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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1896
Page
7
An advertisement for The Boston Store at Sixteenth and Douglas Omaha touts over a million dollars in goods during a wide sale. It highlights free out of town visitor services, a vast four story building, and a vast array of goods from dry goods to cosmetics, with an in-store restaurant and reading rooms.
On a remote island, Tom persuades Mr. Vernon to accept a Bible as salvation. Vernon's cynical reserve dissolves through Tom's faith, yielding a shared resolve to care for three children. The group rebuilds a life ashore, with a new home, gardens, and a hope-filled future as Eleanor appears like a vision on a cliff.
Chapter V depicts Mr. Vernon aged and changed by faith, reading Tom’s Bible beside a rebuilt home. Tom returns with a string of fish and breadfruit, while Walter recounts hunting and the children lingering at Walter’s Rock, signaling a peaceful reunion on the island.
Fletcher Highley of Liberty Indiana hid several hundred dollars and his wife’s watch in a rag bag for safekeeping. A peddler bought the rags for a half cent a pound and sold the contents including the money and watch. Highley chased the peddler near Richmond and contacted an eastern rag firm after the alleged loss.
A fragmented student verse describes a country walk with misadventures including striking a cow, being bitten by a dog, chased by a sow, an accidental fall, a bee sting, a slap from an old gobbler, and falling into a branch and wetting pants, presented as a miniature poem.
In Pottawatomie County Kansas the body of Samuel Cooper was laid to rest after seventy nine years. Ninety blood relatives followed to the grave and a son was absent. Surviving descendants total 150. Cooper died while singing a Methodist hymn, a striking end to a life noted for family ties.
A prominent physician advises women who stay indoors to adopt a sun cure. He suggests walking on the sunny side, soaking in sun whenever possible, and letting hair catch rays to improve dryness, hair health, and overall well being. He notes sun exposure restores gloss and strength after winter and furnace heat.
A London correspondent reports a remarkable illuminant that could challenge gas and electric lighting. No machinery beyond a portable lamp is needed. the device supposedly generates its own gas. The secret substance, guarded by Italian inventors, costs about one fifth of ordinary gas and offers a light nearly as bright as electric, whiter and cleaner. The lamp floods a room with light and can be carried like a candle.
To grasp a billion coins the article invites imagining a five dollar gold piece on the ground with stacks reaching twenty feet high. Form many closely packed columns to build a twenty feet high wall, then two parallel walls create a lode street. Extend these walls for miles or hundreds of miles and still fall short of a billion, only reaching 2,2863¢ miles when fully stretched.
A Literary Digest commentary argues that Moody and Saniey hymns fueled Armenian persecutions by the Turks. It cites Onward Christian Soldiers sung in Turkish as fueling martial interpretation and suggests Prof. Troumaian’s supposed revolutionary language may have echoed such hymns. The piece mocks revivalist and choir figures as potentially responsible, joking they should be sent to Yildiz Kiosk to clarify their intended meaning.
Salzer's Fall Seed Catalogue promises valuable guidance and free samples for fall sowing to wideawake farmers. Also note McClure's September issue will feature Dr W T Morton topic by his wife with jubilee planned in October and an illustrated article. Advertising items from S L McClure Co New York and O G Clark Co New Haven conclude.
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