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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1911
Page
3
The piece offers thanksgiving for sunshine rain dew and harvest time praising God for life growth and comfort. It expresses gratitude for heat shade gladness grief sprouting blades nodding sheaves hope fear storm peace trembling cheer and the quickening of life as God’s sole praise.
Minnie, headed to the post office on Thanksgiving Eve, faces a looming storm as Uncle Robert and his wife worry about her journey. She mails a letter before a gale and hail hits the road and a falling limb ends her escape, leaving her unconscious by a roadside tree.
During a fierce Thanksgiving storm Percy Kincaid locates Miss Minnie after she vanishes earlier. A stranger finds a wounded woman, and a poor farmer family nurses her back to health. The couple reconcile and plan to meet Uncle Robert for Thanksgiving.
A historical note clarifies that early Anglican rituals included gratitude prayers and that Monhegan service was a regular Sunday service, not a Thanksgiving day as later understood. Contemporary evidence refutes claims that the Popham colonists were first to keep Thanksgiving in America, distinguishing ritual from observance.
Chicago meat packers indicted under the Sherman act seek a stay and delay of their trial after filing an appeal to the U S Supreme Court. Circuit Judge Kohlsaat quashed their habeas corpus pleas and immediately entered the order. District Attorney Wilkerson agreed to the stay request to await Supreme Court ruling on the law’s constitutionality. Judge Carpentier warned he would proceed to trial Monday without a stay.
Omaha doctors who provide medical visits to fraternal organizations at unrealistically low rates face possible expulsion from the Douglas County Medical Society. A committee will propose penalties after rapid fire visits were deemed unworthy of professional service and contrary to the resolutions. The issue mirrors Council Bluffs where many lodges offered free or 25 cent calls to large fraternal populations.
Miss Mary Chamberlain a school teacher testified in court about being tarred by a group of prominent Lincoln Center men after a date with Ed Ricard. She described masked assailants, a toy pistol, and three men restraining her while tar was dumped from a bucket before Ricard helped her home.
In Los Angeles the defense in the McNamara case failed on three challenges for cause. Two were disallowed due to expressed opinions and a third against Talesman Brode was rejected because a personal attorney for his firm works for the state in the case. Judge Walter Bordwell ruled nine jurors and talesmen were valid for cause.
Miss Stella Braymer 35 daughter of Daniel Braymer founder of Braymer Missouri and a Caldwell county magnate was arraigned before Judge A B Van Valkenburg on charges of using cancelled postage stamps in private correspondence. She pleaded not guilty and posted a $500 bond.
Fred T. Warren editor of Girard Kansas once pardoned by President Taft for improper use of mails was indicted at Fort Scott on a charge of circulating improper matter in his newspaper.
The History Club met with Miss Murray at the High School as it plans to widen the south assembly room for meetings. Examinations for the second six weeks are underway, and a rotary mimeograph donated by J McIntosh speeds question duplication. The school expands periodical access, debates loom, and a basketball schedule with Hershey is eyed.
The listing shows state officers Governor and Secretary of State and local entities. It details Post Office staff, fire department, rail commissioners, land offices, and numerous public bodies in Sidney including the Commercial Club, fair association, school boards, churches, lodges, and fraternal orders with presidents secretaries and meeting times. It also notes county and village officials like trustees and sheriffs, plus public schools and staff.
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