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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1922
Page
16
A guide on improving school lunches and preserving cabbage storage. The article argues hot lunches improve nutrition and student welfare, suggests varied fruit and nut additions, and notes practical methods to store cabbage in barrels or trenches with soil layering to prevent freezing. It emphasizes timely storage from October to November and the need for fresh air and attractive meals.
Sweet potatoes must be mature dried and handled with care, packed separately in paper and placed in a ventilated room at about 50 to 60 degrees Fahrenheit. Tops should be cut if frost threatens. Winter squashes like Hubbard and pie pumpkins store well with stems on and cool racks or shelves for ventilation.
Describes using firm red tomatoes to make preserves with scalding, peeling, seeding removal, layering with sugar in a crock, morning cooking until thick, and sealing hot. Notes 260000 farm families began or changed home gardens in 1921 due to agricultural extension demonstrations reported to USDA.
Arthur Schuler of Mullen suffered a broken leg after being thrown by a wild steer at the Ogallala rundup and Keith county fair, an incident reported by the World Herald.
A disaster at Scotts Bluff county fair half mile saddle race left 18 year old Myron Sawyer paralyzed from the hips after vertebrae were fractured. Several riders were injured as 17 horses collapsed on the final turn causing a chaotic pile up. Bayard and Mitchell reports note others escaped serious harm with various injuries.
A Sunday prairie fire southwest of Ainsworth burned about two miles wide and ten miles long before being subdued. It consumed roughly 25 tons of hay, the Kimball sod house remains, the old Ramecy Chapel, and uncut hay. A worker lighting a cigarette is said to have started the blaze as wind stayed light. The fire spread rapidly due to extreme dryness. some cedar trees and a grove were killed. The State Journal notes the unusually severe blaze.
D Strang of Washington, representing the information bureau for Commissioner Haynes, spoke in Omaha after a conference with Rohrer, the state prohibition officer. He warned that drinkers rely on bootleggers more than their wives, who might divorce over meals served with vile mash. He cited raids finding vermin and filth in mash and noted bootleg whisky is often made in rusted stills, urging safety before consumption.
The piece lambasts fuel control for assuming a fixed shortage and rationing coal in dribs. It argues profiteering brokers hold coal, national power fails to curb them, and workers face distress while other interests receive attention. It condemns government excess yet ineffectual oversight.
Todden Lodden, 38, Sioux City Iowa, a Chambers Construction crew member, died when trench sheeting failed during sewer main excavation near Grand Island. Rescuers freed two other Grand Island laborers E Meyen and J Martini after two additional cave-ins, but Todden remained buried for about 40 minutes without revival.
Doctor Franklin, who contracted blood poison from a knife cut on the first finger of his right hand after a surgical operation, is not recovering as well as earlier reports indicated. A telegram to his father Cash Franklin of McGrew and a later phone to O E Adcock say he will lose the finger, not his life, with his condition steadily weakening since Saturday.
A three vehicle crash occurred on Humboldt street in front of Kramer's grocery and the Home State bank. Mrs Frank Parr driving west, Albert Hunzeker driving the city bus south turned east to avoid a truck and collided head on with Mrs Péri's car. The delivery team was knocked down with only severe shock to Mrs Port. The State Journal reports no serious injuries.
Joe Gibbon aged workman for the Union Pacific on a Vroman yard crew collapsed from heart failure about noon on Monday and died within ten minutes. He was born in Russia and belonged to the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way and Railway Shop Employees in Omaha. His remains were taken to Erb Brothers undertaking rooms and relatives notified. he has a sister in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
A Ford coupe rolled over five miles west of Falls City late Monday night. Birdsley, Victor Pryce Birdsley, and Reuben Bryant narrowly escaped serious injury. Birdsley was knocked unconscious with a slight concussion. the other two occupants were uninjured. A physician treated him after several hours.
Paul Dunn of Bloomington aged 23 husband of four months was killed when his car skidded on a turn one mile west of Franklin and turned a double somersault. Will Dunn the driver was uninjured but Paul Dunn died from a broken neck as the body was thrown against the bank. Driver appeared intoxicated.
Briggs 37 an employee at the Columbus Planing Mill died Thursday morning from injuries after his Ford started forward while he was cranking the engine. He released gears, gave the crank another spin, and the car lurched, knocking him down and running him over, causing fatal internal injuries.
Four year old Glen Wittenburg of Blue Springs was struck in the eye by a glass shard when a door shattered during a play session. He was taken to Mennonite hospital in Beatrice. doctors expect the eye sight to be saved though the eye will remain weak.
The five year old daughter of Mr and Mrs John Newport twelve miles south of Trenton was bitten on the foot by a snake Monday morning after reaching the school house. Miss Mildred Hemingson Ludell carried the child half a mile to a neighbor where a chicken was placed on the wound. The child then went to Trenton for medical care and was saved. In the afternoon Charley Cooper crawled under the school floor and killed the rattler parenthetical text omitted.
Miss Mabel Moore of Omaha, fiancée of William F. White, arrived on the noon train Thursday to take charge of his body after his car wrecked through a rail on a bridge east of Spalding. They were to be married soon. She took the body to Omaha to await instructions from White's mother in Brooklyn.
A New York writer and auto owner, visiting Nebraska, was killed when his car left Higgins hill two miles east of Spalding and rolled into a ditch at six o clock. The victim, identified by a letter in his coat pocket from his Brooklyn mother, died instantly from a broken neck and the body was brought to Spalding for burial.
WW Wallace and George Leibert of this city were seriously hurt when their racing car crashed into a cement culvert about three miles southeast of town. Wallace suffered a compound fracture of the left ankle, a crushed shoulder, and facial cuts. Leibert endured a scalp wound, chin gash, and facial bruises. The crash occurred while attempting a left turn at around 65 mph, amid dust and an obstructed view. Both men were taken to J. D. Wilson hospital. Wallace had prior leg injuries from a recent race.
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