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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1926
Page
6
The column notes a local flapper rumored to work on a transparent material for galoshes to protect hosiery. It mentions whiskey’s quick effect on reputations and a rumor that the Legion Auxiliary plans to stage a playful line.
A group of Sidney citizens met to form a new newspaper league, excluding reporters while inviting lay members and some women. They discussed playful ideas to boost readership including advertiser-led items, silly columns, baby pictures, burlesque features, and a gimmick giveaway tied to subscriptions, with secrecy around officers and an April Fools reveal.
Fred Parks praises personal experience stories in city papers and jokes about a harsh prank involving Mc Cormick and Doran. The piece mentions Rev Kaw’s church notes and praises poems such as The Chambered Nautilus Thanatopsis and To a Waterfowl. The editorial group remarks on poetry as inspiration alongside scripture.
Crowded out last week Maxine and Francis Good win spend Christmas with grandmother Mrs Sarah Goodwin of Sid. Many local residents are mentioned attending New Year gatherings, visiting relatives, and caring for the ill. Several brief incidents include a scalding accident, scarlet fever quarantine, and a Meantime market and social events.
Thirteen special trains will bring about 2500 delegates to Detroit for the Dodge Brothers and Graham Brothers dealers’ annual meeting. The three day program includes factory tours, a parade, exhibits, dinners, theatre parties, and a post event trip to the New York motor show.
A girl named Nante, daughter of a physician, pretends to give her doll shoe buttons as pills. She offers a ritual dose every five years and jokes that if the doll does not feel better within an hour, another dose will follow.
Lincoln figures show Cheyenne county harvested 1925 winter wheat acres equal to any three panhandle counties combined. While Sioux and Scotts Bluff sit low in acreage, reports praise crop condition at 100 percent in those counties. Overall December data indicate sown area about 12 percent below normal with 88 percent of normal wheat condition.
The report notes rye area at 205 000 acres and solid winter wheat prospects due to favorable soil moisture. US sown winter wheat totals 39 510 000 acres, down from 39 956 000 a year earlier. Rye area is 3 426 000 acres, below 4 151 000 last year, with conditions 82 7 percent versus 81 3 in December.
A brief excerpt describes a speaker trying to listen politely with one ear while thinking about dinner with the other. The line conveys a narrator’s distracted attention and social pressure during a chatty exchange. The tone hints at irony in everyday conversation.
An early 20th century ad extols Doan's Pile a stimulant diuretic for kidney relief. It features Mrs N. B. Witters of 500 East 3rd St praising Doan's for backache, bearing down pain, and irregular kidneys, noting a price of 60c and recommending the Foster Milburn Co. as makers.
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