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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1915
Page
3
The Holland family long kept a nightly 11 o clock gun firing to “scare the conscience” of a suspected murder of the last Lord Holland. The self inflicted death at the hall spurred this medieval relic, a rare ritual dating to Crusades era Europe and noted as a singular historic practice in London.
Nebraska news notes consolidation pressures in Chase County with a quarantine against Iowa lifted. Tom Alden may become district attorney. The state reports most counties must file assessments by July 10 with some delays risking state intervention to secure returns.
Dr Fortier, head of the U S Irrigation Investigation, with Irrigation Expert H C Diesam in North Platte, says Nebraska’s climate has not changed in thousands of years. He notes heavy rains hinder current pump irrigation research and that rainfall cycles vary but are not a lasting shift.
Secretary W R Mellor says the first thirty five counties report 496010 acres in alfalfa up 58044 from last year. If the trend continues across remaining counties Nebraska could reach 3155408 acres this year. With favorable conditions alfalfa should remain the fourth most valuable Nebraska crop.
Governor Morehead of Nebraska will visit St. Joseph Missouri Saturday as guest of the Monroe Democratic club. He will deliver the principal address at the opening of the club’s new rooms, with the club praising him as one of the great Democratic governors of the country.
Thomas travels to Chase county where sixteen districts seek to combine into one body. Imperial district objects as nearby towns may suffer, and Thomas will act to calm tensions and foster peace among the districts.
Letters from Q O Hendershot formerly with the state board of agriculture show he is located at Boise Idaho and a candidate for the secretaryship of the Intermountain Fair association of that state. He asks friends to send recommendations to help him land the job.
The Nebraska livestock sanitary board lifted the state wide quarantine on Iowa after report that Colorado had extended its quarantine to Iowa and Nebraska during the foot and mouth outbreak. Also mentioned is a rumored U S district attorney appointment for Tom Alien, brother in law to W J Bryan, and Governor Morehead naming three chiropractors to the state board with three year, two year and one year terms respectively.
Reports from Paris and Petrograd describe French advances on the Gallipoli front and in the Vosges, German setbacks in Alsace, and Austro Italian front activity. Russian artillery and counterattacks along the Warsaw front are noted, with Germany massing for possible western moves and Botha completing the conquest of German Southwest Africa. A St Louis circuit court denies a new trial in the Campbell will case.
Scene of the Russian army resisting General Mackensen's columns. Fighting has raged since the fall of Lemberg, the Galician capital, as the advancing troops press on.
A London Mirror excerpt recalls the sixteenth century trend of facial and hair powders among men. Henry III is described strolling Paris with white and red paste on his face and violet scented hair, a fashion so pervasive that workers avoided natural colors.
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