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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1923
Page
11
An exchange recounts Avicenna an ancient Arab physician who praised a medicine named djelenrubine for tuberculosis. It combined honey and rose leaves, with tannin and sugar cited as active factors. The tale compares this to grand mothers cures of honey with herbs, noting doctors’ skepticism yet children often recovered.
Saxophone instruction offered free with all instruments purchased from Larson's Music Store on May 22 in a classroom night event promoting music education and instrument buying.
The Telegraph outlines a program including paving Central Avenue and Second Street, a Subway under the U P tracks, a new Burlington depot, permanent buildings on the Fair Grounds, irrigation of the Lodgepole Valley, and greater development in diversified farming dairying and stock raising. Expansion is urged where justified and possible.
The Cheyenne County outlook is highly favorable with winter wheat in good shape and spring wheat near peak condition after recent rains. Output could rival the county’s best if prices stay fair and freight rates are reasonable. The piece argues for fair prices, transport equalization, and adequate shipping service to stabilize markets and expand the U.S. home demand for beef pork and grains.
The piece reflects on boys imagination surpassing adult dreams and the value of nurturing a boy’s sense of responsibility. It urges engaging with youths through supportive conversations to encourage development and mutual understanding, noting how kindness fosters friendship and maturity.
In Major J Stevenson Hamilton’s Animal Life in Africa the crocodile is named the continent’s most dangerous animal. It preys on almost all beasts and can ambush even elephants and rhinos, with victims submerged on river ledges until they ripen as food. A Zambesi chief once entertained himself by feeding slaves to crocs, a memory the reptiles never forgot.
Runners from low castes and animist backgrounds carry mail across dangerous terrain in India. They face tigers, rivers, avalanches, and robbers, yet continue delivering despite frequent fatalities. The mail bag is treated as sacred, protected at all costs, with dishonesty rare and pay around five dollars monthly.
The action that springs from character and reflects it alone fulfills the higher dramatic conditions. Epic poetry relates a great action tied to a people or mankind’s destiny, while tragedy centers on the destiny of an individual. The hero is carried by external forces, with hairbreadth escapes and marvels less tied to personal energy.
The text describes four common kinds of English swallow birds and notes only one English swallow exists. It lists size order with the swift as largest, then the true swallow, the house swallow as smaller, and the sand martin as the smallest. It mentions nesting in sandpits and banks.
Cattle receipts Tuesday were heavy with broad demand and a steady to strong market. Best beeves touched 9.80, a season high, while hogs rose a dime and sheep and lambs sold eagerly with Wool lambs at 16.00. Quotations span cattle, cows, yearlings, calves, feeders, stockers, hogs, and various sheep and lamb categories at Union Stock Yards South Omaha.
The dialogue notes a doctor prescribing a daily routine of stair climbing for an unnamed patient. The patient is to walk up and down the front stairs for an hour in the forenoon and the back stairs for an hour in the afternoon as a form of physical therapy or change of climb. The excerpt appears from the Noston Evening Transcript.
Adolph Klein of Pleasanton led cattle trade as Pleasanton steers reached a new top of 9.80 at Omaha Tuesday. Market activity highlighted strong demand and higher bidding across cattle classes.
The market notes the highest price since January for 42 head of 1326 pound Hereford steers at 9.80. Planting corn has begun amid unfavorable field conditions and wheat appears diminished after a dry winter. Oats thrive in cool wet weather. a story mentions Shane falling into a deep restful sleep upon getting into bed.
A Prince Edward Island native travels to Boston to seek work. He enters a modest hotel and is asked to register and reveal his place of origin. He insists, asking which island, and loudly proclaims Prince Edward Island as the only island that exists.
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