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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1909
Page
3
A wild monkey roams Greenwich over two days, breaking into homes where men were away, frightening women, grabbing fudge and candy, and clashing with a bulldog. Residents fear opening windows as the animal rummages kitchens and living rooms.
Montclair, N J Mephisto the profanity loving parrot belonging to Paul Sorrenson vanished inside a locomotive stack after panicking at the Delaware Lackawanna roundhouse. Onlookers recall his multilingual profanity and speculate whether he suffocated or is still plotting his next wordy eruption.
Walter Darnall, proprietor of a Petersburg fish market, uses baited hooks on strong lines to catch rats from rat holes avoiding poison odor. The method rapidly proves effective and many others adopt it, eliminating hundreds of rats. Five billion bushels of potatoes are produced yearly, with Europe supplying most. 1902 4.25B, 1903 4B, 1904 slightly less, 1905 4.75B, 1906 4,305,313,000 bushels.
Mrs. Nellie Lee of Cleveland hopes a brain surgeon can save her nine year old son Arthur who has fasted for 17 weeks with only milk and brandy sips. Doctors are baffled by a bound brain condition and the family has spent all they possess seeking relief.
The article portrays Robert W. Speer of Denver as a municipal socialist who expands city services and ownership. It highlights free bathhouse provisions, nightly electric fountain shows, free band concerts, a city museum, parkways, a Cherry Creek boulevard project, and a planned civic center. It notes Speer’s push for municipal water control, home rule, and his stance that utilities use of streets should yield city rents. It cites payments from Denver Tramway and Denver Gas and Electric Company as examples of street usage revenues.
George W Reik has been appointed private secretary to Postmaster General Hitchcock after about ten years in government service. He began as a temporary employee at Havana in 1899, later joined the War Department in 1900, and moved to the Post Office in 1905. Reik, born in Delaware and raised in Baltimore, rose to assistant chief clerk before his latest promotion.
Prof Willet M Hays is the present assistant secretary and the likely successor for agriculture when Secretary Wilson leaves Taft's cabinet. Known as an exponent of the new agriculture he has applied scientific methods to farming increasing grain yields by 10 percent and improving quality. Born in 1859 on an Iowa homestead he learned farm management young and later studied at Iowa Agricultural College and the University of Michigan.
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero has been knighted by King Edward VII Paris birthday honors. He began as a lawyer before turning to acting and then playwriting. His notable works include Sweet Lavender The Second Mrs Tanqueray The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith The Gay Lord Quex Iris Letty and His House in Order.
The Marquis of Villalobor will replace Don Ramon Pina as Spain’s minister to the United States. A 42 year old bachelor, he has long served in London as first secretary at the Spanish embassy and has prior diplomatic experience in Paris and Washington. He is a chamberlain to King Alfonso, a noted social figure in London clubs, and a grandson of Duke de Rivas.
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