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Newspaper
The Sidney Republican
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1902
Page
5
Moberly Phillips, a leading bank note collector, displayed rare notes at the Institute of Bankers. Highlights included a green Mafeking siege note numbered 766 dated March 1900 and a Gordon era currency note with Arabic script from besieged Khartoum.
The writer describes overseers circulating small payment notes for aiding the poor at the Birmingham workhouse. Notes valued at eight shillings six pence or four five shilling notes were exchanged, often bearing Charity nursing pictures. A Scotch £12 note dated 1731 was discussed, with the issuing bank offering to change it, though a collector kept the antique paper. A tiny 2x2 3/8 inch card noted two pence, printed on one side and the promise to pay two pence on demand by New York City in 1790.
Medical statisticians report a steady rise in suicide over fifty years up to 200 percent. Seasons May to August show peak rates while winter months bring minimums. Geographic and urban factors influence rates with higher suburban and small town figures. women account for a growing share, linked to alcohol.
An old reporter recalls earthquake shock as the most terrible, vivid experience. He compares it to harrowing crises from fires and gunfights, detailing the gradual yet immense fear as ground shivers and then steadies, leaving him introspective on time and balance. The piece closes with a reflective note on sorrow.
The Northwestern Christian Advocate notes that central Africa had no civilized town when Livingstone died. Living stonia gains electricity funded by about $20,000 for machinery and transport. It will light homes schools and churches using river falls to power a mill by day and provide night illumination, a hoped for civilizing influence.
A well known English dean misplaced his umbrella and suspected theft. He used the incident in a sermon at the cathedral to warn about misdeeds. The next morning he discovered his umbrella plus forty five others left where he had planned to drop his own over the wall.
London’s smoke problem may not be solved by laws but by shifts to gas and electricity. Gas for cooking and heating could cut domestic smoke while future electric lighting may replace illuminating gas. Centralized power distribution could render chimneys obsolete, ushering cleaner air in London. Cassier’s Magazine notes these trends as likely developments.
In 1853 the first Baptist service in the Santa Clara region was under an oak. The church site used the same tree’s lumber, cut at twenty five feet high, with the stump hollowed to form the tower. A tall steeple rose and the building measures thirty by seventy feet, famed as a show place.
Scientific note proclaims petrolteum superior to coal for fuel, ensuring continued energy. The piece also touts Hoster’s Stomach Bitters as a universal remedy for dyspepsia indigestion constipation malaria fever and age, urging readers not to fail trying it.
The Empress of Japan has driven women’s emancipation by reforming education and pushing a university for women in Tokyo next year. She ended the custom of blackening teeth in the 1870s and advocated European dress for greater respect, notes Western observers. South African ostrich farms now exceed 300,000 birds.
An advertisement touts Earliest Russian Millet as a hay substitute, claiming 5 to 8 tons of rich hay per acre and urging planting to avoid shortages. It lists prices per 100 or 190 pounds, freight details, and promotes W Lancewood with a noted tensile strength of 25,000 pounds for a one inch square fencewood sample.
A historical ad notes PUTNAM FACELESS DYES as an easy to use soap substitute priced at 10u per package with no muss. It includes a vignette about a distressed mother and a boy named James, who jokes strangely about a son’s travel to Texas, underscoring a curious, dated exchange.
Mrs Hertha Fremont of Des Moines Illinois announces a new bed bug killer that allegedly clears a house of all bugs. She offers a large sample for 150 including postage, and invites readers to send for the treatment. The brief, satirical closing notes a family exchange about who is married and who is the mother.
A March April Santa Fe sale offers colonist tickets from Denver Colorado Springs or Pueblo to California for 25 dollars with full details via J P Liall Santa Fe Denver. Interleaved are brief quips and ads noting a millionairess marriage proposal, a lampoon line about a crime against glasses, and patent nostrums with addresses in Minneapolis Philadelphia and brief witticisms about Diogenes and hobo life.
Mrs. Pinkham recounts two years of constant pelvic pain after marriage. She says doctors diagnosed a turned womb and treated her, but relief was not achieved. The article notes the medical uncertainty in treating gynecological inflammation at the time.
A 19th century advertisement excerpt touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash with a customer testimonial from Mrs Pauline Judson of Brooklyn praising relief from illness. The notice warns the testimonial as not genuine and promotes free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts alongside a separate, unrelated personal marriage appeal from a St Louis, Missouri writer.
Uncle Joe Cannon, dubbed Watch Dog of the Treasury after Holman’s passing, challenged a colleague during a heated Nicaragua canal bill debate. After a bold assertion he cried, If I am wrong, who will correct me. Hepburn docked a quick retort and sat down as the chamber roared with laughter.
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