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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1897
Page
3
The Doctor's orderly life includes Jean-Marie’s steady progress and the pair's bond. The Doctor narrates his philosophy and mock paradise between walks, lectures, and musings on wealth, Paris, and the village Gretz's quiet hamlet fate.
On a June day a boy and the Doctor sit on a hill outside Gretz Church town. The river shines blue among foliage while birds circle the tower. A forest wind carries distant music and a sense that the village seems tiny beneath blue skies. The boy notes its shrinking view, and the Doctor recalls a former walled city with armor and bustling spires.
A bizarre Railroad Telegrapher report recounts a catastrophic derailment near Fairwell cross involving a heavy load and spikes. Foreman John Schneider describes men thrown into a ditch and a civilian killed, with efforts to recover the wreck using shovels and improvised measures as rescuers search for missing workers.
English women riders, on long summer cycles, travel with compact toilet cases. These contain powders, brushes, combs, puff, manicure tools, mirror, and other small appliances to preserve complexion. The gear is designed for portable personal grooming during excursions.
A humorous exchange between a patron and a waiter is cited from the New York World showing a claim of best shaved ice versus a hair found in ice cream, illustrating a light observed dispute over dessert quality.
The piece explains criminal slang as a shifting, often brutal dialect used by thieves. It argues the terms arise from trade like languages do, with many words for acts and items, but note its lack of abstract thought and rapid turnover, reflecting degeneracy and limited linguistic growth.
The article explains how hair color in Europe shifts from blond in the north to brunette in the south, with about one third pure blondes and one tenth pure brunettes in the north and nearly half brunettes in the south. It notes a gradual north–south gradient, a boundary near the Alps, and eastward increases in brunetteness, contrasting with smoother head-shape maps.
A brief witty exchange quotes Miss Belinda praising fiction as a means to meet people she would not speak to in real life. The remark appears in Tit Bits and reflects light social humor of the era.
Frederick Saunders of the Astor library is the oldest living librarian. Ex-Postmaster General Wilson to be inaugurated president of Washington and Lee University on Sept. 14. The king of Siam to visit Queen Victoria next summer aboard the Maha Chakri. John Tweed commissioned to sculpt Cecil Rhodes statue at Bulawayo. Mrs. Laungtry’s daughter Jean makes London debut as second edition of her mother. Emperor Francis Joseph sits for portrait by Eduard Horowitz in Vienna. Miss Blanche Berard resigns as postmistress at West Point due to age and illness. One hundred drawings by George du Maurier arrive in New York. Henry Doel, oldest actor, turns ninety-three next birthday after sixty-five years on stage. Mother Gonzaga Kennelly dies aged 86 after sixty-three years at Ursulins convent. McKinley and Lincoln mothers share name Nancy. other presidents’ mothers include Elizabeth, Mary, Elizabeth, Jane, Anna, Susanna, Nelly, Abigail, Sarah, Phoebe, Harriet, Sophia, Maria.
Explorer Robert Peary announces the setup of stations in North Greenland for a sustained Arctic dash toward the Pole. Arctic Highlanders will gather meat and furs and train dogs to support the mission.
Lieutenant Peary, with five years leave, details a two phase voyage starting July 8 to scout a route and recruit Esquimaux for a northern base. He aims to reach the pole with a small white crew, relying on Inuit labor and a cautious timeline spanning 1893 onward, while wife and child stay home this year.
In Washington on May 20 the Twelfth annual meeting was held with Senator Hawley presiding. Henry Randell Waite of New York, the president, reported progress despite financial gloom, noting the institute’s aim to raise citizenship standards through education and related efforts.
The canonization of Zaccaria founder of the Barnabites and called the Apoalle of Lorraine occurred today at St Peters. About 40 000 people filled the basilica for the ceremony marking the abolition of the temporal power of the popes.
Advices from Cuba say General Gomez will resign as insurgent commander and travel to the United States as secretary of war pro tem of the Cuban republic to confer with President McKinley on the Cuban situation. General Garcia is also mentioned in the discussion.
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