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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1900
Page
9
Rob hides from the gang in a tobacco cave and discovers an arsenal of weapons. Starne may have betrayed him, and torches and darkness deepen his peril as Captain Torreyo returns, offering a glimmer of hope for release.
The weary man, barely awake, finds the caverns silent except for dripping water. He rests among cloth bales before waking to a grim discovery. The cave entrance is blocked by a great stone, trapping him inside.
Rob, trapped in a dark cavern behind a rock barrier, feels terror as smugglers or pirates might return with the Black Cat cargo. He fears weeks or months of confinement and death, weighing his future against a hoped for prosperous life to support his mother.
Rob discovers a box of matches and lights a torch, illuminating cavern walls and hidden recesses. He explores cave passages and discovers contraband stores but finds nothing he wants while growing hungry and unsure how long he has been underground.
At a New York Microscopical Society meeting the president displayed a honeybee wing and its hooked joints. The upper wing is about half an inch long while the lower is slightly shorter. When flying the wings join into one, and the bee folds them when in the hive. Under the microscope the lower wing edge shows a reinforced rib with nineteen or twenty small hooks attached along it, each with a base thickening. The upper wing edge curves into a flange, and upon leaving the hive the bee hooks the upper wing’s edge into the lower wing’s flange to form one continuous wing.
The article urges proper care in butter handling and packing to fetch fair prices, condemns misleading separators, and discusses health inspections. It outlines the rise of hand separators for distant creameries, butter storage quality, and the need for branded labeling. It then details egg prices, storage, and the candling process at Sedalia, explaining egg grading from extras to seconds and the economics of disposal and sale.
A bygone egg buyer sits in the store cellar holding up each egg to a candle to judge its soundness, using light and observation to determine freshness and quality.
Translation of comments by M. Louis Baume on government purchases of Caen coach stallions. Of 57 offered, 25 trotters bought for 246000 francs. Purchases include Sans Gene Rocambole Rouges Terres. noted for Harley Fuschia lines. Mc Laughlin Brothers report best Caen import, many descendants of Cherbourg Fuschia Reynolds. Minor note on copperas and salt for sheep.
In some villages until this century a village night watch protected mince pies and other dainties from thieves the night before Christmas. The guard duties accompanied the festive sharing and merrymaking that followed.
A Sunday school teacher explains Jacobs dream of a ladder reaching from earth to heaven with angels ascending and descending. The class is interrupted by the youngest student who asks why the angels did not fly. The moment adds a playful note to the lesson.
Information on long distance travel to California Arizona Texas and Mexico with low round trip rates and routes. Details on one way fares sleeping car first class tourist rates and contacts for W G Neimyer Southern Pacific agent Cincinnati W H Connor Chamber Commerce and W J Berg Buffalo.
Thomas G. Orwig & Co. announce issued patents prepared by their firm for C. W. Cross of Grinnell on an auxiliary air heater connected to a stove to warm and circulate room air. J. Morgan of Atlantic receives a patent for a plant planting machine operated by horses to place cabbage and tobacco plants in rows with automatic plant holders and furrow operations. Undivided halves assigned to W. S. More and E. Whitney. Des Moines Iowa December 27 1899.
A prominent Boston man, tormented by rheumatism and nervousness, followed a friend’s advice to visit Hot Springs South Dakota for baths and the ideal health climate. After a 2000 mile journey he reports full relief and returns home ready to meet business demands. Readers may contact North-Western Line agents or J R Buchanan for details. Magnetic Starch is recommended.
On the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month the lines sell home seekers ticket to southern points for one fare plus 2.00 round trip. Winter tourism rates on sale to Hot Springs Ark and winter resorts at reduced rates. For rates and sleeping car accommodations contact the Quincy Route Office 1415 Farnam St Paxton Hotel block or write Harry E Moores Omaha Neb.
A report lists several patents issued last week including devices for sign alignment, an electrically illuminated product, and a curiously constructed foot-operated hammer. Major manufacturers like Griffin Wheel Co and Calumet Tire Rubber Co are cited as patent buyers. A water filtration device by Louis Gathmann, using centrifugal separation to remove impurities, is undergoing testing in Evanston Illinois and adds an electrochemical germicide feature.
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