Sidney area official, church and fraternal notices listed
The document lists local government officers, school board and teachers, church schedules, and fraternal society meetings in Sidney. It names county officers for the 30th senatorial district, the legislature districts, and village trustees, plus church services and events at several congregations and lodges in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood Sheriff
Asalee
S. W. McDanie
Doran
Tucker
Edith RH Morrison
Os Bes
Lewis Stott
Sextorp Board Village Trustees
Sidney
Swan Dedrick
J J. McIntosh
Louis Wasem
Eee A. Y
Redington
Lincoln G
Simon
Leslie Neubauer
Clark Robt
A. Barlow
School Board and Tracbers
Tad
L. McIntweh
W. J. Shoemaker
Tresaurer
J Laroy Martin
manSchroeder
Eecees Es Vee
Joseph Oberfelder
Wd Vitae Seradcacseda
Ask
Greenlee
Modern Hotels Showcase Ingenious Mechanical Devices
The Boston Globe describes new luxury hotels costing up to several million dollars with advanced systems. Rooms are electrified for lighting and ventilation, carriage signaling, automatic breakfast prep, and teleautographs transcribe orders. In New York hotels, fire alarms, pneumatic cleaning, and maid tracking via glass bulbs connect rooms to the main office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marvers
New York
Boston Globe
A Grim Toy at Lunch Haunts a Paris Pensioner
A Paris pensioner boasts of witnessing 37 executions and, aging, becomes obsessed with the guillotine. He builds a small model used to cut cigar ends, but during a lunch its blade fails. after injury he burns the model and leaves the scene. A separate note recalls Edward J. Meegan recalling William M. Evarts with vivid stage-like phrasing.
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Paris
M. de Paris
State Court of Appeals
Edward J. Meegan
Meegan
William M. Evarts
New York
New York Press
Ravens and a Black Cat in Berliner Theater Notice
Berliner Tagenblatt reports a New York letter noting the new German theater, now leased to Americans, with fashionably themed performances and a festive opening. The piece recalls Wildenbruch's Robenstelverin and a superstition about a black cat on stage before curtain rise. Microbes in Antarctic soil match European varieties per Pasteur Institute data.
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Berliner Tagenblatt
New York
H. Bitz
Baumfeld
Eugen Burg
Wildenbruch
Pasteur Institute
Paris
Charcot
Polar
Europe
Antarctic
London Globe
Salt of potassium used by Kongo people in cooking
Lapicque reports nearly 25 million individuals in the Kongo regions season their food with salt of potassium instead of common salt. They obtain it from plant washings and reject imported salt, which they find insipid, using it only for cost.
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Lapicque
Miniature Colorado Midland Train Delights Denver Visitors
A tiny practical train display in the Colorado Midland ticket office window recreates Hell Gate near the Continental Divide. The miniature engine and cars, painted and lettered in railroad style, run on a two and one eighth inch gauge circle, with passengers shown as dolls. The display invites questions about wheel distance differences between inner and outer rails, and a pamphlet titled Thru Hell Gate offers a Colorado souvenir.
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Denver
Colorado Midland
Seventeenth
California
Hell Gate
Continental Divide
Colorado
C. H. Speers
Colorado Midland _ Railway
Cold
The Drummer’s Tale of a Diamond Ring Device
A Baltimore American piece recounts a veteran drummer’s conundrum on the road. He narrates a fakery involving a $200 ring offered for 30 dollars, with a confederate seller and buyer orchestrating the scam, and the drummer ultimately losing fifty dollars before recognizing the pattern.
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Balmiess
Chicago
Giamonds
Baltimore American
Equatorial Africa Weather and Clothing Recounted
Percy C. Madeira describes day and night conditions in equatorial Africa. He notes daytime heat with 85 to 100 degree shade temperatures, protective khaki and pith helmets, sun pads for the spine, and a sharp night chill requiring warm clothing and a fire. He recalls sun exposure precautions and contrasts dawn and dusk with rapid temperature shifts.
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Equatorial
Africa
Percy C. Madeira
Metropolitan Magazine
Sound boards in stringed instruments described
A plain experiment with a rubber band shows the source of a louder twang when stretched across a wooden box. the box acts as a sound bar or sound board, a common feature in stringed instruments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicholas
Pride and wedding gifts spark chatter in Bethnal Green
In the High Street Pride Jarry and Arriet discuss wedding presents for Ann Smith. They joke about an announced gift being a clothes horse and mouse trap, mocking the couple’s pride as described in the London Scraps column.
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Pride
Jarry
High Street
Bethnal Green
Arry
Ann Smith
Arriet
London
A Thoughtful Boy and Anxious Mother
A humorous exchange where a sick boy Johnny admits to eating a rhubarb pie against his mother’s wishes. He cites a doctor’s advice about rhubarb as a reason for his action. The moment ends with a pun about words that resemble each other.
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Johnny
Chicago News
Union Pacific Local Time Card Sidney Neb
Train times listed for westbound Overland Limited and Colorado Express to Los Angeles, California and eastbound trains including Overland Limited and Atlantic Express with arrival and departure times. agent Shoemaker noted.
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Union Pacific
Sidney, Neb
Overland Limited
Colorado Express
Calfornia
Oregon Express
Los Angeles Limited
Faust Mail
Athantic Express
Maffand Express
Passeengers
Transportation routes reach from Lincoln to St. Louis
Regional travel map outlines connections from Lincoln to Omaha Chicago St Joseph Kansas City and St Louis with lines extending toward Points East and South indicating expanding service area and accessible corridors.
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Lincoln
Omaha
Chicago
St. Joseph
Kansas City
St. Louis
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Equatorial Africa
Boston Transcript
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Dutte
Portland
Salt Lake City
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Preight
Cathy Exep Tsun
Dally Exep's
Bridgeport
Sterling
Monnday
Pati TN
Closman's
Ripley Plumbing
Masonic
Herman Springer
Nebraska
ST Jbroy Martin
Attorney At Law
Cours House
K C. Beebe
H E. Gapen
Callahan Block
A. D. Stowitts
P.kallraad
KF J. Woitisher
Cleburne Block
JS. Hoagland
W. V. Hoagland
Joagland
Hoagland
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Old P. Co
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Becker
Tobin Block
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