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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1910
Page
7
A London zoo hospital, a red brick building behind the reptile house, treats five gray squirrels one fox two kangaroos and one infant ibex. Injuries include an ear canker and a coat maladies with antiseptics and careful handling.
On Makonsky shore a coal field near Oak Bluffs is claimed by owners George Allen Matthews and son Ray to hold vast lignite reserves along the island. Geologists sight potential hundreds of thousands of tons, with recent 75 ton extraction used for brick kilns. Lignite touted as fuel and gas source. burn heat and ash content noted.
Vienna welcomes William Miller once a Pittsburg newsboy as the new tenor at the Imperial opera house. He receives a record salary of 12000 dollars for the season, replacing Leo Slezak who left for the Metropolitan opera in New York.
In Doylestown Pennsylvania 14 year old Edna Weiss of Warminster died of blood poisoning after a shoulder ligament injury from being pulled into a party game.
Beavers have reclaimed parts of New Jersey, especially Sussex County, forming colonies including a 40-beaver site on Lubber Run in Bryan township. Their dams flood acres of John Hovey’s farmland, blocking drainage and threatening property value. Hovey seeks aid from the New Jersey fish commission or may pursue a state damages suit if help fails.
Carlisle Pennsylvania obituary notes Rev J Marion Mickley longtime Grace Reformed Akron Ohio and Civil War chaplain with Sheridan Thomas and Crook commands descended from Mickletus court treasurer to the Frankish king Chlodwig 536 A D The family name De Michelet.
Dr. Gray warden and president of the British association education section buys a 2000 acre ranch near Calgary to give Bradfield College boys practical farming and ranching experience after their schooling.
John Sylvester Myer of Lime Ridge Columbia county now 90 recounts a life spanningMexican War service at Vera Cruz six trips with Indian scouts in the west and swift escapes from Confederate guards. He fought in numerous Civil War battles, was wounded thrice, and holds four honorable discharges. He left home at 11 to roam Europe and beyond before enlisting as a marine.
The narrative recounts Civil War veteran Myers, a French-born rider who helped build a pontoon bridge on the North Ann river, survived 83 deaths claimed in the siege and a Petersburg guard incident, fought at Fort Harrison Fredericksburg and the Wilderness, was wounded, mustered out in 1866, later lived at Lime Ridge, with his grandfather serving under Lafayette.
New York preacher Dr. J. Prescott of St. Ann's Sayville on Long Island abandons goat and terrapin for bucksaw therapy to cure his goat-like obsession with wealthy parishioners. He hauls the saw through Sayville streets, claims the tool drives out devils and restores appetite and health, while trustees fear shade trees at the church lawn.
Wilson Foster of Klondike yields 10 000 mineral specimens from Yukon gizzards and districts to the Dominion museum in Ottawa. He plans to donate 50 000 minerals to London’s British Museum, says he travels with two trunks containing at least two million specimens.
At Daimler works in Vienna a dirigible balloon made entirely of steel is under construction. The cigar shaped craft uses 39 by 39 steel plates welded in annular form and weighs over 28 000 kilos with 2500 kilos of gasoline fuel. It will carry 20 passengers and two aircraft for war use, with three gas compartments and onboard cooking, salons, sleeping bunks, and ramming capability.
A magpie pigeon bred at Martham Norfolk set a new record by selling for 300 dollars in London. The buyer paid in gold, and the metal amount surpassed the bird’s own weight.
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