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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1922
Page
3
Germany faces an 800 billion mark grain requirement for the coming year to avert famine. The reparations commission warns this demand, about double Germany's money supply, hinges on rapid financial reform or foreign food credits. America is viewed as the likely source for credits or grain, as a purchase in foreign markets could crash the mark.
The railway commission after hearings finds no relief from grain car shortages unless southern and eastern roads are compelled to return cars to the west. Those regions hire more cars than they own, with ownership mostly by western lines. The American Railway Association order has had little effect and the delivery of south and east cars to the west remains far short of demand. Railroad officials propose ICC action to force immediate return of western-owned cars.
The Children's Bureau of the U S Department of Labor announces a new permanent staff appointment, Martha Travida Speakman, a recreation expert. She led play organization in Porto Rico during the Children's Year campaign, teaching games to teachers in San Juan Santurce and other institutes, with demonstrations to local children.
Paris rejoices over a US election outcome seen as a sign prohibition may end, reopening the American market for French wines. San Francisco notes California’s long drive to repeal dry laws ending ten years of prohibition votes.
Washington reports 1922 exports of corn likely to exceed any year since 1900, with 131,000,000 bushels shipped from January through August. New York records rail crossing accidents totaling 4,411 in the four summer months, cited during the careful crossing campaign by the American Railway Association.
Washington reports Congress will be called into session November 20. One of the first measures to go before this session is the report on reorganization of the federal departments.
Plymouth reporter notes the death of Mrs. Mary Smith Lockwood founder of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Jordan hospital where she had resided as a patient since September. She was 01 years old.
John E. Weedon, advertising manager for Chicago's largest public utility, argues newspapers are the most obvious advertising medium. He notes readers habitually consult papers for merchandise, and urges year round space use to spur out of season buying and avoid spasmodic results.
Exploring parties near Muddy Range station in Wyoming have found a cavern system with a new curve from a small opening into the mountainside leading to a shaft about 35 feet deep. A slope reveals broad passages, some over 100 yards wide, and an entrance to a main cavern with radiating passages. Stalactites and stalagmites under flash glare hint at ongoing exploration and study.
A newspaper prints a sensational ranking claiming to name the twelve greatest women in America alongside the twelve most beautiful. The list includes Lydia Pinkham Carrie Nation Aunt Jemima Dorothy Dodd and Mrs Winslow, with a notable honorable mention for the Seven Sutherland Sisters.
The text cites Tom Marshall urging action through the Ten Commandments, the Golden Rule, and Christian principles. It notes his post vice-presidential travels abroad to study social and business conditions and his return to declare a moral path for improving life in his native state.
A Dearborn Independent paragraph cites Fiji Islanders living in common ownership where no individual labor creates private property. When a house is destroyed a chief assigns builders, and the communal system divides the resulting work and goods among all.
Auto drivers say heavy trucks damaged roads during the week of rain. Graded roads, normally ready after showers, were cut beyond repair by trucks on the road during rainfall. Eastern states restrict vehicle weight on paved roads. Nebraska should curb earth-road damage by banning trucks for a set period after rain.
One of the most important problems before the road-using public is bringing reckless auto drivers to responsibility on public highways. If speed and intoxicated driving endangered others we must regulate traffic and impose penalties. The public highway belongs to the people and its use can be controlled by law.
Roy Jenkins, divorced husband of Jean Jenkins, one of the girls chained by Fred Brown, was sentenced to 15 days in jail for reckless driving in Central police court. Arrest followed a collision near Union Station early Sunday morning. Mrs Jenkins may lose her left eye from the crash. Jenkins accused of driving 35 miles an hour.
A Virginia Star quip notes one third of fools believe they can best a lawyer in law, half think they can beat the doctor in healing, two thirds feel they can outdo the minister in preaching, and all are certain they can beat the editor running a newspaper.
A fragment recounts how Cassaran the tyrant of a southern province divided his wealth with a tax free exemption for families of women seized for his harem. The lavish rise in expense burdened the state and led to revolt, overthrowing him. Civilization shows little change in revenue practices since that era.
Over 15 years an Oregon farmer paid 2500 in bounties at 25 cents each to remove pocket gophers from 150 acres. A USDA Biological Survey representative advised poison use, costing 1.60 for poison and 21 for labor over seven days. After the first treatment, only one fresh gopher mound remained, and a second application was planned to finish eradication.
A misplaced alert mocks standards as a man announces his wife has left after twenty years of nagging. He claims peace, wishes her well, and jokes about where she put his winter underwear, ending with a jab to send it to the laundry.
Mr and Mrs Pete Stryker on the Prank Dimnwiay farm two miles east of Overton received a postal cord from North Platte directing them to wave a white cloth as a plane Mandy passed. A parachuted package attached to a cloth was dropped. a broken string caused a faster descent. The package held two wild ducks delivered in a wood shed, marking a novel delivery method not heard of locally.
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