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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1901
Page
3
The Cowleys discuss renting Hollow Ash Hall a haunted country house. Mr Cowley embraces the mystery and plans to reside there with a revolver, while Mrs Cowley and daughters fear the ghostly reputation and damp, dirty rooms. They tour dim rooms and note potential improvements.
The Cowley family moves into the haunted Hall after a banker Mr Cowley and his daughters Rose and Catherine arrive with a wary Mrs Cowley. Rose’s curiosity about the ghost contrasts with Catherine’s fear while villagers flee the first signs of the mansion’s eerie history.
A group moves through rooms of the Hall as a nameless weight rests on them. Mrs. Cowley grows ill Catharine pales and Mr Cowley investigates nervously. They sense an unseen companion in the empty house as they leave with pale lips and shaking hands. To be continued.
Public dancer Fanny Elssler aided the Bunker Hill obelisk project by a benefit performance that funded the Breed's Hill monument in Charlestown. The cornerstone was laid in 1825 by General Lafayette, with Daniel Webster delivering notable orations at the 1842 dedication. The Elssler sisters, Vienna born, rose to fame. Fanny toured Paris and London before moving to Germany where she died in 1884.
A brief adage from Young asserts that personal conduct is best when aligned with one’s circumstances, claiming that such effort remains noble and unexcelled by angels.
A London Statist excerpt argues U S foreign trade shapes global wealth while highlighting Britain’s reliance on American purchases. It notes rising U S exports, shrinking imports, and a need for mutual buying to sustain prosperity, urging free trade over protectionism. The piece contrasts home and foreign markets with fables about trade incentives.
An editorial excerpt argues that protection sustains competition and American industry. It rails at Bascom and the New England Free-Trade League for claiming tariffs restrain competition, stating protection raises wages, preserves jobs, and keeps prices fair by shielding U S industry from foreign rivals.
The piece argues that high protective policy for home industries will also raise merchant shipping. It states that shipyards would emerge, providing thousands of direct jobs and tens of thousands indirect roles in allied sectors, with a guarded subsidy to protect American shipping.
The piece argues that protection keeps the country prosperous, while removing it under Cleveland led to decline. It asserts the public observes real outcomes over theories and labels protection as essential to national strength.
A London dispatch reports secret Anglo American talks aimed at preventing Russia from securing a permanent foothold in Manchuria. Choate and Lansdowne discuss joint action, with Hay’s stance unsettled. Britain warns Russia risks partition of China if concessions are made.
Washington March 9 Mr Payson representing Moran Bros of Seattle signed at the navy department the contract for the construction by that firm of the battleship Nebraska.
The article reports President Benjamin Harrison severely ill in Indianapolis on March 9 with a grip and intercostal neuralgia risk of pneumonia. Dr Henry Jameson says there is no immediate danger and he is not alarmed, though friends are concerned about his advanced age and condition.
The Senate confirmed Thomas Worthington as attorney for the southern district of Illinois J Otis Humphrey as district judge for the southern district of Illinois James L McIntosh Jr as receiver of public moneys at Sidney Nebraska and all other nominations sent by the president today except the board of visitors to the naval observatory.
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