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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1897
Page
7
A university debating society considered the question whether football should be prohibited at the University of Illinois. The debate concluded with the affirmative ruling that football be banned, highlighting a tension between pledges to support athletics and campus sentiment.
It is said three times as many teachers work in Massachusetts Sunday schools as in public schools. The Congregationalist notes that Sunday school teaching now requires not only piety but mental equipment.
Four of every five candidates are rejected after eyesight tests. The test requires counting small black dots on a card ten feet away with both eyes and with each eye separately to assess visual acuity.
A 19th century advertisement touts Nall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for any case not cured. It includes testimonials from local Toledo druggists West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin and notes internal action on blood and mucous surfaces. Price is 75 cents per bottle and family pills are recommended.
Professor Mahaffy recalls a journey in England with a somber man in black asking if he cavled. Mahaffy answers it was a narrow squeak and he dislikes discussing it. London has 1380 miles of streets, Paris 600, New York 575.
An assortment of old time ads promises tobacco habit cures and life vigor. It markets No'To Bac and Ne-To-Bac with claims of curing tobacco addiction, along with Laxative Bromo Quinine for colds and other sensational lines from various brands and individuals.
The World of London recalls how Dean Vaughan declined multiple bishoprics between ISSR and 1882 as figures including Lord Palmerston and Queen Victoria urged acceptance. It notes the involvement of Archbishops Sumner Longley and others in the stalled offer process. In a separate note, a New Jersey incident reports Mrs Pool's hot curling iron injury damaging both eyes, risking total sight after initial relief.
The Portland Express notes a youth walking to school with a bull dog pipe, seeing it as a sign of changing times while cautioning against generalizing about today’s youth. J E Galbraith becomes traffic manager of the Cleveland Terminal and Valley Railroad and B and O general agent at Cleveland. L Rush Brockenbrough moves to B&O freight role in Pittsburgh. Stamp values range from 1 cent to 5,000 dollars, with newspaper stamps at 100 and revenue stamps up to 5,000.
Advertisements detail excursion ticket sales by the Big Four Route and Chesapeake and Ohio By., offering round trips from northwest points to Virginia and southern states with twenty one day return validity. Other notices promote free magazine trials, garden tips, and a study on patient training for children, plus a Michigan farm cabbage count of 1,120,000.
In a Vienna state papers extract, Marie Antoinette writes to her mother Maria Theresa from Choisy detailing a full daily routine. She describes meals, cards, plays, mass, embroidery, music lessons, and social visits with the King, Dauphin, and aunts, ending with a respectful farewell.
A curious landslip hit the village of Sattel in Canton Schwyz days ago. An inn beside a hill slid thirty five feet downslope but left the building, road, garden, and two large elms intact with no injuries reported.
A noted naturalist claims the spider’s web is composed of about five thousand fibers per strand. A pound of this silk would require twenty eight thousand spiders a full year to produce. The thread length is unknown but would likely wrap around the world multiple times.
The English paper recalls Rev Mr Watkinson a Wesleyan preacher and describes early rising by ministers of the era. It notes Mounet Sully building a grand mixed Roman Byzantine house near Bergerac for his retirement. Paris shelters many homeless with fourteen asylums lodging 144037 last year including professors authors actors and more.
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern Railway tests electric motors on 60-foot turntables at Chillicothe and Park Street in Cincinnati, reducing cost per turn from 12 cents to less than one half a cent. Annual savings are about 709 dollars. A misaddressed parcel with funeral flowers in Battle Creek prompts clerks to forward it with donations. Grain-O coffee substitute advertises gentle stomachs and low price. Egyptologist joke closes the item.
The Burlington Route advertises weekly California excursions departing Omaha at 4 35 p m Lincoln 6 10 p m and Hastings 8 50 p m every Thursday. Tourists ride clean modern sleeper cars through Denver and Salt Lake City to San Francisco and Los Angeles with through cars. Second class tickets honored berths 3 full information from Burlington Route offices or J Francis Omaha Neb. Also includes a Black and White military anecdote praising the Gordons and a piper who played through injuries to spur victory.
An old advertisement touts Cascarets as a beauty enhancer by cleansing blood and liver to improve skin with a ten cent to fifty cent price range. It notes an art exhibition in Dresden where over $60 000 worth of pictures were sold.
A compact note observes fashion trends contrasting low shoes with high heels as two fashionable extremes.
The article notes Russian construction of military roads in the Pamir region near India while Britain fights on the Afghan frontier. Ons has been completed over the Ak Baital pass at 15000 feet enabling cart use, begun in July. Another road near Karne Tatn boundary aimed to finish before winter Bardoba boundary in Allai valley. Dr Edward Bedloe of Philadelphia has been named US consul at Canton China and is honored at Clover club banquets. He has held diplomatic posts in Italy China and Egypt under Hayes and Harrison.
An advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for stomach ailments and a source of steady energy. It claims the tonic improves digestion by regulated bile flow, counters malaria and dyspepsia, and strengthens vigor, presenting a period voice of medical patent remedies.
A collection of vintage notes referencing refund guarantees for grocers products stamps found yearly in UK mail, Mrs Winslow's Syrup for teething, Krupp gun works in Essen employing 20 000, Piso's Cure claimed by Anna Stoss in Williamsport PA, and Emperor William's speeches over the past two years.
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