U.S. SENATE AND STATE OFFICES LISTED
The document lists U S Senate candidates Jno M Thurston and William V Allen, plus Madison as candidate for Congress Sixth District. It names state officers Governor Sas A Holcomb Lieutenant Governor James E Hairis Secretary of State Wan F Porter Auditor and Attorney General B Masserve. Also note Superintendent of Public Instruction J Smythe and Public Lands Commissioner W T Jackson, with U S Land Office reference to Gov W Helst.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sas A. Holcomb
James E. Hairis
Eee
Wan
Porter
John BE
Nell Thorsutol
W.T Jackson
J.W. Wolt
Legislature Directory Snippet Reads North Platte Officials
A fragmented OCR lists the North Platte area with entries for Yoth Senatorial District Feltz and BQ district, North Platte representation, and the Judicial District with Judge B. M. Grimes and Otiteial Stenographers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feltz
Cenee
Aenee Cpeerens Ogatathe Fath
Lettevvind
Platte
Wwru
B. M. Grimes
North Platte Oo
H. Schermann
Otiteial
Fragmentary Public Officials List From Sidney Area
A garbled OCR listing names and titles appears to outline public officials such as sheriffs clerks and coroners from Sidney and surrounding areas. The legible items include references to a Sidney sheriff a clerk a surveyor an attorney a coroner and other district officials with unclear adjoining text.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prousutuli
Ceneen
A. Pease
Sidney Bheriff
Fink H. King
Lapeer
W. C. Bullock
Lodge Pole TV
Sidney
Lyon
H. Wills
Camp Clark
WB. Bassett
Gapen
Ecclesiastical and fraternal notices for Sidney area
Community notices list Episcopal and Catholic service times, Sunday school, and prayer meetings. Also included are numerous fraternal orders with meeting nights, officers, and locations such as Royal Neighbors, A F and AM, I O O F, X of P, G A R, W B R, M W of A, A O U W, and other groups.
Smokeless powder and cordite its making and use in navies
The article explains smokeless powder built from nitroglycerin gun cotton and vaseline, detailing Cordite composition, production method, and safety. It traces powder history from 1590 England to modern naval use, noting cordite’s adoption by Britain and other powers and its advantages over black gunpowder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cruisers
England
Waltham Abbey
Iaversham
Fraance
Cordiae
Professor Dewar
Sir Frederick Abel
Great Britain
New York Sun
Breathe Easy with Deep Breathing and Clothing Advice
A health note extols deep breathing to maximize oxygen intake and warns that tight clothing hampers oxygen supply. It urges open windows for sleep, nasal breathing, and proper air quality, linking restlessness to oxygen need and stressing red blood cells as oxygen carriers. It ends with guidance on wholesome food to support blood health.
Precession Shifts Pole as Southern Cross Drops Toward The Sea
In The Atlantic from Professor Z J Lee, precession of the equinoxes over 12 900 years will move the pole and alter the heavens. The Southern Cross will disappear from Florida in a few thousand years and reappear near Hudson Bay in 18 000. Canopus in Argo will sink below visibility in Central America in about 12 000 years. Alpha and Beta Centauri will vanish from Alexandria’s view, seen only near the pyramids now and later only in upper Egypt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Job
Z. J. J. Lee
Atlantic
Humboldt
Europe
United States
Baltic
Hudson Bay
Florida
Canopus
Argo
Sirius
Central America
Ptolemy
Alexandria
Hadrian
Pyramids
Cairo
Nile
Upper
Egypt
Woman's club hall ceiling mishap sparks quip
A club's plan to hire men for building work faced resistance from its women members. An accident on the roof left a worker’s foot protruding through the nearly finished auditorium ceiling. The incident, witnessed by several members, caused embarrassment and a memorable remark about men in the club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
TOURISTS ABROAD EXPENDITURES IN EUROPE RISE SHARPLY
The article cites official Swiss data showing hotel receipts rising from 62.8 million to 114.3 million francs between 1880 and 1894 and estimates Europe wide tourist spending at about 700 million dollars yearly. It notes Paris hosts 60,000 foreign visitors with daily hotel bills near 10 francs per person and 2 dollars in total daily outlays, driven largely by Americans, British, French, Germans and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Bern
Switzerland
Riviera
France
Nice
Republic
Paris
Sleepwalking and the sleepwalker in science and fiction
Andrew Wilson discusses sleepwalking and its depiction in Wilkie Collins The Moon Stone and real cases from McNish Abercrombie and a physician’s observations. He notes a lawyer writing opinions in a dream, later found satisfactorily written at his desk, illustrating purposive somnambulism and automatic action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkie Collins
Franklin Blake
McNish
Abercrombie
