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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1906
Page
3
The column reports storm impacts with timber drift in a creek and a hospitalization for Earnest Swanke. It notes land sales to eastern buyers, wheat at The Sunnyside Farm, and local resident moves. It also comments on crop prospects, road weather, travel to markets, and a skeptical view on a strong Republican majority in Congress.
A London weekly notes decline of parliamentary oratory with three styles identified. The "haw haw" style marks haughty triumph on the treasury bench, the "binn and haw" style marks front opposition bench vigilance, and the "he haw" style fits the private member's effort.
Actor William Th. Crane once described a past Shakespeare try in the west where he played Humilet. An admirer asked about audience reaction before the curtain. Crane replied with a bold, defiant claim that the audience dared him to perform.
A landlady offers a reduced rate for a room to an applicant but refuses when told the renter is for a deaf nephew next door. She insists on charging full price, citing the inconvenience despite the nephew’s condition.
A London Spectator piece argues sand’s universal appeal across ages. It links sandy floors to childhood imagination and primitive comfort, suggesting dry desert origins and cave life shaped by sand and simple broom-like tools.
The account traces St Anthony birth in 251 A D in Egypt, his early ascetic life, and decades of visions believed to be devil sent temptations. It notes his founding of a Memphis monastery, his 105 years, and mentions Gustave Flaubert and a humorous ballad misattributed to Barham.
In a Cleveland Leader item, Tarantula Tom notes Bill’s slow debt payment to the Short Horn, prompting a stranger to threaten payment at sight. Lava Bed Pete explains the misread letter led EHT to draw first, revealing a case of misinterpreted legal terms.
The passage notes ongoing scientific debate about sponge reproduction. Some researchers claim sponges arise from true eggs while others insist they propagate from buds, reflecting broader uncertainties in contemporary science.
A meditation compares a man to veiled sculpture in a secret inner chamber. It notes how hidden effort shapes the figure beneath the veil, and warns that many rulers wed partners who reverse their power and negate their will.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer surveys North American Indian views on the soul after death with Plains tribes linking destiny to scalp status. It notes beliefs of happy hunting grounds, cliff carvings for warriors, and the taboo on scalping in self-inflicted deaths.
The piece discusses leprosy origins and reproduction, noting that intimate contact often fails to spread the disease and detailing accidental inoculation cases. It mentions fish diets as a debated factor and compares global prevalence, alongside a tangent on ring mountains and their observed features in telescopic views.
Excerpt describes a ritual where two groups exchange stones and dig holes in soil while uttering magic words. The scene ends with solemn handshakes and declarations of friendship, as quoted from Williams Astor Chinter in Through Jungle and Desert.
An article describes the moon as a planet of great mountains with about 80,000 peaks visible on the near side, ranging from 2,000 feet to four miles high. It notes the moon is one thirty second Earth’s size and hints at a peculiar pattern among the peaks.
A vivid tale recounts Rev. John Fawcett, English Baptist, who died 1817 after sixty years in ministry. In 1772 he refused to move to London, staying with his people as they wept, unloading the wagons and continuing his pastoral work on a modest salary. He later wrote Blest Be the Tie That Binds to honor that moment.
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