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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1921
Page
10
The Clif club at the school house hosted a Friday night dance to benefit the community. Miss Frances Lacey led sixteen pupils in a picnic on May 6 in the south nit area with ice cream cake and candy. Mr and Mrs Ralph Potter assisted. pupils praised Miss Lacey as a beloved teacher.
The Cliff club held a Sunday evening surprise for Mr and Mrs Will Mohatt celebrating their 33rd anniversary. Members presented a cut glass vase, with music from James and Clara Mohart on piano and violin, plus ice cream cake and coffee. Guests wished the couple many more anniversaries.
A columnist argues every young girl should have a private living room in Chicago to safely host boyfriends during courting. They propose converting public school parlors into social centers, providing privacy parents cannot ensure. Housing conditions push youths to meet outside homes, risking privacy and respect in dating.
A reflective piece extols tending the home fire as a daily discipline. It links warmth and comfort to moral effort, contrasting steadfast caretakers with anarchic forces, and cites poets and scholars as examples who forged achievement through persistent labor.
A reflective piece urges steady personal effort to build character and genuine friendship. It cites painters and Daniel Webster as examples, stressing self sacrificing cellar work, consistent endeavor, and the home fires that illuminate a nation. It calls preachers teachers and parents to teach true patriotism and enduring integrity.
A lyric poem describes love as a warm hearth against cold nights. It contrasts care and toil with intimate embraces, noting the joy of loved ones by firelight and the bleakness of life without love, urging sacrifice to sustain the flame.
Wholesale markets show a broad drop in butter cream and poultry prices due to ample local supplies and short hauls while distant fruits and vegetables still face higher costs from transportation. Local cream is turned into butter at hand and poultry is bought, dressed, and sold within a small circle, signaling a weak market overall.
The Philadelphia Ledger reports President Harding told 1,000 Atlantic fleet officers that the naval appropriation bill’s approval by the House 212 to 15 proves America will defend its rights and uphold its navy. The paper likens the speech and vote to a firm nationwide mandate against demagoguery and statesmen who compromise national security.
The court, five to four, affirms state police power to regulate housing and impair contract obligations when public welfare demands it. Dissent warns of private property rights erosion. Holmes defends the decision as a valid public health measure. The ruling echoes limits on building heights and rates to justify housing control in emergencies.
The piece argues that economic booms and busts drive consumer habits, noting how fashion-driven shoe buying collapsed in hard times and revived with confidence. It reflects on travelers from many shoe pairs to a single pair and jokes that former shoe connoisseurs are waking to shop again.
A Columbia professor proclaims man cannot be without mathematics. The tale recalls a rural youth in town years ago who preferred two fiddles over violins, joking that there will be no mathematics. The State Journal notes many accept life with the old fashioned arithmetic.
The Reverend Eugene Ackley and Mrs. Bonnie Wallace were released after federal authorities failed to obtain an indictment on charges tied to transporting Wallace into Nebraska for immoral purposes. A son produced letters suggesting mental instability. no further action was pressed. The alleged transport occurred from Sparta Wisconsin to Broken Bow.
A January 1824 remark by John Randolph of Roanoke is cited as a basis for revival of debate on appointing a diplomatic agent to Greece amid the era's international relations. The note reflects historic voices influencing current discussions and policy framing.
The Nebraskan note urges focus on doing over talking. It argues that students who prepare daily work quietly earn the best grades, while those who talk about plans receive mediocre marks. It stresses that assignment success comes from action, not talk, concluding that “We is success.”
A New York Times writer reports the United States night life has vanished since the eighteenth amendment, surviving only where prohibition is defied. Editors and magazines drop stories on cabaret life, signaling the end of a costly extravagance mourned by few.
A pair of slippers and a bouquet were given to Grandma Pat convey to mark her belated 101st birthday last Monday. The aged woman resides locally and was honored with quiet gestures from friends and family.
Jim Lawson a farmer near Buda received 2472.13 dollars from Union Pacific after a district court jury verdict on a case arising from the accidental killing of about forty cattle at a railroad crossing. The dispute previously went through district and federal courts before this final award.
Robert Embry I Jr of Terra Bella California born weighing 18 pounds. Claim identifies him as a new born pugilist contender for the heavyweight title. Foregoing typical birth records, the item notes the unusual weight and asserts champion potential.
Dr M E Pettibone dentist Mele tech block Room 5 s phone 64 For Farm Loans See J W Harper office
Senator Randolph denounces crusading in a foreign hemisphere in the name of liberty and religion. He argues against European entanglements and invokes the fireside policy as true Americanism, stressing the household's first duty and the nation's moral center.
Robert Emanuelson, former Cheyenne County commissioner from Lodgepole, has been courting the city for three weeks by serving on the jury in a lengthy session.
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