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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1915
Page
2
Readable fragments show times such as 12 45 4 p m 825 a m and 145 p m. The entry records unlabeled daily times, suggesting a schedule notice or event timetable with multiple moments listed without context.
The article explains the delicate process of making high explosives from cellulose nitration of cotton waste. It notes use of 71 percent sulphuric acid, 21 percent nitric acid, and 8 percent water, repeated washing, pulping, and molding to achieve roughly eleven nitrate units per cellulose quadruple molecule and nitrogen content around 12.93 to 13.05 percent. Uniform cellulose grade and exact chemical purity are essential.
In Leslie's W E B Aughinbaungh describes India's diverse religions and severe literacy gaps. He notes Buddhists avoid meat and medicines of animal origin, Hindus and Muslims resist certain ingredients, and many die for beliefs rather than undergo dismembering surgery or take prophylactics. He cites cattle and sugar trade facts and a Poona editor's refusal of ads.
A physician explains that seeing stars after a head blow comes from a phosphorescent glow in the eye. Blood vessel pressure on the retina can create total darkness or a faint blue light that reveals imagined forms. The so called stars thus have a basis in physiological reaction.
The Tibetan penal code punishes murder with fines scaled to the slain’s importance and theft with fines from seven to one hundred times the stolen value. The harborer of a thief is deemed a worse criminal than the thief. Ordeals by fire and boiling water test innocence. Lamas avoid death but master torture.
A gushing young person extols Meredith Browning and Henry James, with Little Binks agreeing. The dialogue likens reading to sending the mind to a gymnasium, noting whether the works are read in the original.
A joke from the Indianapolis Star features a salesman offering Rip Van Winkle rugs with an unusually long ups and a prospective buyer asking why they are so. The gag riffs on a pun about length and sound.
A fragment cites The Outlet and a Cleveland Leader line about teaching how we hear things and a mother passing secrets at a bridge club, implying a playful domestic exchange and social gathering. The text references a character Clarence and a Pa instructing secrecy.
A compact rephrasing of Cicero’s maxim that values the sharp and the worthy, underscoring the contrast between worldly prowess and moral merit.
Description of Persian travel forms contrasting puluki, kejerab, kejevah, and especially the takhtiravan. The latter is a luxury sedan chair on mules with a mattress, windows, and attendants, used by princes and officials. The caravan includes pipe bearers, water bottles, charcoal, and a tea luncheon setup along the road, per Lieutenant Colonel A. Hleinicke.
The United States Geological Survey estimates the Rock Springs coal field in Wyoming holds over 142 billion tons within 3000 feet of the surface and beds at least two and a half feet thick. Fossil palms figs and magnolias found in the coal beds show the region once had swampy conditions and a Florida like climate.
The term Panama derives from a Caribbean word meaning mudfish, reflecting the abundance of the species around the isthmus. This explanation highlights language origin tied to local fauna and geography.
An admirer wrote to Lowell requesting his autograph and saying he would be obliged. The reply corrected the usage noting that one should say I should be obliged and have done with it. The lesson quoted: if you would be obliged, be obliged and oblige yours truly James Russell Lowell.
A quotation urging young people to pursue higher aims beyond mere pleasure and frivolity. It frames work as a means to noble ends and real existence, citing E. H. Chapin as the source and warning against chasing gaudy distractions.
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