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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1904
Page
6
The General Election highlights official Nebraska votes with officers listed for Supt Public Instruction and PresidentSenate roles. The page shows election logistics, candidate names, and precincts spanning many counties and communities.
Sympathy eases wounds and eases sensibilities. The world seems less lonely when someone shares sorrow. Friendship forms a large part of the lasting glory and drag of life beyond childhood. In love affairs one’s own self is both best friend and worst enemy.
The article notes that many successful innovations by women appear under employer or firm names rather than the inventor’s own name. It also mentions inventions bought from women before patenting, particularly cosmetics, toys, kitchen utensils, and dressmaking finishes.
On the first Monday of November every year in Greer County all horse traders gather in Mangum Altus and larger towns to close all trades. The slate is wiped clean and a fresh account begins. The origin of the custom is unknown.
In London the summer heat boosted straw hats while silk hats fell out of favor. Factories laid off workers as straw headwear gained popularity and silk hat makers faced reduced demand.
Henry A. Lefebvre of Nashua New Hampshire and heirs living in Suncook seek to claim an inheritance from a relative who died in Germantown Pennsylvania in 1805. The estate, mostly a savings bank deposit of 1500 dollars at the time has grown to more than 500000 dollars after over a century.
In Canton China seven hundred shoemaker shops employ eight thousand men and twenty thousand women. Workers toil from daylight till dark with kerosene lamps extending hours. Monthly wages range from $240 to $5, meals consist of rice and salt fish.
A Pennsylvania inventor patents a prison bar design with longitudinal surface holes filled with glass aimed to resist sawing. The feature is described as a bar that cannot be sawed through and is intended to deter would be cutters in penal institutions.
A canal boat north of London is crewed entirely by women. The English census records several hundred women performing seafaring work, highlighting a notable shift in maritime labor.
Finnish villagers rely on timber for income and daily life. peasant crafts shoes from birch bark and roofs from shavings, illustrating a society deeply bonded to wood and forest resources.
A Rochester woman promotes placing a bag filled with sea water on the base of the brain as a remedy for sleeplessness. The claim appears in a local health note with no medical endorsement.
Greece, though a small spot on the world map, produces more and better currants than any other country, highlighting its strong fruit industry and export potential.
The French postal department will replace its mail coaches with electric motor cars, signaling a shift to electric delivery vehicles and modernizing mail service operations.
A brief saying warns that even a postage stamp is useless if it sticks to itself. The line reflects a humorous rule about proper handling and placement to ensure effectiveness.
In Wedderly residents debate a long held belief that the moon drives erratic behavior. One voice speculates the link began with a man during his honeymoon, while others remain skeptical of any scientific basis.
A quirky exchange notes a man never attends a woman's club and hints that if she had joined she would not have time to sample the fruit, reflecting social satire from the Illinois State Journal.
The Alhambra Music Hall in London placed a suggestion box at its door for patrons to name a future exhibition. Upon opening the box, several coins were found left by well meaning visitors who assumed it supported a charitable cause.
The Atchison Globe quips on life’s inequity as a woman with many children and belongings departs by train unseen, while a penniless young girl’s departure draws a crowd at the depot.
The late Dr. Austin Flint once treated a gravely ill man. After waiting for a family member to pay, the doctor billed “To the estate of, deceased.” An returned mail reply from the patient denied the charge, showing a dispute over payment for medical services.
A massive Virgin statue was mounted on the Dent du Geant summit in Italy, rising 13,000 feet high near Milan. A divine service blessed the milestone, conducted by the vicar of Courmayeur on the mountain top.
James Black of Omaha cried What’s doing as he rose from his coffin just as the Nd was being put on. The scene sparked considerable activity in the undertaker’s shop for several minutes.
On Oliver Corwin’s Aquebogue farm a pear tree stands about 200 years old yet still yields excellent fruit. Neighbors admire the tree’s longevity and bountiful harvest as a marvel of natural endurance.
Admiral Sir John Arbuthnot Fisher warns in the Nelsonic era ships faced new threats as destroyers and submarines force crews to abandon sleep. He notes machines don’t tire and endurance and nerve become the key, since submarines can chase and disrupt rest day and night.
