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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1896
Page
5
The page lists public offices including U.S. Senatorial district details and state officers, followed by local religious services for Methodist, Catholic, and Episcopal churches. It also records numerous fraternal and veterans organizations with meeting dates and officers, and notes on lodge activities in Sidney and nearby areas.
The Child Culture Department helps mothers and teachers study the character igpics of each child as a guide to proper development.
A Boston Herald account recounts Barbara Freitchie born Barbara Haner in 1766 who waved a silk flag during Union forces retaking Frederick in 1862 while a younger woman waved a flag for the Confederates. It notes her long life, Sherman style actions at West Patrick Street, and her ties to Frederick figures including General Grant and President Washington’s visit.
A Philadelphia Times recipe details a long keep rusk biscuit made with milk yeast eggs and salt. The piece also recounts a Chicago Chronicle account of Colonel Westcott finding an ice ball with a rifle bullet embedded, proposed as frozen moisture from a cloud.
A dialogue excerpt shows Dignified Dame and Awkward Youth discussing a dispute over employment. The youth seeks help to prevent dismissal by the dame’s husband, while the clerk explains her frequent mistakes and a rival candidate for her job. The scene ends with the dame inviting him to make her house his home.
The piece traces the Chevaliers de l’Ordre du Saint Esprit from 1587 to its revival in 1814 and explains how the term cordon bleu evolved from a royal honor to a general label for excellent cooks, noting the Duc de Nemours as the last survivor of the order’s era.
The article describes Bisa and Luangeni dancers with four drummers and an old man using rattles to time performance. Dancers wear bark loin cloths and move in graceful steps, some like the waltz, while the old man uses fruit rattles to keep tempo. Also notes a 380 story office building planned for Park Row New York and a shipwrecked mariner can subsist on acucis leaves. moon phase predicts weather.
An Indianapolis Journal reader details a king snake killing and devouring a three foot black snake. The king wraps around, bites, and progressively swallows the prey, leaving only the tail tip. The observer notes the king is a known enemy of rattlesnakes and often kills them.
A London Tit-Bits tale recalls a gentleman who invited Sunday school children to his grounds for a treat with strawberries and cream. When the boys declare they enjoyed it, he asks if theft would have spoiled their pleasure, the chorus admits they would have missed the cream.
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