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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1921
Page
12
Rates of subscription list one year postage paid at 1.50 and six months at 0.75. Also mentions 15 Bingle copies and advance payments. Note shows the publication is mailed from Sidney Nebraska as second class matter.
Tuesday afternoon reports a string of visits and travels among Sidney area residents. Guests include Mrs Newell hosting Monday’s party, Rev Ives performing a marriage in Ogallala last Thursday, and Dr Witham visiting Sterling. Others journeyed from Gurley, Lodgepole, Spurgin, Alliance, and Denver for family events, shopping, or Decoration day visits, with some returning from trips to Iowa and Omaha.
William Frye eleven years old son of Mrs Conrad Wagner of Norfolk died after drowning in the Northfork river below the mill dam Saturday afternoon.
In a river inlet area a boy clung to an inner-tube life preserver for about fifteen minutes as his flotation failed. Dozens of onlookers including youngsters and men watched as he vanished beneath the swirling dirty water rushing past the dam apron, caused by recent heavy rains.
Jewish workingmen in the United States, despite the depression, have contributed clothing valued at 2 million for refugees in Latvia, Lithuania, the Balkans, and Ukraine. Shipments are now sent to Poland, Ukraine, and for Romanian refugees in Bessarabia and Palestine with more to Austria this month. The relief committee has also distributed foodstuffs and drugs in the Ukraine.
The passage describes coolies in East Indian ports as the horses of Eblis and Chinese coolies calling them devil wagons. It notes their power and speed as dairy products move through New Zealand and other journeys across railway stations in Japan, docks in Manila and Kilode Fantero, cotton mills in India, and Argentinian packing houses.
They have traveled to the ends of the earth and do the work of twenty men at low costs. They move noiselessly about baggage platforms of American railroad stations and are electric and gasoline trucks born in Cleveland Philadelphia and Detroit. They are American-born machines sent to foreign lands as emissaries of American genius.
Representative Aaron Kreider recounted a story at the Atlantic City chamber meeting about a woman who was charged 16 cents for ice cream with a 2 cent luxury tax and 11 cents for a corn plaster with a 1 cent luxury tax. The tale underscores debates over tax propositions and what constitutes a luxury in National business discourse.
An old style notice invites readers to visit the Electric Supplies store called Electric Shop, located one block east of the American Bank, urging local shoppers to stop by for hardware and electrical goods.
Dr M Pettibone, dentist, operates at McIn Tosh Block in Room 5 6U. Phone number 410 listed for appointments and inquiries.
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