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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1906
Page
3
Interstate Commerce Commission reports 1905 year ending June 30 showing an average 26 killed and 238 injured daily on U.S. railroads. Total casualties include 9,703 dead and 86,008 injured among passengers, workers, trespassers, and others with workers suffering the heaviest losses.
Alexandria and Yorktown Indiana are described as having large deposits of a fibrous mineral stone that yields rock wool, a non combustible heat and electrical insulator. The piece notes a Windfall company plan to build a second Alexandria plant, led by Senator Mock with Tipton county investors, capitalized at 75000 dollars, reflecting strong demand and limited U.S. production alongside existing plants in Alexandria and Yorktown.
Paris officials consider expanding municipalization beyond utilities and bread to fashion. The city’s corset school, begun on Rue Foundary under M. Adolphe Chberloux, has proven profitable and now seeks a new professor. A jury of five experts will evaluate applicants of both sexes for the title professeur de corset de la ville.
Municipal guards in Rome staged a two week old strike after the council sought to reduce their daily pay from 16 cents to a new lower amount.
A laborer digging turf in County Limerick uncovered the head and eight foot two inch horns of an Irish elk preserved in peat. The specimen, dating from a distant era, remains in remarkable condition despite unknown extinction timing. Ireland is identified as the elk’s likely homeland.
London Health recommends letting celery soak in lightly salted water for at least an hour before serving to improve crispness. This method enhances texture and flavor by firming the stalks through brief brining.
Advice from the Chicago Journal on cosmetic powder. It urges choosing a quality finely bolted powder with disinfectant properties, applying cold cream before weather exposure, and removing powder nightly with a soap suds bath.
Deep breathing may reduce abdominal size and facial skin should be treated delicately like fine china. Apply glycerin before poultices to prevent particles sticking. Do not misuse eyes or create wrinkles. If shoes are too large, add velvet to the heel. For a crushed finger, soak in hot water and note home remedies for indigestion with glycerin and water. Hands should be massaged nightly with olive oil and loose suede gloves worn. fingertips trimmed with holes in the palm.
Learn to craft theater bags as gifts using gray white or black fabrics with bead work. Constructed on both sides with a bead fringe, the design features opulent spangles beads and brocade or tapestry accents. Colors vary with silk and metal finishes to suit gray black or yellow themes.
Glass candlesticks are in demand as pressed glass sells at low prices while cut glass remains affordable. Many dislike brass for cleaning and touch, preferring glass for its beauty on dining tables. The trend calls it a growing glass age with glass shelves and even bathrooms embracing heavy glass.
A recipe for a furniture polish using equal parts beeswax and white wax shaved fine and mixed with spirits of turpentine. The paste is rubbed onto furniture with a woolen cloth and then polished with a larger cloth, with a note that it also works well on floors.
The article notes that ladies will wear waistcoats or vests this season with orange velvet and brown embroidery. It mentions that the artistic woman will choose particularly pretty designs and references the western June style.
A fragment notes an author Elson and scriptural reference to Numbers chapter 14. The text hints at commentary on authority and religious verse. No other clear names, dates, places, or events are readable in the snippet.
In a night of camp unrest, Caleb learns leaders plot to return to Egypt. Caleb and Joshua confront the mob, Moses and Aaron plead with the crowd, and the Cloud of the Lord intervenes, killing ten spies and pronouncing forty years of wanderings for the murmuring generation.
Sermonette warns against lost opportunity and presuming to force God’s door. It contrasts Israel’s faithlessness with personal repentance, urging humility to follow the Lord through wilderness discipline toward the promised land. It notes how faith sees victory while unbelief doubts.
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