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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1919
Page
6
Omaha Aug 25 Fred Billings shot his wife in the shoulder and fatally shot his five year old son Gage before killing himself. Mrs Billings will recover. The couple had been divorced and the shooting followed her rejection of reconciliation offers.
The Birmingham Age Herald notes Canterbury as the coldest cathedral in England with Canterbury ahead of Chichester and Winchester in antiquity. the source playfully contrasts a juror's brains with the legal process.
The United States Grain Corporation proposes diverting from regular flour purchases to sell straight wheat flour in 140 pound jute sacks. Robbers and wholesalers must guarantee no more than one dollar twenty five cents per barrel profit when selling in original packages and retailers must not exceed seven cents per pound for broken packages. Charles T. Neal, Vice President, Omaha, Neb., will answer questions about the Flour Selling Plan.
Washington reports the War Department offering the town of Nitro West Virginia for sale a complete industrial city with 737 manufacturing buildings housing for 20000 people utilities and civic improvements built at a cost around 70000000 site of a large smokeless powder plant Germany reports returning 27000 tons of material and 300000 pieces of French machinery identified in Germany An American steamer Mohegan is reported on fire in Rio de Janeiro following an explosion in its cargo
Paris reports Cadi Cherchell Ta teb Mohammed has been named French envoy plenipotentiary to the King of Hedjaz and will depart Algiers for Beirut.
The Santals of India practice a string knot ritual where a price is set by parents for the bridegroom. The couple ties a knot for each day of engagement and the knots are untied daily until the final knot binds them as husband and wife.
A Houston Post note on poetry urge explaining many feel the impulse to write but should consult friends and family doctor before attempting it, urging restraint and guidance.
Stockholm reports indicate bolshevist defenses at Kronstadt and Petrograd were destroyed by British warships while Ambassador Morris warns Washington of a likely crisis in Kolchak government within thirty days. He notes civil administration struggles, scarce allied aid, and an urgent push for recognition and aid to Siberia.
Former president Taft recalls two World War I doughboys who returned altered by France. One ex hotel clerk becomes a head chambermaid after bosses assume he knows domestic work. The other, who asks if he can learn to love, faces a blunt response about ongoing instruction.
An old Boston Transcript quip notes faith in sympathy over applause. The speaker, Shin bone, declares no one will envy another’s good fortune, reflecting a humorous take on luck and recognition.
A concise reflection notes a Shakespeare line about past grief and a Pascal reference comparing man to a thinking reed. The fragment blends literary allusion with philosophical musing on time loss and human frailty.
A Boston Tran script comments that the notion of the revolving stage remains novel to some, framing theater as an evolving craft and suggesting audiences view stage mechanisms as contemporary innovations.
A small group in SEXTORP gathers at John Anderson home Sunday evening to bid farewell to the G N Eckert family who head for California Monday. Community wishes them well in their new home as Ellis Fisher threshes this week and neighbors assist with threshing duties.
A Chicago American excerpt recalls Ruth speaking after being questioned about a green apple. She smiles and explains she only ate the ripe half, revealing a sly but innocent justification for disobedience observed by her father.
A Philadelphia Ledger quote mocks church critics who complain constantly likening them to a Punch cartoon where a nurse must tell the baby to stop misbehaving. The remark captures a sour humor about protestors within religious circles.
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