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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1921
Page
15
Dalton and surrounding towns figure in a flood of local notes. Many residents visit Sidney and county seats, including Carl Lessig L. Y. Minor Ollie Kilgore James H Thompson and J H Perkins. Several births announced: a daughter to Roy Call September 7 and a son to Delbert Rudy September 19 1921.
Mrs. B. F. Frazey and her daughter Miss Ila Grosvenor arrived from Cheyenne on Thursday evening and are visiting Mrs. Frazey's brother, Charles.
Miss Freda Hammer visits her mother in Davison County while Anna Mc Fadden tours local schools. Arthur Aurich rents the James McNulty farm, Dr. D. Andrews and Dr. H. W. Kositzky stop nearby, and Bell Telephone manager FE Boydston attends Alliance matters. Fred Livingston and sons plan a duck pond outing near Broadwater.
Miss Della Kirkham arrived back Saturday night from a trip to southern Colorado where she enjoyed a splendid time. She paused in Denver on the way home for a few days.
A S Bardy and wife left Sundar for Lincoln and Omaha to visit relatives and make purchases. County Agent N S Scott spent Tuesday in Bridgeport judging Morrill county fair products, a task made difficult by a shortage of judges. Reverend and Mrs Boelling and two children returned Monday from Ogallala after a two week visit with Mrs Boelling's relatives.
The piece muses on employment, parenting energy, and fiction craft. It notes viewing a jobless man, the value of allowing children to explore innocently, and the idea that a single well-raised child may avoid spoiling. It also critiques novels and a defender’s remark about a girl’s reputation.
A sequence of brief self admissions from diverse townspeople includes a young girl claiming Sidney’s beauty, a mature woman boasting the town’s finest figure, a man who admits his wealth loss and business prowess, a citizen recalling a poker night hat and shirt mishap, a profane expert pledging to seek religion, and a man delaying debt payment until funds arrive.
A man in town is praised for a kind temperament yet faces a grim burden as his wife bears the day’s heat of killing surplus kittens and poultry. He ferociously eats the chicken’s meat, leaving only the neck and gizzard for his wife, who fears beheading poultry and seeks an easier way as a three cornered hole looms.
The author warns of rough weather in business with more failures in coming months, including large and small firms. Many bankrupt entities may have already failed without public notice, but the overall national economy may improve next year as weakened firms reduce and restart. Farmers face deflationary pain but eventual price increases or adjustments are expected.
Mr and Mrs H H Fuller completed a long auto trip along a new route into northern Colorado eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska. They noted towns recovering from hard times and expressed hopeful signs of renewed prosperity. They enjoyed Lingle Wyoming gardens and uncounted watermelons musk melons and visited Northport Broadwater with the Young and Clark Fuller families before returning to Sidney.
An Exchange essay argues soul vision transcends residence and class, elevating diverse figures from Maid of Orleans to Luther and workers from plow to garret. It portrays soul as a universal driver that makes individuals fit expressions of its purpose, limited only by the soul’s power to align with greatness.
To remove iodine stains, place old cloth in a pan and light it. Let it smolder to oxidize the stain. Hold the stained fabric over the smudge until the stain fades. Then wash the material in cold water.
Laura Peaslee hosts a group of nieces and friends as Blanche Virden shares beauty secrets with Nellie Day. Nellie experiments with a beauty mask, uses a corrosive acid by mistake, blinds Deslyn Moore temporarily, and recovers. Deslyn later regains sight as Nellie and Deslyn marry, with romance and wit in a small town.
A Bos tes Transcript excerpt shows two women in a tense clubhouse exchange. One woman wonders aloud what other members truly think of her while the other warns about sharing rumors. The brief dialogue hints at social pressures within a club setting and a mutual retreat from gossip.
A digest of astronomical scale concepts explains distances and sizes in the universe. It contrasts sun and earth dimensions with a hypothetical shell and falling earth sized balls, then broadens to the speed of light and distant stars, urging awe at the astronomical scale.
A dated account discusses Moro attitudes toward women, noting belief in soullessness of women but elaborate gallantry. It highlights the Taft era visit with Alice Roosevelt and the sultan of Sulu offering marriage to the President’s daughter, Princess Alice, despite multiple wives.
The piece discusses boosting egg production by turning on electric lights in hen pens at night to wake hens for an extra meal. It compares this to the idea of delaying morning feeding, praising the ingenuity of extending the hens working day and noting the absence of a demand from dawn.
An auto type interurban car blends street car seating for 35 with a front hood housing a 50 horsepower gasoline engine. It uses an auto gear shift, shaft drive to rear wheels, air brakes, electric lights, and a hot water heating plant. The vehicle completes a 40 mile round trip in a little over two and a half hours, burning about five and a half gallons of gasoline, or one gallon per seven miles.
A fallen baseball star, wiping tears, laments not heeding a youth singing the song Take Back Your Gold. A friend consoles him in a Birmingham Age-Herald style vignette.
Doctor Copeland city health commissioner warns that housing shortages raise tuberculosis deaths. He blames insanitary conditions for disease spread and links it to moral and mental decline in the population.
In a tense scene, a girl and boy pursue a feared figure to a red house. Master Thoughtfulness confronts a monstrous woman whose ugliness masks kindness, warning her to mend. A small crying boy, gift of fruit, and a plea for understanding follow as the children learn mercy and restraint.
Fragmentary dialogue from a comic page showing Snickerzon and Snackerson debating change and money. The garbled text lacks clear names, places, or events to anchor a full news item.
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