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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1905
Page
7
A famed rich man praises his wife as his inspiration and greatest help mate, saying she has been by his side since they met and contributed to his success. The brief remarks frame the wife as central to his achievements and support system.
A letter from Mrs Bessie Ainsley of Tacoma Washington praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for relieving inflammation female weakness bearing-down pains backache and headaches. The ad urges other women with similar symptoms to write to Mrs Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts for free advice and to improve health and vitality.
Housekeepers urged to buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry as it never sticks to the iron and comes in a full pound 16 oz package for 10 cents, unlike %-pound rivals. Grocers pushing 12 oz packs to clear stock. Defiance warns buyers to demand Defiance for time and money savings.
The ad touts Defiance Starch as longer lasting and less prone to breaking, offering one third more product for the same price than 12 oz brands. It notes grocers hesitate to stock it due to existing 12 oz stock, since customers who try the 16 oz Defiance may not buy the smaller sizes.
An American inquiry found that about 70 percent of 100000 prescriptions from physicians’ catalogs may include narcotics while proprietary medicines usually come with detailed use directions. The report notes many proprietary remedies contain poisons or narcotics but claims small quantities and antidotes mitigate danger.
A New York Press quip warns that brothers deserve decent treatment as they grow up and not being treated like boys. The remark highlights friction and disagreeable repartee when sisters misread brothers, anytime.
The Pall Mall Gazette celebrates Canada for keeping a steamship bound for the Hudson Bay Mounted Police idle at St Johns for weeks. A row between the police department and ministry of marine over control of its movements delayed the mission and supplies.
A Welsh revivalist inquires where the grass for his horse was grown and learns it came from football grounds. He denounces the source, saying he would insult his horse by feeding it grass from such a sinful place.
Marcus R. Mayer, famed patron of music and drama, endorses Dean's Kidney Pills as a remedy that relieved severe kidney pain and urinary disorders. He recommends the product, sold by Foster Milburn Co. at 50 cents a box in Buffalo New York. The clipping also notes other endorsements and a dated testimonial about Piso's Cure and a general adage about judging by manner.
Advertisement proclaims Defiance Cold Water Starch as unmatched in quantity and quality with 16 oz for 10 cents, noting rival brands offer only 12 oz. The claim targets cost-conscious shoppers and highlights product superiority.
Oliver Peebles Jenkins, Stanford zoology head, forgot his coat and went to bed after guests arrived. Reading after dinner, his wife told him to put on his other coat, and he later slept in bed thinking he had undressed for the evening. The incident amuses the faculty.
In New York a wagon collision scattered lamp globes and sparked public sympathy. An elderly benevolent man started a hat collection for the driver who faced losses. After coins piled up, the driver pocketed them and revealed the donor as his boss, a pointed irony on generosity.
The speaker asserts freedom through love and inner liberty despite physical confinement. He contrasts wine, friendship, and royal passion with external restraints, claiming minds are free where love and virtue reside. The verse champions spiritual autonomy and ends with a call to liberty beyond walls.
Margaret Blake steps forward to eager applause and graceful modesty while receiving a bouquet of violetta. A sweet-faced, dark-haired woman behind the flowers suddenly cries, Give me back my hat, in a hysterical demand as the scene unfolds.
A Roslyn man commends Clar ence H Mackay's daughter Katherine, a Roslyn public school pupil, noting the young girl in the school hall politely held the door for him. He quotes her remark about not letting him in, describing the courteous moment.
The executive committee of German trades unions petitions the federal Diet to permit increased live pig imports to meet meat needs as workers face very high prices and shortages.
A Rhodesian hunter named Jenman has domesticated and trained several eland to pull a wagon. Eight young eland now work as draft animals, proving faster and stronger than oxen. The note warns against using royal arms in trades without authority.
In Wadsworth Nevada once a railroad town of about 4000 people thousands of wild cats roam the area. The felines are descendants of a few hundred abandoned house cats turning the town into a desolate scene.
The Rt. Hon Sir Francis Bertie, British ambassador in Paris, recently marked his sixty-first birthday, noting a forty-one year long career in service.
A brief note explains trees maintain far cooler temperatures than humans with an average tree temperature under 50 degrees Fahrenheit compared with 98 degrees for the human body.
An advertisement asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It attributes deafness to inflammation of the Eustachian tube and offers a hundred dollars for catararrh-related deafness cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It promotes Hall's Family Pills for constipation and directs readers to send for circulars.
An elephant at a zoo in Jena restrained a man who taunted it with a knife and threw him to the ground. The man died three days later from injuries sustained in the incident.
The London Mail reports that Honiton lace making may become extinct as local schools require children to attend classes rather than learn lacework. The piece frames schooling as driving away traditional crafts once taught at home or in workshops.
A brief advert lists items for sale at City Drug Store including mint julep supplies, Tom Col line highballs and clean shaves, haircuts, groceries, hardware, dry goods and milli sery line with drugs available. Irrigon Oregon.
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