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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1918
Page
12
Government wartime policy ends routine time inquiries by telephone in Sidney. Operators will not give the time or unrelated information to conserve lines and equipment for essential service. Morning wakeup calls decline as demand grows for military and training camp communications.
Eight year old Eleanor teased at dinner by answering that she likes all kinds of beans including green beans navy beans and human beans. The remark showcases a playful mispronunciation turning a simple question into a humorous line.
Dear Priend Gapen Donamtoup here. The letter shares life at the front with trench rats and cooties, air combat, church services, and soldiers Hahler Otter and Hahier. It notes fearlessness of the Telegraph front-line dispatch and ends with regards from Tam Prindel of SD Co. K 855th Infantry, American Expeditionary Forces.
The Boston Globe recalls James Gordon Bennett editor of the New York Herald who once ordered nightly reports from a man watching a lion’s jaws for 100 performances. The punchline arrives when the reporter finally took a night off and the lion bit. Also note an ad urging battery testing at Sidney Battery Station on West Lincoln Way.
Dr Pass departs the city to entrain for camp in October and recalls the uncle of his mother a soldier of fortune who served in the West and on the world’s borders. He was wounded, sent to England, and died in London after an American entry into the war. The piece muses on fate and inevitability amid wartime reminiscence and then shifts to a local shoe shop discount teaser.
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