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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1908
Page
8
Butte Montana faced a five week newspaper strike last winter making the city a desert of news. Merchants learned advertising value as False rumors spread and business suffered without a live local press. The episode proves newspapers are a public necessity for informing citizens and supporting commerce.
Professor Blackie of Ehinburgh commanded a student to read with the left hand but learned the pupil had no left hand. After a storm of hisses, the professor apologized and, moved, told the class he was glad to be teaching gentlemen.
In an Iowa town a court trial without a jury heard an ejectment suit brought by a religious society to recover possession of a cemetery. The defendant was an actively practicing physician.
The court found in favor of the plaintiff after weighing the evidence and noted two additional reasons. One, the church needs a cemetery, and two, the doctor has not proven his practice requires his own burying ground. The defendant’s counsel sought fuller enlightenment on the premises.
The piece notes that electricity remains an absolute mystery in its nature while its action depends on a medium. It states magnetism, like gravity, acts at a distance with no visible medium and is determined solely by relative position, unaffected by non magnetic substances between magnets.
A London Chronicle note explains the tromblon as a prohibited arm in France, identified with the blunderbuss. The weapon, a flintlock short-barreled gun with a trumpet-shaped muzzle, was carried by old coaches as highwayman protection. Buyers risking entry into France face a fine of 200 francs.
A humorous incident aboard a battleship sees a W C T U delegation aboard. A young officer misleads a visitor about a chit box for the wine mess being for foreign missions. The box contains 12.30 dollars, later donated to the navy secretary for forwarding to the intended cause.
A Philadelphia sun gift to son Clarence and daughter-in-law Lottie includes a gold eagle and a humorous letter. The message assigns symbolic meanings to the eagle and date marks, notes the phrase Pluribus Unum, calls thirteen stars unlucky, and jokes that forty six days a week could help them accumulate coins.
Mr Binderby and his wife clash over a toupee. She rebukes vanity before he reveals his bald spot and dons combed hair. The scene in their boudoir ends with her finishing her coiffure while he hides his insecurity.
The Romans, noted for farming, developed labor saving mills powered by asses, mules, and oxen and spread them across conquered lands. No positive record identifies the original inventor of this milling improvement.
Dialogic quip from London Punch about age and birth dates. Mrs Brady retorts that dates did not exist when she was born, while an investigating officer presses for her birth year in a humorous exchange.
Mrs. Borrow complains neighbors are shiftless because when she visits to borrow something they never have it, while Mr. Borrow questions how she knows this.
Eugene K Fisher from Chadron Nebraska credits Doan's Kidney Pills with easing long standing kidney pain backache and dizziness after twenty years of trouble. He reports three boxes completed a cure and urges others to use Foster Milburn Co Buffalo as sole US agents under the name Doan's.
In New Orleans weekly dispatch a pet stock dealer describes a thorough poultry toilet. A white hen is bathed, dried, and polished with cold cream and brilliantine. The plan includes careful feather and foot care and even suggests future gloss with a brush and heat styling for leg feathers in some breeds.
The London Globe notes Parisians doubted the Lisbon earthquake but soon accepted Le Vaillant’s account of the long necked giraffe. The first living specimens arrived in Paris, reanimating interest among the public and scientists alike.
A wealthy Riverina squatter noted for Attic wit and parsimony angered locals by denying rations. Enmities grew until some swaggerers burned a wool shed and taunted D'ye see? D'ye see? He replied with a blue pencil note: It was well insured. D'ye see? D'ye see?
A Good Health note states nuts are free from adulteration and reveal exactly what you buy. Shell nuts are noted as particularly clean.
A brief paraphrase of Channing on finding light in evil within suffering and temptation. It notes belief that hardship reveals higher purposes of wisdom and love, shaping moral insight and hopeful perseverance.
A humorous exchange notes that a washerwoman charging by the piece would be expensive while a young housekeeper chides that she loses many items, keeping bills low.
Brief quips on money and misfortune from London Illustrated Bits and Whately. Notes that some escape failures by avoiding effort, while a father-in-law’s failure can undo wealth, reflecting witty moral reflections on fortune and responsibility.
A dialogue recalls a hospital reportedly built entirely at one man's expense after his uncle cut him off with a hundred dollars. The exchange questions whether good deeds excuse past wrongs and ponders the motives behind acts of charity.
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