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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1897
Page
5
A readable listing of national, state, and local offices including senator and representatives for the sixth district, state officers like governor and secretary of state, and various clerks. Also notes church services and fraternal lodge meeting times with locations and officers. Includes Masonic and other society details with meeting nights.
The Child Culture Department assists mothers and teachers in studying the development of the young child to guide proper character formation and growth.
The poem fragment presents a longing speaker addressing a sweetheart missing the loved one. L Heaton writes in a vintage, intimate voice about loneliness, yearning for a sign or word to ease separation and acknowledge a shared bond.
The St Louis Republic surveys varied ideas on heaven and hell from ancient to 19th century speculation. It cites medieval hellfire imagery, heavenly realms on planets or Earth, and Dr Mortimer’s sun inner-world theory with its photosphere as heaven and the nonluminous void as a great gulf.
A brawny Scotchman named McNab faced a highwayman in a forest while transporting Bibles and a string of frozen sausages. Frightened, he considered using the sausages as payment but fled as the robber mistook cracking sausage for a pistol. A second vignette recalls a wheel and a mouse racing 28 miles in a cellar cytometer, as reported by the Albany Express.
A country rector complains he got only six pounds for preaching at Oxford. The dignitary scoffs at the sum and says he would not have preached for fifty. Notes on Loretto litanies trace, and a remark on the origin of flapdoodie from Captain Marryat. Describes the Jupiter Olympius statue finished in 444 B.C.
A Las Vegas visitor describes hot springs near Santa Fe, six miles from Las Vegas, in a 40 acre basin shielded by hills. Mud baths, rivaling Carlsbad Germany, use peat formed from ancient vegetation. The preparation blends mud with hot spring water to a mushy mix applied to the body for 10 to 15 minutes, followed by rubbing. Claims note relief for rheumatism neuralgia and skin diseases.
A humorous profile describes a West Side lemon peeler known as Lemon John who performs precise prep in saloons nightly. The second item explains Icelandic divorce law, noting clergy mediation, child custody rules, three year separation, and no social evil on the island as proof of women’s high status.
An account describes Dr George Stoker’s observation during the Zulu campaign of oxygen therapy aiding wounds ulcers Burns and baldness. It notes the method of delivering pure air and water to wounds, the role of bacteria, and early hospital use under Baroness Burdett-Coutts. The piece cites rapid pain relief healing results and economic benefits, while reflecting on the broader questions of oxygen's curative limits.
A citizen quotes the New York Sun praising a poultry expert who claims to identify the origin of dressed chickens by sight. The speaker adds that knowing a chicken’s geographic source is impressive but would prefer judging tenderness before purchase.
A dry goods merchant explains a chaotic business to a new drummer who jokes he can sell chaos if kept a week. The pieces contrast fame’s vanity with transience, noting consciousness over lies after death and a pair of boys’ boots as a symbol of impermanence.
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