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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1898
Page
7
The New Year issue of Godeys Magazine expands its contents by fourteen pages. It opens with a new serial by Stanley Edwards Johnson, The Wimpled Maid of Nantucket, a tale of love, greed and hidden treasures, plus seven additional new stories in this number.
Widely sold grain based beverage Grain-O marketed as coffee substitute. Claims include gentle on delicate stomachs and lower cost with 15 and 25 cent packages. Includes light quips about romance and digestion from a Detroit Free Press quote.
A proprietor salutes tenant Joe with a dollar for missing a celebration. Joe jokes he would have eaten and drunk more. Giles and Miles discuss Fuller’s drinking, suggesting his troubles are not to blame as they all seem to swim.
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets as a blood cleanser to improve skin and remove pimples boils blotches and bilious complexion by stimulating the liver. It promises beauty for ten cents and notes satisfaction guaranteed with druggists. The passage ends with a humorous Chicago Tribune exchange about a husband calling his wife duck and cold feet.
The speaker, Rivers, mutters that the janitor was not frugal about heating his small room, lamenting the cold in a shabby Chicago flat. The remark appears in a Chicago Tribune piece with a wry, self-deprecating tone.
Col. Henry Woolridge, 81, of Mayfield Kentucky, famed as a hunter of deer bear and fox in the Purchase, has built seventeen granite statues in a Mayfield cemetery inclosure. The monuments honor his brothers nieces and favorite hounds with a life size horse and other symbols of his hunting life. He awaits death with a rosewood casket and burial robe in his bedroom.
Shakespeare’s London, a city of 150 000 to 200 000, made him widely known by 1595 to 1610. Spenser and Meres noted him as a leading wit and poet, with Venus and Adonis and his sonnets. The town’s educated circles, theater crowds, and notable figures like Raleigh and Bacon all knew him.
A burglar was halfway through the window of the room occupied by 13 year old Dora when Dora crept to the window and pulled the sash down on his neck. She held him there until the police arrived.
A Connecticut man denied ordering a book he received and billed for. He stated, If I paid, you did not send it. If I got it, I paid for it. If I didn't, I won't.
Doc Davis of Nicholasville Kentucky loaded a muzzle loading shotgun. A dog sitting nearby scrotched its ear and stepped on the hammer causing the gun to fire. Davis was perhaps fatally shot.
A Chicago company pledges a guaranteed cure for rheumatism neuralgia catarrh asthma lagrippe and related ailments with its remedy named 5 Drops. It offers 100000 sample bottles for 25 cents per lot tle by mail prepaid plus 300 dose large bottles at $1 and three bottles for $2.50. A letter from James Williams of Negent Illinois cites his wife’s relief after one bottle. Also notes a Providence Rhode Island statue of Captain Esek Hopkins and a humorous court exchange. The Remington Typewriter is advertised with claims of best sales and a Omaha catalogue request.
General James F. Wade, long in the U S cavalry since age eighteen, presides at a court martial at Fort Sheridan. He is the son of Ohio Senator Ben Wade, noted for his political prominence.
An advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy claiming to cure catarrh in all stages and offers $100 for any failure. It notes internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and urges readers to request testimonials. Also promotes Fall's Family Pills and ends with a joke about a girl telling a man she loves him.
Old advertisement notes Allen's foot powder as the sole cure for chiiblains frostbites damp sweating feet corns and bunions. Shaken into shoes for 25c with free sample offered by Allen S. Olmsted LeNoy New York. The ad claims the same hole that lets water in will let it out.
Marble slab marks the grave of Lewis Galdy who died at Port Royal on December 22, 1739 aged 80. Born in Montpelier France he fled for religion and settled on the island where an earthquake swallowed him in 1692. A second quake cast him into the sea, where he was mirac Ulously saved by swimming until a boat rescued him. He lived many years in prominent esteem and was greatly lamented at his death.
A Chicago News item notes whaling vessels, mainly with crews in San Francisco, stuck in ice and peril from siege conditions. It warns readers to seek early treatment for ailments and quips on ancient longevity and physician presence.
An advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease powder claiming to ease tight shoes and cure corns bunions and sweating feet for 25 cents with free samples. It lists Allen Olmsted LeRoy NY as contact. A separate cartoon-style joke features a father and a suitor arguing over marriage.
The Burlington Route advertises weekly Thursday departures from Om�lum Lincoln and Haystings to San Francisco and Los Angeles in clean modern tourist sleepers with through cars via Deaver and Salt Lake City. Berths are five dollars. second class tickets honored. Contact J Francis Omaha for details.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets Candy Cathartic as a cure for constipation with 10c or 25c price. A stray line jokes about a woman who hugged a burglar until police arrived and wondered why he objected to arrest.
An advertisement touts Hood’s Sarsaparilla as a cure for dyspepsia with a testimonial from Barbara Rehbenz on improving health after three bottles. It also promotes Hood’s Pills for constipation and notes plans for a floating business block in Whatcom and Skagway with various shops and leased upper rooms.
A collage of ad lines touts laxatives and tonics with dubious cures. It mixes product pitches like Casvareta and Candy Cathartic with brand slogans and quips about marriage and jealousy.
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