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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1879
Page
3
A collage of marginal items and jokes from various papers including Cincinnati Commercial Boston Transcript and New Orleans Picayune with blipped jokes about weather, secrets, sports quips, translations, and branding phrases. The text shows scattered phrases, misread headlines, and names like Berg and Har vard, with playful, non cohesive snippets and commentary.
A fragment recalls Arkansas editors arriving in St Louis and being given bath tickets before marching to a beer saloon. The note mentions Ben Pronhtti selling a bottle that allegedly imprisoned lightning to a Jersey man and his descendants diluting circulating drinks, described as strong enough to paralyze at 300 yards.
Washington dispatch describes Emeline Noble visiting the White House claiming to marry the President. He joked he had a wife, police intervened, she carried $250 and was sent to a government insane hospital. Her family in Fremont offered to cover expenses. another patient from Maryland, Mary Elizabeth Coburn, shared similar delusions about marrying anyone.
A poem depicts a girl pleading with her mother to pin her dress back tight to hide her body. She laments discomfort and the social pressure to reveal limbs, arguing thin girls face harsher scrutiny and that fashion demands force a young woman to contort to fit norms.
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