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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1921
Page
4
A periodical summary outlining problems, measures, and events relevant to women as mothers, home makers, and citizens. It highlights social reforms, domestic concerns, and civic participation shaping women's roles in the home and broader community.
A brief editorial note emphasizes aligning actions with grand ideas to pave the way for significant achievements. It underscores the value of ambitious thinking and disciplined effort in pursuing meaningful goals.
France faces a notorious case as a man accused of murdering four teen women he courted. Despite brutal crimes including body burnings, he attracts letters of condolence and even a private secretary, prompting critique of women’s sympathy and public judgment amid national disgust.
Indiana Federation of Labor at its annual convention adopted a resolution urging Congress to revoke the American Legion charter. The group argues the Legion is antagonistic to organized labor, highlighting a growing split between ex service members and labor. It notes the Legion’s public sympathy and wartime honors contrast with labor’s sacrifices and postwar losses.
In Boston, a grim scene reopens the old-time slave market metaphor as ex-service men, hungry and jobless, are auctioned like enslaved workers for a limited time. Most receive only board and lodging, mirroring southern slavery, with many desperate for food and shelter this winter.
A European commentary notes regional wage disputes linked to the price of wives. In East Africa natives resist wage cuts while demanding marriageable woman pricing remain above pre war levels, and Britain and Liberia recently fixed a wife price at about twenty dollars, illustrating democracy’s impact on womanhood.
Miss Helen Dingram, a New York schoolteacher, sparks a new clash in Kentucky mountains as women and mothers battle moonshiners supplying whisky to local men. The women mobilize, sending schoolchildren to search the hollows, uncovering about twenty stills and turning them over to authorities.
Authorities report six women seized possession of the liquor, destroying all moonshine found. One woman was threatened with death if raids continued but declared she would rather be dead than allow further drinking. Miss Dingham confirms raids will persist until all stills are destroyed.
Denver women organize a boycott of long skirts in response to Paris mandates. They claim short skirts offer greater freedom of movement and health, slogan declaring Only women with ugly legs wear long skirts. Many drivers rally to the insurgents as fall fashion faces resistance.
George H. Carter, public printer, names Mrs. Josephine G. Adams, Miss Martha Freeham, and Miss Mary T. Spalding to senior roles in documents, day proof, and bindery sewing. First time women hold such posts. Tate noted as secretary in trusted position. Also highlights Miss Sarah Sheridan’s rise to VP and GM at Detroit Edison after fifteen years in sales, plus Anne Vaughn Hyatt as a sculptor earning over 25 000 dollars a year and Mrs. Alice M. Dexter as the sole female operator of a moving picture machine in Massachusetts.
The piece argues parents should prioritize long term development of self control and reason in children over immediate aims. It urges nurturing reason from age six onward as the key to shaping conduct and forming future character, warning against short sighted focus on present mischief or tasks.
The piece argues the mother is the child’s chief model shaping behavior and future outcomes. It stresses that a mother’s daily actions influence a child’s moral development, from birth, with impressions shaping tendencies toward crime or virtue. It questions how perfection in maternal guidance could reduce criminality and misguidance among youth.
Housewife notes Mash the grapes well to remove skins and juice. Cook the juice in a preserving kettle until extracted, strain through colander then flannel bag while hot. For each pint of juice add one pound sugar and boil at least thirty minutes. Test on cold plate. Add lemon juice or apple pectin to stiffen if desired.
Cream half cup shortening with one cup sugar and one beaten egg. Stir in half cup milk and vanilla. Add salt and four teaspoons baking powder to three and a half cups flour. Roll thin, cut, and fill cookies with raisin fig filling. Bake until done.
This note explains a method to can grapes by extracting pulp from skins, boiling pulp until seeds loosen, boiling skins separately, then mixing with water, sieving, and adding sugar. Boil till thick and can in the usual way, using one coffee cupful of sugar per quart.
A housewife covered her kitchen table with zinc at $1.25 but says its value is many times the cost. It resists hot kettles and dishes better than bare wood, cleans quickly with ammonia or scouring powder, and salt with warm vinegar restores its freshness.
A cookbook note describes baking banana shortcakes the size of breakfast plates then splitting them to layer sliced bananas with sugar before serving after chilling. It also advises adding baking powder to pie crust to prevent soggy bottoms by lifting the crust above fruit juices, keeping it dry and crisp.
To soften brushes with dried paint place in vine gar and boil then stand to soften and rinse. Vaseline stains lift with turpentine but do not boil first to avoid setting the stain. Floor wax best made from equal parts beeswax paraffin and turpentine for a simple polish.
A horse theft leads to a mob hanging a man who is later proven innocent. One cowboy visits the widow, apologizes, and explains the error, showing a rare act of restraint and accountability in frontier justice.
A Teatherneck excerpt recounts a widow learning her husband was hanged by mistake when a cowboy delivering the news twists his hat to cover an awkward moment and jokes that the situation is a grim punchline for them both.
A Shawnee dispatch reports 300 Klansmen marching in regalia through Shawnee and Tecumseh, seizing a night editor and delivering a warning note. Banners threaten action against lawbreakers, while the procession promotes anti bootlegger messages and targets local businesses, lawyers, and judges.
A fragmented classified item advertises a niece home on the bayfront with deals from Hink's Boot Shop and Dr F L Snell dentist Neubauer Building. It lists taxi call numbers and local business references in a terse shopping notice.
Brief compilation lists several businesses including Electric Shop one block east of the American Bank, Hink's Boot Shop with the slogan No place like home, Sidney Lumber Co, Dr M E Pettibone dentist. Mentions Meth teal block, Reem 5-6, Phene 419.
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