School Notes Delays and Letters Highlight Thanksgiving Week
Two Saturday basketball games were canceled due to an epidemic in Bridgeport. Debates will be held with seventeen volunteers. two local debates chosen Sidney's district reps. Nonresident students left for Thanksgiving. teachers remind attendance at county association. A Denver letter from Frank Yamauchi shows three years of study improving English and aims to resume school next year. Report cards and delinquencies will be mailed. school closes Wednesday for Thanksgiving and resumes Monday November 30.
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Bridgeport
Sidney
County Teachers’ Association
Frank Yamauchi
Denver
Frank
Colo
W. R. Pate
Ned
Smmart
How Queen Bess Dined In Ceremonial Dinner
An aged chronicle describes Queen Elizabeth I dining in a formal rite. A procession carried table items, yeomen of the guard served gold dishes and a queen’s taster checked for poison before the monarch ate alone in private chambers, with limited attendance.
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Bess
Elisabeth
England
Early coal use in Britain and Connecticut origins
Historians note Roman and Briton use of coal before Caesar. Henry III issued a Newcastle coal license in 1234, London bans followed, and coal reached London by 1381 under Richard II. By 1400 coal was common there, with slower adoption later. Anthracite first used by Connecticut blacksmith Gore in 1768 and domestically by Jesse Fell in Wilkes-Barre in 1808.
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Caesar
Henry III
Newcastle
London
Richard II
Charles I
England
Connecticut
Gore
Jesse Fell
Wilkesbarre
You Stand by Your Home Town
A civic message urges residents to support local merchants, tailors, dentists, enterprises, praise the town, and subscribe to the town newspaper, noting some citizens fail in some duties and asking readers to do their part.
Sunday Service and Thanksgiving Gratitude Notes
The Sunday morning service discusses The Practicable Side of Christianity with an evening quarterly meeting led by District Superintendent Chamberlain. Gratitude is expressed to Mr and Mrs Gentry and Mrs Gates for Thanksgiving gifts, and a new wood and coal house is noted for the pastor's family. The Lutheran Thanksgiving service was well attended and the pastor's family enjoyed a royal dinner at Leroy Martins. Damaged goods remain for sale at cost or below. JACKSON FURNITURE Co. Editor Wolfe of Logdigepole visited Sidney yesterday.
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Chamberlain
Gentry
Gates
Leroy Martin
Doan’s Kidney Pills Advertised with Sidney Testimony
An old advertisement claims rheumatic attacks stem from uric acid in blood and that only kidney cleansing cures follow. It cites W L Kingelty of Sidney Nebraska, who says Doan’s Kidney Pills eased back pains and rheumatic symptoms after several boxes. Price 50 cents, Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Doan’s.
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Dean
Sidney
W L. Kingelty
Nebraska
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
A Fairy Tale Kingdom of Uganda Revealed
Winston Churchill notes in Strand Magazine that Uganda presents a tropical garden instead of savagery. He envisions a dynastic king, a parliament, and a strong feudal system within a well organized monarchy between Lake Victoria and Lake Albert, inhabited by an amiable, clothed, intelligent people.
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Uganda
Africa
Victoria and Albert Lakes
Winston Churchill
M. P
Strand Magazine
O Henry Story Prompted Editor Note and Witty Reply
A famed writer O Henry delayed a short story and the editor warned of a visit. O Henry responded with a sharp quip about keeping promises only if he could do so with his feet, illustrating his wit in a brief exchange printed by Success Magazine.
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O. Menry
O. Henry
Success Magazine
Nice Grandparents Don’t Match On Porch Whimsy
A little girl plays with a friend on her porch while two grandparents sit and chat. The girl wishes her grandparents shared the same name as other children. She comments on them as nice, then sighs that they don’t match.
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