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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1896
Page
10
A New York hotel clerk refused a fresh $20 silver certificate after the Bureau of Engraving and Printing official admitted he had made the bill himself. The clerk questioned its validity, leading to a humorous exchange cited from the Washington Post.
A quip on deceit as a social tool notes its poten tial value in crises when temper can be kept and hostility deflected. It warns against exposing affections and urges withholding anger to avoid empowering enemies, ending with a comment on total blindness to devotion.
St Louis special reports Col. Wm A Kirchhoff western general manager of American Tobacco Co quit smoking after using No-To-Bac. He had smoked twenty strong cigars daily and now his craving is gone. The piece touts 300000 cures and a claimed market loss to tobacco firms of 910000000 annually.
An English country parson writes to the king of the Kafirs asking relief from embarrassment after his investment in Barnato shares collapsed. He says he bought 400 shares at £4, now worth £2, and plans to face his parish. Barnato replies he will buy back at £4, prompting the parson to instruct brokers to repurchase and ship the shares to Barnato Bros.
The passage lists a medicinal salve priced at 16 cents and advertises a refund guarantee. It also reviews the January 1896 Atlantic Monthly including Hawthorne manuscripts, new fiction by F J Stimson, political articles by John R Proctor, and pieces on Rome with artist Mr Castaigne. It notes previews of illustrations and a kaleidoscope of Rome with historical reconstructions.
Luke Sharp recounts a comic misadventure on a bicycle in which a puncture leads to mistaken identity and a chase through a country lane. He confronts a stranger who had taken his bike by mistake, learns the value of Christian charity, and ends with gratitude toward a helpful young rider who fixes the tire.
A Sunday school teacher asks why Adam and Eve were not ashamed in the garden. A student replies with a witty line noting there was nobody to look at them, illustrating a humorous take on shame and sin.
Popular Science surveys strange facts from truffles to hummingbirds, red hair chemistry, deaf mutes speech teaching, Bengal's vast day, and measurements of Lake George and nearby geography. It also notes Newton's gravity view and the distance between Lake George and Lake Champlain.
Public health warning against mercury ointments for catarrh and endorsing Hall's Catarrh Cure from I J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. Internal remedy advertised as mercury free, with testimonials and druggist availability. Provides price details for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills.
The prince praises Pfretzsehner for accurately depicting his lower lip on the Rudelsburg relief medallion. He notes earlier busts lacked justice in that feature and credits the lip with signaling perseverance. He personally signed the piece with the mark V. 38.
The notice promotes 8400 in prizes on oats barley and corn for 1895 with 200 more on oats 100 on Silver King Barley and 100 on Golden Triumph Yellow Dent Corn. It invites readers to mail 10 cents for a free grasses and grains catalogue including Teosinte Sand Vetch Sacaline Lathyrus Giant Spurry and more.
A gathering of about 300 patriotic residents, descendants of revolutionary sites, marked the landing of Captain Myles Standish and his men at Squantum Massachusetts on September 30, 1621. A beach stone cairn monument ten feet high and three feet in diameter was dedicated with a round white flint cornerstone laid by Mr. Adams and Mrs. Lee and a granite table inscribed to the Standish party bearing the date and sponsor, the Daughters of the Revolution of Massachusetts, September 30, 1896.
Buffalo Express notes critics argue crime stories may incite real crimes as an Albany Oregon murder follows a Mary E. Wilkins tale. The piece questions whether literature or news should be restricted and promotes Hegeman's Camphor ice as a product from C G Clari Co of New Haven.
Twenty five years ago H B Mears of Youngstown Ohio built a heavy bicycle similar to modern models. The public resisted the new machine and Mears faced protests, hurting his business and forcing a move. Now many in town ride bicycles, rich and poor alike.
The piece mocks Sir Lewis Morris as a tame parrot among poets and notes his fame provoking ode or elegy. It recalls his failed bid to have American papers publish his Armenian atrocity poem and cites a Chicago Times-Letter remark on the knight’s public impact.
A collage of vintage remedies and notices touts tonics for invalids, nerve restorers, stomach bitters, and tonics for health. It mixes quack claims with household tips and cooking guidance in a truncated, revelatory snapshot of a bygone ad laden page.
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