29 Jan 1876
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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1876
Page
1
A fragmentary reminiscence celebrates a centennial of Freedom with references to Independence Hall, brave soldiers, and liberty. The piece blends historical memory with interruptions and reader interjections, capturing a wartime era's spirit and a newspaper office's daily rhythm.
In Duxbury a town spelling match draws a crowd as Mary Alger competes against Ray Pelham and others. Ray helps Mary win the prize group with a selfless act, sparking a change in their friendship and in the town's view of both contestants. Mary and Ray forge a bond rooted in fairness, while the community remembers the event as a turning point in their lives.
Mrs Elijah Phelps of Beaver Dama Schuyler County has regained her senses after twenty three years of insanity. Confined since 1864 she had become feeble but after turning eighty last May she recovered her reason and now knits sews and reads again. Her children rejoice at what they call a mothers resurrection from a fate worse than death.
A Courier Journal note says a hard-up Louisville man attempted to sell a three cent postage stamp as a relic from Paul’s letters to the Corinthians. The humorous item ends with a quip about splitting wood and the difference.
A miscellany notes 604 cotton mills in the North and 181 in the South, a cave find in Arkansas, a mule blown from harness in Nevada, and quips on willpower and ugliness. It recalls a Pennsylvania state debt, the first natural death in the Black Hills, and a Boston juror's reason to refuse service. Also mentions a centennial Boston parade, potato crops in New Jersey, a San Francisco suicide, a Wolverhampton mishap, and New York florists with real estate stakes. London clock winding costs, a Sixth Avenue carriage seat mix up, Blondin on a mast walk, tarantula bites in Pueblo, and a tarantism superstition, with Denver notes on remedies and culture.
A St. Louis Republican reprint offers practical advice for new brides to live within means, organize chores, and keep husbands content. It urges modest dress, steady work, cheerful simplicities, and home-centered evenings to deter saloon temptation and foster lasting happiness.
A visitor describes the nunnery’s rules and daily life. Novices begin at sixteen with partial head shaving, vow of maidenhood, and vegetable diet. The abbess explains duties, rituals, and care for worshippers, the ill, and the poor, though devotion appears limited and juveniles display levity during rites.
The steamship Alaska arrived with 150 tons of bamboo and other materials for Japanese houses to be exhibited at the Centennial in Philadelphia. Two Japanese officials supervise the exhibits while carpenters ready the frames. The houses will be shown without nails and are sealed in hermetic cases awaiting clearance for transport.
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