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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1917
Page
6
A compiled list shows city officers, judges, and clerks for Sidney and surrounding areas. It includes names like Mayor Glen Van Gorder Treasurer Leslie Neubauer Clerk Dr T Campbell and various ward councilmen, plus state officials and school staff from North Side and High School departments.
Camp No 12 schedules reveal Royal Neighbors, A F & ALM, Rebecca Degree, Knights of Pythias, A.O.U.W., Knights of Columbus and other lodges meeting on various weeks and weekdays. Officers named include Elizabeth Greenlee, Frank Welch, Leon Fine, Miss Ella Williams and more. Dates reference second, fourth Wednesdays and other recurring slots across Masonica Temple and BOO ball venues.
Washington reports a heated struggle over the food control bill tied to a sweeping dry amendment. Prohibitionists push for nationwide measures while opponents urge splitting the issues. Critics warn of revenue losses and possible broad economic controls affecting steel, oil, clothing, and farm goods.
Washington reports a formal transfer from the House to the Senate of the administration food control bill with added prohibitions. Prediction runs that the measure will be enacted in time to handle this season's crop. Debate continues on the Chamberlain draft as the bill moves to the agricultural committee.
Officials announce the record hoard of Nelson, French and American coins and bullion melted at the U S assay office for a total of 765 million dollars with no losses. Superintendent Verne M. Bovie says the on hand bullion exceeds ten times the normal annual average.
Philadelphia police probe a hotel room death scene involving Jerederick Alexander and Louise KE Jones. They consider natural causes for Alexander and self-inflicted gunshot by Jones amid hysteria. Physicians found no wounds or poison on Alexander.
Washington The Red Cross humanity dollars drive has surpassed 104 million in gifts as returns continue. The war council had projected a final total of 110 million and expects to exceed that amount as further contributions arrive.
A National City Bank statement outlines U S exports to Russia during the war, noting that the value in the first three years would nearly double the total of the previous fifty years. Exports since August 1, 1914, amount to about 1 billion dollars.
A historical survey traces the Aberdeen Angus as the oldest polled breed in Britain from prehistoric wild cattle to modern exhibits. It highlights early references in Kenneth’s laws, 1523 records in Aberdeenshire, 1811 prize hogged cattle, and the breed’s dual purpose origin. Breeders and traders, including Hugh Watson and Charles MacCombie, helped establish its national fame with shows in Perth, Kelso, and Paris 1856, while later writers praised its homogeneous form, fattening ability, milk, and temperament.
The article discusses whether czars and English kings used surnames. It notes Nicholas Romanoff may be misapplied since monarchs sign with Christian names. It explains Plantagenet Tudor Stuart and Guelph as possible or unlikely surnames and cites Fox-Davies on the current king having no surname. It also questions Victoria’s descendants inheriting a surname.
A writer in the New York Sun notes a regal yet unspoiled air in a prominent woman in period dress. The observer follows her through the street, admiring her stateliness and public appeal, then recognizes the subject as his sister-in-law’s cook from Detroit.
The Jerusalem chamber, a room in Westminster Abbey with 300 year history, once an abbot’s drawing room. Henry IV died there amid a prophecy of dying in Jerusalem. Addison, Congreve and Prior lay in state in that chamber before their interments.
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