Jewelers display metal cases designed to hold little books of pasteboard matches. Cigar stores often give matches for advertising so cases have become common. They come in gun metal silver or gold and cost from 75 cents to 12 dollars.
A lodger sues his landlord for permitting a naturalist to cut up a lion in the courtyard. A butcher testified he made the animal into sausages. Whether the lion died naturally or violently was not clarified. The court awarded nominal damages.
In rural Finland a bride wears a wedding veil and bonnet as a single great cap with ribbon streams. A front wall of lace shadows her face and over her dark cashmere dress she ties an embroidered white apron, completing the wedding attire.
Miss Dorothy Josephine Lumley of Enham near Andover survived a gunshot wound after a revolver bullet struck her head but was deflected by her hatpin. The incident occurred on a lonely path, and the hatpin acted as a makeshift shield.
An accidental short circuit in a junction box on an Melbourne electric train triggered an alarm to every fire department station. At the same instant the head telephone office received 1 500 calls.
Japanese state forests yield timber firewood bamboo and other products increasing from 129000 in 1880 to 1204000 in 1903 an rise of 1075000 reflecting growing resource exploitation and revenue.
A terse exchange describes a man who survived a double impact from a mule and an automobile. He explains the mule kicked him into the path of the car, delivering injuries but leaving him able to recount the ordeal.
A humorous vignette about a father asking after his son at college. The father notes the son excels in philosophy and dead languages but is a poor football player, highlighting a mismatch between academic strengths and athletic performance.
A lawyer travels west then east to meet a firm but forgets their name and the firm’s details. After fruitless searches he telegraphs for help and learns the firm is Smith & Jones and his own name is Brown.
The report notes peak values near the Bank of England at 375 dollars per square foot or 16 250 000 dollars per acre. Prices fall along moving titles then rise again in the Strand, with Bond Street in the West End reporting prices above 175 dollars per square foot or over 7 500 000 dollars per acre.
The article explains the so called twenty four hour soap fight ration, noting the Japanese bean is not a garden variety but a yard long vegetable filling a quart measure. A single bean pod can sustain a hungry plowman with a meal.
A Kentuckian returning from the east frightened a porter by crying I say you has come back and take this away as he held a pillow to his ear. The man feared the pillow would get into his ear during the berth transfer.
A surgeon recalls a patient about to undergo an appendectomy who sent for his pastor first to be opened with prayer, underscoring the role of faith in medical moments.
Gen. Miles probable to become adjutant general of the Massachusetts volunteer militia after Governor-elect Douglas takes office. Gen. Samuel Dalton resigns, a Butler appointee from the 1880s. The shift signals a broad reorganization as the governor’s staff of eighteen is mustered by June 9.
The passage presents simple tips on wealth from Bar num and Benjamin Franklin and Russell Sage. It highlights saving more than spending and earning wisely as enduring principles.
The strata bearing petroleum resemble each other globally with bituminous clay shales and variegated clays interstratified with sandstones and conglomerates. Limestones may hold tarry materials but true petroleum is rare, except in the Trenton limestone of Ohio and Indiana.
Between 1788 and 1878 Bath Maine built 1 230 vessels totaling 609 622 tons. Including the Bath district the figures rise to 2 947 vessels and 1 038 551 tons. Bath city tonnage equals about one tenth and the district over one sixth of the nation’s merchant marine tonnage in 1903.
A granite haven on Mount Blanc called the Grand Mulets rises above the icy expanse. A rough stone and board shelter forms a bed and refreshment fort, manned by a woman who arrives at season start and stays for three months.
An English writer recalls a poor London woman who questions why the Lord lets her husband live. She muses that the divine plan may be to redeem him, but she remains skeptical and cynical about mercy.
A witty dialogue argues over who controls exclusive news, contrasting a fierce critic with a mild proponent. The exchange suggests distrust of an unnamed Longfellow and defends a hypothetical exclusive service, framed as a diplomatic fashion.
A Washington Star quotation captures Uncle Eben’s blunt view that investing in circus tickets on horse races reveals a man’s impatience with trust issues and the folly of financial schemes. The remark reflects a rural folkish satire on speculation and greed.
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