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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1923
Page
10
Lewis R. Freeman reflects in Cornhill Magazine on the Andes view from a high summit. He notes the Pacific lies unseen beyond intervening peaks, and that vast, imposing landscapes defy adequate description. He compares word pictures to music and art, admitting limits of language and his own humility.
A 3000 year old wool cloak unearthed in Sweden reveals Europe’s oldest complete garment. The peat’s acidity preserved it while Bronze Age Europe depended on wool. The find illuminates early trade and textile craft across Europe and places in context mythic timelines and ancient civilizations.
Henry Van Dyke argues that purpose novels and advertisements fade as trends expire, while enduring literature lives in vivid human stories. He cites Adam Bede Silas Marner The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch as examples of works with timeless themes, contrasting Robert Elsmere, which centers on a defunct biblical controversy.
An elevator operator at a Brooklyn gymnasium frequented by fat business men defends delays in serving patrons. After a patron berated him for tardiness, he replied that the gym is on the third floor and urged the grumbler to walk up rather than wait for the lift.
A plant in the East Indies emits a powerful sweet odor that lures mice and moles to its stalk. They enter the flower and are trapped by a sticky secretion and downward bristles. Digestive juices slowly dissolve the rodent, suggesting potential as a natural mouse trap.
Livestock prices at South Omaha report a slow cattle trade after a 9,500 head run implies prices steady to 15 cents lower. Beef and feeder categories show varied ranges while hogs trend lower, and lambs drop 15 to 25 cents amid a 21,500 hog run. Fat lambs around 14 dollars, and fat ewes between 5.50 and 8.75. Local receipts total 12,600 head. Also notes county printing bids and forest revenue transfers, plus piano ads.
Lew Jenne of Gillette Wyoming, visiting Omaha with a load of light corn fed steers that sold at $8.20, says feeding on corn yields little advantage. He tried grain feeding this season but finds native corn too flinty to add weight in severe winter, noting the practice is not very successful.
Sidney Cheyenne County Nebraska board meeting adjourned from March 21 1923 with all members present. They rejected all county printing bids unless resubmitted with sworn circulation statements and bond. Billeter receives up to three months clerical assistance. Pappas case tied to George Pappas distress warrant canceled after proof of non ownership.
Forest Service in Colorado reports 4,174,000 trout fry from state hatcheries and 776,000 from Federal hatcheries released into streams and lakes of national forests. In Kansas, stockmen and agricultural college officials replaced nearly 1,000 scrub bulls with purebreds as part of the Better Sires campaign led by a state animal husbandry specialist.
Forest Service reports about 166 million acres of private timber land lack fire protection and much more is inadequately guarded. Average annual forest fire damage runs 16.424 million dollars, while 9.263 million dollars yearly could cover protections for all privately owned timber lands in the United States.
High grade player piano offered for sale at public storehouse near Sidney. The Denver Music Company in Denver Colorado invites offers and terms. Write for full particulars and financial details.
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