A Look Ahead to a Friday the 13th Marriage Divorce
A playful exchange between a couple hints at marital plans and a future divorce. The dialogue suggests superstition about Friday the 13th and foreshadows relationship strain.
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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1919
Page
2
A playful exchange between a couple hints at marital plans and a future divorce. The dialogue suggests superstition about Friday the 13th and foreshadows relationship strain.
All persons are warned there will be no trespassing on lands known as the St George ranch and west 27-14-18 owned and leased by me. All stock caught running on said land will be taken up and damages collected. Bulls and stallions owners please take notice. BURY CURTIS.
A concise home guidance note explains how to treat xhised ties by washing with lemon juice, waiting fifteen minutes, then polishing with a soft cloth. It also advises that tiles should not be washed, but rubbed with a damp cloth and finished with a skim milk and water polish.
The verse laments a heart stuck in unspent love and longing. A downcast soul feels heat fade as focus narrows to one moment. A veil passes over the world and lifts, leaving a bittersweet ache in memory of Milwaukee.
The adjutant general keeps Army records orders and correspondence. Serving under the secretary of war and the chief of staff he forwards War Department instructions and regulations to officers and troops. He acts as secretary and archivist to the secretary of war.
A prose note extols kindness over arrogance, suggesting small acts by gentle people can achieve great results. It cautions firmness when needed but urges gentleness to avoid offense, noting some men fail to grasp this nuance.
A fragmentary exchange hints at a dream sequence where one speaker asserts quick awakening after a dream quote. Scientists note dreams end in seconds, while another party thanks for considerate words and states waking now. The text presents a surreal, introspective dialogue.
A quirky dialogue explores the metempsychosis doctrine with a sardonic tone. One speaker muses that the soul could inhabit a jackass after death, while the other cynically agrees it would suit that creature well.
Miss Lennie Harmen describes a Verdun visit in April 1919, traveling from Paris with a St Louis companion. She details barge passages, a Bar-le-Duc layover, American officers, the Verdun YMCA setup, and a tour of Verdun’s citadel and ruins, noting ruins, shell holes, underground tunnels, and wartime bakeries along with a church service plan.
Captain and party toured the fort once held by Germans in the War, seeing ruined maps and earth upheaval from shelling. They noted well built trenches and cement stairs, observed Admiral Beatty nearby, and planned a Paris arrival before heading to Soissons and home soon.
A statistician estimates that if every printed letter forming the word co operation were clipped from magazines over six months and laid end to end, the total length would equal three times the distance from the Earth to the Moon.
In Cheyenne County Nebraska the County Court orders Charles Roth Anna Short Louise Benedict Lillian Scheurman Caroline Roth and all interested in Katherine Roth deceased to appear July 19 1919 at 2 PM to show cause why final settlement and distribution should not be granted Published in The Telegraph for three consecutive weeks prior to hearing.
County Court in Cheyenne County on July 3 1919 hears petition by Henry C Schmale and Henry Florke to admit as valid a copy of the last will and testament of Andrew W Cross deceased. The instrument presented is claimed to be an authenticated copy for probate.
Sidney resident Thomas I Clinton testifies to Doan's Kidney Pills aiding his back pain and kidney discomfort. He notes relief from soreness and dull ache after using the medicine bought at Western Drug Co. and urges others to ask for Don's Kidney Pills, the same as Clinton used.
The Probate Court of Jersey County Illinois filed a request for the probate of a deceased person's last will and testament in Nebraska. An order for hearing was issued for July 26, 1919 at 10 a.m. and notice to interested parties must be published in The Telegraph weekly for three weeks prior to the hearing. County Judge C. H. Chambers presides.
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