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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1903
Page
5
Co. D. Lyon, Union Pacific Land Agent, transacts a general real estate business. Specializes in improved ranches and grazing lands. Also lists irrigated farms and lands under proposed government reservoir sites at low prices. Correspondence solicited.
A new through palace sleepers tourist sleepers and free reclining chair cars service connects the Pacific coast with Chicago via Union Pacific and Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Ry. Three daily through trains west and east. Passengers no longer change cars en route. Train details and agents for reservations included.
The quagga, a zebra wild ass half cousin, vanished from Africa and survives only as imperfect museum specimens. In South Africa the name lingers but also misapplied to Burchell's zebra. Extinct since 1872 after Dutch farmers hunted it for hides. hardy tame quaggas once grazed with horses to deter predators.
Dorothy Dix comments on aging and romance in Ainstee's, noting wealthy older men show vanity and confidence in charm while courting younger companions. She warns the final phase is dangerous, likening love to measles that strikes early in life and grows harder with age.
Henry Norman’s Russia book notes St Petersburg’s high prices from private hallways to official residences. A basic hotel room runs about $4 a day, a dinner carriage costs $5, and a bath starts at $10, while tips vary by service and status, painting the city as exceptionally expensive. It also recounts a medical claim praising barefoot grounding for health.
In Paris houses provide large boxes for nonessential items. City chif foniers sift through these boxes each morning before waste is carted to fields. Wealthy homes feed the poor with many valuable articles, with fifty thousand ragpickers reportedly earning about $10,000 daily from their finds.
A Chicago Tribune anecdote recalls a frugal man named Henrigue who smoked cigars to the last inch chewed stumps and used ashes as snuff. He finally quit, leaving others puzzled how to use the smoke.
Advertisement touts Swamp Root as a remedy for kidney and bladder issues affecting men and women. It promises quick relief, disease origin in kidneys, and invites readers to mail for a free sample bottle and pamphlet from Dr Kilmer and Co in Binghamton New York.
The ad lists coach prices from 20 to 25 dollars to Portland Tacoma Seattle San Francisco Los Angeles Spokane Salt Lake City Butte Helena and hundreds more including regions in Wyoming Montana Idaho Oregon Washington British Columbia and California. Valid for February 15 to April 30 with daily tourist cars to California and Seattle and thrice weekly personally conducted trips. Contact nearest Burlington Route agent.
Advertising blurb states druggists refund money if the laxative bromo quinine tablets fail to cure with E. W. Grove's signature on each box. The line ends with a price marker 25.
The Union Pacific operates Daily Tourist Cars from Missouri River to the Pacific Coast. Cars depart at 4 20 PAL for Santranisco and Los Angeles and 1130 2 Af for Portland, with double rate to California or Oregon from Missouri River ports.
A periodical claim touts Electric Batteries as a splendid tonic for grip and a regulator of liver and kidneys. It asserts the tonic strengthens nerves builds up the system and restores health after grip, selling for 50 cents with pharmacist guarantee.
An ad touts a famous compound as a universal healer for aches burns cuts and inflammations. It claims to cure boils ulcers and skin eruptions with a money back guarantee and a price of 25 cents at druggists.
Readers are invited to subscribe to The Prairie Farmer and The Prairie Farmer Home Magazine for one year at $1 and receive a free 46x66 inch color wall map. The map ships on approval with a full money back guarantee if not fully pleased. packing and postage to be paid. The offer is from The Prairie Farmer, 401 Adams Street.
In Brooklyn satire dialogue, characters dispute how serial navigation studies could affect vision. The Mendicant notes dismissively that not standing watch could mute effects as balloons drop sand, while The Passerby questions the link.
At a Millville Literary circle meeting the president asks if brutes have a language and a secretary responds with a slangy reply. A joke follows about a husband losing his collar button, reflecting local humor.
The Atchieon Globe quips that labeling the men’s lunch as dainty exposes a shortage of food, arguing the phrase signals insufficient sustenance in the spread.
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