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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1915
Page
7
Double Service automobile tires guarantee seven thousand miles and provide double the thickness of standard tires. They claim higher wear resistance, puncture protection, and smooth handling on rough roads. The ad notes many are used in government and European war service and advertises limited introductory pricing.
An official Vienna release claims 30,000 Russians, 22 cannons, and 64 machine guns captured in western Galicia after a stout battle. Berlin reports Baltic advance and Flanders successes for German Austro-Hungarian forces. British, French actions in Gallipoli and the Baltic are noted with cautious claims of progress amid heavy submarine losses. The piece closes with a Western Nebraska Colorado real estate pitch urging eastern workers to move west for land and opportunity.
Barton & Bailey World Celebrated Shows open a one day event in Sidney on Friday May 14 featuring a one mile parade with wild animals giant tents five bands led by Professor BH C Jones and the world famous Military Band. Afternoon and night performances promise a gala spectacle.
John C. C Will of Richland aged twenty five drowned while bathing in the Platte river west of Schuyler Nebraska with two companions. The body was recovered. He leaves a wife and two children.
Peter Hansen of Patterson Nebr reports nine cases where kidney complaints and back pain were relieved after using Doans Kidney Pills. He claims quick improvements in irregular kidney action and bladder inflammation, urging readers to trust Downs Kidney Pills for similar relief at 50 cents a box through Poster Milburn Co.
Citizens report complaints about flea beetles damaging radish and cabbage leaves. The cabbage flea beetle and striped flea beetle are described as small bluish black and yellow striped, jumping when disturbed. Control methods include dusting with finely sifted ashes or lime mixed with kerosene or shook with Paris green in a cloth bag to dust the plants during dew.
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station released two extension bulletins: Pruning Trees Vines and Shrubs, and Neglected Orchards and Their Care. The pruning bulletin covers fruiting habits disinfectants wound covers orchard sanitation and pruning tools. The neglected orchards bulletin discusses pruning treatment for canker cultivation and spraying. Available to Nebraska residents from the Bulletin Clerk University Farm Lincoln.
Thirty people injured and one likely fatally hurt when Lake Shore Electric interurban cars collided near Fremont. Fire erupted in wreckage shortly after the crash and both cars were burned.
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