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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1900
Page
7
Sacramento faces a strange political standoff as two men claim the mayoral powers while a pending suit over election law purity delays a vacant post. Meanwhile Wyoming sheepmen oppose a federal land leasing bill favored by cattle interests.
The post office department introduces rural free mail delivery after a Maryland trial showed success. Carriers deliver and collect mail, issue money orders, and register mail while reducing the number of post offices. A broader shift toward government savings is noted alongside coverage of Jackson Day remarks and land grazing debates.
The cattleman argues that paying a reasonable rental would ensure income to the government and provide a taxable franchise benefiting the state, county, and school districts. He notes current use of lands yields no income to government, only to individuals acting freely.
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE notes December federal finances show cash balance near 297.5 million with December receipts about 45 million and a six month surplus over 3 million monthly. It argues expansionist history, cotton and wool industries rising, wages up in the North, and notes prosperity contrasted with Bryanism, signed F A Harrison.
Backlea's Arnica Save is advertised as a universal salve for cuts corns burns boils sores wicters tetter salt rheum fever sores chapped hands skin eruptions and piles with a guaranteed cure. Available only at W F Bassett's drugstore.
Veteran editor J. C. Sherman of the Vermontville Echo claims Electric Bitters keep elders young by easing nervousness sleeplessness digestion and rheumatic troubles. He says the remedy tones the stomach aids digestion improves appetite and benefits his wife as well. Sold at W F Baseett’s drugstore.
The steel train arrived Bayard at 1 p.m. Wednesday with Conductor R W Gager Engineer Ed Morrison and Fireman Fitchie aboard No 156. On Thursday 4200 feet of track crossing the townsite were laid followed by surfacing gravel and telegraph. A depot will be erected and business is expected to open at the Bayard station next week.
A Clinton druggist Mr A L Armstrong says Ballard's Horehound Syrup is the most effective remedy for coughs colds and throat and chest troubles selling more of it than any other cough remedy. Price 25 and 50 cents. Sold by D J Scanlon.
F M Ross of Winfield Tennessee credits his wife with urging Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption after a worsening cough resisted by doctors. He swears it cured his chest throat lung ailments and endorses the medicine sold at W F Bassett’s drugstore with guaranteed bottles and trial sizes.
One in four suffer rectal trouble and Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment claims to cure bleeding itching and protruding piles without pain or operation. Suitable for old cases, bottles cost 50 cents and tubes 75 cents sold by D J Scanlon.
The passage contemplates limits of human understanding and warns against living for time. It contrasts finite minds with eternal stakes and suggests that not all material matters are remediable or fully knowable. It emphasizes living with awareness of transcendent possibilities beyond immediate observation.
Mrs Snaggs and Mr Snaggs quip over army surgeons belonging to the medical corps versus other units. The exchange mocks misperceptions about why doctors join the army and where they fit in.
A brief Harlem Life quip features a slow lover claiming small income and a witty reply about not living on the roof. The exchange underscores humorous social banter in a domestic setting.
A Cornhill Magazine excerpt describes Japanese beauty and daily life focusing on facial features and manners. It notes graceful movements, women often indoors, irregular meals with continuous eating, minimal larder items, fish kept live in tubs, cheap eggs, no bread or ovens, and a tea tray with a pipe as constant companions.
Major Tom Williams praises a small black pony hitched to a cart as an unusually smart and scavenging horse. The animal follows his cues, crosses the street, and halts at command. A white dog then leaps forward to “kiss” the pony, drawing smiles from the onlookers.
A patent lawyer in town boasts bright children and a tale of 2% year old Bookle who fingers a prized tool chest. His mother asks what he seeks and the youngster replies with a shy grin that he is looking for trouble.
A Baltimore scholar and household economist compared paper weight to food purchases for a family. In one day he found paper wrappings totaled about 10 percent of the weight of supplies and cost 14 1 4 cents of a $1.48 bill, arguing the proportion is out of balance.
The Kansas City Journal recalls Col. Richard J. Dodge who faced a delegation of Indians complaining about government soap quality. He discovered the tribe had been eating their soap allowance and did not like the taste.
The Liberty area features a natural floating island said to hold spruce trees up to sixty feet tall. It reportedly rises ten to twelve feet during seasonal floods in fall and spring, then sinks back to solid pasture during summer drought. Local paper notes its oddity and possible pasture use.
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