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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1901
Page
3
Electrical apparatus used in mining in this country is estimated to be worth about $100,000,000. The note also includes a patent medicine claim for Mrs. Winston's Soothing Syrup and a Carlyle quote about loyalty and subjection.
Stanford White stands among America’s top antique statuary collectors. His Gramercy Park house in New York doubles as a museum of Greek and Roman art. The lawn overflows with additional statues, illustrating his vast collection.
A Philadelphia Inquirer tip outlines home ironing for shirt waists. Use Defiance starch, damp cloth smoothing, and careful ironing order from back to sleeves. Air thoroughly before folding.
An exchange operator notes voices distort through telephony. Each speaker carries a distinct speech peculiarity that becomes amplified over the wire. A sharp, gruff, or insincere voice can be magnified, while enunciating clearly remains crucial for intelligible remarks.
President Goucher addressed students at the opening exercises of the Baltimore Woman's College. He warned that a womanish man is a farce and a mannish woman a tragedy, urging education to enlarge opportunities and responsibilities. He urged that a woman’s ideal should be a womanly woman.
Raoul Pictet, Swiss inventor and chemist, reports a remarkable discovery for commercial oxygen production. He has worked three years in Geneva as professor of chemistry and physics, developing an extensive scale method in his laboratory.
A memorial portrait of Captain Austin R. Davis who was killed in the Tien Tsin attack will be placed in the Carnegie library in Atlanta. The library building stands on the site of Davis birth house.
The tallest English army officer Captain Oswald Ames of the Second Life Guards, six feet eight, plans to marry Violet Cecil daughter of Lady Francis Cecil. Miss Cecil is described as petite and fairylike. The piece ends with a moral remark on selfishness in religious talk.
A 16 oz package of Defiance starch from Magnetic Starch Co. Omaha Neb claims to remove the hard ironed result from starch in shirt waists. The ad urges readers to ask their grocer for the product priced at 10 cents, and includes a Sydney Smith quote about education.
The article asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It blames inflammation of the Eustachian tube for deafness, often due to catarrh, and promises a hundred dollar reward for any catarrh deafness case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promotes Hall's Family Pills and lists Toledo, Ohio as the origin.
Bobs is hailed as a great swordsman with rare skill in sword and lance. Lord Roberts stood out in tent pegging and won the first prize in the Indian tournament against the entire Indian army even after passing his fiftieth year.
Cattle demand steady to strong with good prices for desirable grades. Few finished corn fed steers, steady to strong. Feeders and stockers showed strong demand and prices. Hog prices opened about steady. choicer loads $6.00 to $6.90, common $5.97 to 4.14. Sheep and lambs liberal receipts with feeders paying steady to steady-ish prices. lambs to feeders $1.25, Mexican wethers $3.00.
Cattle and corn fed cattle opened 10 cents higher and closed steady in Kansas City trading. Choices for export and dressed beef steers ranged from 5.90 to 6.50 per cwt with seasonals, stockers and feeders 2.85 to 4.25, western fed steers 19.00 to 6.20, Texas and Indian steers 2.73 to 3.75, native cows 2.65 to 4.25, calves 3.00 to 5.25, with other bull and canner categories noted.
Ad copy and quotes mix with product pitches and personal endorsements from 1900 era. The text touts electrical ventilators in India, Defiance Cold Water Starch, Piso’s Cure, Wizard Oil, Red Cross Ball Blue, and social quips. It reads as a collage of advertisements and snatches of testimonial phrases rather than a coherent news item.
Broad cigarette of ads and witticisms comment on court letters dropsy cures hair dyes and nervous disorders. Notable mentions include Dr H E Green’s Sons in Atlanta offering free dropsy treatment and Kines nerve restorer with a Philadelphia address. Humorous lines joke about romance and social behavior.
The Anti-Imperialist League in Boston declares colonial policy for the United States impossible and urges President Roosevelt to recognize Filipino independence. The group notes McKinley’s era is ending and vows to press its view by all means.
Chicago report says 17 year old David Bernstein fatally stabbed 13 year old Harry Himmelfarb after a street quarrel between brothers. Bernstein attacked with a large basting needle, driving it into Himmel farth's heart before fleeing and being arrested.
London dispatches report Sofia advices dated October 22 indicate all pending negotiations between Bulgarian authorities and the abductors of Miss Stone have been broken off.
Major McLaughlin of the Interior Department arrives in Devils Lake to negotiate the cession of unallotted lands from the Indians. The 92,000 acre reservation could open next spring if Congress ratifies the agreement, with a reasonable price likely for the surplus lands.
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