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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1909
Page
4
A pep talk for 1909 urges readers to embrace the new year with hope and determination. It praises resilience, cautions against overambitious resolutions, and advises gradual personal reform, sobriety, and cheerful conduct to influence daily life and those around them.
The text depicts universal aid after a major earthquake with Italy's king and queen joining relief, clergy lending strength, and widespread monetary and material donations. It notes global condolences and offers of help from rulers and nations, illustrating a rare unity beyond divisions.
The nation waits for a congressional rebuke of the president as questions arise about the resolve of resolutions committees and whether the incident has been closed.
Lodgepole residents greet the season with visits from governors Sheldon and Shallenberger and notable guests. The town hosted two entertainment shows, with three more planned, while evangelists Humble pursue conversions. Local students Gary Young and Verne Bates return home for vacations. The school district commissioned a new automatic hot water heating plant. Multiple families travel for holidays, and traders from all directions frequent Lodgepole markets as residents praise their community.
Clara enjoyed the holidays as Peter Kolp visited Dalton and Aura spent time in the town. A dance at C. E. Higgins home drew about fifty friends with swell music. The Robie Epps ranch dance January 9 features Mr Pultz and Thurston. District 147 honors punctual students, including Cecil James Mable James and Reta James, while Clara Violet and Roy Higgins earned perfect attendance after a brief vacation.
A playful reflection on how newspaper advertising ink influences readers. The piece suggests that a well inked page signals a bustling town with active merchants and a well supplied local market.
Miss Johnson travels to Kansas relatives while Rev D A Shultz combines business with a pleasure trip east. Many locals visit Cheyenne and Greeley. Christmas services unite churches in Sidney with a tree and music. Skating on the lake east of town and dances in Herdon mark festive days as Misses Erickson VanCronover and Miss Russell visit Potter.
The article reports strong grain activity with rye yields of 85 bushels per acre and 32 bushels per acre on different fields near Potter, observed by Mr. Grubb for Mr. Irving. It also notes Miss Johnson’s departure for Kansas and the Lutheran church Ladies' Society formation with officers Mrs. Struble, Mrs. Sweezy, Mrs. Lawrence, and Miss Anna Adama.
A Philadelphia vegetarian speaker in gray attire declares true vegetarians are those who avoid all animal slaughter, both inwardly and outwardly. He shows cotton gloves, wooden buttons, and unoven boots as proof, claiming he eats no fish meat or fowl and sees many others like him.
A New York Post excerpt describes a sidewalk vendor selling herbal wares labeled slipper allum tea and tobacco twists. The elderly woman explains the products promise to fatten and cheer single women, suggesting bachelors will be attracted if they drink the tea.
A bald narrator warns listeners to keep calm as he recounts a grim London tale. An Irishman, thinking a keg of black sand held a cigarette, drops ashes into it causing a deadly blast that surprises bystanders.
The Abbe Pradt, a boastful figure of Napoleonic times, met the Duke of Wellington in Paris where Pradt applauded political affairs and claimed Europe’s salvation rested with a single man. Wellington replied with a quip asserting the honor belonged to him.
Paris Revue Medicale notes that in some WA districts women take a vow of silence after their husbands die. In certain cases the oath lasts two years after the funeral, and often the widow keeps it as well as the mother and mother in law of the deceased.
A Louisville Courier Journal quote records a rural philosopher's claim that poets are not born but made by fathers who push them toward usefulness. The remark frames poetry as a cultivated craft rather than a natural gift.
A knocker is described as a man who faults others for doing better than he can. The quote contrasts friendship with justice noting, when men are friends there is no need of justice.
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