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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1923
Page
6
A road hog speeds along the Lincoln highway causing the instant death of three men. The piece warns of escalating motoring dangers from inexperienced and drunken drivers as states discuss 20 mph speed limits with governors to curb traffic and prevent air-route travel.
A windmill near the Ford Wick horst house northeast of Potter was struck by lightning Sunday evening and badly damaged. The bolt followed a telephone wire to the house, knocking the telephone from the wall, though the house sustained no damage.
A. Troxte introduces a pallophotophone based microphone linking artist to circuitry. The device uses a vibrating diaphragm and a dancing mirror to modulate light into a light cell, yielding a noiseless, more sensitive sound pickup with better fidelity than conventional carbon-microphone systems.
Kansas City Star reports on newly found chariot wheels in Tut Ankh Amun’s tomb in Lusor Egypt showing hub and rim construction with long hub and small diameter to reduce friction. Bronze spindles and bearings show tempering hailed as a lost art and some wheels bore gold tires, suggesting advanced ancient wheel design ahead of its time.
The Japanese high school at Honolulu opens a girls jujutsu class to counter rising assaults on women and girls. Graduates are trained to defend against larger attackers and deliver swift counter punishment. Over forty girls are enrolled, proving small stature is not a handicap.
Cartoonist H T Webster shows an eleven spade hand with two aces captioned as seven spades doubled and redoubled. Wilbur C Whitehead of the Wanickerbocker Whist Club notes that if opponents lack hearts or diamonds, the hand can be countered by ruffs and trumps, reminding that freak hands imply others hold them too.
The article states Great Britain’s agreed war debt payment to the United States totals 4,004,128, and quotes Capper’s Weekly for the comparison of this sum to U S assets. It notes the disparity is 317,005,108 over the combined gold and silver in 1922 and cites higher excesses over last year’s corn, cotton, coal, and South African diamond production values.
A USDA survey shows the average milch cow slaughter age at 10 years with prices about half of those for cows sold for milking. State averages range 9 to 11 years, with 11 years in Maryland West Virginia Florida Wisconsin Louisiana Utah Nevada and 9 years in New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut South Carolina Georgia and Alabama. Early spring prices averaged $32 per head for slaughter cows, about half of the $64 milking-cow value.
A Colorado woman improved family finances last year through poultry as the main farm activity despite crop failures. Wheat yielded 90 bushels and barley 30, with some corn fed to livestock. After selling culls for 106 dollars and buying lumber for a larger poultry house, eggs and chickens earned 597.20 dollars, covering taxes, interest on debt, and construction of a warmer three room home.
Souder was released on bail at 5 30 Monday from the county jail where he had been confined since early last week. Two bonds totaling 25000 were posted. New bonds were signed by L E B Jones and M Souder for 5000 and by M Souder J M Souder Gussie Spickerman J L Harden J I Souder Amelia Souder and Eva Souder for 20000.
Nebraska City Free Press argues against overattention to trifles that burden leaders. It praises executives who delegate minor tasks to capable subordinates, avoiding gray hair and wasted footsteps toward ruin. The piece warns that workers are trapped by minutiae while effective leaders dodge petty anxieties.
Mrs Winfield Evans lies seriously ill under doctor care after a large boulder rolled from the bluff struck her back while she sat near picnic tables between the foot of the bluff and the country clubhouse.Tourists or saw troupe members were suspected, with authorities noting the danger and a federal mandate cited by Custodian Maupin of the Scots Bluff Monument.
A high quality modern player piano is to be sacrificed in a public warehouse closing out with big discounts. No reasonable offer will be refused and full information is available by writing Knight-Campbell Music Co in Denver Colorado.
An advertisement explains catarrh is influenced by general health and promotes Hall's Catarrh Medicine. It features a local ointment and an internal tonic to improve overall health, noting sales by druggists for over forty years and listing J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio as makers.
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