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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1921
Page
17
A critique argues farmers face foreclosures and bankruptcies from high priced land and deferred payments. The piece notes regional variations and warns against public bailouts or easy credit, urging self reliance while acknowledging hardship, citing George L. Daniels in Farm Life.
A discussion on modern housing costs argues that comforts such as furnaces plumbing and wiring raise rents. It estimates an investment split of land 20 percent structures 60 percent and equipment 20 percent, showing fixed equipment costs approach land and utilities. The piece notes America’s wealth and wage levels enable these comforts, unlike medieval times.
Dr Borden S Veeder of St Louis told the American Medical association in Boston that modern child life makes children nervous and restless. He cited late hours, parties, and midnight meals as common in well to do homes and noted school inspections show undernourishment and subnormal development. He warned parents that their children imitate grown up life and suffer loss of sleep and vitality.
Kansan City Star warns that parental neglect harms teens, arguing a mother’s adherence to social rules shapes her children's discipline. A 16 year old’s safety and future hood hinge on care beyond babyhood, urging public medical discussion and parental accountability.
In Washington DC the souvenir trade along Pennsylvania Avenue thrives on Capitol themed items. Windows showcase paper cutters, jewel cases, silver pieces, and pillows with Capitol imagery, while mirrors multiply stock to enhance illusion. Styles change from silver spoons to macerated money tokens, a venture curtailed when Treasury officials destroyed the printed money pulp.
Two half grown bald eagle nestlings were captured near Violet Nebraska on Monday morning by a boy named K J Davidson. The birds weighed about as much as a chicken and were named Liberty and Freedom to mark the day found. A torn jackrabbit carcass lay in the nest, and the two mature eagles were spotted circling nearby after the capture.
The piece argues June should be a work month rather than a play month, noting its long days and potential for productive use. It contrasts June with August, highlighting cooler, sunnier days and greater recreation in June, urging readers to embrace the June spirit despite the heat. The excerpt also includes unrelated financial notes about Austro Hungarian currency and a proposed League of Nations credit plan.
An essay praising Washington as a global exemplar of masculine virtues. English figures like Count Witte and bankers commend him, four statues prepared for unveiling in England reflect shared admiration, and parallels are drawn with Shakespeare and Bolivar. The text notes English pride in Washington as kin and ally, echoing the line "This was a man" from Les
Reports from Vienna describe a return toward normalcy in living conditions as money troubles ease. People appear healthier and better dressed while food supplies and shop displays regain prewar flourish. Parisian-style fashion buzz and bustling luxury shops reflect renewed consumer demand and reopening delicatessen stores.
Henry Sidell Canby argues in the Literary Review that civilization vs barbarism drives literary debate. He contrasts Greeks defining bar barian with only Greeks seeking measure liberty by law and truth, noting evolution shifts status of Gauls and Egyptians and warning writers to expose barbarians wherever found.
The article explains that white feathers appear white not from pigments but from total light reflection by surface microstructures. It discusses theories including air spaces and small structural elements like snow or powdered glass that maximize reflection and minimize absorption in unpigmented feather material.
A Sidney contributor riffs on wealth from oil and puns about apex lode fissure and fishing with the vender, then voices sharp rebuke of a church for forbidding prayers for fallen soldiers. He cites Waco boys and skewers Rev Firnhaber as a symbol of supposed inaction in free America.
The German-born Rev. Mr. Firnhaber of Waco, Nebraska resident, declined the Waco American Legion invitation to give the Memorial Day invocation citing his church forbids ministers from praying at political public demonstrations. If true, this restriction frames the conflict between church and public civic ritual.
The Chicago ratification conference endorses a farmer owned grain marketing plan from the committee of seventeen. Delegates split between absolute pool and sales by elevator, but the compromise allows optional pooling. After debate the plan passed 61 to 35, signaling unity and a move to remove middlemen and gamblers from the system.
Sidney Lumber Co offers home improvement solutions and supplies. Contact details indicate assistance for orders and inquiries on building projects.
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