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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1910
Page
2
A collage of brief witticisms and quips covers topics from cranberry politics to airship dangers. It lampoons authors agents, moon debates, and bread trusts while noting autos races safety, 1909 farm values, and Halley’s comet. It previews a diverse stream of curiosities and social musings.
In Chicago Gardener John Sells notes holly is becoming rare due to annual raids during the festive season. At Garfield Park Conservatory midwinter show a vibrant holly bunch contrasts with scarce outdoor growth as locals crowd to see scarce holly and other rare plants.
In Owosso Michigan H M Post a hardware dealer suffered rheumatism in his left leg and could barely walk. After hearing of an osteopaths treatment and dreaming of receiving it he awoke the next morning cured and since then reports no symptoms. He now endorses dreaming as a cure for many ills.
Boston reports baby traveler Sarah Clarkson, daughter of Inverness captain, has sailed over 60 000 miles visiting eastern seaports. Born on the Calcutta Bombay voyage, she grows amid ship charts and gadgets, with Colombo toys and Yokohama silks shaping her world aboard the Inverness.
A U S consul in Christiana proposed using pine and spruce sawdust ground into wood flour for industrial needs. The product, sold at $12 to $13 a ton, serves in dynamite absorbent and linoleum/xyalite flooring, offering cheaper alternatives with many potential uses amid global trade among Norway, Germany, England, France, and the United States.
Scottish farmers report extensive damage to grain crops from birds. Notes include wood pigeons eating massive grain amounts, a robin weighing and feeding heavily, a pheasant with 1225 larvae in its crop, and herons swallowing trout plus small prey.
Paris hosts a new facility established by the French Society for the Assistance of Animals to care for aged animals. The building at Rueil includes a laboratory on the first floor and many operating rooms where animals are chloroformed before procedures. Wards for horses, mules, donkeys, cats, dogs, parrots, and monkeys, plus a park for pensioners and hygienic kennels, form the care complex.
James Finnerty of Uniontown visited the Washington lockup and paid a light fine for himself. He then covered the fines of about six prisoners and returned with chrysanthemum bouquets for the policemen, sharing generosity during the holiday visit.
New York buyers who visited the Mississippi Illinois Wabash and other western rivers report the season's pearl yield is far below normal. Maiden Lane dealers value the catch at about 250000 dollars while David L. Gluck a wholesale dealer notes rising demand and excellent prices for American pearls in New York markets.
London sweetstuff maker Barratt & Co has created an associates co partnership fund to prize good conduct and efficiency. About 300 workers mainly youths receive dividends from shares while ownership stays with the company. The plan aims to boost industry while discouraging distraction during business hours.
A Clayton New Jersey horse belonging to James Mapes reportedly bolted away with a load of Christmas trees. The animal crossed a nine inch girder over a stream at Franklinville three miles away despite a red flag and a bridge sign. The wagon broke and trees spilled, yet the horse kept its footing and reached the far bank.
Historians trace the phrase to Elmer B. Adams, the Missouri federal judge who in 1903 told jurors to seek “the man higher up.” Born a Vermont farmer, Adams rose via Yale and Harvard before serving as Missouri state judge, then federal district judge and later appellate judge under Cleveland and Roosevelt. He identifies as a Democrat but last voted for Taft.
Secretary of state Phi lander Chase Knox, dubbed the big little man, seizes on Zelaya’s admission that Cannon and Grace were officers of the revolutionary army. He calls for a murder arrest and hints at a U.S. provisional government if Estrada falls, recalling Knox’s prior cross party legal victories in the Northern Securities case.
John D Archbold directs Standard Oil's fight after Henry Rogers death and during the case reaching the US Supreme Court. At 62, the Ohio born leader has shaped strategy since 1875 and earned praise from Rockefeller for the company's success while remaining a behind the scenes strategist.
John Hays Hammond, famed mining engineer and potential US vice presidential candidate, was named chairman of a National Civic Federation committee to study mining disasters such as the Cherry, Illinois, incident. The 53 year old retiree brings global exposure from South Africa to Alaska to assist in the inquiry.
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