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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1915
Page
2
Through trains No 01 and 02 will skip local stops between Sidney and Bridgeport and Sidney and Sterling. Local daily extra except Sunday carries passengers with sleeping dining and reclining chair cars. Tickets and baggage checked to any point in the United States or Canada. For details contact MR SHIPMAN, Agent or Col WAKELEY, General Passenger Agent, Omaha Nebraska.
A visitor posing as a skilled pianist enters a home, reads music at sight, sits at the piano, and begins pounding the keys with little care for timing. She notices the young daughter watching, presses the loud pedal, raises her hands, and finishes with a flourish before smugly smirking at the child. The girl fires back with a blunt quip that she cannot play it either. The story is attributed to Woman's Home Companion.
Fragmentary note argues moisture from shade worsens road surfaces after rain. Mentions John Deere Binder and calls for funding and construction improvements. bidder Bidney urged to assess and compare binders as best for surface stability.
Union Stock Yards South Omaha reports a large cattle run of about 7 500 head with mixed bidding. Prices for beef and yearlings show steady to slightly higher values, hogs around steady to lower, and sheep and lambs at peak receipts with lambs steady to Monday and ewes and feeders quoted at various levels.
The College of Agriculture cautions that much of the corn crop may not mature and recommends making silage or fodder this season. Due to hail damage in some areas, silage could be more profitable. The University Farm announces the School of Agriculture will admit entrants age 15 and up starting October 11 1915, allowing eighth graders to enroll directly.
A cross of Turkey Red and Big Frame wheat at the Agricultural Experiment Station Nebraska shows a distinct variety. It yields about 2 percent more than Turkey Red over four years, ripens early, resists lodging, and could aid Nebraska’s drier wheat regions if further tested statewide.
East ern Nebraska farm receipts for 1914 averaged 2989 dollars per farm with 874 dollars from natural yearly increase in live stock feed and crops held for sale. The gain in young stock accounts for about half of this source. The small cash receipts discourage farmers who do not manage farm business closely. One farmer deeded he was.
The text notes that returns show faster progress than expected before returning to farming. It emphasizes the ease of determining total receipts with annual inventories and farm sales records. In the Farm Management Survey Work the Extension service will distribute inventory blanks and farm record books for next year, aligned with Nebraska farmers who excel at practical record keeping.
Proof that the entire main American battleship fleet of twenty one ships could pass the Panama Canal in one day is shown by the naval academy practice squadron moving through the canal locks en route to and from the Panama Pacific Exposition. The demonstration underscored the canal’s capacity to handle large naval transits and highlighted coordination among the four divisions and their flagship.
Milford Martin of Murphysboro Illinois aged twenty requests Sheriff White to allow him to pull the trap release when the black inmate is hanged on October eighteenth. The sheriff hinted approval may be granted.
Mrs Schroeder of Washington Ave Sidney confirms prior testimony on Doans Kidney Pills. She suffered back pain dizziness and inability to stoop before using the remedy. One box stopped the back pain and she says the cure has been permanent. Price 50c at all dealers Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
A simulated coastal barrage at Fort Totten fires eighteen 709 pound mortars toward a distant target 13 000 yards off shore. From Sands Point observers relay data by telephone, while artillery crews in the gun pits execute the commands under a nearby officer.
The department of commerce reports a record rise in American foreign trade shipping for the year ended June 30. A total of 2,768 ships totaling 1,818,775 gross tons were registered, up 363 ships and 737,623 tons, with most gains from the new American registry law.
M T Hiatt and H M Uttley appeal a Holt County case to the Supreme Court from a district court judgment. They seek to compel county supervisors to require state officers to pay quarterly office fees to the county treasurer. They allege fees funded excess staff and improper accounting of county property sale funds.
At the Nebraska exposition week in Lincoln. Commissioner Wright and Chief of Police Andes mark danger zones and place signs at principal street crossings to show how far automobiles may go and no farther.
The passage urges studying life’s evils like a physician studies disease to uncover that suffering stems from lack of human cohesion. By understanding others, people may find corporate happiness. Simple acts of pity affection and love provide material for contentment and peace rather than misery.
The text notes two moisture extremes to avoid in roadmaking. Dry soil crumbles to dust, while overly wet soil becomes mud, stressing the need to balance moisture for a stable roadbed.
Positive proof of good times and strong advertising value in The Sidney Telegraph as Calumet Baking Powder Co. renews a large space contract. The company emphasizes purity, wholesomeness, economy, and a new character artist campaign to explain baking results to households and children.
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