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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1905
Page
6
A Woman's Journal tale uses a trailing gown to illustrate how dust carries tuberculosis and diphtheria germs from street to home. It contrasts a stylish lady with fragile health and a child, ending with a call for sensible skirts to curb TB invasion.
In urban life strict bans on spitting and promiscuous expectoration clash with real exposure. The piece warns dust carries germs from sidewalks into homes via long skirts and sweeping cloths, endangering families and especially domestic workers. It urges patient education and shared civic responsibility to limit spread.
A collection of vegetable soup, Imperial nixiesether style, scalloped potatoes, chopped cabbage with lemon cream, macaroni with tomato sauce, and steamed fig pudding. Includes detailed steps, ingredients, and notes on texture and serving sauces.
Explosion near Morse Blur in Saunders county seriously injures Otto Lottenburg and Roy Killian as Lottenburg lights a pale iron object with bluish powder. Lottenburg loses a leg below the knee at Fremont hospital. Killian loses two fingers. The bomb was rusty, buried, and had not been moved for long. No clear origin is given.
Lincoln Ex State Superintendent Fowler declined the post, citing a contract with an eastern publishing house. After two ballots, A. O. Thomas of Wearney received four votes and was declared elected principal of the normal school.
Miss Julia Sullivan of this place died by suicide at a Clearwater hotel room. An ambitious former teacher who passed the civil service exam for a Philippines position was reportedly encouraged to obtain an appointment but faced disappointment.
Attorney General Brown files brief in supreme court sustaining demurrer to E. S. Swinney of the Bankers Union of the World. Swinney seeks mandamus to compel license issuance from the auditor's department. State argues auditor’s refusal was within discretionary power and not ministerial, so cannot be coerced.
Senator Millard received a telegram from Colonel Edwards stating that due to the isolated combat area there is no definite news on Colonel Taylor’s injuries. The report notes the fight with Islanders and the lack of confirmed casualty details.
J I Miner a leading Democrat of southern Nebraska died at Excelsior Springs. He was a pioneer merchant and served as president of the People's Bank in Red Cloud at the time of his death.
At a mass meeting of citizens and Grand Army of the Republic members an executive committee was chosen to run the Southwestern Nebraska district G A R. The district reunion will be held at this place from August 14 to 19, 1905.
Governor receives letter from Thomas Gerrard & Co. of Dublin and Drogheda seeking details on the estate of Mary Kelley or Mary Callaghan who is said to have died within the last two years in Omaha or El Paso Texas.
Lincoln Adjutant General Culver announced Rev. J. Tuttle of the First Congregational church has been appointed chaplain of the Second regiment with the rank of captain.
Grand Island. David W. David, a member of Company D Fifty-first Illinois Infantry, admitted from York County to the Soldiers' Home in 1900, died. He enlisted in 1863 and served until the war’s end.
Promoters of a new Humboldt brick plant plan tests of Humboldt clay at Table Rock and St Joseph to determine suitability for wet or dry pressing. Nearly all of the $20 000 stock is sold to local investors and incorporation steps will follow if test results are favorable.
Witnesses including Francis M Cockrell and Joseph W Fifer testified before the senate committee on Interstate commerce as its railroad rate investigation neared completion. Fifer warned of distrust among railroad men, urged careful rate adjustments, and argued commission power would be used sparingly. Cockrell urged the commission condemn unreasonable rates and set new ones, while allowing railroad appeals to courts. he noted judiciary divisions on rate cases. S H Cowan represented southwest live stock shippers, disputing claims on satisfactory rate conditions and asserting cattle rates are too high.
London reports a Board of Trade report by Special Commissioner E H Cooke criticizes British traders for losing market share in Siberia to Americans Danes and Germans. It notes Russian migrants in Siberia supplying London and preferring machinery from Milwaukee or Chicago as British interests lag behind.
Hezekiah A. Gudser administers oath to Charles G. Lagoon in Ancon with President Amador and cabinet present. Magoon outlines canal commission centralization, doubled railroad tracks, expanded docking at Panama and Coron, sanitation funding, more judges, a Panamaan on the supreme court, and new schools opening.
Cullom and Hopkin of Illinois with W. E. Troutman and W. D. Barnum met the president to discuss appointments in the new Minnesota judicial district. It was announced that Troutman would be appointed United States district attorney, with Bainlim previously a candidate.
Mr. James H. Watkins of Albany describes his four year struggle with locomotor ataxia. After six boxes of Williams Pink Pills his circulation improves, strength returns, and within seven to eight months the pain vanishes. He now works normally and says he is practically well. Williams Pink Pills are available at drug stores.
The text argues that selfishness is the dominant motive guiding all actions. It asserts people perform only what they wish to do when free to act, and the distinction lies in the actions chosen.
For over thirty years Mr M Moss of Gainesville Texas suffered from painful ulcers and an eruption from knees to feet. After doctors and medicines failed, he used Cuticura Soap Ointment and Pills and was cured in six months. He says they helped from the first use and urges others to try them to escape misery.
The fraternity of bellringers is known in Britain as the exercise and the dramatic profession is termed the profession. A bellringer is described as a member of the exercise.
The article compares freight rate setting to checkers and chess where communities, producers, manufacturers, and shippers act as pieces. It argues railroads use mutual concessions to lower rates and create balanced competition, noting U S rates are among the lowest worldwide. It ends with a quip on doing one’s best.
An old ad lists medicines such as powders for children and worm remedies offered by sellers in New York and Le Roy New York. The copy mentions a Marm or ap sa orms and stage names like Allen Ss. Olmated while noting prices around 25 cents.
An advertisement touts internal remedies for catarrh claiming local applications fail to reach the disease. It promotes a tonic said to act on the blood and mucous surfaces, offered by J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio with testimonials and a price. The text also mentions constipation cures and a Japanese notion of aging called waves of old age.
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