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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1911
Page
7
Dr Wu Ting Fang, former Chinese minister to Washington and now in Shanghai, declares support for the provisional republic. He accepts the foreign affairs post and argues republican government suits China, rejects the view that the Chinese cannot govern themselves, and says self rule will quickly sharpen readiness.
Reuters dispatch from Tripoli via Malta reports severe Italian losses and dire conditions. The Italian army, outnumbered and confined, has lost over 1,000 men to battle sickness and cholera, with Arabs killed and civilians suffering amid a besieged Tripoli.
Reports from the upper Missouri river country to the Transmississippi Commercial congress in Kansas City show growing interest in the event. Towns from St. Louis to Kansas City press for Missouri improvements while realizing the lower river must be navigable for funds. Sioux City seeks a strong 1912 congress presence. Borland expects eleven members of the rivers and harbors committee.
Five Elks formed a joke club that has expanded to include nearly all Kansas City Elks. Plans aim to make it a national organization. A dinner at the club rooms outlined rules to be printed and shared with other lodges. Members pledge never to treat or accept a treat from a fellow Elk.
Postmaster General Hitchcock rescinds a ban and orders letters addressed to Santa Claus be delivered to charitable organizations or benevolent parties instead of being returned or destroyed. Also reports a volcanic sighting near the Serpent's Mouth between Trinidad and Venezuela with sea upheaval and pillars of flame and smoke.
New York dated November 9. A United States court approved the tobacco dis integration plan with modification.
Reports from Sidney note a teachers meeting led by Superintendent Brabam and a new reading table for English texts. Sidney's basketball team, featuring RF Lee, defeats Kimball and admiration for Miss Murray boosts school activities. Eva Seidow joins the typing class as the state teachers’ convention nears in Omaha.
A snippet notes that more Maupin style boosters could spread, with mentions of Greater Sidney and Greater Nebraska as examples. The language hints at growing regional booster culture and imagined expansion of supportive networks across Nebraska.
Lynchburg Virginia, population 80 000, shows decades of civic growth from ill paved streets to well paved, sewered avenues. An efficient engineering department reshaped grades and sidewalks while a new waterworks system costing over 1 000 000 dollars supplies gravity fed water from Pedlar River twenty seven miles away.
A compact collection of quoted lines on love from Shakespeare, Theocritus, St Paul, Browning and others. The excerpts praise love as faith, service, patience, purity, truth, and rest while warning that false love is blind.
A Sidney Nebraska resident, Mrs. E.T. Lehman, reports long time back pains and kidney pain relieved after using Doan's Kidney Pills. The ad claims Doan's has cured thousands and cites Foster Milburn Co as US agents. The product sells for 40 cents and urges readers to remember the name.
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