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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1906
Page
2
The piece argues larger ships do not guarantee victory over smaller classes, citing American vessels with 5000 mile steaming radii and emphasizing seamanship, training, and efficiency. It criticizes public indifference and links political corruption to citizen neglect while defending U S naval readiness.
A sketch of diverse topics notes a nearly exhausted U S coal fear but cites a Pennsylvania vein with millions of tons valued at 50 to 75 million dollars to reassure supply. It also mentions spelling reforms for Chinese city names, health and endurance notes, Kaiser's Krupp breakfast remark, a language without cuss words, householder winter preparations, a Colchester villa site, and a Roman villa ground plan revealed by heat.
Detroit reports whitefish stocks are vanishing like bison once did, with calls for immediate government funding to expand hatcheries. Figures show drastic drops in Michigan Lake Michigan and Lake Erie catches from 1891 to 1905, underscoring the need to boost propagation to sustain a valuable industry and food source.
A Germantown man, Frank Robinson, lives a year with a 38 caliber bullet lodged near his heart after a 1905 shooting. Doctors doubted survival, yet he endured blood poisoning and weight changes while vowing to slim down to spare the bullet. He was jailed briefly for assaulting the arresting officer but released after 13 days.
The youngest Civil War soldier is credited to Perry Ryan of Seattle Washington. He joined as a drummer boy with the Twenty fourth Iowa on August 22 1862 at age nine years and ten months born October 22 1882 in Kane County Illinois. He enlisted at Mount Vernon Iowa and was discharged after nearly a year on a surgeon's certificate of disability. Pension officials validated his papers and he will receive back pension.
Bristow area in Iowa harvests the county’s largest cabbage crop on 950 acres. Without local cold storage, the entire yield will ship to Minneapolis Kansas City and Chicago markets. Car shipments rise from 9 in 1904 to an expected 500 for this season. A cabbage planting machine and cultivating methods boost output. profit could reach 800 percent with storage.
J Pierpont Morgan purchased the original Cluny Bible in illuminated parchment text, a celebrated French medieval work, in competition with King Edward. Morgan reportedly paid $20,000 for the manuscript, with assessed value $25,000 and duty $4,000 covered by his bankers, alongside an enlarged copy of Bunyan’s arrest order.
Washington reports the bureau of forestry measures wood paving blocks for streets. An ongoing Minneapolis experiment uses longleaf pine, Norway pine, tamarack, birch, larch and fir creosoted blocks on Portland cement foundations with varied course angles to assess durability, wear, and slip resistance under heavy traffic.
The 1901 census places Canada's population at 6,371,315, up about half a million from 1891. Officials estimate a further one million increase since 1891 from northwest census data and immigration figures, marking the strongest decadal growth since Confederation and one fifth of the century’s total rise.
An excerpt notes how different nations express laughter. It lists Italian, German, French, English, Scottish, Irish, and Chinese laughter styles, comparing pace, spontaneity, and warmth across cultures. The piece highlights cultural variation with light humorous observation.
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