapter continuation from Te Radersee by S. R. Crockett, Princess Margaret proclaims joy at a wise soothsayer’s fortune, kissing the Chancellor. The lamp burns low as the scene shifts to a mother soothing children in the dark.
In Courtland the wedding plot thickens as Maurice von Lynar and Margaret fear capture by Ivan and Muscovy. Thora aids a staged illness to delay their union while they plan a swift escape with help from Princess Margaret and loyal allies.
The London Chronicle recounts tales from Paris about King Alfonso. He allegedly dislikes asses and after running over a Spanish ass near San Sebastian he compensated the owner and quipped about there being no asses in his realms. In San Sebastian he mistook a wary shopper for an anarchist arrested in Paris.
A Kansas City Times snippet recalls a policeman on a downtown corner told a country man to cry out for his cousin Smith to locate him. The officer joked that Smith might answer from a crowd nearby.
Princess Irene, wife of Prince Henry of Prussia, was christened as a child at the close of the war in 1866. Irene means peace.
Dr Melvin M Page of Erie Pennsylvania recounts a severe kidney illness from drink in 1895. After taking Deans Kidney Pills an abscess formed but was stopped and he recovered to 188 pounds by 1896. Sold by Foster Milburn Buffalo price 50 cents per box.
A florist holds a tulip and warns that a tulip’s scent can be dangerous. He describes a deep crimson bloom that stirs profound inspirations and may cause brief light headedness with dancing singing and odd behavior for two hours followed by depression.
A Thackeray quotation urges acceptance of fate with dignity and calls all to be a gentleman whether wealthy or poor. It emphasizes honorable bearing in victory or defeat for both young and old.
A reflective passage notes that beauty and virtue are tied to skin color, with different groups preferring their own hue. It contrasts an admiration for tawny skin among the North American Indians with a dislike of European white skin by the Chinese.
In Drummond Wisconsin on August 21 a Bayfield County resident Mr. T. T. Wold testified that a single box of Dodd's Kidney Pills relieved his back pain. His wife also used them and found relief. The ad claims the pills cure backache and kidney troubles, preventing progression to rheumatism dropsy diabetes or Bright's Disease.
Uncle Allen Sparks touts Defiance Cold Water Starch highlighting 16 oz per package for the same 10 cent price as weaker 12 oz and 8 oz rivals. He claims no chemical content and that starch never sticks to iron, urging households to demand Defiance from grocers.
An Italian man charged with drunkenness in a London court heard the magistrate remark that Italians do not often get drunk and cautioned him not to adopt English habits.
A local ad urges readers to ask dealers for Allen's Foot-Ease powder to rest and soothe swollen sore hot callous and ingrowing feet. Priced at 25 cents with samples mailed free to Allen 3 Olmsted LeRoy NY.
A man speaks of his ancestry reaching William the Conqueror, yet notes his relatives would not trace him to the next corner, implying fading family connection despite historic lineage.
A columnist notes the distinction between hosting and simply spending money for guests, urging readers to balance hospitality with prudent budgeting and thoughtful planning rather than lavish expenditures.
A quote attributed to Tohn Ruskin contrasts wasteful personal wealth with altruistic aims. It notes one phase of ambition is owning a powerful car in a place where only modest use is possible. The passage extolls loving the public and promoting universal good.
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