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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1905
Page
8
Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars seats free on through trains. Tickets sold and baggage checked to any point in the United States or Canada. For information, route time tables and tickets call or write to M. A. Shipman, Agent, or to L. W. Wakeley, General Passenger Agent, Omaha Nebraska.
A fragment lists train numbers and names such as No. 2 Overland Limited No. 4 Atlantic Express No. 6 Matl and Express No. 10 Fast Mail No. 1 Overland Limited No.8 Fast Mail No 3 Pacific Express No. 5 Mail and Express with scattered notes about departure times and freight train points.
Local ads promote Brown's for shoes and dry goods with bargain counters at five and ten cents. Ralston & Fonda invite next consignments from South Omaha. Scanlon's Sarsa parilla Extract and Rheumatism cure are endorsed. Dr E W Murles offers affordable dentistry. Heath & Milligan paint advertised for long durability. D J Scanlon's also featured.
Dr Beebe offers free tooth extraction if he makes your plates. Miller advertises Wisconsin shoes. Dan Bergman promotes Heath Milligan paint at 41.50 per gallon. Ten Cent Store sells home goods and school supplies. E J Sweet handles White Lily flour and White Chie brands. B A Jones offers legal services and land loans. Peninsular stores and ranges featured in Harper Wrights sale.
For sale: southeast quarter of section 12, township 13, range 49, about eight miles southeast of Sidney Nebraska. Bargain price if taken at once. Contact R. P. Scott Bridgeport Neb.
Notice lists several gentle broke mares for sale and two fine bulls. One bull is a year old, nearly full blood with marked faces. Sign by B A Jones.
Furnished neat and clean rooms available. For particulars call Mrs. J. H. Wilson, second door west of the Metropolitan hotel.
Notice asks inquiries about a fine office room in the Callahan stone block. Contact CHAS CALLAHAN to discuss availability and terms.
Residents are invited to haul away cinders from the Electric Light power house at no cost. The offer encourages cleanup by the public, with cinders available free for collection for heating or other uses.
A catalog notice lists a good team of six year old horses weighing about 1150 and 1200 pounds. The entry is signed W. H. Doran.
For sale thirty head of calves in Higgins Nebraska. Inquiries directed to B Haalston.
Local tidbits report Bridgeport visitors, multiple Thanksgiving events, and housing news. Mentions include Miss Emilie Cunningham of Kimball visiting, Prof. Pate’s newborn daughter, the Miles family trip to Omaha, and cases heard in county court. Also notes a railroad work train on the Union Pacific line and a local legal ad about a Bridgeport matter.
An eminent caricaturist named Danton could sculpt perfect busts after a single glimpse. He successively captured a dying sister and later the father for a brother, both marvelously accurate. A tricked patron later had him model a bust from memory of a woman in an omnibus, only to reveal it was the maid, not the wife.
A report notes that a cockchafer can draw fourteen times its weight and a honeybee thirty times its weight. It suggests insects may be far stronger relative to body mass than horses and includes an anecdote of a tiny beetle lifting 960 times its weight by moving a tumbler.
The article explains that wheel failure from centrifugal forces occurs when rim speed reaches explosion thresholds. It notes solid iron wheels explode near three miles per minute rim speed, with larger wheels needing lower limits. Underwriters set rim speed limits by wheel type to proportion premiums to size.
A pipe dealer explains meerschaum is mined like coal in Asia Minor as a key industry. Crude material called bamtash is yellowish white with a red clay coat. Blocks sell for 25 to 200 dollars per cart load and are sun dried in summer or heated in winter. They are graded into twelve sorts and packed for shipment mainly to Vienna where top pipe makers reside.
Charles Lamb joked that he would hate no one if he knew them. When asked if he knew the man, he said no, and declined a meeting saying knowing him would surely end his hatred.
In a Catholic Standard and Times column, Dumsey mocks Bragiey’s presumed rapid rise and questions his financial downfall. Wiseman probes the incongruity, joking he may have fallen from the top rung in his haste.
A Cleveland Leader item features Bill the Brute-Thirteen and Pete the Dip-Wot arguing luck and boxing fate. The speaker notes twelve men in the ring and one on the bench, predicting a trip over the road.
A terse aphorism about legacy contrasts Papagallo’s dark joke with a reflection on ancestors’ light around posterity. Baluat notes that memories reveal neither pure virtue nor fault, but persist beyond obscurity.
A Baltimore American reader endorses periodic smoking abstinence to boost relish when resuming, claiming months of not smoking refresh and strengthen control over the habit. The writer cites personal health, pocket savings, and renewed satisfaction after each break.
A physician extols laughter as a powerful prophy lactic and health promoter. He compares a loud laugh to a nerve storm that dispels care and brightens the mental horizon, noting the saying Laugh and grow fat has philosophical basis since some people laugh because they are fat rather than fat because they laugh.
A Kansas City surgeon remarks that burglars would be killed by chloroform if injected through keyholes, countering the popular tale. He notes anaesthetics first raise mental and physical vigor, and that attempts to use chloroform on sleeping persons have often failed.
The South Omaha market reports moderating grass cattle supplies as the season nears its end. Prices rise for desirable killing steers to about 3.85 to 4.15 with other classes at 3.60 to 3.85 and 3.40 and down. Cow and heifer values show a 25 to 35 cent gain, with good fat cows around 3.00 to 3.35 and lesser grades lower. Demand from country buyers remains brisk, with light supplies supporting steady trading and strong activity through the period. There is little difference among weights, but heavy cattle still lead in value. Yearlings and two-year-olds are scarce and bringing about 4.00 to 4.10, with winter demand expected to persist as roughness in the corn belt supports cattle movement.
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