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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1907
Page
8
Jumbled OCR lists several midwest cities and transit terms with garbled names. The fragment mentions Lincoln Omaha Chicago St Louis and others, plus references to dining cars, travel, and unspecified officials. No coherent event or outcome is clear.
Notice lists county map sales and a single four year old pure bred Shire for sale. It names bidders and local contacts, and includes a declaration that the husband will not be responsible for his wife's debts. Dated April 8, 1907 in Sidney Nebraska.
Classified notice from Mrs. J. B. Nelson offering black Langhans for hatching at fifteen for fifty cents. Write or call at Yaueh, six miles northwest of Sidney.
The notice urges those with acute or chronic disease to seek treatment at the sanitarium with cooperation from friends. It claims natural methods can restore health and may avoid surgery if care is started early, noting that bur clinical and maternal union not taken.
Fred W. Eppa, youngest child of Thomas Eppa, died May 3 after a short illness of spinal meningitis at eight pm. Born March 1 in the ranch north of Sidney, he is buried beside his twin brother and sister. The family thanks friends for support and especially Mrs. Ahrens and Mrs. Britton for staying with them during the illness.
From Harred Plymouth Rocks and Silver Wyandotts to Bronze turkeys a sale lists birds at $1.00 per setting. BROV SS Pommnoy Sidney Neb is noted as the location and seller.
Parties seeking summer pasture can be accommodated near Sidney at six miles off Old Kane place. Good feed and running water available. For terms apply to QE Huer. Cut flowers and plants for Decoration Day. Place your orders early, Mus Basterday.
Local notices list Osborn Bros and Mann wallpaper fresh meats and cheese at Home Bakery. Several ads promote land sales via Lenox Investment Co, cement work by TL Bockstadter, furnished rooms for rent, and a strawberry festival by St Martha's Guild. Community notes mention residents’ visits and a smallpox case at the river ditch project.
Edward A Ayers discusses color and white light in objects, reflection, and after-images. He notes how luminosity and complementary colors emerge when the sun or bright light strikes surfaces, and recalls a mother misperceiving her dying child as red due to after-images.
A prominent veterinarian explains how doping is done in race horses with tiny doses given before races. The process includes a late dose on the tongue, sweating, cooling, and careful pacing to hide effects until the start. The antidotes are sometimes given after, but lasting nervous-system effects shorten the horse’s racing life.
A father explains to his son Ted the difference between his assistant role and the rector through a polite lesson. The boy overhears and later greets the rector, noting his father may one day be the rector himself and that respect will then apply in full.
A Hingston court case centers on a carter charged for striking a fowl to death while shielding corn from theft. The prisoner admitted guilt and claimed he acted to save his own chores. The prosecutor called it the chicken's fate and pressed the charge.
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