28 Jul 1899
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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1899
Page
1
The U P plans to double track the Omaha to Ogden route to handle rising traffic. This expansion reflects growing business demands and aims to improve service capacity and speed.
An exchange argues truth is mighty but notes that experience shows some liars achieve significant success. The comment contrasts idealism with real-world deception and suggests skepticism about honesty's impact.
The assistant secretary of the treasury in Washington said a conservative estimate places Klondike gold production this summer at about 18 million dollars.
The First Nebraska regiment, returning from the Philippines, was due in San Francisco today but delayed by a slight breakage in the Hancock’s machinery.
Mrs Stotsenberg wife of the Nebraska colonel killed by the Filipinos was aboard a ship when the event occurred and did not learn of her husband’s death for thirty days. The report notes the delay and the personal impact on the grieving widow.
Corporal Frank Semple of the Twentieth Kansas is wounded in the head while swimming the Marilao River with Funston. His sister Jennie returns to the Semple farm fifteen miles east of Wichita to hold the home front, keeping the farm running and awaiting his safe homecoming.
Prof Lawrence Bruner of the state university says the kissing bug scare is not new but an old insect misnamed. He traces the myth to Washington and notes bites can require hospital care in severe cases. He finds no truth in Philippines origin and cites South American bite fatalities as context.
The document lists daily pay: Admiral Dewey $37.50, President McKinley $131, Cabinet officers and VP and Speaker $22.22, Senators and Congressmen $138.90, Chief Justice $29.00. It reflects historical compensation levels for U.S. government leaders.
Mary Alden, fifteen, lived away from railroads until her father took a job in a great railroad company’s machine shops at G. She witnessed a yard disconnection scene where a worker urged another to cut a train and throw the head end down, causing her to faint.
A restaurant owner recounts how his son inspired him to leave the liquor trade. After a school discussion where peers condemn liquor as the meanest business, the father resolves to abandon it, and the boy helps run a restaurant instead.
The text traces sugar from ancient China and India to Greece by 325 BC, notes Galen using sugar medicinally, and credits Arabs with inventing refining, later brought to Italy by a Venetian merchant. It also mentions tobacco’s introduction from Virginia to England.
David Rankin of Taikio Missouri started with a horse sold for 25 dollars, reinvested in calves, and bought an eighty acre farm. Now 74, he is tall and athletic with grey hair and blue eyes and owns 23,000 acres valued at 50 to 100 dollars per acre.
The new law requires every fall candidate to maintain accounts and report all campaign outlays. It bans entertainment for elector meetings before elections and prohibits gifts or refreshments, with fines up to 50 dollars or six months in prison. Personal expenses are allowed up to set limits based on voter count, but exceeding limits makes the election void. Traveling expenses are not restricted by this section.
A Nebraska editor argues marriage costs and the value of a practical partner. He rebukes the idea of marrying for money and praises a wife who shares finances, works, and economizes, while acknowledging the influence of upbringing on a couple’s life.
The piece shares striking data on body size and weight, brain mass, blood flow, nerve counts, and movement speeds. It notes a tall man is rarer than a short man, average weights for genders, brain weights, blood circulation distances, and compares limb strength and movement speeds with curious estimates.
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