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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1916
Page
3
Sidney readers hear of instant action from buckthorn bark glycerine and Adler-i-ka a spoonful supposedly relieves constipation sour stomach or gas by acting on both lower and upper bowel. A few doses may relieve or prevent appendicitis and a short course helps chronic stomach trouble.
Phone your orders if you cannot visit. City Meat Market offers home delivery. The ad urges customers to call to place orders and receive delivery service.
A simple handmade tea cozy puzzle gives a warm grandma gift. Silk or cretenne prints work best, using four outer sections and four lining pieces sewn together. A cotton batting layer fits inside, then edges are turned and overcast, finished with a large satin ribbon bow.
A promotional notice asserts a comprehensive cancer guide based on sixteen years of experience and over ten thousand cases, offering free send for a copy from Dr O A Johnson Kansas City MO. Also mentions listing Sidney property with Osborn and Jorgenson.
Police report two elderly residents, John P. Becker aged 85 and his wife aged 83, were found shot dead in their Mason City area home. Investigators believe robbery may be the motive in the affluent couple’s deaths.
Railroad and labor leaders planned to repeal the Adamson Act and present a working agreement of their own making. Representative Adamson, author of the law, said Congress would spank both sides if needed and would vigorously oppose repeal while willing to cooperate on interpretations of the act.
Congress will recess after next Saturday and remain out until January second. House aims to pass a handful of appropriation bills before adjournment and the Senate may take up the Sheppard prohibition bill for the District of Columbia.
Rumors say Salazar broke with Villa and surrendered to government forces while Villa loyalists allegedly fought over spoils at Santa Ysabel. General Murguia, visiting front lines, disappeared again. Spain sees a 24 hour general strike over rising food prices with closures and no newspaper publication.
A British admiralty report states seventeen American muleteers and eleven crew members of the British horse transport ship were killed when the vessel was torpedoed by a submarine in the Mediterranean.
Austria appoints Alexander Spitzmueller as premier and forms a new cabinet to steer policy. The announcement marks a key government reshuffle and signals shifts in leadership and priorities for the nation.
Illinois Congressman Rainey plans this week to seek a committee report on his bill to repeal the tax on mixed flour. He will mobilize women’s groups to support the move, arguing it would lower bread prices toward a 5 cent loaf.
The Frankfurter Zeitung says Germany rejects a truce and wants only a peace conference where belligerents present peace proposals. A Hague meeting could be held about January 15, and while in session all sides may keep fighting.
A Northern Pacific local passenger train wrecked when a tree fell on the track near Hoquiam Washington. The locomotive tender and baggage car passed over the trunk, then the tender telescoped the engine cab crushing the engineer and firemen whose bodies could not be removed until wrecking crews arrived.
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