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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1915
Page
3
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Federal state and city investigations launch into the Eastland sinking at Chicago dock. Victims reach 1220 with 822 identified dead and 393 missing. Officials, including coroner and State's Attorney, pursue overload and ballast theories while relief funds of 200000 and 100000 from Red Cross and Western Electric are pledged.
Senator Hitchcock releases a statement commenting on Wilsons four federal appointments in Nebraska. He notes initial recommendations for internal revenue collector and district attorney, cites opposition from Bryan, and confirms final selections including Thomas S. Allen as state district attorney and Thomas J. Flynn as Omaha marshal. W McCune is named as customs collector at Omaha.
Francis Wayland argues that fixed limits to evil exist in our nature and that real-world facts counter false theories. He says age cannot alter divine ordinances, and daily experience shows the worthlessness of vice as it fades from memory. The link between vice and misery resists efforts to make evil appealing and blocks its progress.
A brief from the London Mail notes Frigga, source of Friday, held as a hunter and warrior in myth. She is pictured with a drawn sword and a bow, and in Scandinavia was called the Venus of the North while the sixth day of the week was devoted to her.
A Washington Star excerpt shows a young man asking for feedback on his graduation essay. His father quips that many will be bashful about offering plain wages to a nun whose intellect surpasses the average.
Quip from Chicago News about a woodchuck story shows a playful exchange with the editor. The young author reads aloud and the editor jokes of a woodchuckle. The quotation adds a light moment reflecting youth and wit.
In a humorous note from the Christian Register a polite Mrs Mellen asks her servant to learn if the new cook ate the last can of salmon without asking her directly. The servant replies the cook has eaten it and she already feels uncomfortable.
British officials focus on a vast German enveloping movement in the eastern front with 20 000 cavalry that have moved from Riga toward the Petrograd Warsaw railway. The Times warns Warsaw's fall could indefinitely delay Russia's offensives as German lines press the northern and southern arteries toward Odessa. A Petrograd statement notes German setbacks on the Narew, while other fronts show limited activity except Italy claiming 1 600 prisoners.
Eight counties still delay assessor reports prompting anxiety from Secretary Bernecker of the state board. Deadline was July 10 for reports to reach the office, with letters sent to delinquent counties threatening enforcement. Names of remaining delinquent counties include Douglas, Garfield, Gage, Garden, Greeley, Holt, Knox, Loup, Otoe and Rock.
The United States warns Germany it will regard future submarine attacks that kill Americans as unfriendly. The note renews demands for disavowal of sinking the Lusitania and seeks reparations, while proposing U S mediation on maritime warfare rules. The Leclanan was torpedoed off Scotland with crew saved. later shots failed to sink it before it sank. The incident heightens tensions between Germany and the United States.
Vincenzo Mercurio appeals to the supreme court from a Douglas county district court ruling that denied his request for a judgment against the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway company. He seeks damages alleged from injuries suffered while the company tore up stone paving at Sixteenth and Howard streets in Omaha when struck by a streetcar. He estimated relief costs around $5,000.
Clarence Gathright, serving twenty years for complicity in a policeman's murder in Omaha, could gain freedom in about six months if the governor accepts the pardon board's report. His sentence was commuted to thirteen years and three months, shortening time served.
A young officer commanding a recruit squad orders lifting the right leg but a soldier lifts the left leg instead, causing the neighbor’s legs to join. The officer exclaims in astonishment that the man has lifted both legs, a humorous misjudgment captured by the Chicago News.
Head Consul Osterman and his party reviewed the contested western Merrick county routes and approved the Union Pacific path favored by Mr Glatfelder. Separately, the board of pardons rejected Sitzman of Cass county’s pardon request, noting a life sentence for a 1909 murder near Plattsmouth.
A neighbor asks if the baby suffers sleeplessness and the man replies that the baby sleeps fine while he himself endures the hardship, a wry line from the Ladies' Home Journal showing dark humor about fatigue.
A brief quoted exchange shows tension between a sister and Harold. She refuses to say yes while asserting independence and mentions accepting Harold’s brother last night, attributed to Lehigh Burr.
A Washington Star remark quotes a debate on women in boxing, noting that while some say women are not pugilists, one assertion claims a wife once valued as a prize by her husband now takes the ring as a prizefighter.
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