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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1905
Page
4
J W McDaniel Lodgepole Neb announces for sheriff as a Democrat seeking party convention approval. J W Lee Sidney Neb seeks re election as sheriff as a Republican subject to the county convention decision.
Cheyenne Republican voters from the Second District gather at Higgins Neb to nominate a County Commissioner candidate J B Halsoon at a district convention setting the party's selection process.
A string of editorial observations notes Indian Territory statehood, lightning strikes on churches, and a satirical take on religion and governance. It bitterly comments on peace talks, a saloon versus church contrast, Miss Roosevelt, Mary Mapes Dodge, and Russia Japan tensions, alongside crime, yellow fever notes, and political figures Lord Curzon and Lord Kitchener.
Union Pacific will sell tickets to Denver at 3.30 with stopover at Cheyenne for Frontier Days. Tickets on sale August 30 31 and September 1 2 3 4 limited to September 12. Deposit with joint agent in Denver to extend until October 17. W W Aldridge agent.
Burlington advertises very low fares to Denver Colorado Springs Manitou Pueblo and western points with a five to ten hour rail trip from Sidney August 30 to September 1 rates available. M A Shipman agent offers travel planning and information. Union Pacific grants perpetual passes after ten years for engineers conductors station agents and dispatchers and extends to their families after twenty years.
The Union Pacific Railroad issued a Portland oriented guide to the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition and Pacific Northwest travel. It describes the shortest routes to Exposition City, enroute sights, and a California return trip. Send two cents for mailing to W. W. Aldridge, Agent.
Orison Swett Marden argues in Success Magazine that a person becomes what they surround themselves with. To reach a legal career one must immerse in law, not medicine, and reject self doubt to realize a new world through persistent, deliberate effort.
A Memphis Commercial Appeal quip contrasts allowances for Frenchwomen to wear pants with American women who supposedly need no license. The note frames fashion freedom as a social liberty and cites a witty aphorism about discretion and fancy.
A joke from Lowville Courier-Journal tells of an Irishman who confronts a crowd about the stereotype that Irishmen never kill themselves. He fakes a suicide with a rope around his waist, then explains he could not breathe because he tied it wrong, delivering a sharp comic quip about the stereotype.
In a discussion among lawyers from the Iowa City Journal, the most distressing courtroom moment described was a divorce case where innocent children overheard their parents’ accusations, breaking up a once happy home. The tale contrasts other harsh justice scenes such as death sentences and long prison terms.
The London Globe recounts that court Jews acted as bankers and money lenders to European rulers until Napoleon’s era. It notes Mayer Amschel Rothschild as a founder who served Frankfurt’s court and stored £1,000,000 for the elector of Hesse-Cassel during Napoleon’s threats, helping establish Rothschild’s fame. It adds Jews had few citizenship rights in German states, with court Jew status granting standing.
The article describes the banshee as a domestic spirit linked to certain Irish and Scottish families, often depicted as a long haired old woman who weeps for the dead. It also criticizes church wedding invitations, arguing church rites are public and welcoming to parishioners without private invitations.
The Great Salt Lake Bridge is described as the world’s longest spanning project built to cut 43 miles of road between Ogden and Lucia. It cost about $5,000,000 with piles sourced from Oregon and Texas forests and over eleven miles of trestling largely submerged, in depths of 30 to 34 feet.
Breezem recalls youthful mischief and a turn of fate as she explains to Mrs. Breezem that sowing the wind led to marriage. The Chicago News fragment frames a domestic, tongue in cheek reflection on past actions and consequences.
A humorous note from the Philadelphia Press recalls John needing an umbrella for a vestry meeting and jokingly claiming the old one is the one he has carried for a week.
Mrs Henpeque asks about a gesture to mark twenty years of marriage. Mr Hen peque confirms he refused a salary raise for a clerk who wished to marry.
A brief Brooklyn Life cartoon exchange shows a child asking why growth brings sorrow while an older woman wryly replies she is aging and learning restraint. The dialogue captures urban humor about growing up and wisdom.
The Telegraph offers club prices with 1 year subscriptions to Sidney Telegraph and Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean Prairie Farmer New York Weekly Tribune Farmer Nebraska State Journal Weekly Omaha World Herald and Nebraska Farmer. New paid in advance subscribers receive club rates. old subscribers paying arrears and one year in advance also qualify. Subscribe to keep in touch with county and neighbor news.
In the County Court of Cheyenne County Nebraska State of Nebraska to W S Doran and all interested in Elizabeth Redington estate. Petition seeks probate of August 1905 will and appointment of W S Person as executor. Hearing set September 6 1905 at 1 00 oclock PM with notice by publication in Sidney Telegraph for three weeks prior.
The London Onlooker notes Calcutta callers at noon to 1:30 pm in hot weather requiring silk hats. Men arrive with helmets or sola topees in carriages, then don silk hats for visits, a habit natives view as pious. At the Viceroy's Cup races officials describe helmeted crowds before sunset, while bearers await permission to unveil the silk hats for their masters.
A dialogue highlights Miss Elderberry’s aging and her gradual acceptance of it as part of her life. The exchange notes her endurance and seasoned demeanor guiding her views on growing older.
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