For Sale Notices from Sidney and Holyoke
For sale items include a new Avery combine offered by W Harper, a Ford truck with under 500 miles usable in good running order, and trades for farm machinery. Also offered are horses and mules, grain trucks, windmills, and a ten room residence formerly owned by W EB Swatzlander with good terms through R L Johnson, banker in Holyoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
J. O. Lobb
Dalton
Center School
Slayter
Sidney
Nebr
L. O. Keedick
Western Drug Store
W. EB. Swatzlander
R. L. Johnson
Holyoke
Colo
Local and Personal News From Sidney
Dr. Harry Mantor reports the year old daughter of Mr and Mrs C L Withers was slightly cut and bruised Wednesday afternoon when struck by an automobile driven by her father at the family home in Sidney. Col Oberfelder informs The Telegraph of the death of Pat McKenna a famous Sidney character forty years ago. Mr McKenna died in China last week. Oberfelder says McKenna was liberal to a fault nicknamed Silver Dollar McKenna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Mantor
C. L. Withers
Sidney
Col. Oberfelder
Telegraph
Pat McKenna
Mr. McKenna
China
Mr. Oberfelder
McKenna
President McKinley Finds Relaxation in Posing Time
President McKinley avoided posing constantly for portraits calling it irksome yet noted it was a period for relaxation in his schedule.
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McKinley
An Egotist's Imagination Sparks Hard Luck Tale
Jad Tunkins asserts that only an ego believes it can craft its own hard luck story. The claim invites debate on self made narratives and personal accountability.
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Jad Tunkins
Birthday Party for Ralph Null at Mrs Swenson Home
Miss Vesta Judah hosted ten friends Tuesday to celebrate Ralph Null’s twenty first birthday at Mrs W B Swenson’s home with assistance from the hostess. Ralph received many fine presents as a three course dinner was served and the evening ended with dancing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vesta Judah
Ralph Null
W. B. Swenson
Ralph
Radcliffe Improves Bank Property With Basement Entrance
C S Radcliffe advances on his newly bought property from First National Bank by adding an outside entrance and basement stake beneath the bank building. The false front for the bank and barber shop is removed and a basement door installed between the barber shop and bank door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. S. Radcliffe
First National Bank
Six new laborers added to U P rip track at Sidney
Six new laborers joined the U P rip track force at Sidney this week, boosting total workers to nearly 100 to handle rush grain car calls. No material changes noted, operations continuing smoothly with no layoffs and no reduction in hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. P
Sidney
Rip Track
Bonham Card Reports Pleasant Trip and Clinic Plan
A card from B. W. Bonham of Rochester Minnesota dated last Saturday notes he and his wife arrived after a pleasant trip. Mrs. Bonham is expected to enter the clinic for examination on a Friday. The message mentions good roads and favorable crop conditions in eastern Nebraska Iowa and Minnesota.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. W. Bonham
Rochester
Minn
Bank official visits family and discusses assets
Ralph Price, former Sidney resident, and family spent the week visiting with Mrs. Price's brother, Harry G. Wilson. Price is receiver of the failed Hemingford National Bank and is paying a first dividend of 25 percent. He has also sold the assets of the failed First National Bank of Harrison to the new Sioux National Bank of Harrison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Price
Sidney
Claims of Owls Flying in a Flock Sighted in East Lothian
A reader in the Edinburgh Scotsman reports seeing six tawny or harp owls flying together along a byroad between Macmerry and Pencaitland after dark. The writer notes confusion with pee wits but confirms the birds were owls, likely tawny or harp. The piece contrasts roosting behavior of long-eared owls with brown or barn owls, which do not typically form social gatherings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Lothian
Macmerry
Pencaitland
Edinburgh Scotsman
Diseases of Birds and Animals Revealed by Dr Fox
Dr Herbert Fox pathologist at the Philadelphia zoo and head of the Pep per laboratory outlines in a book the diseases of wild animals and birds. His eight year study of zoo tenants shows tuberculosis decimates monkey cages and birds suffer epidemics like humans. His work suggests captive animals may live longer, while wild pigeons face potential sudden extinction from epidemics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Fox
Philadelphia Zoo
Pepper Laboratory
The
University
Fox
Zoological Garden
Girard
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dr. Fox
Cleanly Wild Animals Show Natural Grooming Habits
The text notes that all wild creatures value cleanliness. It describes how cats use their rough tongues and paws to clean hard to reach areas. Birds, including domestic fowl, partridges, sparrows, and larks, enjoy dust baths to keep feathers clean.
Isles Bird Havens Around Britain Island Coasts
Isles bird havens dot Britain with marine colonies. The Farnes host winter elder duck, the Skerries guard arctic terns and ro veined terns, Holyhead sees rare tufted duck and red breasted merganser, Puffin Island lies at the Menai Strait entrance, named for its birds.
