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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1922
Page
3
The article argues good roads drive farm trade, noting that poor roads handicap farmers and merchants alike. It emphasizes that towns must maintain navigable, well graded routes to attract daily farm traffic and hold regional commerce, warning that neglect destroys the town.
A shed housing chicken chicks at Sam Fisher’s southwest town home was ignited by a brooder yesterday. Passers by saw smoke, and flames raced from the structure prompting chemical and water trucks to respond. Several young chicks perished as firefighters fought the blaze.
Acting Governor Pelham A Barrows has proclaimed May 27 as Poppy Day in Nebraska to support Veterans of Foreign Wars and its auxiliary and the American War Mothers. The week May 22 to 27 will be Poppy Week with proceeds from poppy sales aiding the care of disabled veterans.
A quirky set of grade school definitions covers gravity as juice of meat and chemistry as the study of things you make with. It claims Pantheon predates pants, bathrobes as wear, and Homer as a Roman who invented baseball. Tides are described as caused by water levels. An optimist is a glasses man who improves sight.
The text presents early rules for career success in business. It urges choosing paths with future potential over safe salaries, loyalty to one's firm, avoiding chronic clock watching, and curbing persistent grumbling to protect both business and personal well being.
In Richardson county District 46 two ten year old students Roland Owens and Russell Henderson finished eighth grade. Roland began at six and finished in four years, Russell started at five and advanced with home study each evening. Ruth Auxier of Salem taught them. Russell won seventh grade county spelling last year. Both plan to attend Verdon high school this fall.
The passage urges students to pursue business training as an asset in any career. It highlights stenography and typing for note taking, modern bookkeeping for efficiency, and engineering for mechanical interest and growing demand. It also mentions interest in electrical fields and the appeal of new electrical devices and the ability to flash messages.
The Union Pacific Magazine extols diverse paths from country markets to telegraphy and nursing. It urges study of nursing for healing, and arts skills for decorative work in magazines and advertising. A college education expands taste, judgment, and cultural horizons, while steady study remains essential.
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