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Newspaper

Sidney Telegraph

Location

Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Jul 06, 1917

Page

7

Rough Cast With Sun Room House Plan Preview

A design emphasizes a sun room through two French doors and archways to the dining area. The first and second floors offer three bedrooms with ample closets, a full bath with linen and medicine closets, and oak and pine to enamel flooring. Estimated build cost is about $4,000 excluding heating and plumbing.

Creaking furniture and eels: odd notes from old times

A miscellany on creaking beds stairs and shoes with remedies like reground sockets elastic fillers and hammer play. Also a brief section on broad nosed and sharp nosed eels noting male and female forms and eel life stages from sea to river shores.

Midocean

The Optimist and His Quiet Joy

Min Here is described as a man who smiled through life for simple reasons. He found happiness in health family love nature and daily work and kept a calm, childlike contentment even when others doubted him. The poem notes his untroubled outlook and gentle steadiness.

Min

Come Forth in Your Armor War Call by Campbell Jr

A wartime call invites all citizens from fields hills farms mines and mills to join in a united effort. The vigor of men and soldiers is urged to answer a war to be won with a loud summons and resolve.

BUGLE

Firelit Gift of Love and Gratitude

A poet recalls watching a log burn in a fireplace and wonders if she could repay the love and laughter Jie freely gave. Sarah Teasdale offers a meditation on warmth, memory, and reciprocal generosity, set in a quiet autumn night.

Jie Sarah Teasdale

New Woman County Agent for Madison County Nebraska

Extension News Service reports Madison County will have the state’s second woman county agent. A county Homemakers Association with 200+ members forms to guide the agent’s work under a cooperative arrangement with the U S Department of Agriculture and University of Nebraska extension. Miss Louise Meredith is appointed and will start July 1. Roguing out barley from oats and rye from wheat reduces market penalties. mills discount wheat with rye above 1 percent.

Madison County Nebraska United States Department of Agriculture Agricultural Extension Service University of Nebraska Homemakers’ Association Louise Meredith Home Economics Extension Service University Minneapolis

Thanksgiving Chicken Plugin Initiative In Nebraska

University experts urge Nebraska farmers to boost poultry output by adding one more hen per farmer, producing 10 healthy chicks from 15 eggs. With 130000 farmers, Nebraska could raise over a million chickens, meeting global meat demand and equaling one pound per person statewide.

University Farm Nebraska

Home Canning and Drying Bulletins

Farmers Bulletin No 839 from the USDA details the best canning methods. Companion Bulletin No 841 covers drying fruits and vegetables at home. Free bulletins available from the Extension Service University Farm Lincoln or the USDA Washington DC.

Farmers United States Department of Agriculture Extension Service University Farm Lincoln United Staes Department of Agriculture Washington D. C

Foreign language requirement eased for male students

A university policy states foreign languages will no longer be required of men students who wish to pursue studies, shifting focus to other core subjects. The change aims to broaden access and streamline curriculum for male entrants.

The Scene Shifter by Jack Burroughs on stage life

A stark portrait of a stage worker in worn overalls. The note describes how the actor shifts mountains and trees after curtains fall, blending craft with illusion and daily toil. Burroughs frames performance as transformative, quietly celebrating behind the scenes labor.

Jack Burroughs

No bullet of silver nor lead the winner bread

A sardonic wartime note from The Telegraph urging readers to subscribe, contrasting monetary warfare with the stark image of bread as the true prize and implying persistence through scarcity. The quote underscores civilian resilience and propaganda alongside a call to support the newspaper.

Entrance standards kept for agriculture college

A recent board of regents meeting decided that entrance requirements remain unchanged while graduates from well equipped rural high schools may enter the College of Agriculture with full entrance credit. This preserves the college’s existing criteria and supports rural students meeting the same baseline as others.

College of Agriculture Board of Regents Ruarl

University to help select breeding ewes at stock yards

The University undertakes to aid farmers in buying and selecting breeding ewes at South Omaha Stock Yards. Western 90 to 100 pound ewes cost about 80 cents, mainly short or broken mouthed yet sound, with potential for lamb and wool. Small orders will be grouped for carload rates. Native and pure bred ewes may be located if demand exists. further info from Animal Husbandry Department, University Farm, Lincoln.

University South Omaha Animal Husbandry Department University Farm Lincoln

Wise Youth and Motorist Costs Cited by Columnist

A New York Globe item notes a motorist spends ten dollars daily on gasoline eight on repairs and six on fines totaling monthly costs. It features a quip about a boy with a rich father and includes a joke about boring Ford cylinders by A Brott.

New York Globe

Four Year Old Dark Gray Horse for Stud at Sidney Area

Register No. 24337, a four year old dark gray nearly one ton, will stand at my place west of Sidney the first part of each week and at the North Side livery barn on Wed Sat Sun Mon in charge of C J Hellwig. Stud fee twelve fifty dollars live colt. If ownership changes or horse leaves country, fee due. Precautions taken, but owner not responsible for accidents. N W Olson, owner Shiney.

My Place Sidney North Side C. J. Hellwig COLT N. W. Olson Shiney

His First Time At The Groom’s Nerve Test

A garbled exchange shows a nervous groom and a skeptical friend amid wedding jitters. The scene hints at a humorous pressure moment before the ceremony with mock bravado and casual banter.

Jfe Ordered Brains and Ox Tail Soup Jape

A New York World joke sketches a waiter misreading Mr Wheat and noting the thin line between making both ends meat. The quip plays on culinary pun and urban humor in a brief cartoonish exchange.

Jfe New York World

Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Claim

State of Ohio Toledo Lucas County oath by Frank J Cheney senior partner of FJ Cheney Co promising one hundred dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Notary public stamps date December 6 with testimonials and Toledo company address. Medicine taken internally and advertised as blood borne for mucous surfaces. Sold by all druggists 75 cents. Hall's Family Pills for constipation listed.

State of Ohio Toledo Lucas County Frank J. Cheney FJ. Cheney & Co Hall BF. J. Cheney & CO Druggista

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Glenn L. Saxton Minneapolis, Minn Saxton THE Optimist Kiser M. M. Campbell, Jr Extension News Service J.w.walker J. J. Treinen Proprietor Ewes Uruguay United States Ford A. Brott Myron Learson C. M. Wright Harper Blog Delce Light Hardy Hardware Sidney Lumber Company Sidney, Nebraska Harvester Baldwin A. Schmitt Implement Company Chevrolet Buick Monroe Nupmobile Hahler’s Lincoln Highway Reo Dearborn M. W. Osborn Bordwell Building O. R. Owens Nebr Crow- Elkhart Louring Runner Motor Co Brewer Garage Hudson Chalmers Bentley Autombile CO Goodyear and Federal Tires Willard and Prestolite Hardy Company Paige Sidney Auto Company W. E. Swatzlander
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