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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1894
Page
6
A humorous verse recalls a Norwich wind that ripped the word Female from the Vassar College sign, leaving a playful scene of the college’s name evolving in the town lore. The spoof laments the loss of the word Female from the sign and imagines the campus life continuing with wit. The piece ends with a cheeky nod to Vassar College girls.
Robert narrates his escape from James Cromwell after Cromwell tries to kill him. Major Woodley suspects Cromwell acted for Paul Morton and plans to learn more in New York. Cromwell fears a ghost and suffers a nightmare while Robert slips away to continue his covert pursuit of the ward’s fate.
After two days with no news of Robert, James Cromwell leaves for New York seeking the proof to claim a 310000 reward. He stays at a hotel where Robert and Major Woodley are lodged in adjacent rooms, while Cromwell fears exposure as guilt haunts him.
Paul Morton sits in his library pondering a murder plot tied to his ward's supposed death and a large estate. Cromwell arrives, the two men exchange guilty glances, each recognizing the other as a possible murderer in a web of selfish motives.
A Nottinghamshire village on the River Trent features a unique ferry where Liftenians may cross for free if they give the ferryman and his dog their Christmas dinner, a custom tied to yearly festivities. The piece also notes the cultivation of mistletoe and how the parasitic plant harms host trees, shaping Christmas trade across the channel as land values and apple tree worth rise.
Farmers in Maryland and Delaware reluctantly abandon the idea of competing with the West in wheat and corn and foresee their land becoming a market garden for Atlantic cities. An old-fashioned belief in Delaware and the Eastern Shore favors large sixty-acre fields over small vegetable plots, contrasting with the peasant farming model of Europe.
John Thacker of Waterford Virginia happened upon an unclaimed baggage sale in Cincinnati and bought a trunk containing items belonging to a relative missing for years. The discovery sparked a reunion as the family finally connected after years apart.
A brief, fragmentary dialogue contrasts a teacher and Bright Boy discussing the writing of national songs and lawmaking. It mentions Congress members dying poor and the composer of After the Ball earning a large fortune, then breaks off at a name Veachor.
An article describes strict training routines at Princeton Yale and Harvard noting the central rule is fidelity to practice. It covers summer training near the coast with rhythm meals water discipline and gradual workload, plus the rise of coachable athletes over stubborn nontrainers. It also notes improved dietary freedoms and mental stamina as key to lasting performance.
A North American Review piece recounts Baron Haussmann using Washington DC as a blueprint for Paris renovations ordered by Napoleon III. L'Enfant’s earlier design for the U.S. capital allegedly influenced Parisian layouts, mirroring Royal park expansions and grand avenues across both cities.
MCEiffel claims one death per 1,009,000 francs in engineering projects. He notes the Eiffel tower cost six and a half million francs with four lives lost, while the Forth bridge at 42 million francs saw fifty five workers die.
A stranger in a Texas town learns a man jailed for theft has no place to stay as the sheriff claims the only bed in jail. The tale presents a banks of trouble and local grit from Texas Siftings.
A writer in the American Architect shows government buildings cost from sixty to seventy percent more than similar private projects and take more than three times as long to complete.
A collection of brief, humorous social vignettes and overheard conversations. Topics range from Long hair habits and barbering to marital quarrels and social pretenses. A contrast of domestic banter, flirtation, and wartime reflections closes with a somber note on war’s cruelty.
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