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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1903
Page
2
A collage of satirical notices and brief opinions zips through topics from marriage and names to Paris cures and public figures. It riffs on Reed Smoot, Alfonso, Rockefeller and the Daily Marcon gram launch, mixing social quips with international affairs and moralities.
The handsomest Christmas present yet reported is the one million dollars in cash that John W. Gates gave to his son. A great many different people probably contributed to it.
The inquest into Leon ard F. Roos of New York shows he drafted his will in a restaurant. Other items note tests in Washington for preserving beef, a St. Louis woman’s broad gambling claim, Andrew Carnegie's fear wealth harms their daughter, and France’s move to abolish noble titles.
A Chicago alderman introduces an ordinance forcing barbers to pass a skill examination. If opponents fail to counter the proposal, the measure may pass as a test of public oratory and accountability.
John D. Rockefeller plans a ten million dollar education endowment in the South, an action the piece links to higher kerosene prices in the North. It argues charity should start at home and frames the move as a domestic duty.
A theater in St Marys West Virginia faced a near asphyxiation incident as gas fumes filled the gallery. The event’s perceived severity varied with the play and its performers.
An unfavorable report is issued on the bill to move the presidential inauguration date. Like predecessors, the next President will be inaugurated in the rain.
The Scientific American cites walking backward as a headache remedy. It jokes that the patient will eventually fall and break his neck, presenting a grim, tongue in cheek cure with a warning about risks.
A columnist laments anthropologists failing to identify criminals before they act after twelve men attack a Nevada mine manager. The manager kills three and wounds three with one revolver, and the piece critiques science for frauds in its name.
A New York paper hails the first beat or acoop received by wireless telegraph. The note sheds light on the general impression that many wireless messages had already been printed in the journal before.
Republicans push a substitute to admit two states with a single bill while seeking unanimous GOP support. If defeated, Quay may press a statehood amendment on the agricultural bill, risking a close test vote. Possible Oklahoma admission only as a last resort toward session end.
Washington reports the house approved a provision allowing post offices to accept bulk mail of 2000 or more identical pieces without stamps if postage is prepaid. The measure aims to cut stamp production and handling costs for the government and the public.
President Roosevelt will call an extraordinary session of Congress on March 5 if anti trust legislation deemed acceptable to the administration is not enacted this session. He has told members of Congress of his firm resolve and weighed intense opposition from opponents in the party. The president’s decision followed careful consideration of efforts to defeat antitrust measures. A leading Republican termed these efforts as highly remarkable.
Information from Honduras reports that due to revolutionary troubles all entrants must hold passports. Three passengers aboard the steamer Hispania bound for Puerto Cortez were required to obtain passports before sailing.
Members of Congress from South Dakota on Monday presented to their bodies a memorial from the state legislature urging passage of the Rosebud treaty bill.
Two plague deaths reported Saturday in Mazatlan while Yerzin serum shows strong early recovery signs in most treated patients. Hotels and boarding houses close amid fear of outbreaks and potential arson. fire insurers decline policies.
The Child Saving Institute of Omaha intervened in a Washington county case involving a woman running a house of ill fame in Blair. After her confession, the institute took charge of her four children, ages nine to three, with three already placed in homes and a fourth awaiting placement.
Frank James says Coleman Younger’s pardon deprives him of means to live. He notes Younger is 60, has served 25 years, has no trade, and argues for absolute freedom or return to prison. He criticizes the pardon as not truly freeing Younger.
Lieutenant Governor McGilton outlines a plan to require committees to calendar bills, notify the body in advance, and allow public hearings on any measure during committee consideration. The rule aims to give outsiders a timely chance to voice views and influence passage.
The County Officers association bill stalled in committee. Supporters favor four year terms but oppose extending terms beyond elected duration. Some members oppose aligning county elections with presidential or even years citing voter attention and potential unfit candidates.
York fraternal societies adopt resolutions at city hall to oppose Senate File 19. Delegations will go to Lincoln to urge defeat, citing loss of internal control and misuse of reserve funds as threats to fraternal benefit groups. They urge members statewide to oppose the bill and request officials to act to defeat it.
Paris dispatch from Figaro reports Sultan mobilizes 240000 men and orders Idarei Massousleh steamers to move troops to Adrianople Salonica and along the Bulgarian frontier to reinforce the Second and Third army corps. The move complicates Macedonia and burdens diplomacy in the long eastern question.
Former United States Senator Henry Laurens Dawes died at his Pittsfield home after a severe cold contracted Christmas night. He was 86 and had been ill since then. President Roosevelt visited Pittsfield last fall and spoke with Dawes. a trolley accident occurred on his return from the Dawes house.
Two men died and five others were seriously injured with six more slightly hurt in a rear end collision on east bound stock trains of the Illinois Central at Cloverdale. Dense fog obscured the lead train, blinding the second engine crew until impact.
Attorney Baldwin defends railroad paid printing in the tax dispute. He argues outside counties are interested and Omaha papers show bias. Railroads have right to publish information, while country papers must be reimbursed or freely share their views. The boomers’ criticisms are dismissed as baseless.
Representative Loomis states the revenue revision committee will report a bill modeled from multiple states and original work, with no fixed features until subcommittees finish and the full panel reviews. The plan emphasizes independence and situational tailoring rather than a single blueprint.
The constitutionality of Currie’s measure creating and defining the state irrigation board is sustained. The bill requires farmers in affected areas to use extermination methods for prairie dogs at the proper season, with penalties for noncompliance and road overseers paid $3 per day to distribute the prairie dog killer and charge the cost to farmers.
The revenue committee meets relentlessly to craft a bill to be submitted to the legislature. Chairman Brown says they work faithfully and harmoniously, aiming to finish before reconvening. Member Sears warns flaws are likely and public reception may be harsh, but the group remains determined.
A man calling himself Lieutenant Colonel the Honorable F Seymour F Barrington of His Majesty's Horse claimed noble birth and wealth. He was found guilty of disturbing the peace and fined 500 dollars or a year in the workhouse after an encounter with James F Cochrane of Kansas City whose sister he said had been duped into marriage.
The Montana supreme court adjudged that no franchise tax may be charged to the Northern Pacific Express company by the state since the firm conducts interstate business. The decision restricts Montana's ability to tax railroad and express operations crossing state lines.
The article notes Marion Crawford writing two novels yearly on average with Mralo's Crucifix finished in ten days and The Tale of Lonely Parish completed in twenty four days. Via Crucis required eight months for material gathering. Harris Dickson's The Black Wolf Breed was completed in just over two months. Julia Magruder's Princess Sonia took eighteen days.
A petition to found a public library in Constantinople was rejected by the minister of Public Instruction. Objections were raised to several books on the proposed list, including La Fontaine fables, with concerns the lion could insult the sultan and degrade the kingdom in the eyes of the people.
Granton Oklahoma February 9. E H Gosney after a decade of suffering from kidney trouble finally finds a cure with Dodd's Kidney Pills. He reports rapid improvement after trying many medicines and credits the remedy with his complete recovery.
An old ad promotes Red Cross Ball Blue in a 2 oz package for five cents. It urges readers to use the product to keep clothes white and includes a sentimental line about loved ones bringing sunshine or shadows to life.
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