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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1903
Page
5
The Potter Sunday School plans a Christmas tree and program in the schoolhouse on Christmas night. A prophecy forecasts wedding bells and Christmas bells next week. W. A. Hornaday, a popular auctioneer, and postmaster, has added to his neat and commodious business with extensive improvements and additions to the block.
The Sunday Chicago Record Herald presents a four page illustrated sporting section with wide coverage of baseball racing bowling cycling pugilism golf and yachting. The piece highlights Tobin opera house Christmas night opening with Sidney Orchestra and features a Lincoln Star note on rail passes abuse and an entertainment segment with Phil Hunter juggling feats and illusions at Tobin’s January 8th show.
The excerpt notes De Foe in Journal of the Plague Year 1722 hints at contagion and early ideas akin to bacteriology. It cites his doubt masked as a concern, describing contagion via house spread, segregation, and speculative airborne or effluvial transmission. It mentions rumored microscopic creatures and airborne view, with skepticism about microscopes.
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