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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1916
Page
7
A Kensington textile foreman, who habitually buys an apprentice lunch, orders a new apprentice to go downstairs and eat up his lunch. The boy, unaware of cockney slang, eats the cold meal. When the foreman discovers the lunch is eaten but cold, he argues over the meaning of eat up versus heat up. The humorous incident highlights a language gap between English slang and American learners.
Pp. A. Pultz announces a new vulcanizing shop offering complete modern equipment to repair all sizes of tires. Customers may leave casings at Brewers Garage for inspection. if repairable, work is guaranteed to outlast the casing remainder, promising money savings.
A crude advertisement promotes Adlerika with buckthorn bark and sincereine claiming prevention and relief of appendicitis and related digestive issues. It urges readers to take a spoonful to relieve constipation sour stomach and gas, presenting a bold cure claim from the Western Drug Co.
A fragment from a local item notes the Essig Stork and a call to Come And See What We Still Ate. Readable details are limited but imply a communal or humorous feature listing foods or items associated with Essig Stork.
The article describes submarine pipelines laid by oil companies from Vera Cruz near Tuxpam to load tankers. Five iron pipes, six to eight inches in diameter and nearly a mile long, end in forty-three feet of water. Divers connect 120 feet of hose to ship tanks, with buoys and derricks guiding loading.
In Ceylon men mark their social standing by wearing combs. Native males in the low country twist their hair into a roll at the back and place a tortoise shell comb shaped like a horseshoe on top. Women do not wear this ornament.
At Mrs Jones-Was the party a success or a flop? Airs suggests a row over seating and couples as each man ends up dining with his own wife. Mrs Smith confirms plans kept couples together, ending in quiet dissatisfaction.
A New York Sun contributor suggests stopping mental drift to fall asleep. Focus on a fixed image or counting, but best is concentrating on nothing itself to quiet the mind and drift into peaceful slumber.
A 19th century advertisement proclaims Hall's Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh at all stages by aiding constitutional treatment. The proprietors offer $100 to anyone whose case it fails to cure, urging readers to request testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo, Ohio, and noting the product is sold by druggists for 50 cents.
A reflective verse fragment warns that anxious minds steal joy from the present by borrowing trouble for tomorrow. The speaker laments trading today’s gold for doubt, leaving tomorrow’s dawn as dull as a gray noon. An unnamed author writes of sorrow born from anticipatory distress.
Jones recalls a friend injured when a car driven by a woman on Euclid Avenue struck him. The friend was treated at a hospital and then taken to the police station where the driver was held. The driver insisted Jones was careless, claiming she had seven years of driving and he thirty four years of walking.
The absentminded Professor Rounder and Professor Stounder measure their weight against a 224 pound limit. A scale shows 239 pounds prompting a puzzled reaction. After removing his overcoat, 233 pounds appears, provoking concern that he is gaining and must adjust.
In Munro's work the author twists his explaination of the Greek term ouo mai to suggest a rare meaning I wash myself. The passage hints at playful linguistic misreadings and adds to the discussion by Lidden and Scott in their later notes.
The note defines gnodalon as any wild dangerous animal and cites Simon Pure’s correct name for George Cruikshank. It introduces Wise Foal Jamie Freeman of Aberdeenshire, the Introl of Udny, a lazy estate figure known for odd jobs and comic exchanges with locals.
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