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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1905
Page
5
Pearson's Weekly details a vast Tweed ring fraud with a $200 million loss to New York. It cites inflated courthouse costs and lavish charges from Ingersoll Co and others, including salaries to plasterers and carpenters, plus fraudulent bonds and tax dodges.
A quirky collection of sayings on czars noting limits of power and perception. Imagery speaks of deserts, crowns, crows, and the earth’s axis, with playful distortions and moral hints. The text blends humor and caution about authority and fate.
The article notes little difference in dress between men and women in Japan. It describes a male upper garment under the kimono with a bakauma divided skirt resembling trousers. It mentions women wearing sustenan under kinono, and both sexes using kowhi-maki arm bands and a susu-yoke shirt. The wide silk sash is valued more for practicality than style.
A 1684 New Haven ruling barred girls from a grammar school as improper. Benjamin Mudge, a long-time New England schoolmaster, recalls in a memorandum that in his life ending 1801 he saw only three females in public schools, limited to afternoon handwriting lessons, though they could attend annual catechising.
The wife of a great poet laments that pride accompanies genius and would have preferred an organ grinder to share their plight. She confides to her sister that the lack of simple means leaves them hungry and exposed to hunger while fame looms.
The provided fragment contains a humorous exchange about marriage with no clear news event, person, organization, date, or location to anchor a factual summary. No identifiable entities or happenings are present to compile a newspaper card.
A quoted exchange questions the saying practice makes perfect. The speaker asserts repeated missteps since the first bold performance began, hinting at a stubbornly imperfect outcome. The banter uses dialect to emphasize skepticism about improvement through repetition.
A nocturnal honey bearing ant stores nectar in a large expandable crop. Workers transfer honey from the honey bearer into its abdomen, then preserve the swollen insects in galleries. Other ants feed the amber globes by mouth contact and pressure, providing a dessert treat for celebrations in Mexico.
A Cheviot lamb swept into a river was rejected by its mother until rescued. After drying, the lamb's scent returned and the ewe accepted it, reuniting dam and offspring. The tale, cited by Maxwell, notes a fisherman's aid and a passing shepherd's explanation.
A letter from a Spanish woman visiting Mexico notes a strict national etiquette. New arrivals must publish in print a notice to every capital family declaring they have arrived and are at residents’ disposal or risk remaining unseen and unknown.
A boy visits a butcher to report a bone in the beef her mother bought and asks for bone free meat. The butcher replies that he will send a boneless leg only if he kills a cow without bones.
A father explains to his son Reginald that a bucket shop is a modern cooperage where a man brings a barrel and receives back the Duaghole, illustrating a curious trade term.
An elderly man, likely a hobo, sought help at McKinley and repeatedly returned. He claimed Swiss birth and inquired about Berne and its bears, a local joke noted by Lesli'a Weekly. The incident ends with the president smiling and the man leaving, leaving the community to recall Berne’s bear emblem.
The Chicago Tribune reports a fire insurance firm recalling a two month notice after a large office building burned the day before yesterday. The manager forgives the lapse but warns it must not recur.
In the Sierra, most laborers are Choloa or In Ginos. They are said to become incapable of efficient work on the coasts or in warmer highlands without a long acclimatization period. Sudden relocation from 2,000 to 5,000 feet triggers fevers and sickness among gangs sent for special tasks.
A reader jokes about civilization returning to animal worship based on popular dog and elephant stories. The exchange suggests writers reflect society through animal tales and cultural cycles are turning.
A quip shows a man and woman discussing femininity and desire, with the woman noting her husband’s requests and the man replying with polite affirmation. The dialogue reflects gendered social expectations and wit.
A compact quotation warns that many misfortunes stem from dabbling in matters beyond one's concern while noting that true repentance is elusive and personal, reflecting a world view from traditional proverbs.
The Paris detective is famed for wit and informers, using disguises from voyou to chic monsieur. The Surete maintains six motor cars to reach scenes swiftly, as in a Versailles chateau burglary where burglars were chased by side roads and seized.
A Scottish professor challenges his students to observe closely by offering a gallipot of a foul smelling compound. He recalls using taste to judge it, then has each student dip a finger and sample the odor, insisting the finger he touched with was the one he tasted. He stresses careful observation to avoid misreading signals.
The piece recalls the first Australian gold discovery provoking extreme excitement. Offices emptied and ships deserted, prisons left unguarded, and officials acting as poets and grooms. Geelong's lone servitor with a missing leg remained, while people panicked for gold. Robberies and killings occurred as the rush peaked.
In the American Museum of Natural History a 12 foot long giant Japanese crab specimen, a spider crab type from waters around Japan, towers as the world’s largest crustacean. Its body is bushel size and its two pinchers could encircle a man's arm, while its eight legs resemble elastic bamboo poles.
Britain and the United States lead in deep sea sounding with more measurements than all other nations combined. Over half of the seabed lies within three miles of the surface, while deepest oceanic holes span vast areas. One Atlantic basin covers seven million square miles, about seven percent of the globe, and the Indian Ocean hosts twenty four of the known forty two deep holes.
A historical note describes using a white powder containing barium to add body to an acid based ink. The powder is brushed on glass as a design and then brushed off after fifteen minutes to leave the imprint. The article notes the barium has no effect on the final result.
The piece notes animal locomotion resembles kite flying and parachuting. It cites rhamrachuting animals including flying squirrels, birds such as the pigeon, various reptiles, flying fish, and also mentions spiders and fliers per Davis Natural History of Animals.
A humorous exchange reveals marital sparks as a wife laments nicknames and a husband admits fault. She recalls being called a duck before marriage while he confesses he was an ass and now sees her as a goose. The quip plays on poultry metaphors.
In a brief banter two speakers discuss generosity as a trait. They joke that big ears might signal a generous nature, reflecting a playful interpretation of character shown in a literary aside.
A reflective remark credits maturity as the key driver in poetic creation, echoing a Carlyle-inspired view on art and the role of the artist as the grand agent shaping verse.
The Manchester Guardian recalls the Duchess of Bedford at Woburn Abbey who dreaded savants testing her knowledge. She recounts a founder’s crusade vow and a pope’s command to build a Crstercian abbey, insisting it was the pope of Rome, while Lord Stanhope pressed for a precise date.
The author argues elephants in India are misperceived as highly intelligent. He notes elephants are driven into unlikely places, restrained by natives, and surprisingly manageable through force. A quoted anecdote from Caspar Whitey in Outing describes a tame-elephant method of entry and a captured elephant kneeling to pass a port door.
The article describes rural Scotland where the tally persists as the sole bookkeeping method. Farmers record daily work by a flat wooden tally, edge cuts mark full days, and half days are carved in the surface. Over time education may improve these ancient practices in the north.
Green questions the Vermont youth about plans for the future and his potential son in law replies he would attend the Orthodox church if that would help, noting local town differences between Orthodox and Methodists and denying narrow views.
A French romance writer La Fontaine wept at his desk over the woes of his favored hero. When his wife asked why he did not end the story, he replied it was too soon to finish as he was still in the first volume.
In the Brindles family feuding tale, Mrs Tittie and Mrs Tattle lament raucous female chatter at a last night performance. Sarah Snookings tried to explain the uproar but was cut off by the surrounding talk and clatter.
A terse observation from the Atlanta Journal notes a father’s amusement at echoing his three year old son’s phrases while lacking comparable pride in his eighteen year old. The piece contrasts youthful speech with matured independence.
A fragmented moral quip notes that laziness starts as cobwebs and ends as chains, suggesting as duties pile up a person gains efficiency and learns to manage time.
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