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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1907
Page
2
The article traces evolving table manners from Erasmus to modern times, noting that children still favor fingers over forks. It cites historical rules against nose wiping on tablecloths, feeding animals, and rough etiquette, while urging guests to respect hosts and avoid animallike table behavior.
The piece debates elevating the stage as a public demand, noting past and present theatrical faults and noble efforts. It cites claims of commercial managers lacking art, compares to Shakespeare, and questions New York upper Broadway’s planned intellectual theater and its likely patronage.
A commission is set to visit Japan Britain and Germany to study constitutional systems. The chosen members are progressive and reflect the real Chinese aspiration beyond Manchu rule. Awakening voices from educated Chinese in the United States influence demand for broader reforms benefiting all people.
The American Agriculturist reports U.S. farm income will exceed last year by about one billion dollars due to higher prices, despite output being ten percent lower. Farmers celebrate at big state fairs while peace advocates push popularizing a peace toy and toy pigeons as a symbol.
Scholars assert the saint's birth name was Patricius Magonus Lucatus but the claim changes nothing about the celebrations set for March 17 as the holiday endures.
Religious social agricultural and political notes report Union Pacific building two tea houses at North Platte Luther Sigmon found dead near South Omaha formerly of Cook county a burglar at Fremont Seed and Irrigation plant secured 70 dollars a new town Shea laid out in Jefferson county Miss Myrtle Fletcher 15 eloped with Walter Mason Lutheran seminary site in Lincoln under consideration and other local items including court actions on bonds water works petitions and church construction updates.
A home made mix of Fluid Extract Dandelion, Compound Karyon, and Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla is touted by a New York paper as a safe remedy for kidney and bladder trouble before Bright's disease. It claims to ease back pain, frequent urination, and discolored urine and to cleanse the blood, with a note to shake and take after meals and at night.
A shopper enters a store seeking something new in tablecloths but finds nothing to her taste. The patient salesman revisits stock and unveils a discarded piece praised as one of the newest designs with a border around the edge. The woman selects it enthusiastically.
The sole royal doctor in Europe, Duke Carl Theodore of Bavaria, completed his five thousandth cataract operation with his wife as assistant. He runs a hospital that treats the poor for free, charging only those who can pay. Eight years ago he reportedly cured the Kaiser after an accident left him temporarily blinded aboard the Hohenzollern in the North Sea.
A Sunday school clergyman uses a faulty watch to illustrate regulating the sinful heart and a boy volunteers the idea to sell the watch to a friend. The anecdote frames conscience and practical remedy in a simple, moral classroom moment.
A Third Avenue jeweler in New York City offers to stretch wedding rings to any size at no extra charge. He cites a habit of brides balking and men getting the blame, claiming rings have been stretched up to five times for one customer. He even suggests rubber rings as an alternative.
Huntsville Alabama woman drank coffee for forty years and suffered severe stomach issues for two decades. After stopping coffee and switching to Postum she reports dramatic health improvement, better sleep, and restored appetite. She credits Postum and recommends it, noting the ad claim “There’s a Reason.” Read The Road to Wellville.
A great tenor recounts hours of singing to a phonograph and tells of a salesman offering a recordable cylinder. He recalls choosing to keep his flute over buying the device, insisting he would rather sell the flute than own the phonograph.
Fritz Hirschlaff of New York reports eight years of rough skin and sores on limbs and between toes cured in seven days by Cuticura Remedies after trying other doctors and spending about three hundred dollars. He resumed work by April 6, 1906.
A late James McNeil Whistler is seen in a hat shop where a man, mistaken for a clerk, accuses Whistler of a misfit hat. Whistler responds with a dry insult about the observer’s coat and trousers, then the piece notes a new gold sign in a Bowling Green skyscraper offering a sailing service to Australia and New Zealand.
A clipped exchange notes Mrs Rownder as a widow and describes her as a "club widow" meaning a woman who has lost her husband. The Houston Post framing emphasizes social status and the term reflects contemporary usage.
A reflection on the fleeting nature of human life by Matthew Hale Carpenter. It contrasts joys and sorrows, bright days and dark Fridays, with the heart aging like a chancel of memories before life fades away.
In New York a wealthy donor funds Marshall P. Wilder to visit hospitals, delighting convalescent patients with his stories. A Defiance Starch package ad claims collars and cuffs can be stiffened with gloss or domestic finish, 16 oz for 10 cents at grocers.
In the Philadelphia Press excerpt Nagget complains about credit for a good disposition, while his wife rebukes him saying he is not good but just too lazy to kick. The exchange captures domestic tension and sarcasm in a concise confrontational moment.
An archival ad montage notes Allen’s Foot-Ease for foot care with a Le Roy New York address, plus a Francis G Peabody quote about living with truths, a Lewis Single Binder cigar promo from Peoria, and a quip about newlywed life signaling marriage length.
Workmen demolishing the old gamester house of the first United States mint on Seventh street Philadelphia uncover relics from early republic days. Among the finds are foreign and domestic coins dating to 1793 and test coins used by officials with holes in the center filled with metals to raise value.
Williams Abrams Martin, the sole survivor among the twelve jurors who convicted John Brown, is living in Virginia and has just celebrated his seventy fifth year.
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