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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1899
Page
7
A garbled 1895 collage lists starch products like Migrocere Faultless Starch, Allen's Feet-Ease, and Carnation Care items, plus candy and cough remedies. Mentions Beecher era patent cures, druggists, horse race bets, and war department wartime costs totaling $254,41 206 to $274,418,206.
The marooned narrator and companions seize a shipboard escape to a dismasted vessel. Antonio el Cubano and accomplices are captured at Santa Cruz after a mutiny near Africa, then taken to the castle for trial and punishment.
The narrative recounts Antonio Cubanos trial and sentence in a Spanish court. Antonio is condemned to die by garotte while a crowd gathers in the Plaza. Eight other sailors receive ten years hard labor as felons or galley slaves. The piece notes a swift, ceremonial setup and hints at continuation.
A published 1835 letter from Thackeray as his wife expresses deep happiness in marriage. She thanks God for their harmony, hopes to avoid temptation, and compares happiness to a fading canvas seen fully from a distance. The couple anticipates future challenges with steadfast affection.
Siamese women entrust their children to elephants while the animals guard them carefully. If danger looms, the sagacious elephants curl the child onto their trunk and swing them to safety on their broad backs.
Visitors to Hayden Bros Big Store in Omaha are promised courteous treatment, free baggage check, waiting rooms, reading material, and helpful information. The store offers a vast stock of new season goods at cut prices and operates a mail order department with free catalogs. An intial humorous note mentions a counterfeit 50-cent piece.
At 210 and 212 South Sixteenth Street in Omaha a sale promotes cheap prices on parasols, shirt waists, dress skirts, undergarments, ribbons, hosiery, children's caps, coats and dresses. It claims the largest shirt waist stock in the city and ends with a proverb about a woman's aim.
Omaha retailer Kelley, Stiger & Co. lists its Farnam and 15th Street address as the headquarters for women's children's and men's summer underwear. The notice mentions shirt waists, skirts, jackets, tailored suits, parasols, wash goods, piques, silks, dress goods, and Butterick patterns products. The closing line notes a humorous adage about women's talk on doctor visits.
A household tip praises dry Faultless Starch for making large batches of starch with better results than rival brands. Ads note Faultless Starch at 10 cents. The rest reports quirky quotes about Adam, a Missouri legislator and a Kansas City Star remark on bribes, plus Indian society notes about Thambynayagampillai family and Kovilkudyiruppi visit, suggesting lively society reporting in India.
Letter to Mrs Pinkham praises Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash for female ailments. A Grand Rapids reader and another signer from New Jersey recount long illness, doubts from doctors, and restored health after using the remedies.
The ad touts Boston Store as the largest western retailer with a strictly cash business. It claims millions in annual buying and selling, offers better goods for less money, and promises honest, non misrepresented pricing across departments. The notice invites visitors to use the store as their town headquarters during their stay.
The Boston Store presents its establishment as a versatile space for meeting, resting, working, dining, and package handling with free package check and a special reception room for ladies.
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