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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1918
Page
9
A store scene with a customer accusing a clerk of slow service after an hour of waiting. The store manager asks for clarification as the dispute unfolds in a tense exchange. The exchange highlights perceived neglect and frustration in a retail setting.
The local board holds registration cards for a long list of men with names including Earl W Ledbetter Alford Philips Bentley Mason Joseph Sippel Vern Charlies Portz Toyd Milton Hendricks Edwin Earl Bennett and Ivan Winfred Mdrrow among many others. The list runs through numerous entries with numbers and surnames and ends with a reflective quote from Ralph Parlette urging action and opportunity.
There are eighteen hundred dressings to make in gauze rooms and all workers must come out or Sidney will fall shore for the first time since the work began. Wanted a woman to clean the gauze room weekly. Forty comfort kits needed from this county for the next shipment. Volunteers urged for refugee garments packing and other tasks. Board of Trustees set for 6 45 tonight to approve bills before Chautauqua. Red Cross notes include membership reports and a notice about a service publication priced at ten cents.
The Cheyenne County Board of County Commissioners met in Sidney on June 11 1918 following adjournment June 4 1918 with members Rilen Barlow and Goding and officers Radcliffe Slawson. Minutes of June 4 read approved and the board adjourned without date. The Board of Equalization met in the Assessor’s Office with Rilen Barlow Goding and Bettendorf as chair hearing adjustment requests. It adjourned to meet June 18 1918 with Returns from precincts not in yet.
John Shafer Jr and Edward Terrell of Hennepin County inspect Orono bridge over Lake Minnetonka after carpenters report piles worn by fish rubbing and buttressing the wooden supports. The aging bridge has been closed following the assessment.
Bar on von Richthofen, famed German air commander, reportedly decorates his den with machine victory marks and uses a rotary aircraft engine from a downed foe as a chandelier. The depiction appeared in La Guerre Reconnue II 9 cited by Scientific American.
Joseph Fine is in Norfolk Virginia ready for the worst of the fray and Edward Shoemaker appears as a young giant bucking the lines after ten days in mud and trench rain. The article notes soldiers over the top, letters home from France, and training assignments at Fort Sheridan with Chicago generosity. Sam Fine at Camp Fremont California, and other messages from soldiers and families accompany the wartime snapshot.
Carlton Bentley returns from Waco and receives an honorable discharge for incipient lung infection after army service in the mechanics department. Roy Hedges remains convalescent in Maryland hospital. A note on West Point cadet appointments outlines two per senator district and four for DC, all appointed by the president with recommendations from senators and representatives.
A satirical notice mocks a persistent salesman named Legion offering insurance, books, automobiles, rat traps, razors, cures, and oil stocks. The caller describes the pitch as relentless, arriving in the morning and staying all day, while the salesman sows promises of wealth.
The article traces the Tower of London origins from the White Tower begun by William Rufus and walled by 1098, notes successive royal additions, Edward III's church, rebuilding of the White Tower in 1628, later 17th century expansions under Charles II, and completion of new buildings by 1850.
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