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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1901
Page
3
A small gauze covered box labeled four hundred mosquitoes was shipped from a South Carolina station to the Academy of Natural Science in Washington. The insects arrived lively and apparently healthy and are intended for scientific investigations.
Professor Virchow was struck by a strong gust while walking and sustained a head injury. He received prompt aid and was conveyed home for surgical treatment. He is approaching his eightieth birthday.
Cleveland suffers from an alleged ankle bug rivaling the kissing bug in notoriety. The insect favors low shoes and open-work hosiery, with bites causing swelling that can reach the knee and sometimes crippling victims for a week or more. Local scientists have not identified the insect yet.
Johnson of 924 Hamilton Street Racine Wisconsin suffered chronic kidney and urinary trouble and quit work. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills he recovered fully and returned to daily labor, a cure regarded as miraculous by friends and neighbors.
Sir Martin Conway the mountaineer and new Slade professor at Cambridge University is noted for an early ascent at age seven. An advertisement claims Piso's Cure for Consumption as an infallible medicine from N W SamukL Ocean Grove New Jersey dated February 17 1000. The saying no manner was glorious who was not laborious accompanies the piece.
An advertisement touts Wall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy and thanks God and doctors. It also promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry detergent for spotless, fresh clothes, urging readers to buy at grocers.
The Goldsmiths of London set a precedent that Englishmen may follow to keep English treasures from leaving the country. Their firm paid $50,000 for the famous Wrexwell library of economics to prevent it from falling into American hands.
A Look store salesman observes a trend that an engaged man buys the edition of Lucile while a nearby buyer shows a similar pattern. He asserts the unwritten rule that an engaged man must gift the book to his fiancée, noting few others purchase or read it.
The report notes 1,100 Chinese pupils aged 9 to 23 at Queens College Hong Kong. Many carry family responsibilities, with some married men having wives and children. Each year the share of married pupils falls and the average age declines, reflecting a long history of mixed ages and occasional father and son duels for prizes.
Matrons of infant asylums state gray dresses make a young infant cross all day, while bright red frocks keep them content. Children aged 2 to 4 show less color sensitivity. In kindergartens younger children prefer red playthings, while older children choose blue.
Boston figure Milton Clarke denied before his death the rumor that his kinship to Mrs. Stowe fueled the origin of Uncle Tom's Cabin. The late man rejected circulating stories linking his family to the famed author’s abolitionist tale.
An exhibition of early printing from Japan and China displays a banknote from Emperor Hongwu’s reign 1368-99, predating Stockholm’s first European banknotes by four centuries. The note measures eighteen by nine inches. Also referenced are a Berlin agricultural school for women and an offer for Defiance Starch.
A reflective poem recalls Sunday afternoons in a parlor and chapel. The scene features an old organ, oil portraits, dustless shells, and family voices singing revival hymns as dusk settles and memory wanes. The speaker hears night wind and recalls tears and fading firelight.
Dr. Packard, a famed scientist, contemplates a past marriage as he experiments in his lab. He drinks from two glasses and fears a hidden poison, but a dramatic twist reveals a recovered reality after a near death hoax. His nurse witnesses an unsettling, unforgettable laugh.
A gray haired Columbia alumnus recalls a harsh but humorous student prank from the 19th century. The class burned asafetida in Davies lecture to test the professor who then locked the door and returned to teach, delivering brutal math until two hours passed. The tale ends with wiser, quieter students and no further tricks.
Bishop Potter argues in the Woman's Companion that changes in home life favor the weak and timid. He notes that quiet, refined individuals are often overruled by loud children and aggressive partners. The piece reflects on how social life once centered solely on the home for entertainment and uplift.
The article notes railroads rely mostly on freight revenue with passenger income lower, and cites Ohio law requiring a 12 inch platform to step height. The rule forced costly alterations, costing nearly $100,000 and ending several flag stops where passengers formerly boarded.
Women purchase unwanted goods at discount sales to ensure items reach those who may require them, preventing waste and aiding those with fewer resources.
Minnie E. McAllister of Minneapolis writes that a seven week course of Peruna cured her long standing back and side pain that troubled her social duties. The letter warns against cheap substitutes and urges obtaining Peruna only from druggists. She invites readers to write Dr. Hartman for free advice.
In college the late John Fiske studied Gothic Icelandic Danish Swedish Dutch and Roumanian then pursued law and graduated from the law school at age 22. This breadth of study marks him as an Admirable Crichton of extraordinary profundity.
An old ad encourages purchases from grocers for a 2 oz package priced at four vents. It prompts readers with a moral teaser about right and wrong, asking who is in the right and who is in the wrong.
Omaha advertisement touts the Nebraska Business and Shorthand College in Boyd Building. It lists $3,000 spent on typewriters and $2,500 on business and banking furniture, claiming top western equipment and urging catalogue requests.
Prince Nicholas of Greece, third son of the king, was designated laureate at a dramatic congress organized by the University of Athens. His winning comedy titled The Reformers was judged on merit, with competitors submitting works under pseudonyms.
A garbled advertisement fragment mentions starch sold for 10 cents, a warning about thinking and doing, and remedies for nerves and headaches. It references Hamlin's Wizard, a druggist, and an Atchison man noted for not blowing foam off his beer, all in a jumble of product pitches and quips.
The Wabash will place a large equipment order into service on July 10 including two baggage cars 30 coaches 10 chair cars 3 cafe cars and 2 dining cars. Trains from Chicago depart 11 00 am 3 03 pm 9 15 pm and 11 00 pm carrying the new fleet. The Pan American Special between St Louis and Buffalo runs daily with broad vestibule cars cafe library and observation cars and departs St Louis at 1 00 pm arrives Buffalo 8 20 am returning Buffalo 1 30 pm arrives St Louis 7 66 am.
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