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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1876
Page
1
A poem by W. S. Johnson from the New York Evening Post is quoted praising the enduring power of Love. It argues that wisdom comes from loving what one learns, and that love bonds present and past and future, keeping humanity united and hearts alive across time.
In late May a weary Mr. Paul Graham travels to the country seeking air and a change. Rosamond Hillgrove, initially mistaken for the painter, ends up painting with him top of a window ladder. The pair fall for each other. after comic misreads and a paint brush exchange, Graham and Rosamond become engaged during his visit. Adeline Albertis fumes at the love triangle while observing Rosamond’s resourceful, unplanned courtship turn.
A quirky burbury note quotes a man dodging his wife’s dictionary. The line humorously captures domestic tension over language and propriety in a local town column.
A Concorp correspondent for the Boston Journal reports New Hampshire residents appear long lived. From 1869 to 1875, 162 men and 198 women over ninety died in the state. 168 men and 80 women reached a century. Concord is noted as exceptionally healthy with an eight year mortuary record showing a death rate of 14 per 1000.
A Detroit youth bound for law school antics captivates neighbors with constant legal talk. He borrows and re plevins objects, drafts writs, and recites court jargon at meals. His father ends the legal saga when the boy abandons study and returns to play with a wood pile.
German exploration of the Peloponnesus has yielded a marble statue of Nike with a legible Paionios inscription. The statue, made for the Messenian colonists of Naupactus, was a votive gift to the temple of Jupiter at Olympia after the third Messenian war ending circa 455 BC, highlighting its historical importance.
The piece notes the small number of known sculptors and praises German Olympia explorers as a global art gain. It confirms Pausanias descriptions of the Nike statue and its offering origin, naming Paionias as the sculptor and detailing portions of Jupiter’s temple attributed to him. London Telegraph.
An account from La Vau del Nuevo Mundo recounts Eliza Lynch, wife of Lopez, arriving in Ascension with her son and facing hostile crowds. She calms the mob, receives money from the poor, and later faces a demand for expulsion by fifty Paraguayan ladies. After seeking British protection and threatening to die for her life, she flees the republic with her son and English ally Dennis Hugh, never to return.
A compendium of historical notes noting flag history 1777 centennial misreadings 1869 Pennsylvania orphans 3631 1876 finances and religion in France currency changes in the German Empire railway speeds and contrasts between American and English watches with a final quip from Pomeroy’s Democrat about barbering and a stranger in silence.
A week-bearded man enters a West Madison street barber shop and asks for a tooth pulled in quiet defiance. The barber misreads the intent until the stranger explains the plan and offers advice on reading customers. The exchange ends with a temperate warning about assuming shaving when a patron sits in a chair.
James Henderson known as Bloody Jack from Table Creek fought a grizzly after a hunting accident. He fired, traded blows with the bear, was clawed and stabbed thirty seven times, shot twelve times, and died at four this morning. The bear weighed 578 pounds and his body will be sent to Denver. burial planned on Red Bill Mountain.
A worried wife discovers her husband’s nightly lodge meetings mask a drinking habit. He admits the lodge is a ruse to justify visits to a drinking room, bragging of beating “enemies of our craft” for cash. The piece also critiques plant care and cites sermons and trials, ending with demographic data and a snipped aside about Mr Winslow.
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