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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1915
Page
7
A rooftop photograph from the Palace of Machinery captures the vast main exhibit section finished months before a February expulsion. In the center rises the Arch of the Rising Sun, to its right the unfinished Tower of Ages, then the Palace of Transportation dome, and farther right the Palace of Mines.
Rural leaders from farmers clubs institutes and rural schools will share experiences at the agricultural extension conference January 22 during Organized Agriculture Week at the University Farm. Speakers include J O Shroyer Lulu Kortz Hudson J W Wood A V Teed and others. Discussions cover crop production disease resistant varieties marketing strategies and dairy protein feeds like cottonseed meal to aid Nebraska dairymen amid current prices. The note adds analysis on farm labor scarcity noting skilled work and year round employment challenges and wage trends between farm and city work.
Lincoln Beachey, famed American aviator, performed the world’s first indoor aeroplane flight at the Pan Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. He launched from the Palace of Machinery, rose to about fifty feet, and flew 400 feet down the central aisle despite cloth barriers and a hundred horsepower engine. The wooden structure and vast interior aisles complicated the ascent and landing, and Beachey endured a rough shake when the aircraft tore through cloth barriers.
The panorama shows one of three studios at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco with partially completed figures looming up to thirty feet tall to decorate the vast courts.
The account recalls Labouchere's early diplomatic stint in Stockholm when a disagreement over a social critic of duels led to a pistol duel. Both men fired with no harm and a second shot was missed, prompting a third shot request denied by their Seconds. The scene, marked by bad aim and comic tension, ends with mutual relief and a mock grievance at the farce.
The tale centers on an Albany character named Vete who pledged to remain shaved until Stephen A Douglas became president. Lee broke his vow, but John Morgan the barber, describing himself as a tensorial operator and capillary poridger, kept a mirror slip announcing Douglas not elected while Pete’s hair is off.
A House of Commons member dismissed calls to extend the Irish franchise as risking open gates to democracy and a potential general conflagration. He warned against widening the franchise and urged restraint.
A classroom exchange at an emergency class prompts a grim but humorous line about handling a hysterical person. The student quips that the solution would be to amputate the funny bone, mixing medical theater with a grim punchline.
A brief squib cites a New York Globe quip about fashion changing styles and a pun on penitentiaries as a humorous exchange between a man and a woman. The joke contrasts desire for timeless dress with imprisonment as a playful twist.
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