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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1906
Page
6
Brief notes report the Spanish cruiser Infanta Isabel ordered to the African coast amid wider world affairs. Other items include a near suppression of a Natal outbreak, political re-elections, railway and corporate updates, and colonial tensions.
Washington dispatch reports Judge Kinkaid urging Nebraska重点 leasing reform be narrow. He cites letters from stockmen and argues any six western state bill will fail, proposing county level opt in by board resolution. He praises the 640 acre homestead act with rapid public land entry.
Music lovers in O’Neill organize a musical group as smallpox cases rise near Cook. Gibbon gains a light plant franchise while Bremen feehouses report quality product. Tecumseh orders churches and schools closed for diphtheria. Waverly hotel to reopen. ex governor Savage visits Nebraska. Edgar plans a Y M C A building costing about 5,000 dollars. Hartington considers a militia company and a soldiers’ monument. Governor Mickey urges Japan famine relief and extradites Myrtle Gildersleeve case. Nebraska Grain Dealers suit moves to the supreme court. Postal Telegraph plans Nebraska expansion to Hastings and York. Hastings Chautauqua hosts first event July 14–22 with a permanent organization already formed.
An appeal urges national pure food legislation to ensure truthful ingredient labels and consumer rights. It cites Postum and Grape-Nuts as examples and calls readers to write their congressmen, stressing liberty to choose safe foods and accountability for makers and retailers.
Lincoln E Calkins a regent committee member reported on university library and incidental fees. He finds the fees legal and opposes selling books at cost. He urges the regents to avoid book selling and says legislature should decide and fund any book purchase program.
Secretary Mellor of the state fair board named W. W. Turner of Lincoln to oversee grandstand privileges at the state fair and advertising concessions. Concessions this year command higher prices due to established contracts. One concession sold for five dollars less than twice its previous year's amount. Exhibitor space is being reserved.
Reports from eight miles up the Missouri river warn that the river is cutting through its banks riskin Nebraska City becoming inland. The $700,000 Burlington bridge here could be left dry and the company may need to build a new bridge about three miles east of the present one.
Osceola reports many longtime residents plan to move for better pastures. Notables include Keene Ludden to Gregory South Dakota Oscar Coglizer to Valley County Judge Saunders to Columbus and Rev Knox Boude to California. They expect to depart around March first.
Dr. Luther P. Ludden of Lincoln, chairman of the state board of education, indicated his name would likely be presented to the Republican state convention for lieutenant governor during a visit to Kearny.
ASHLAND Mrs George Keller wife of a prominent farmer living about three miles south of town dropped dead from heart failure. The sudden death occurred while she was in the field and she collapsed without warning. Mr Keller and other relatives are mourning the loss and funeral arrangements are being made in the local church.
York county farmers organize to boycott trust manufactured farm machinery. They plan a York county association to place orders with independent firms or through a local secretary to bypass the trust and support independent suppliers.
A brief exchange cited by the Philadelphia Ledger questions whether a person can be cultured yet fail to understand Browning. The dialogue notes that one may not grasp Browning but should not admit it, reflecting on social expectations and intellectual pretensions.
Mr James Platt Jr notes in Notes and Queries that hooshtah is a new exclamation gaining vogue as an Australian import. The term enters American usage as a lively interjection.
At a Brighton political meeting a speaker admitted a joke fell flat. A plaintive voice then said I laughed, mister, breaking the silence and triggering laughter from the audience.
In Beauvais France a small two wheeled vehicle drawn by a man or boy is common. It is named a vinaigrette and used as a local transport.
James Jackson Jarves argues that idealism rests on universal ideas more than facts and action, opposing imagination to perception, a stance he contrasts with realism which centers on perception and observable facts. The note reflects late 19th century philosophical debate on mind and world.
A twenty two inch direct length and twenty eight inch curved tooth from an extinct African quadruped has been brought from Abyssinia by Baron Maurice de Rothschild. The discovery highlights paleontological finds in the region.
A reader urging action on the Pure Food Bill asks citizens to cut out the notice, sign it with name and address, and send to their congressman and a state senator. It suggests buying multiple publications, keeping one reference copy, and encouraging friends to participate to boost chances for passage.
A proposed federal act requires every food package to display a complete ingredient list in plain English with maker name and address. It bans deliberate removal or alteration of labels and enforces penalties, including fines and imprisonment, with enforcement by the Department of Agriculture and district attorneys. The bill sets rules for rewrapped packages, inspections, and effective date of October 1, 1906.
A civic notice petitions the district representatives and state senators to support a proposed measure. The fragment emphasizes official support requests and urges action within the state legislature.
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