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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1900
Page
5
The fragment lists state officers and officials in a directory style page. Names include Governor and secretary roles with implied offices such as treasurer, receiver, and lands and buildings, along with several clerks and keepers, though details are incomplete.
The document lists multiple public offices across the region including 30th Senatorial District, Judicial Districts, Commissioners, Village Trustees of Sidney, and school board roles. Names such as Owens, Wilcox, Grimes, Bordwell, Bassett, Gapen, McIntosh, Cary, Neubauer, Dawson, Browitts, and McKee appear alongside district and town references, indicating an official local election or organizational roll.
Methodist parish and Episcopal services listed with times plus numerous fraternal lodges and orders meeting monthly. Entries include Royal Neighbors Camp No 13, A F and A M Lodges, I O O F, B V Sumner AR notes, and various auxiliary sections with officers and meeting dates.
The fragment hints at a discussion of motive power in machinery tied to a business fate. It mentions rats and devices, suggesting a metaphorical or flawed note about machinery efficiency or control. The readable bits point to a terse, speculative piece without clear names or events.
A narrator recounts Bob Wentworth’s lavish Rose gift to Jessie using his monthly allowance. He upgrades from American Beauty to long stem roses costing more, hoping for a dramatic reveal, but Jessie trims the stems to fit a chrysanthemum jar, wasting part of the budget and leaving Bob feeling cheated.
The passage suggests a simple spear or upright stick placed in the ground as a sun dial. Observers noted the noonday shadow shortened with sun height and pointing north, leading to early astronomical measurement. Maunder cites this idea and links it to ancient Egyptian obelisks and the notion of an upright plumbed marker beginning systematic observations.
E W Howe recounts a voyage across the Atlantic noting a personal discovery about ship motion. He describes nightly sensations of pitching upward while the stern is down and the screws lifting from the water, on a voyage that muddled his brain and stomach.
A child rejects turkey on her plate, reflecting on happiness and limits. Uncle John asks what ails her as laughter follows the scene from Stray Stories. The moment captures a humorous, bittersweet family Christmas mood.
A Sunday school anecdote has a girl answering that Adam is the dust of the earth and Eve the sawdust of the earth. The second item notes that thickly planted trees best protect against avalanches, slowing or stopping snow masses in forested slopes.
A Washington Post report details fraudulent claims alleging large sums owed by the U S government to heirs of Revolutionary War figures such as De Haven and the Morris estate, plus the Durkee and Anneke Jans cases. Impostors use bonds to fund lawsuits, promising about ten dollars per thousand with no legal remedy for the Treasury.
The famed composer Offenbach basked in a public greeting aboard a Rhine steamer, unaware the Duke of Nassau rode nearby. When he bowed to the cheering crowd a harsh adjutant ordered him aside to let the duke appear, shocking the star with royal brusqueness.
A quoted observation claims women have been more beautiful because they were better educated. It argues women's changing ideas toward equality and intellectual development tempt them to seek equality, leading to increased pursuit of beauty and increased suffering in appearance, predicting eventual ugliness in highly civilized races.
The fragment presents a humorous mix from an anecdote about Bob Burdette and Beecher nerves to a farmer's quip about Josiar and market salt plus a poetic description of Elizabeth Jane’s snore. It reads like a colonial newspaper collage of jokes and verse with old spellings and whimsical wordplay.
In Henan China three men claimed one woman as wife. The judge threatened to kill her to settle the dispute and had her drink wine with brown sugar powder. As she feigned distress, two men renounced their claims and the third agreed to care for her, revealing no real danger.
An old advertisement touts Green's August Flower as a universal medicine for indigestion and general malaise. It claims the remedy cleanses the system, stops fermentation, regulates liver action, and stimulates nervous and organic functions with only a few doses needed to reassure there is nothing serious wrong.
An ad argues cheap remedies fail for severe coughs and lung threats. It recommends Boschee's German Syrup as a universal cure proven by physicians worldwide. It claims to heal, reduce inflammation, and ease expectoration for a good night’s rest.
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