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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1909
Page
2
A station tale recounts a sorrowful romance and tragedy aboard a freight line. A nameless ranger preserves a engraved letter from Alice Leigh to John Leigh as a couple and baby perish. Five years later a Mormon reveals Old Hugh Leigh dies en route to Brackenboro to reunite with Alice and the child under the willow trees.
Farmers near Lawrempoeburg Indiana report goats rapidly clear underbrush and perform farm tasks at moderate cost over a few months. The text notes goats repeatedly changing owners despite ongoing grazing, and offers general farming tips on feeding poultry and housing ventilation.
Advertises Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for any deafness caused by catarrh not cured by the remedy. Includes J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio, and Wake Hal's Family Pills for constipation. Reports a birth at Mrs Reuben Jones in Toxico Missouri with four babies, three weighing three to four pounds, two daughters surviving.
The article recommends oatmeal as the best starter feed for two weeks, with cornmeal and wheat middlings as a mix, and suggests adding lettuce or garden leaves and table scraps. It covers brooding hens, water for ducklings, and hygiene routines, plus general poultry care and feed variety. It also briefly discusses Calumet Baking Powder claims and other dietary tips including bananas and apples.
Oregon Idaho buyer H Rodger credits John A Salzer Seed Co for superb onion seed from La Crosse Wis. He reports Silver King onions over six inches in diameter and pays over 6 dollars per square rod, equivalent to 960 dollars per acre. Also notes ducks and poultry tips and a penny price for cures and salve.
The article describes a medicinal cocktail for digestion with whiskey syrup and Toris compound from a druggist. It prescribes teasp oonful doses before meals and at night with immediate results. It also notes the Nile has greater fish variety than any other body of water.
A Washington stenographer credits Grape-Nuts and milk with restoring energy and zest for work after months of tired mornings. She recalls walking 12 blocks to her job with renewed vigor and congenial enthusiasm, praising the product’s life and vigor in every grain.
Sermon urging vigilance against indifference that closes doors to life’s best, using Darwin and Shakespeare as cautionary examples. It warns that neglect may block purity, power, and service, and argues the good life comes from developing faculties to serve others and society.
A stream of maxims on work, faith, and character. It argues daily duty, love for others, honest effort, and the danger of pretension. It contrasts vanity with service and warns against cynical plots to undermine virtue, urging kindness and integrity in life.
Essay argues that unselfishness can mask self love and that modern life pursues more life, pleasure, knowledge, and power, challenging ancient pious self denial. The piece ponders whether red blooded appetites might yield better life than ascetic virtue and questions the balance between flesh and spirit.
A compact meditation on virtue, warning against reliance on applause and rigid doctrine. It urges endurance in sorrow, dedication to truth, and the primacy of character as capital. It contrasts institutional church with personal aspiration and notes many valleys of service beside few peaks of transfiguration.
A local trend called Dinks-Ballooning grows in popularity as participants claim it is an easy way to drop fatigue. Another trend named Winks-Yen appears, with some noting it’s an even simpler fad to drop out of.
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