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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1900
Page
4
The Sidney Telegraph lists subscription and advertising rates and notes editor and proprietor Callahan with local editor Gapen. It reports Buenos Aires sunstroke counts, smallpox scares in South Omaha, McKinley naming Taft to head the Philippine commission, and Kentucky political tensions with Taylor’s possible resignation and upcoming Republican conventions in Lincoln on May 2.
Washington dispatch reports a minority in the House endorsing direct election of senators by the people without waiting for legislative approval. Some senators say the time is ripe to end the purchasable image of the high office amid public suspicions. The public’s demand for popular election grows as confidence in current senators wanes.
A telegraph correspondence from February 1900 reports on Manila hemp and binder twine, noting shipments to the Philippines before August, a drop after Aguinaldo blocked port trade, and a price drop as dealers adjusted amid wartime controls. The text concludes with references to U S military actions and Otis.
Debates flare over rapid hemiport reopening amid dealer protests led by a Chicago firm. Manila fibre prices rise as 85 percent of binding twine relies on Mexican sisal. Manila shipments may lower costs. Senator Allen aim at Boer recognition questioned. no Boer envoy ever sent, England flexes influence in Africa. Dave Mercer named Nebraska congressional committeeman. Burkett resists home political pressure, urging duty over campaign games.
Sidney High School presents a courthouse show on February 24 with reserved seats at Dawson's and admission set at twenty five cents.
The revival meetings ended last Sunday with forty two people professing a change of heart and resolving to lead a purer life. Visitors Irvin Burks of Seattle and Jas Burks of Indianapolis stayed with their uncle P A Griffith and departed for Seattle Monday evening.
Short help wanted notice seeking a girl for house work with good wages. Inquiries directed to this office or to box 108 in Sidney Nebraska.
Ballard's Snow Liniment promises rapid relief for soreness from stretched sinews strains or injuries with cures beyond mere relief. It claims to banish rheumatism neuralgia and inflammation and relieves burns cuts frost bites quickly. Sold by D. J Seanion at 50 cents with money back guarantee.
Henrietta Tex lawyer B Munday recalls his brother nearly dying of malaria and jaundice. He credits Electric Bitters, bought at Bassett's drugstore, with saving his life by expelling malaria and purifying the blood while aiding digestion and organ function.
Advertisement extols Dr King’s New Life Pills as a miracle health booster turning weakness into strength and energy into mental power. It claims daily use improves health and notes a price of 25 cents per box sold by W. TF. Bassett.
Mrs. H. Lincoln recalls a fearful night for the widow of General Burnham of Machias Maine as doctors warned of imminent pneumonia. She credits Dr King’s New Discovery with saving her life after she begged for the remedy, saying it cured her throat chest and lung disease and she slept through the night. The ad promotes the medicine at 50 cents to a dollar with free trial bottles at Bassett’s drug store.
An editor recalls a severe lung infection in October 1556 cured by Chamberlain's Cough Remedy after trial with a local doctor. He credits the medicine with immediate improvement and full restoration after three bottles, noting the product is sold by all dealers in Wyant, Illinois.
Edward Bok argues in The Ladies' Home Journal that American housewives avoid making dinners with fuss and feathers. He says guests prefer ordinary meals and that formal company dinners reveal themselves in every course and every china piece. The hostess, lacking time, concentrates on the table and staff rather than the guest.
Don’t trifle with coughs. Cure quickly by Ballard’s Horehound Syrup, praised by A L Armstrong, a Clinton druggist, who says it outsells all other remedies. It is billed as prompt, certain and harmless for throat and chest troubles. Price 25 cents, sold by D J Scanlon.
An advertisement claims piles affect one in four and promotes Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment as a radical cure for blind, bleeding and protruding cases. It emphasizes no pain or operation with bottles at 50 cents and tubes at 75 cents, sold by D. J. Scanlon.
A poem in the Boston Globe by Mary Norton Stadford satirizes beauty norms through a speaker who praises a one dimensional damsel while deriding fuller figures. The verse questions vanity and fear of transformation as readers note the saner, sharper critique of appearance standards.
An East End hostess plans a lunch to surprise a friend, but delays and errands mean the guest ends up cooking. The feat becomes a mutual surprise as the guest prepares the meal while the hostess returns to find an unexpectedly splendid meal ready on the table. The tale includes an aside on mental phenomena and a critique of Flammarion’s survey.
A six year old girl and her sister visited the Bronx park zoo with their parents. They watched a wolf devour a live sparrow and the elder cried out at the cruelty while the younger remarked with a philosophical quip about shooting and cooking the bird first.
Mrs. Bingley wins the second prize at a card party and plays up her small win to provoke envy in the first prize winner, according to a Chicago Times-Lerala extract.
The Union Pacific offers a greatly reduced fare of $25.00 to Portland and other Puget Sound destinations, also to Helena and Montana points, Salt Lake City and Utah points. For tickets and full information call BER Breisch, Agent.
An advertisement promotes Bucklen’s Arnica Salve as a quick healer for burns cuts bruises and skin eruptions. It claims pain relief fever sores ulcers boils corns and piles cures and guarantees results. Sold by W F Bassett druggist at two cents per box.
A humorous dialogue from a Chicago Tribune piece questions a portrait's likeness to Mrs Gushleigh and a New York Press remark notes a stage in baby development. The exchange frames identity and perception amid playful speculation.
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