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Britain
Farnes
Anglesey
Holyhead Island
Detroit News
Puffin Island
Menal Strait
Golden Ideas on Happiness Through Giving
Nathan Straus reflects that happiness comes from helping others and giving. He notes he will leave little to his children and cannot tally thirty years of generosity, stating most of what he owns will go to others after his death.
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Nathan Straus
Hindustani Playing Cards in Royal Asiatic Society Vault
A Hindustani pack said to be a thousand years old lies in the Royal Asiatic Society of England collection. It has eight colored salts with kings on elephants and viziers on horses tigers and bulls. Some cards show a pineapple in a shallow cup and a parasol-like emblem with two broken ribs at the top.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Asiatic Society of England
Love and lease disputes haunt Evelyn and Vaughn
Evelyn finds solace in romance while Vaughn faces real world pressure from a landlord and grocer who doubt their relationship. The dialogue hints at tension between affection and practical obligations as they navigate potential separation.
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Evelyn
Vaughn
Simply Meant He Was Guest at Two Dinner
Burlington meets Davidson, a college friend, in town. They reminisce as Davidson plans to visit, and a dinner invitation becomes a recurring plan with two Sundays arranged for visits and meals at Burlington’s house.
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Burlington
Davidson
Insects Dominate Earth If Birds Fail, Desolate World Ahead
The article argues insects are the true masters of Earth, outnumbering and outpacing other life. Without birds to curb them, insect proliferation could turn all crops and green life into a desert within years. Farmers fight birds yet birds chiefly feed on insects, balancing nature.
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Hieides
T. QO. Bridges
London Mail
Odd Amphioxus Fish Ground In Amoy Straits
The amphioxus, a two inch creature living in sea and laboratories, is eaten by the Chinese. A narrow Amoy strait hosts a major fishery with 200 boats daily August to April dredging amphiox from the sea bottom. Daily catch exceeds 300 tons, about 6.5 million individuals, with annual catch near 1 billion. many remain uncaught.
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Amoy
Hage Reservoir Built to Store Flood Waters
The article describes the Lahontan dam on Carson River in Nevada designed to store flood waters for irrigation. It explains extraordinary flood fluctuations in intermountain streams, the need for large spillways and a central concrete amphitheater to manage excess flow, with spillway capacity around 30,000 cubic feet per second.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Carson River
This Writer Objects to Sweet Mannered Persons
A London Times writer argues that endlessly cheerful air can feel insincere and maddening. Sweetness appears to mask guilt and selfishness, provoking envy and a desire to pull the cheerful person down to a harsher, more direct honesty.
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London Times
Onlooker’s Dream of Round Cheeses and Alpine Bells
In a fragment from Talks and Traits by Harry Christopher Minchin a damaged brignearbor narrates a scene of round cheeses passed between three Dutchmen aboard a river barge, while an onlooker imagines their distant origins from Alpine pastures to a twilight garden. The imagined bells signal cattle returning home, echoing the mountain music to the plain.
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Harry Christopher Minchin
Relics Dug Up Prove Stone Age in China Says Scientist
Swedish scientist J G Anderson led an expedition at Fengtien uncovering a cave with about 40 human remains and few objects none metal including arrowheads stone axes bone awls and carved marble pieces. He dates the site to 2000 1500 B C bridging Stone and Bronze ages. Large remains at Yang Shao included red and black ceramics similar to Feng tien finds. Prior experts doubted a Chinese Stone Age.
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Mare
China
J. G. Anderson
Estabish
Fengtien
Professor Anderson
Anderson
Yang Shao
English Designs on Playing Card Faces
English designs on playing card faces differ from the French suits. The English settle on portraits of Henry VIII and Elizabeth of York, with the queen holding the rose of York. The jack traces to the king's jester, and the ace and dice terms derive from Latin and Spanish origins. SEND IT TO THE LAUNDRY
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Henry VIII
Elizabeth of York
Henry VII
Detroit News
Deuce
Trey
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Fred W. Studt
Chas. Mann
J. W. Eckert
West 5Th
Fordson Tractor
Vv. F. Kucera
Hans Drost
Peetz
Lorenzo
Schuman
Cox
Aultman Taylor
Deuel County Bank
Chappell, Nebr
Bank Shack
August Kuuffke
West 6Th St
J. A. Sparks
Deering
McCormick Harvesters
C. Duny, Dalton
Bee E. Planck
Ard Ave West
Carrie Cook
Jennie Nilson
G. P. Kratz
Court House
Bath
V. Klein
Geo. Burr
E. 4Th Ave
Uptown
Apts
Radcliffe
Simms Apts
West A &I
C. M. Wright
Cheyenne County
Lillian Ross
White Hall
Illinois
McIntosh & Martin
J. W. Harper
J. E. Hill
R. MecNown
Wilkinson Bldg
Omaha
Nebro
Chas. R. Moose
Golden Ideas
Leta
College Chan
Kansans City Star
Davy
Hage Reservoir
the Leonard Grocery
Tanglefoot
E. J. Leonard
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