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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1906
Page
5
A memory skilled caricaturist Danton could create near perfect busts after one look. He reproduced a dying sister from a brother's tale, then a father ordered a bust of the late son. A man who tricked him into a memory portrait found it captured the maid, not his wife, when delivered.
A series of experiments tests jaw, pulling and lifting strength of insects. A cookchafer can draw fourteen times its weight and a honeybee thirty times, suggesting insects are far stronger than horses for their size. A small beetle under a tumbler moved the glass, lifting 960 times its own weight in motions rather than carrying it.
The article explains a formulaic approach to fly wheel insurance based on rim speed. It notes that centrifugal forces can cause wheels to explode at high RPMs, with solid iron failing around three miles per minute rim speed and rims for two foot pulleys allowed at sixteen revolutions per second underwriters setting premiums proportional to wheel size and type.
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt describes stourschatu a soft stone used for German pipe making in Asia Minor. Crude meerschaum called bamtashb is yellowish white and wrapped in red clay coal or skin. Blocks sell for 25 to 200 dollars per cart load and are dried by sun in summer or heated rooms in winter. Blocks are sorted into twelve grades and shipped mainly to Vienna where top pipe makers reside.
A Philadelphia North American note recalls Charles Lamb famed quip about hating a man he has yet to meet. The anecdote features Lamb declining an introduction to avoid risking loss of his dislike. The brief reflects Lambs wit and social humor from literary circles.
In a pointed exchange Dumley notes Bragley’s sudden financial collapse while Wiseman hints the rise may have ended abruptly. The Catholic Standard and Times presents the dialogue as a sharp, ironic aside on Bragley’s public fortunes.
Fragmentary dialogue and comic lines about luck and boxing references appear from the Cleveland Leader. The read reads like a jumble of spoken quips and a rag and bone dealer exchange. No clear event or人物 names beyond Bill Pete and Papagalic emerge.
A reflective quotation notes that ancestral glory illuminates future generations while neither praising nor condemning past qualities, suggesting a timeless measure of legacy and memory.
A silk hat maker explains hat construction from linen layers to silk covering. He notes his right forefinger nail thickens from handling hot brim shaping, yet says hat curling is pleasant artistic work and that experts can recognize curlers by eye.
The article argues that the groove under the nose in children indicates two ancestral upper lips, one beneath each nostril, capable of movement. It claims this supports descent from platyrrhines or lemurs rather than catarrhine monkeys, noting evolution split lips into a single lip over time.
In Santa Barbara, a historic mission town and seaside resort, visitors travel by Union Pacific to this California locale. The text mentions tourism, Spanish friars, and inquiries about low fares via ALVA B. Caby and Stork Foods International. It notes one-way colonist rates with specific January and February travel dates from Sidney to eastern points.
The item lists clubbing prices for The Sidney Telegraph and Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean, Prairie Farmer, New York Weekly Tribune-Farmer, and The Nebraska Farmer. It urges readers to subscribe in advance and highlights benefits for old subscribers who renew.
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