Scott
Andrew Wilson
Harper’s Magazine
Prison for Students Across Nations and Regents
A London Sketch piece surveys how universities in England Germany and Cambridge handle student misdeeds, noting Oxford’s civil authority limits, Heidelberg’s stern academic prison, and humorous plaques carved by inmates. The article details prison rooms costs, bedding, meals, and the ritual of matriculation cards triggering civil- university reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Osford
Clarendon
University
Cambridge
Germany
Heidelberg
Mark Twain
Mark
Itaclf
Soat
E. Glinicke
Clemens
Graf Bismarck
Durance
Bismarck
R. Diergandt
Oxford
London
Caltego
Somerville
Frank W. Gunsaulan
D. Armour Institute
Chicago
George ¥. Pentecost
D.D
Norylecone Presbyterian Church
Eng
Se Macarthur
Calvary Bootlac
New York City
N. Y
Martyn Summer
Main Street
Tiat Church
Laval
Frank M. Briato
C Church
Moo
Christian Fon
Tle
Londons
Enga
Reedward
Everett Hale
Bps
South Congressational
Dace
Boston
Mass
Joseph Agar
Veslayam. College
Nekingndl
Crapat Rene Gre
Pxig University
Cleaver Wilkinson
Xversity of
Samuel Hart
Rey Callens
J. Monroe Wood Presbman Ghureh
Nev
George D, Lorim
the Temple
The Fabled Freight Car Number 12845
A St Louis Republic note claims rail freight cars in many yards bear the number 12845, known as the sequence car. The author recounts searching yards across towns and rivers for the elusive 12845, finding hundreds of cars but never this one, casting doubt on its existence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railrail
Drummer
St. Louis Republic
Ancient Playing Cards and Ostriches in Russia
Ancient Tarot packs are described as having 72 77 or 0? cards and originating in Florence with designs passed down through generations. Ostriches, though tropical in origin, have been raised successfully in southern Russia yielding good feathers and healthy birds. A man should weigh 28 pounds per foot of height for perfect proportion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
France
Switzerland
Florance
Russia
How We Use Our Lives Table by Gabriel Poi gnot
A Boston Journal table outlines a 50 year man sallocating 18 250 days: 6 082 to sleep 550 to sickness 1 622 to meals 5 582 to work 671 to exercise and travel 8 808 days. quantities include 27 080 pounds of bread 6 080 meat 4 076 vegetables eggs fruit 81 180 liters of wine spirits and water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gabriel Poignot
Boston Journal
New York Fishermen Spend On Sport Weekly Outings
It is intimated that more than 75,000 fishermen go out of New York every Sunday and that they spend on an average of $2 sach on the sport. Postal authorities have decided, that, mail matter need not be delivered at, houses where vicious dogs are kept un chained. 2/272 Tax
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New York
Joy and danger in motherhood beyond biblical words
Many readers interpret the Creator’s remark to women as a curse yet the joy of a first child proves otherwise. The article notes danger and suffering accompany pregnancy and urges avoidance to ensure a healthy birth and strong hope realized.
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the Telegraph Directory
U.S. Senate
Jno
M. Thurston
William V. Allen
C.ee
Madison Congressional
Ue Greene
U.S. Land Office
Gov. W. Helst
Eee Veneses
Warels
Cecovees
Ocel
Legislature
Fat
R. Woods
Wayerstad
Cahesu'emad
A. Rowsa
Sidney $d
W. Harper
Bronson
Board Villiage Trustees
B.d. Melutosh
Ceererees
J. Be Hurt
H.T. Dorin
W.F. Uassett
J. Pantenburg
H. E. Gapen
P.bauders
Piss Justian Whitehead
Mule Chase
J C.neubauer
McKee
Julia McFadden
Pelmary
Ll. F. Shelton
Petmary
Episcopal Church
Mm. C.J. Osborn
Gupt
Epworth League
Vrrayer
Rev
R. Moone
Inster
Episcopal Chuhch
Royal Neighbors
K.pohall
Mus
Kirti Washburn
Oracle
Susan Chambers
Frank Welch Lodge
A. F.& Alm
Ereers
Leslie Neubauer
Scc'y
Gd. Stuwstts
Sidney Lodge
L. VU
A. Is. Greenlee
Sec
J. Neubauer
N.G
Rebecca Degree
V. Neubauer
Sec'y- A. Granneman N.G
Frank Tobin
D. F. McKee
Joseph S. Conrad Garrison
No. Au
Regular Army and Navy
Union of the Us
F. Li. DeCastro
Thos. Wellerman
Adj
E. V
Mu. Henry
Davis
Henry A. Morrow
P. R. Boraquist
A. J. Davison
E. V. Sumner
W. BR
A. J. Haskell
Maggie Snyder
Sidney Lump
M. W.of A
Jas. McMullan
C. P. Chambers
R Griffith
I Erith
P. Sanders
R. R
Q. Forest
Prest
KO. T. M
Wm. W. Chowins
H.j.snyder
R. I
Providence
O. E
Masonic Hall
Lo’clock
Onas
P. Davis
Stowitts
Sidney Lodge No
P. Bull
Corner
Myrtle Atreets
Mrs. Burton
H. Bessie. Bhennay
Phrenological Journal
Widenawake
Bend
Phronological Journal
Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers
East 21St St
New, York
Sallie
Ntt
Heidelberg University
Crimea
Tosa & Co
Whiteweight, Tex
Webster’s International
Oxo
J. Rower
Supreme Court
Olice
Detroit Free Press
The
International
Globe
Chicago Times-Herald
G. & C. Merriam CO
Springfield
Maas
U.S.A
Miller
Eldredge
Belvidere
National Sewing Machine CO
Broadway
Belvidere, Ill
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