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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1876
Page
6
A satirical piece presents Max Ateler declaring a run for the presidency with an open record. It ridicules past acts, including mock confessions about harming a grandfather and a widow’s ducks, while lampooning his stance on finances and the poor. The clip ends with a note on etching processes from the Troy Times.
A discussion of engraving styles notes line engraving as the highest form with straight lines, then line and stipple to create light shading. Stipple uses small dots to lighten high facial and drapery areas, a difficult task few engravers undertake. Claude Mel ends 1700 produced a Christ head in one unbroken line, starting at the apex of the nose and spiraling to the border. mezzotint creates soft effects by roughening steel or copper like fine sandpaper.
Dr Helmbeld, famed Philadelphia druggist, escaped Kirkbride's Asylum on July 4 and roamed Long Branch seeking liberty. He boarded a train, stayed at Ocean Hotel, and interactions with detectives and hotel staff followed, culminating in his recapture after leaping through a jail window, suffering minor injuries.
In a rear cell overlooking a hot street, crowds passed in collapse as the Doctor raved about being starved. He, in shirt sleeves, struck a wire screen until his hands bled while a boy watched. At eleven, commissioners met to discuss the Helmbold case and agreed to send him home with an officer from Philadelphia to Kirkbride's at the first available train.
In a family scene described in New Dominion Monthly a cat allegedly carries newborn kittens to four children, delivering each to the one who owns it, with the cat seeming happy after each visit. The narrative repeats the event three times, noting the cat never misdelivers and is named Bumps by the kids.
A 19 pointU list from Boston Cultivator outlines proper table manners emphasizing promptness, correct spoon use, clean handling of dishes, keeping heat, modest chewing, minimal noise, and courteous behavior. It covers passing plates, avoiding elbows on the table, not speaking with a full mouth, and seeking leave before leaving.
A nostalgic note on Jaxx departing and the passing of the sweet season of fruit and roses. The speaker reflects on losing the month of abundant victuals and beauty, turning to grapple with months when sustenance must be preserved to prevent spoilage.
Observers from Valparaiso to Chicago report a brilliant meteor last Saturday night. The object moved from a point north of east to a path through Leo and the Swan, with observations aligning along a line from Michigan to the lake. It broke up in the upper atmosphere, leaving a luminous trail and a fragmenting outer shell, with a possible surface approach between sixty and seventy miles.
Theodore Dickerson, famed horse thief, is jailed again for stealing Dr. W. J. Grimes mule seven years after a prior case. His partner, Join White, already sent to the Penitentiary for seven years, inspired Dickerson to flee. White later began serving his term as Dickerson’s fate reopened. Tom White arrives at Atchison fresh from prison.
A missionary notes a seed used in India to clarify tank water by rubbing inside clay pots. While the water becomes clearer, the seed does not neutralize fever poisons or the Guinea worm. The writer emphasizes reliance on boiling and cautions against overestimating the seed’s health benefits.
A red haired man sits in a Monroe Avenue saloon when a gaunt elder confronts him over a 30 year feud. They threaten bowie knives and opposing graves before fleeing, a policeman called as the saloonkeeper cleans his bar. The piece closes with a caution about young men and brides.
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