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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1908
Page
2
A collage of brief quotes from newspapers in Nebraska Washington and Kansas City noting weather forecasts and political discourse. Fragmentary exchanges touch on farming enterprise ambition speeches and a humorous remark about poetry writing.
A shopper requests the proprietor correct a bill while a waiter clarifies charges. The scene includes a mistaken price and reference to a 25 cent item, with a brief exchange over two cents.
Queryer asks to define virtue versus standing. Davor replies that reputation is the name others give you while character is what they take from you, illustrating the clash of public image and inner virtue.
Griggs urges constant motion in practice saying to run as if afraid. He emphasizes staying in perpetual effort to master the motor and keep his team competitive.
Windbbs-Your new auto las a high f ay hasn't it. Sobte-My old one had, too-finish eum top of a stone wall.
Fragmentary dialogue explores love and wealth themes as engaged pairs face money pressures. A laborer and a policeman debate “trumps” in life while a betrothal and marriage questions drift through the conversation.
Enny notes the cartoon punch line about a cook kept long by Mensubb as a neighbor mutters about a stenographer. The urbanite jokes that the wife can pie with no words per minute, while the other wonders about the man’s delay.
A fragment notes that eyeglass wearers see fogging when moving from cold air to warmth and suggests soapsuds rubbing to clear moisture. It mentions a nearby Grobogana Java lake of boiling mud about two miles wide.
An ignorant thief in Omaha stole thirty six bars of silver and disposed of four of them to a plumber as lead. The truth was found when the silver refused to melt at the temperature that melts lead. In Denmark a twenty one year old who pays the state two thousand two hundred fifty dollars earns sixty five dollar annual annuity at sixty five, but if he dies earlier the state keeps all funds.
Mrs. John Kirk of Detroit Michigan states she nearly collapsed from kidney trouble five years ago. After using Dean's Kidney Pills her symptoms vanished in weeks and she now weighs 163 pounds with excellent health. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
Over a thousand houses in Loggon sit empty as locals believe they are haunted. Many are occasionally rented at night by wanderers who fear no ghosts. A bizarre mix of superstition and vacancy shapes this coastal town.
An early morning blaze at 1700 Humelbolt Street Brooklyn claims six lives and hurts four. Police and firefighters rescue trapped residents from upper floors as investigators seek the fire's origin amid strong winds and crowded conditions. The Abrams family perished together while others escaped by jumping to life nets.
A collage of aphorisms and stray observations on life desire and practicality. Topics include ideal usefulism patience and self help notions with health horsemanship travel fortune and domestic crafts. Diverse opinions alternate with quips about happiness and effort.
The steamer Trena ton owned by Potomac Navigation capsized and sank at its Alexandria Va wharf seven miles below Washington. Seventeen passengers were rescued after jumping overboard. Stanley D Posey aged eighteen months, son of Murray Posey of Brooklyn NY, drowned as Mrs Posey tried to save him. The Pos ey family were en route to Posey’s wharf when the accident occurred. The sinking is blamed on shifting cargo.
A New York family relays that eczema appeared at three months, resisted by several hospitals and doctors, but improved after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. Within days the baby showed progress and by six months, full relief with one cake of soap and two boxes ointment costing $1.25, CC. EL Kara, 33 East 63rd Street, March 30, 1906.
The text discusses happiness health and well being noting that success and cleverness matter little next to goodness and character It mentions a hot sand pack for neur igia and includes a quote by R G Romanes about the importance of virtue.
A tenth body was located in the Chicago Reduction Company plant ruins at Thirty ninth and Iron streets after last Friday night’s explosion. The remains are identified as William Genze, a Welch man, bringing the death toll to eight previously reported. Another recovered body was believed to be Lenze.
Carl Warkentin returns to Newton Kansas with his father Bernard Warkentin's body after a fatal shooting in Syria. The family charges Ambassador Leishman with neglect in pursuing the killer and vows to push for an investigation and justice.
A testimonial praises Grape Nuts for curing years of indigestion after a doctor advised daily use. The letter claims the food is predigested and easy on the stomach, supports nervous energy, and suits both children and adults with ready to use preparation. It asserts genuine reader interest and recurring letters.
Four killed and twelve injured as incendiary blaze destroys a five story tenement at 101 Orchard Street near Delaney and Allen streets. Fire escapes clogged as police and firemen aided frightened tenants, dragging women and children to safety while others perished in smoke and flames.
In London the premier Mr Asquith presents the annual budget for 1907 08 in place of the chancellor of the exchequer. He notes a world trade slowdown after 1907 boom and cites a surplus of 233 630 000 to cut the national debt. He says the debt fell about 90 000 000 last year with a planned further 75 000 000 reduction this year leaving the debt at 20 year lows.
In Loup City Nebraska two applications for saloon licenses were withdrawn amid anti saloon league pressure. The town is dry with six vote reversal last year closed four saloons. More applications may come as the town could go wet again after recent election results.
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