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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1916
Page
10
A practical health note explains three C's of milk care: keep milk clean cold and covered. Milk spoils quickly and can cause stomach trouble. good milk depends on producer dealer and consumer with the consumer responsible once milk reaches the doorstep.
A Birmingham Age-Herald snippet notes ideas for a new cookbook for wives who show only a desultory interest in cooking. It suggests placing recipes between short stories, but questions whether readers will skip the stories to reach the recipes.
A humorous Yonkers Statesman note ponders global dining: if every person shared a meal, the table would extend around the world sixteen times as people imagine reaching for the butter.
The Red sea passage described as unbearable when engines stop for an hour, with extreme heat from daily hot winds blowing from north and south toward the center. Passengers endure two days of intense heat then two days of relative relief, and some crowded liners even reverse course briefly to provide a respite.
The piece highlights amusing taxes in England and clever evasions such as a farmer riding a cow to market or harnessing his wife to a cart with a dog. It notes chimney taxes destroying fireplaces and window taxes making houses appear boarded up and harming eyesight.
In Italy thirteen is called a cobbler’s dozen. Tradition says cobblers were once bound by law to place twelve nails around a boot heel and add a thirteenth nail at the center for luck when nails were cheap. London Mall notes this superstition.
The passage argues ancestors thrived on agrarian life with metals seen as jewels. It notes the factory system is under a century old and contrasts copper use: the U S consumes about sixteen pounds per person annually, while Asia uses far less due to its nonindustrial status, predicting rising demand as Asia industrializes.
A humorous exchange in a 10 year marriage where a husband boasts he has never spent a night away from home. A doubting Thomas character probes, revealing a joke about an extended family with only three people and the twist that the remaining member is the wife’s mother. The brief gag hinges on mistaken assumptions and a punchline about caregiving.
A broad array of reports covers robberies, shipping, politics, and disasters. Key items include a $1 robbery on a party street, a Danish West Indies sale ratified, a schooner loss off Iceland with crew saved, a traction-car collision near Jackson Michigan, and William Christianson’s fatal aviation accident in Chicago. Also noted are oil price cuts for export, billiards title to Prank Taborski, Mexico’s military actions against Villa, and Senate actions approaching $2 billion in appropriations. International tensions with Japan on China and domestic legal cases, elections, and suffrage plans round out the digest.
The article extols rapid U S population growth and the duty of farmers to keep pace. It notes 4 433 new people daily and 30 000 new months of food yearly, predicting 10 000 daily soon, urging producers to plan with progressive measures to feed and clothe the expanding nation.
Biographical note on Mrs Trevelyan, sister of Thomas Babington Macaulay, who finished and prepared a fifth volume extending the History of England to the death of William III. She deciphered his manuscripts, copied the four volumes for press, and shaped the supplementary volume, influencing all later editions. Trevelyan was mother to Sir George Otto Trevelyan, author of a history of the American Revolution.
A Quaker style remark attributed to Chief Justice Tilghman of Pennsylvania notes his regard for a dignified justice system. He was momentarily unsettled when colleagues rose to leave without a formal adjournment and asked, Gentlemen, shall we adjourn run away or resign.
The tilefish, scientifically termed chameleon, derives its name from the African lizard it resembles. It is vividly colored with yellow spots and a crest. Some inhabit near the surface while most dwell between sixty and two hundred fifty fathoms deep.
A brief Boston Globe piece notes the pronunciation of celery as Walter Celery and how emphasis shifts in dialogue about a broiled chicken dish, reflecting a linguistic aside in a small domestic moment.
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