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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1913
Page
7
Farmers propose an egg circle to stamp and trace eggs from locality to distributor. Buyers seek quality with a small price rise, while Ontario circles paid bonuses of two to fifteen cents a dozen. Nebraska Agricultural College backs testing the idea as potentially profitable.
A man recalls asking for an umbrella books cuff-buttons cigars and more for Christmas but finds the gift he receives is a beautifully worked sofa pillow. His wife’s choice contrasts with his planned list and brings a cozy, humorous ending to the holiday tale.
Tobacco sales, per department of agriculture statistics, show a substantial decrease from the previous year, averaging about a 50 percent reduction in sales compared with last year.
The state tax commission, in session at Talncom, nears a draft for a bill to present to the governor. Senator Grace presses railroads to enforce a prior law on free transportation for stock caretakers. the bill lacks penalties. Coops avoid blue sky permits. AG opines they need not issue stock permits if no outsiders are to buy. Better Babies medals awarded at Nebraska state fair. Governor Morehead meets Gold medalist Genevieve Chapman. Elevator and mansion power settled with alternating Lincoln Traction and Lincoln Gas, charging 3 1/4 cents per kilowatt hour.
Omaha November 27 campaign by the advisory highway commission aims to compel county commissioners and officials to report road building costs per mile. The state engineer would receive figures from counties, identify wide cost differences, and study methods to reduce expenses while improving efficiency.
Seward report notes J Peterson attempted self harm using laudanum tincture of iodine and heart tonic but survived after strychnine in the tonic acted. In Nebraska City, Paul Topping defeats Mayor J D Houston by 171 votes amid recall interest.
Tecumseh Neb Nov 27 The books of the Chamberlain Banking House that vanished after Charles N Chamberlains trial for the banks failure resurfaced in the Nehama river bed after a new channel was completed A single ledger missing yet the rest of the 400 pound box was found in fair condition The failure totaled 100000 and led Chamberlains flight to Mexico Canada and eventual returns to Auburn for trials He later left for the Pacific coast and now Pullman Wash Indictments remain but prosecutors face moot questions over revived bank accounts
Hyannis Neb Nov 27 The Nebraska national forest reserve tract selection nearly finished with 512 tracts opened Nov 17 fewer than 25 remain none desirable lands left. A call for 2 000 numbers ends next Tuesday but most lands are gone before the second thousand. Judge Witten departs for Lawton Okla to manage sale of about 3 700 acres of Indian lands opened Dec 8 final disposition planned for this method.
An advertisement urges avoiding codine morphine and other sedatives in cough medicines and promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as safe and effective. It claims the formula contains no morphine and helps prevent pneumonia by cleansing germ breeding sites. Sold by all dealers.
In the state against Fuller Shellenberger the examination of witnesses concluded. Testimony linked Shellenberger to the Lavigne farm at the murder time and showed an evening absence from the farm. The defense failed to refute Sheriff Jones early confession in Burlington Kansas. Jurors heard ex Sheriff Cole identify a tin box for Julian Bauhaud’s money. Marion Reeves and Miss Millie Michon testified about two men asking directions to the old man’s house. Calvin Chapman described the Shellenberger family health issues and nervous condition. Otto Wagner identified Joe Kopf as the bakery worker at the murder period.
The White House hosted its thirteenth wedding in a century as Jessie Woodrow Wilson married Francis Bowes Sayre. The ceremony featured gifts of immense value, the cake cut with the doctor’s sword, and a honeymoon by White House car before their plans to visit Europe and then Williamstown, Massachusetts, where Sayre will assist President Garfield at Williams College.
Madison Neb Nov 27 An itinerant merchant Ai Alport was tried for alleged violation of senate file 188 prohibiting untrue and misleading advertisements. County Judge Moe Duffee presided with County Attorney Koenigstein for the prosecution and W J Nowling for the defense. The jury deliberated fifteen minutes and returned a verdict of acquittal.
A Duluth South Shore and Atlantic passenger train was fired on at Hancock Michigan as copper strikers gathered to confront arriving nonunion workers. A shot punched a window in the smoking car, narrowly missing a man among ten believed to be strikebreakers.
Reports say 300 dead and hundreds wounded after fierce fighting near Juarez with Mesa and Samalyn ca far to the south. Huerta sympathizers raise funds to send nurses and surgeons, while federal wounded lie on the battlefield awaiting aid. Rebels claim success as Villa reports retreats and strategic holds. Wounded cross into Texas as transport and supply efforts mobilize.
Fireman P O Connor of Schreiber Ontario drowned when the first section of the Canadian Pacific Imperial Limited wrecked near Coldwell Ontario. The engine jumped a track on a ledge above Lake Superior and plunged into the water. The engineer escaped by leaping from the cab. Baggage, club, dining cars and several Pullmans stayed on the grade.
President Wilson pressed a White House button to illuminate the fifth annual land show in Chicago. The exhibit features US and Canadian agricultural products with sections on dry land farming reclamation desert lands and road building. A department of agriculture display links education to results noting ten dollars per day of school attendance.
Lieutenants Eric L. Ellington and Hugh M. Kelly, first division Army Aviation Corps, died after their aircraft fell eighty feet at North Island near San Diego California. Ellington served in the Third Cavalry and Kelly in the Twenty sixth Infantry. The crash occurred on the grounds of the Army school during training.
Agent Shelton at the Shiprock agency expressed hope for a speedy settlement of the Navajo issue in northwestern New Mexico. He said only a few Indians were on Beautiful Mountain with the seven Braves sought in connection with indictments returned in the United States district court for New Mexico.
Colonel Roosevelt has gone to Chile after completing his tour of the northern and western provinces of the Argentine. He visited many large towns of the republic and was warmly greeted everywhere.
Thousands testify to lasting results from Dean's Kidney Pills. J L Dorland of Fort Morgan Colorado reports relief after kidney trouble from beet sugar factory work. He used the remedy, cured, and has had no trouble for two years. For sale by all dealers, 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole agents. Remember the name can s and take no other.
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