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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1897
Page
5
The Telegraph Directory provides names of national and senate figures, a U.S. representative from Madison, various district and land office officials, and a receiver listed among the directory entries. The scan shows multiple names and offices with faded OCR marks.
Unclear OCR reads county officials including surveyor coroner and district representatives. Names such as A. Pease Sidney Gliff Ey McAleese Sidney Fees Setegiel C Bullock Lodge Pole Bure Coroner Je Neubauer Sidney Chambers Colton Robr Willis Camp Clark W. B. Bassett Weyerts district A Row Sidney district d W Harper Brouson appear in fragmented list.
A crowded local page lists Methodist and Catholic services, Episcopal church activities, and a long roster of fraternal and military orders. Entries include meeting nights, secretaries, and officers from groups such as A W E, I O O F, K P, U R K P B, G A R, S of V, M W of A, A O U W, and K T M with dates on first or third weeks and Saturdays.
The Culture Department assists mothers and teachers to study each child's characteristics to guide proper development. The aim is to support individualized growth and welfare through tailored educational approaches.
In a Chicago Record excerpt milliner Milli cent Arrowpoint describes fashionable kleptomania in dressing rooms of elites. Women exchange prized wraps and accessories, with maids blamed, but the thefts persist amid social protection and fear of scandal.
The text notes Saudale were more fashionable among Egyptians than Hebrews. They were worn by women of the highest rank, described as sandals with long turn up points a beautiful queen habitually wore at home.
A Detroit Free Press excerpt profiles Blumer, praised for work ethic yet hampered by misstarted ventures. He inherited wealth, invested in a southern land scheme that failed, lost land to a lake, faced discharges after selling at half value, traded assets for a patent fence which failed, and finally lost support when his mother barred business activity.
Cassier's Magazine notes Switzerland's abundance of small hydroelectric plants feeding towns and tramways from many mountain streams. It highlights Montreux and Vevey scenes where a little stream powers electric transit, and argues for long distance transmission unlocking vast mountain resources.
Sir Henry Mauce recalls wonders seen near Mussendom and Baluchistan while sailing the Persian Gulf. Lightning displays during storms, blood-colored water, flame-like fire circles racing at 100 miles an hour, a luminous milky sea at night, putrid seas from submarine eruptions, football-sized jellyfish, brilliant sea snakes, and a battle between snakes in Karachi harbor mark the strange marine events reported by the Boston Transcript.
The Philadelphia Press notes women are the primary readers of ads and major purchasers at home. They guide purchases from furniture to groceries, and advertisers win when they appeal to women. The Fourth Estate adds that leading merchants succeed by advertising to women.
A passerby in Maine reportedly saw a boy named Jonathan Longfellow sliding downhill on a family Bible, claiming to coast on the Bible's smooth, featherbound pages. The anecdote, cited by the Boston Transcript, links the youth to the poet Longfellow through distant kinship.
In Brooklyn Life a humorous scene shows Reuben Rakestraw puzzled by a sign reading Bicycle Asylum. Roxana Rakestraw suggests it is for people drawn to the bicycle craze noted in current chatter.
Mrs. T. Rover discusses a balanced daily ration emphasizing repair foods like meat eggs and dairy paired with carbonaceous staples such as bread and rice. She notes seasonal adjustments with more fats in cold weather and more fruits and greens in hot climates.
The article notes a Virginia company handling peanut products and lists main uses: peanut oil for cooking and confectionery, peanut cribble, peanut grits, peanut flour, and peanut bran. It cites European demand, especially Marseille, with detailed production quantities and prices for oil, flour, and stock feed, and describes the mechanical process of oil extraction from peanuts.
An old advertisement promises Rudy's Pile Suppository will cure piles and restore constitution with a money back guarantee. Each box costs 50 cents and readers are urged to request a circular and a free sample from Martin Rudy in Lancaster Pennsylvania, with distribution also through first class druggists and in Sidney Nebraska by D. Seanlin.
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