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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1886
Page
4
A New York Mail and Express report describes a city edifice housing a private school catering to lispers and stammerers. An instructor explains causes and methods, noting most cases stem from nervous action rather than organic defects and that patient practice can regain clear speech.
Professor Gleason describes horse education from unbroken colt to harness training. He advocates whip start, scent acclimation, and gentle word cues, warns against cruel bits, and shares methods to stop kicking or biting. He claims vast experience with 7800 horses and offers practical, nonviolent training principles.
A critical ode to journalism in decline, arguing that reporting overpowers literary craft. It laments editors valuing access to private sources, declares the interview the era’s worst tactic, and predicts gradual irrelevance of the system as sensationalism dominates.
An old anecdote recalls a Western congressman's harsh remarks about England before Gen. Schenck. After the speech the general asked if the speaker truly disliked England, noting the strong words and the speaker’s stubborn tone. The tale ventures into Swiss scenery and rough mountain paths for contrast.
The Rev. Astorious Bragg, canon of Weaterville cathedral, uses wit to lure Elijah Buckfield into a ten thousand dollar pledge to clear church debt. Buckfield, a frugal miser, signs the paper hoping for salvation, only to face a joke that tests his faith and humor.
A fragmentary scene shows a boy engaging a minister in a long homily like exchange. The boy questions authority, noting the cannon’s setting sun and the priest’s late vigil, with a bemused father and a surprised observer.
A mid Hudson tourist, seeking to court a seminary student’s daughter, joins a farmer’s buggy, drinks refuse, and boasts of his aims to marry the girl and share her father’s money. He presses a claim of favored status with Mr Smith, revealing a plan to set up men with money. The Albany Argus report records the encounter and its social implications.
A garbled OCR fragment records a social scene with a woman named DiToranca and a visitor, mentioning a furnitura or furniture context. The text includes garbled dialogue and appears to reference a Miss Marion and a Mr Bank, with partial address clues and domestic interactions.
A garbled passage describes a woman in a black satin frock and black waistcoat radiantly dressed, with vivid reactions from onlookers. The text imitates a theatre or fashion scene, noting reactions and emotional shifts as characters discuss costumes and allure, with fragmented dialogue and era-like phrasing.
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