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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1921
Page
16
Sidney audiences eager for Exy Burgess and her quartet as they tour the area. She appears at the Methodist church on Sunday evening, June 5th, with a program of homegrown music promising a refined showcase from a talented local artist.
The North Division of the Methodist Kensington will hold a bake sale at the Cash Grocery on Saturday June 11. Proceeds support church activities and community programs.
The piece traces chimneys from antiquity to the fourteenth century, noting Roman buildings lack modern fireplaces. It recalls soot in Roman kitchens, brazier use in living rooms, and that early chimneys were simple roof holes. The first clear European chimney account appears in Venice in 1347.
Egypt used reed pens early on while goose quills were common later. Isidore in 686 notes reeds and feathers as pen materials. Swan quills praised by 1520. Steel pens appeared in the early 1800s but were slow to catch on due to elasticity limits. Perry cut slits in steel pens in 1830, boosting quill replacement.
A Boston Transcript script notes a miscue in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence where the couple Archer and May are described as married in the funeral service words, a sharper deviation from prior blunder in her earlier novel describing a man on a stony beach with limbs at his sides.
At Union Stock Yards on June 1 1921 cattle prices held steady from Monday with about 5400 head traded. Beef cattle and yearlings ranged from 6 to 8.50 with various grades listed and hogs selling 7.10 to 7.50 on lighter gains. Lambs and sheep showed demand for desirable lambs while overall market softened on aged stock with spring lambs quoted up to 12.50 and sheep lambs 9.75 to 12.50 for spring and shorn types.
In Punch’s tongue in cheek note a device called the radio micrometer is described as so sensitive it would respond if anyone nearby blushed. The quip implies a cautious view of modern nerves and social scrutiny, suggesting little fear of overwork despite an overactive public gaze.
A college professor notes that after age thirty a man is guided by common sense in love, yet he forgets there is no fool like an old fool in Dostoevsky style reflection about romance.
For your Electric Supplies go to the Electric Shop, one block east of the American Bank.
Dr M E Pettibone operates as a dentist in the McIntosh block occupying room 5-6s and reachable by phone at 4119.
A wry exchange ponders naming a son Reginald Clarence to imply a fighter in a rough neighborhood. A cynical tone questions happiness in marriage. A humorous vignette spirals from a feather habit to a joke about Wuss and feathers, plus a feasting kitchen tidbit about extra beef liver and new boarders.
A fragment shows a suitor and father in a terse exchange about expected income and the amount the daughter may receive as a dowry or marriage consideration. The tone implies social bargaining over financial contribution and nuptial terms.
Pharmacy and medicine split into distinct trades under tenth and eleventh century monks and priests. Constantine Afer of Carthage is cited as the father of the apothecaries. Their potions served the rich and were given to the poor, with no French apothecaries referenced before 1484.
An English temperance lecturer shows two geraniums to his audience. One plant is watered normally, the other with alcohol causing the leaves to shrivel and the stem to twist. A shabby man jokes that if he were a geranium he would stick to water, but he is not.
A travel anecdote recounts a Texan tourist who crashed into a nest of rattlesnakes after a car accident. The snakes attacked the tires, puncturing them, but the tires later re inflated as the traveler drove away on four wheels, claiming to have killed a hundred snakes.
A monumental storm drenched the region turning Wild Horse Canyon to two rods wide and washing out bridges. The Alden railroad bridge eroded undermining traffic while travelers used wagon bridges and improvised ferries. Ranchers navigated flooded roads with improvised crossings as May’s lingering wet spell continues.
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