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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1914
Page
7
A guide to making several festive noise makers for New Year’s Eve using everyday items. Projects include a bell rattle from a tin can and thread spool, an odd shaped rattle with tin can wings, a resin pulled string device, and a paper wrapped can toy, each requiring minimal time to assemble.
In a grim Duchesses Row street a poor English maid nicknamed Fruip endures a cold Christmas with her widowed mother. Flip finds a silver sixpence, tries to buy a toy case at Hamilton’s bazaar, faces a theft risk, and a benevolent stranger helps convert the coin into a golden sovereign, gifting a true Christmas joy to the pair. A second, unrelated paragraph discusses new grain sorghums and Nebraska experiments.
A Boston area dairyman bought a Nebraska alfalfa carload and expects to feed it at a total cost of 37 dollars per ton. A University Farm professor estimates Massachusetts dairymen can realize about 12 dollars profit per ton, given higher milk prices in Boston.
On William Wingett farm near Walthill native home grown seed corn outyielded shipped seed. Wingett’s seed produced 71 to 79 bushels while imported seed ranged 43 to 76 bushels. The Thurston County Farm Management Association plans further tests of grain varieties adapted to the county.
Women attending the tenth annual Nebraska Home Economics Association meeting at the University Farm will join sessions January 19 to 21 covering foods, art, and household equipment. Lectures are free, with small material fees. Separately, grain sorghums such as Kafir and milo show strong drought tolerance and promising yields, with adoption expanding in western Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas, now overcoming early-maturing variety limits in western Nebraska.
Still observed in Great Britain only at Tardbolton on the continent, the old Ardent origin midsummer festival continues. In Avershire villagers gather materials for a rent bonfire for days before the event. Fuel built on turf atop an altar roof. a match at sunset, then villagers circle the blaze while youths dash through flames.
A learner asks why practicing feels nerve wrecking while a sympathetic person recalls the netsh bors discussing it. The response suggests indifference toward the learner’s fate, reflecting tense urban chatter in Washington Star’s style.
The railway commission was notified that Bossemeyer Bros of Superior who filed a claim against the Burlington for overcharges in switching grain of 714 dollars had received the claim in full from the company.
Sanford Dodge and a strong company will appear at the Tobin Opera House on Monday January 18 presenting a varied program with music and dramatic pieces for local audiences.
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