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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1913
Page
7
A compact guide outlines elegant yet easy dishes for entertaining guests. Pineapple Puff uses pineapple and whipped cream, Mountain Dew combines cracker crumb base with lemon and milk, Krimmel Torte blends egg whites dates and walnuts, and Cod Fish a la Mode layers cod, mashed potatoes and milk baked to finish.
John A. Weeks, newly elected president of the New York Historical Society, condemned snobbishness at a Fifth Avenue club luncheon. He noted American families’ pride in records but warned snobs exist from Bowery to high society, recalling a shabby man who insists he is well born while asking for a drink.
The duchess of Lauraguais sought a rhyme for coiffe and asked Talleyrand. He replied that anything tied to a woman's head has neither rhyme nor reason, delivering the witty quip with his characteristic terseness.
Lincoln Sept 4 state tax commission held initial session at the state house adopting hearings rules for fall and winter and dividing work among five members. Chairman Grosvenor said the commission would seek suggestions from Nebraska officials citizens and corporations on changes to tax and revenue laws to be presented to the next legislature. Public hearings will be held with invitations to attend. Thompson Took Out Accident Policy. Deputy Fire Warden Paul H Thompson who vanished in Kansas City recently secured a $1000 accident policy from a Lincoln company and left a note for $25, asking if a note would affect coverage, with the policy made payable to his wife.
Ten thousand fleeces stored fifty years in a Lincolnshire granary with slanting ash poles to keep them from touching brickwork have been bought by T W Mays & Sons of Bourne Lincolnshire. The fleeces belonged to the late Sam Gooseman, a North Lincolnshire agriculturist who died last autumn. They were in splendid condition.
The territory known as German East Africa lies along the Indian Ocean between 5 and 11 degrees south latitude and reaches inland to Lake Tanganyika. It runs about 700 miles north to south and 600 miles east to west, covering roughly 384 000 square miles, about the size of Texas and New Mexico combined.
In Omaha and other Nebraska markets large quantities of corn are being purchased for shipment to Concordia Seneca and Stockton to feed cattle that will be finished quickly and sold for beef.
Thedford Nebraska September 4 Joseph Kase freight brakeman on the Alliance division of the Burlington was accidentally shot by operator W H Chase at Halsey during a grouse hunt. The discharged gun struck Kase in the hip and the wound is serious.
Fragmentary text appears to discuss an execution but lacks discernible names, places, or dates. no verifiable event or source details to summarize into a proper news item.
A diphtheria case is reported at Isaac Jones's residence north of town with the family quarantined and the child recovering well. A London Mail note describes a forthcoming Club for Men and Girl Clerks in Leeds, aimed at shop assistants and clerks, offering equal access to facilities plus a women’s exclusive lounge.
Mrs William Orvis of Clare Michigan writes that Chamberain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured her daughter from severe dysentery and that she believes it is the best medicine in the world for sale by all dealers.
In San Francisco on September 4, F Drew Caminetti began his defense for alleged violations of the Mann White Slave Act by detailing his motives for leaving his wife with a baby and fleeing with Lola Norris. Norris admits lying to shield Caminetti, while Caminetti aims to qualify his conduct, echoing the defense used by Diggs, and Mrs Caminetti testifies to add sidelights on the case.
Death toll at Wallingford remains twenty one with hospital list at seventeen as investigators from county state federal levels begin work. New Haven line tragedy sees railroad employees detained by coroner while interstate commerce commission teams observe. Wreckage along the right of way is cleared despite orders to preserve it. The Bar Harbor express rear cars were destroyed, with fires burning wreckage while burned locomotive and third Pullman are removed.
A cross-city gathering at City Hall Park urged Mayor Gaynor to run as an independent in the reelection bid. Voters from all boroughs joined a town-meeting style rally carrying banners and shovels, symbol of support for his subway work, the shovel becoming the campaign emblem.
Police search the Kansas City riverfront and riverfront quarter for Paul H. Thompson, Nebraska fire commissioner, whose bloody coat and hat were found under the Municipal wharf. Authorities consider he was slugged and robbed, not proven murdered or suicidal.
Viscount Haldane the lord high chancellor of Great Britain traveled to Montreal and visited the U S military academy at West Point arriving by sailing up the Hudson from New York aboard J P Morgan’s yacht Corsair.
Mrs B A McGough an aged New Yorker visiting Seabright New Jersey was frightened to death during a severe electrical storm that swept the northern New Jersey coast.
Newport News reports three petty officers and five sailors aboard the battleship Nebraska drowned when a launch was wrecked by a coastal hurricane. The disaster occurred as the storm swept the area, leaving the ship and crew in mourning.
Sterling resident S Diffendarfer endorses Doan's Kidney Pills with renewed faith after years of use. He cites permanent cure and relief from back misery, kidney secretions normalizing. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY sole US agents. Remember the name Van's and take no other.
J C Livoni the insurance man departed last Saturday for western Wyoming seeking relief from hay fever in what readers would recognize as the hay fever mecca.
W D Magli a Whitemound Wisconsin merchant bought a stock of Chamberlains medicines to serve customers. After receiving them he fell ill and says one small bottle of Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy was worth more than the cost of his entire stock. For sale by all dealers.
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