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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1954
Page
14
The former Philadelphia bowling establishment with 105 alleys, once the largest in the United States, was demolished in 1944 by the US Army.
In Bethlehem a young Mary and Joseph welcome a child in a stable as angels herald peace. A lone star leads Persian wise men to the manger bearing gifts of gold. The Christ Child lies swaddled in a manger with the holy scene unfolding at midnight.
Postmasters report many children request cowboy outfits and two gun holsters for Christmas while space toys lag. Kids show interplanetary ideas but still favor Hopalong Cassidy and western gear. Wish lists include dolls, doll furniture, and household items, with poignant notes about sick or poor families. A Norwegian explorer is then mentioned in a brief aside.
Cleveland postmaster Joseph Prosser vows crackdown on mailers of nonletter items. He cites a tomcat found in a letter box and describes mailbox tampering as destruction of government property with potential fines up to $500 and possible jail time.
Easy method to color a hearth fire using pine cones copper sulphate and boric acid. Soak pine cones in two separate copper sulphate and boric acid solutions then dry and wrap in cellophane. When burned the flames turn blue and green though chemicals are poisonous and must be kept safe.
Prosser recalls that after the Cleveland Indians played at home, more than 100 stolen bill folds were recovered from downtown mail boxes and nearly all were returned.
Washington reports the Dead Sea holds vast mineral riches including about two billion tons of potash, twenty two billion tons of magnesium chloride, 980 million tons of bromide, and 11 billion tons of sodium chloride, making the saline basin a major commercial resource.
A New Zealand report notes sheep outnumber people by 17 percent. A bat banded near Carlsbad New Mexico has been recovered after traveling about 800 miles to Jalisco State Mexico.
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