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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1909
Page
2
A young lieutenant on an ocean liner reveals to the Woman who Understood that he has proposed to the wrong girl. She urges him to write and confess, leading to a heartfelt resolution when the truth reaches the intended fiancée and a joyful outcome for all involved. Youth's Companion story.
A visitor pushes a painter to create a likeness of his late father lacking a photo. He points to Elijah, claimed as imaginary, arguing if a mythic portrait can be imagined a real man can be painted. The painter remains skeptical but the man offers a large payment for a credible likeness.
A success magazine excerpt describes a Badger family relying on beans eggs and potatoes due to poverty. Ma cooks energetically and the staple foods include baked beans potatoes and corn with occasional salt pork and corned beef in winter. Chickens are rare luxuries and meat is expensive.
This text gives a doughnut recipe with ingredients and steps for frying, including sugar, sour cream, sour milk, nutmeg, baking soda, eggs, and flour, plus instructions to mix, roll, rest, and fry. It also provides a cranberry jelly method using cranberries, juice, sugar, and a mold to set into jelly.
A fragment describes pickling with one hundred small pickles salted overnight in 1 1/2 cups of salt. In the morning rain add 2 1/2 quarts vinegar and chopped peppers and six owlors with two cups brown sugar 1 1/2 tablespoons whole cloves 2 tablespoons mustard seed and celery seed 2 tablespoons turmeric powder. Cook until yellow.
A historic recipe lists ingredients and method for a lemon pudding. It specifies milk bread crumbs sugar butter egg yolks lemon rind and juice. Bake half an hour then finish with lemon flavored meringue and browning.
Crust for pie with baking powder and sausage stuffed squares, molasses cookies with butter lard sugar molasses and spices, cheese cakes with cottage cheese eggs milk butter and currants, apple snow cake filling with grated apple sugar and egg whites, potato and pea soup with mashed potatoes, green peas milk butter and flour.
Whiten tallow with alum and saltpeter for cosmetics. Make a lemon dressed cream as French dressing, spiced with paprika. Boiling tarnished silver in soda aids polishing. wrap silver in tissue before canton bags to cut cleaning. Crack woodwork with melted wax. sleeve boards aid laundering. Store sandtarts in airtight tin. ginger snaps in stone. Reuse discarded umbrella ribs for plants. raffia replaces string. Peel seedless oranges for quick orange salad on lettuce with dressing. Chill to serve.
Advert shows multiple patent remedies with boastful cures and claims. It mentions Pazo Ointment for piles and Brom o Quin ine laxative, Garfield Tea for constipation, and general health quips. Includes solicitation for samples and Brooklyn address.
A man courts in the parlor and expects his wife to be an expert kitchen mechanic. A company forms at Bellefonte, Pennsylvania to manufacture brick using furnace slag as the chief ingredient. California’s 1907 gold output fell by 2,004,524 dollars from 1906, with silver production down 66,182 dollars.
An 19th century classified style ad offers one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case not cured by Ball's Catarrh Cure. It asserts the product cures internal catarrh by acting on blood and mucous surfaces. Included are testimonials, price ten cents per bottle, and mentions Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
The text cites a Boston physician praising tea as a germicide against typhoid bacillus. It notes U S urban railways surpass 40 000 miles of track, about one fifth of steam lines. It also features a bronchial remedy advertisement and a remark on perceptions of women and suspicion.
A Philadelphia woman creates a nightgown opening down the back for hospital use. An Oklahoma inventor earns a patent for grappling tongs to capture pigs without hurting pursuers. Notes on Ferro silicon alloys resist acids and high strength. Various aphorisms and world notes follow.
A quirky reflection contrasts types of love including cannibal affection for humanity. A line notes machine exports to Japan rising fivefold in a year. An admiring remark laments bragging about cleverness. A social axiom asserts women’s restraint in sharing personal knowledge. A historical claim credits Charles II with promoting actresses in England in 1662.
A Vermont woman reports raw inflamed face and neck from eczema. After trying three doctors and various remedies, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment and was healed within about three months. The ad notes Potter Drug & Chem. Co. endorsements and other product mentions.
George E. Hunt, Maidstone, writes a Canadian government agent about his first year in Western Canada. He notes mild early winters, a warm thaw in April, above average crops with wheat around 1.10 per bushel, oats near 35 cents, and flax at 90 cents to 1 dollar. He highlights good soil, sweet water, cattle and dairy profitability, creameries along railroads, and strong Western Canada land and market prospects.
A Sydney area snake farm operates for years despite low attractiveness as a career. It rears snakes frogs and toads for scientific study and food. Snakes are captured with forked sticks and restrained for milking venom used for antidotes. Venom yield is limited and handling requires care. snakes are later sold to taxidermists or botanical gardens.
A collection of short humorous vignettes from children. Margie praises a doll for not interrupting. A minister's wife overhears a boy threaten hens. Lola explains climate and weather with a pun. A dog with no tail prompts a joke about a tailor. A5 Walter muses on crusts, then a crust-tasting memory. Wilbur eats jelly with a spoon and jokes about bread.
A Sketch recounts a talk between an old Scotch pro and a would be golfer. The pro cautions the amateur that he has begun too late but hints hard practice over two to three years might yield improvement. The novice asks for clarity and is offered a hint about mastering the rudiments.
A playful proverb notes that someone who claims freshness or novelty often faces frequent challenges or pushback from others, suggesting skepticism toward constant self-promotion.
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