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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1916
Page
6
Peetz residents report rapid town growth with new bank building drug store harness shop elevator and multiple new residences under construction. Farmers boast high yields with wheat up to 59 bushels per acre and oats 90 while grain shipments run five to seven cars daily. Plans include a local newspaper plant and new Odd Fellow lodge and Modern Woodmen camp.
The report notes thousands of acres to be broke for crops in the coming months. Fifteen new tractors will arrive in the area within four months amid existing farm machinery and horses. Farmers plan large acreages of alfalfa and sweet clover, with both crops shown to thrive on uplands when properly seeded and cared for.
Chester Royer hauls wheat for Mr. Miller on the Upte grove place while Mr. Kalhoff seeks an additional car load of hogs for shipment. Thornburg Selch store opens. F H Dunton heads to Sidney and lets a pool hall contract. Gurley carpenters Schlisselman and Antrim start pool hall and other builds. coal demand remains steady with weather. Thomas Stack travels from Gurley to Chicago. George Miller east of town hauls wheat. Brash nearby transacts business. mobile garage contract awarded to Schlisselman.
Porter Charlton, who was linked to the murder of his wife in a noted scandal, has returned to the United States after an extended period abroad in Italy. The case drew widespread attention and involved long legal proceedings and media scrutiny. Charlton faced questions about the affair and was treated as a central figure in a high profile crime narrative.
A vast flood toll of about 100 lives is reported across southern California. Seventeen bodies recovered from San Diego bay after Otay reservoir failure. Otay valley and San Luis Rey valley victims totaled about sixty. The Tijuana race track costing $100,000 was destroyed and the Mexican town of Tijuana flooded. Cuyama dam breach released 3,000,000,000 gallons as fears grew for other dams in the region.
A zeppelin released a dozen bombs over Paris killing twenty four and wounding thirty. The city darkened as fires engines sounded alarms. Paris newspapers demand immediate retaliation measures.
At Union Stock Yards South Omaha Neb February 2 a fair run of cattle arrived about 6700 head with demand for fat cattle vigorous and prices steady to higher. Veal calves in good demand, bulls stags and feeders steady to firmer. Hog receipts about 26500 with prices down 10 to 15 cents. best $7.75. Sheep and lambs 6000 head with lamb prices up 10 to 15 cents and ewes up 15 to 25 cents. top lambs $10.36 with good weights reaching $10.50.
The survey itemized mass events including a Feb 21 recess, confiscation of Mexican reactionaries property, flood death tolls in Southern California, a boiler explosion disabling the Ryndam, political battles over a continental army, deadly fires in Seattle and Drumright, Porter Charlton’s arrival in New York after Italy, Brandeis’s Supreme Court appointment, and wage/policy shifts. It notes Midwinter trade dips, Rocky Mountain storm relief, wrestling match wins, a bridge president’s death, a record Australian wheat crop, and parole conditions for night riders. It also covers Lusitania response, a child attack conviction, UMWA wage talks, a murder exoneration, river drowning, Updike family indictments, and foreign trade critiques at a New Orleans conference. The piece closes with rail labor vote trends toward an eight-hour day.
Backache signals weakened kidneys and should prompt treatment to target the kidneys. Doan's Kidney Pills are promoted as effective for kidney trouble, with Mrs. O. Pearson of Sidney citing relief after use. Price 50 cents, available at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo N Y.
An imitation diamond is never as brilliant as a genuine stone. Place the stone under water to reveal the difference, as the imitation remains dim while a real diamond sparkles. When possible compare a suspected imitation with a genuine stone underwater to make the contrast clear even to novices.
The Havana tobaccos are low in nicotine yet high in oil. Pipe stems and brown stains from smoking through a handkerchief are tobacco oil, not nicotine, and oils are extractable only by elaborate distillation. The oil in cigar tobacco prevents inhaling smoke, avoiding strangulation and irritation.
A teacher asks a riddle about truthfulness and a shy girl answers the hardest task is marriage, suggesting matrimony as the best thing in the world to do.
A brief exchange shows a clerk asking if a charge should be made and a woman admitting the demand due to her husband losing his position, hinting at financial pressure and social embarrassment. The dialogue captures a moment of domestic stress surrounding employment and debt.
A newspaper notice touts Trall's Catarrh Medicine as a blood based remedy effective in all stages of catarrh. The firm offers $100 to any case it fails to cure and invites readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio, with druggists carrying the product.
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