Gurley News Briefs Highlight Local Business and Weather
Gurley hosts a farmers union meeting at Albert Thompson hall. Dunton sells his pool hall to Thornburg and Selch who plan a Sidney grocery. Ralph Bewley returns from Scottsbluff. Geo Mann visits Colorado. Roach nears completion of a saloon. Mowery to open on Main Street. Snowed January 25. Farmers seek coal for heating. Hog buyer Kalhoff ships a carload. Wheat at 105 dollars boosts prices.
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Roach
Mr. Mowery
Main Street
Kalhoff
Superstitious Request in Old Indianapolis Star Note
A short dialogue from the Indianapolis Star has Omar asking a wary Parker to lend him SIS until next Mriday. Parker questions superstition, and Omar insists on the loan, highlighting a playful exchange of terms and humor from the era.
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Omar
Parker
Sis
Indianapolis Star
Narrow Doors to Sorrow Poem Fragment by Fannie Stearns Gifford
A fragmented verse describes doors to sorrow that cannot frighten the speaker yet remain secret and low. The speaker’s feet freeze and heart slows as darkness intrudes, presenting loneliness and a haunting encounter with night.
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Fannie Stearns Gifford
Rheumatism Arrested by Blood Purification Formula
Purporting to relieve rheumatism through blood purification and general health improvement, the ad claims Scott s Emulsion as nature s blood maker and medical nourishment that strengthens organs to expel impurities, with a warning against alcoholic substitutes.
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Scott
Mystery Tramp Confesses Murder Plan and Escape
A Russian fugitive recounts adopting a nom de plume to dodge extradition and a murder ruse in which he killed a companion, planted a fake note, and fled. His lawyer finds a path to freedom, ending with a life of new identity and quiet poverty.
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Shimsky
Paul Ximanowsky
James Hawks
Ivanovitch
Russia
Flo
Shinsky
Ivanovitchh
Nimanowsky
Minth
Bose
International and Domestic News Roundup
A mix of events from wartime diplomacy to local crime and economics. Mentioned are Coonel E M House en route to Berlin, mob lynchings in Georgia, a bank robbery in Vandervoort Arkansas, a deadly Puebla Mexico train bombing, and flood havoc in northern Illinois. Also noted are political moves, stock and bank news, labor strife, and national debates on military service and pensions.
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National Security League
Washington
Army
Navy
Theodore Roosevelt
D. Rahn
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Ilinois
Texas Automobile
Chicago
Kansas
Benson
Jacob F. Meeker
St Louis
Maude Meeker
Lowell
Harvard University
Yuan Shi Kai
China
Jo Ro Cuykendall
Hoopeston
Helen Lochelle
Light Demand At South Omaha Sheep And Lamb Sale
Union Stock Yards South Omaha Neb January 26 Cattle receipts about 6100 head with generally average quality beef steer prices around 79 to 84 dollars per hundredweight and cows and heifers near 60 to 65. Hogs heavy at about 723 to 749 with tops 750. Sheep and lambs about 6000 head with lamb prices 10.40 to 10.55 for best, 10.15 to 10.40 for lower grades, fat ewes up to 7.45, overall demand active despite lighter quality.
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Union Stock Yards
South Omaha
Neb
Gems In Verse THE EASIEST WAY
Poem by Idimund Leamy reflects on indulgence and downfall. It contrasts leisure and pleasure with conscience, warning of ruin from wine and lust. The piece portrays a caller's moral lament and calls readers to prayer.
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Biany
Uredin
Antagonists and the World Harvest Field
A reflection on those who see themselves as antagonists and the future recall of their role in binding humanity. The speaker questions whether unconscious associations have aided a shared cause, pondering destiny and self.
Mae and Tharold’s Marriage Commented On By Friends
In bantering lines, Mae married Tharold despite his blockhead image. Bess notes Mae’s taste for sturdy wood trims in a home, reflecting dry humor about their union.
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Jess
Mae
Tharold
Bess
Hidge
The Blind Man's Lantern in Khouta Ti Anccasian Village
A blind man returns from the river with a pitcher and a lit lantern. A passerby scoffs that light is useless to him, but the blind man explains he carries the lantern to guide others and prevent accidents.
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Khouta Ti
Hall's Catarrh Remedy Ad Promises Cure
An old fashioned advertisement offers a one hundred dollar reward for incurable catarrh and extols Hall's Catarrh Medicine as the reliable blood cleansing treatment. It claims long standing use, treatments through the blood, and suggests readers start now with testimonials provided by F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio with-drugstore sales at 75 cents.
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Hall
Fall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Ohio
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R. S. Chloupek
Cardui
J. D. Cook
Crane, Mo
Cardus
Stude
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Teeebeielebleds Biebat
M House
Wilson
Berlin
Worth County
Georgia
Vandervoort
Ark
Puebla
Mex
Zapata
American Loomotive Company
Edward Valve Manufacturing Company
East Chicago
Ind
Thomas A. Cook & Son
Anna Miller
East End
Kansas City
New York
Woods
Cabrera
Guatemala
Mexico
J J Johnson
United States
Ignatius Lincoln
Stroohlym
Norris
Congress
John Ginderholm
Nouston
Iowa
Nebraska
Hlinois H . Waldeman
Llinois
Missouri
Norway
National City Bank
United Mine Workers
Indianapolis
States
Gregory
House Judiciary Committee
Turman D. Updike
Milionaire
Irving
Herbert
Cook County
Mast Youngstown
American Live Stock Association
el Paso
Sidney, Neb
Stoch Pitties
Sires A Bank Ac
A. R. LE Sueur
Sidney, Nebraska
Idimund Leamy
Ford
N. G&. Brewer’s
Sidney
Denver
California
San Diego Exposition
Ity
Burlington
Texas
Florida
Gulf and
Pan
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M. A. Shipman
L. W. Wakeley
Omaha
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