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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1901
Page
7
Grain-O is promoted as a coffee substitute made from pure grains that is easy on the stomach and suitable for both children and adults. It emphasizes its rich color and absence of coffee distress, with packages priced at 15 and 26 cents and sold by grocers.
Announcement promotes cheap round trip tickets to California for Epworth League Convention in San Francisco. Southern Pacific lines offer routes to reach points of interest and flexible ticketing options with return via different routes. Tickets on sale July 6–13, valid for return through August 31. Includes contact for map and travel details.
Buffalo assists travel discounts with sales windows from May 16 to Sept 6 for Kansas City and June 7 onward for Detroit and other cities. Half rates to most southern points on the first and third Tuesdays monthly. Summer tourist rates now on sale for Pan-American Exposition and summer tours. Descriptive material available at 415 Farnam Street Omaha or by mail from Harry J Moores and A J Bandy.
F W Mills started as a peanut vendor on trains at age 12 with railroad contracts to sell peanuts. He grew to employ over 600 men and became manager of a company that makes slot machines supplying salted peanuts.
It is noted that Richard Croker's sons show little interest in racing or horses, preferring dog fanciers with fine bull dogs and bull Terriers. Their father remained uninvolved in racing until he reached age fifty.
A Duluth reader reports Western Canada fields yield twenty five to thirty bushels per acre and dense shocks blocking tractors. He notes mild winters due to Japan current chinook winds and dry air. The letter promotes new districts in Saskatchewan valley and urges readers to contact government agents for information.
Eastern capitalists take possession of General William T Sherman’s historic St Louis residence at Garrison and Bell avenues. Donated by citizens after the civil war, the house cost $20,000, and Sherman lived there from 1867 for seven years amid disputes over water taxes and editor conflicts. The G A R later offered $15,000 to heirs for headquarters.
Chicago Chronicle notes Hetty Green argues women lack saving discipline and access to investment opportunities. She contends most women prefer spending to earning and miss chances to build fortunes, contrasting with male investors who save and invest over time. The piece references the Old Sherman Mansion in St. Louis as a related item.
The article describes early spring ostrich nesting. The pair scrape a ground nest, lay 12 to 15 eggs in a three foot diameter cavity, cover with sand, and alternate incubation. The male guards 4 PM to 5 AM, the female rests to feed, then they continue a 40 day hatch cycle with 250 pounds weight bearing on 14 eggs.
Clay county Illinois leads in apple acreage with about 40 000 acres of trees and 2 000 000 trees age average 11 years. Flora hosts over 300 acres with many bearing trees and 1 000 acres visible from the northwestern boundary. The Illinois apple belt spans multiple counties totaling 70 000 acres, about half the state's orchard area.
Gen Fitzhugh Lee admits he was a wild cadet at West Point from 1852 to 1856. He recalls hazing pranks and late nights at Benny Havens. A bed dummy incident led to a court martial with ten extra guard duties and one year confinement to the plain.
Dr. Stein, a renowned traveler and antiquarian, has uncovered about 300 documents in Chinese Turkestan. The haul includes clay seals and inscribed wooden tablets dated from A D 36 to A D 72, dating back to the first century of the Christian era.
Dealers in second-hand bread in London maintain steady business year round. They collect crusts from restaurants and dust heaps, sort into first and second quality, bake and dice the first quality for soup garnishes, and sell the second quality for poultry and animal feed.
The New York Palisades Interstate Park Commission will buy the Carpenter Brothers quarry on the Hudson to stop blasting and preserve the Palisades. The project is funded by a $125,000 gift from J Pierpont Morgan.
Economists studying eastern Asia predict China will become a bread eating nation. The San Francisco chamber of commerce president notes flour exports to China rise rapidly and expects 40 seasoned merchants to be employed within three years delivering flour from Pacific ports to the Orient.
A simple cheap artificial stone made from lime and sand may disrupt brickmaking. Mix four to six parts lime with ninety six to ninety four parts sand, form blocks, seal in a boiler, and steam at 12 to 150 psi to harden into a flinty, durable material.
New York health department dispatched seventy officers in citizen dress to patrol streetcars and ferries. Officers arrested violators and brought several men before a magistrate, where they were fined and warned to avoid repeats.
Mrs. J B Flanigan of Sumpter Illinois suffered dropsy for fifteen years and could not wear shoes in the last three. After trying various remedies her husband bought six boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills at Carmi's J J Dale drug store and five were used. She was entirely cured and restored to health, now praising Dodd's Kidney Pills and Mr Dale. The case is touted as a remarkable recovery affecting local belief in White County.
The dean of English painters Thomas Sidney Cooper will mark his 98th birthday in September with preparations by the English Royal Academy for a large London dinner. The notice notes the event and honors the long career of the elderly artist.
Clem G. Moore editor of the Advocate-Democrat in Crawfordsville Georgia reports four years of suffering from systemic catarrh and says Peruna gave permanent relief after trying doctors and remedies. Captain Percy W Moss of Paragould Arkansas and Judge Wm T Zenor of Washington D C also endorse Peruna as a cure and tonic. Readers are invited to write Dr Hartman for free advice at The Hartman Sanitarium Columbus Ohio.
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