First Sidney Soldier Returns From France
Corporal John Costello, the first Sidney boy home from overseas, bears a leg wound from the Vesle battle. He crawled back with a heavy cane, spent three hours to travel a mile, and spent months in hospitals before returning to Des Moines and Des Moines to recuperate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Costello
Sidney Boy
M. Costello
John Cosigle
Vesle
John
United States
Virginia
Des Moines
Quarntion
Desmoines
Lind
Didn't Intend to Be Fooled Manager Dialogue
A Buffalo Express snippet records a quip between the Hickville Academy of Music manager and an advance agent about how many girls their company has. The manager declares advertising useless without a crowd at the depot to verify.
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Hickville Academy of Music
Buffalo Express
China Newsprint Landscape Cited In Shanghai Daily Lead
A Shanghai daily prints 30,000 copies, claiming the largest circulation in China. The country reportedly has about 440 newspapers with averages under 3,000 copies per issue, per Gag Logie.
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China
Shanghai
Celestial Republic
Gag Logie
England Produces Paper From Alfa Plant Since 1862
England manufactures paper from alfa a fibrous plant grown in northern Africa since 1862. The paper is snow white of excellent quality and widely used for printing books and magazines in England.
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England
Africa
Reasonably Steady Settlement Worker Inquiry
A Buffalo Ex press item quotes a terse exchange about employment stability in a poor household. A settlement worker asks about the husband’s steady work while the wife responds the man is rarely out of work more than a week, implying precarious stability within the workhouse context.
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Texst
Buffalo Express
Norwegian engineer claims feather leather can be much harder
A Norwegian engineer told Popular Mechanics Magazine he has found a process to make feathers as hard as leather two or three times their natural hardness. The treated leather reportedly remains elastic and gains resistance to heat and moisture, offering a potential boost amid high prices for feather goods and footwear.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Great Mother Cow and Moon Symbolism in Early Cultures
The article traces how the revered cow evolved from a life sustaining animal into the Great Mother figure. It links the cowry amulet as an early life elixir to personification, and shows how the cow’s maternal milk role tied her to the Great Mother and the moon as a regulator of women.
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Hhe Moon
Platinum Enables Sulphuric Acid Formation
The passage explains that sulphuric acid is produced from air water and sulfur fumes, with platinum providing the needed provocation. A trace of platinum prompts the oxygen water and sulfur to react, forming the so called king of chemicals.
Battery Test Offered at Mann's Service Station
Mann's Battery Service Station invites customers to have their batteries tested in the Brewer Building. The advertisement promotes battery testing services and location inside the Brewer Building for convenience and quick checks.
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Lloyd Mann
Brewer Building
Mann’s
Efficient thrashing operations to save grain and fuel
United States Department of Agriculture outlines methods to optimize threshing machines. Emphasizes leveling separators, proper belt tension, wind direction, and secure mounting. details cylinder and concave alignment, end play, and tooth spacing. covers self feeders, bundle handling, and cleaning to minimize grain loss and waste.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
Then he said good bye to the night of owed dreams
A fragmentary line recalls a farewell to a dust filled night and a claim that dreams move by contract, with a voice addressing a She-Strange and scientists discussing dream movement in order.
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Mie
Sheep Aid Farm Labor
Prepared by the U S Department of Agriculture notes labor to control weeds is a major economic loss. Sheep can help by eating most weeds, reducing the need for human labor in pastures and grain fields, and aiding weed control to secure maximum yields.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
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France
Sidney
Telegraph
Office of the Telegraph
FL Norris
Hardy
Cheyenne County
Shag Telegraph
Gurley
W. Eb, Duncan, Dalton
Nebr
Orpington
M. J. Schwarts
Route A
Estray
Fred Rouse
Frank Goodwin
Duroe Jersey
A. A. Ahlman
Derrett
Livoni
Bidney
Hohler Chrage
Julia Deere Wane
TM. Doran
W. Luckett
Ku Nuramelhart
Studt & Hink
Traquire
Hink’s
Gapen
Tracks Hospital
Logan
G. W. Fullerton
Lodgepole
George Q Glidwell
Colton
Sundl
Charlie Feytinger
Sunol
Bert Allington
Sidney Telegraph Office
Duallon
Pillsos
Nebraska
Holyoke
Colorado
Sal
Aradne
A. A. Alllman
Fied Bartels
John Livoni
Livoni & Son
W.B. Hobbs
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