Rates and political notes from the era
Rates of subscription and advertising rates are listed. A report notes Louis Buechenstein’s election as Alliance mayor over L. W. Bowman, and Governor Mickey signs an anti cigarette bill with fines from fifty to one hundred dollars. A Union Pacific gasoline motor car test from Omaha to Valley exceeded schedule and will be sent to Portland for service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis Buechenstein
Alliance
L. W. Bowman
Union Pacific
Omaha Te Valley
W. R. McKeen, Jr
Portland
Bee
Bethel News Advances With New Telegraph and Local Updates
Bethel readers gain The Telegraph as a news outlet. Alfred Peterson buys a new typewriter. Mrs. A B Beard and children visit the country. Lee Stoddard finishes studies in sciences and languages. Macaroni wheat and kherson oats are tried by farmers. The school closed with a party for Miss Cromer. Bethel now has a post office with Grubber as postmaster and tri weekly mail expected. A telephone line to Potter is planned with D H Schultz, D Atkins, and Grant Brady as building committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bethel
Telegraph
Alfred Peterson
A. B. Beard
G. Brady
Potter
Lee Stoddard
West County
D. H. Shultz
D. Atkins
Grant Brady
Cheyenne County Natural Resources and Rail Links
Deputy Commissioner Bush releases Cheyenne County bulletin detailing western Wyoming geography. It notes soil quality, abundant water from North Platte and multiple creeks, climate, and prime grazing land. Agriculture includes wheat rye oats potatoes with irrigation producing alfalfa, stock raising, hog farming. mineral absence but building stone and tripoli present. rail lines Union Pacific and Burlington are key. land available under Kinkaid homestead law with sales from one dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bush
Bulletin of State Bureau of Labor and Industrial Statistics
Cheyenne
Wyoming
North Platte
Cheyenne County
Timothy
Sclower
Tripoli
Union Pacific
Sidney
Missouri
Denver
Kinkaid
One-Way Rates From Missouri River Terminals 1905
Daily from March to May 15 1905 Union Pacific offers one way tickets from Missouri River Terminals Council Bluffs to Kansas City at various prices. Fares include 20 to Ogden Salt Lake City 22 50 to Spokane Wenatchee 25 to Huntington Namipa 0 0 to Tacoma Seattle Portland 25 to Vancouver Victoria 25 to Ashland Astoria via Portland 25 to San Francisco Los Angeles San Diego. Through tourist car service daily between Missouri River and Pacific Coast double berth 575. For full information contact W W Aldridge Agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific
Missouri River
Council Bluffs
Kansas City
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Butte
Helena
Mont
Spokane
Wenatchee
Wash
Tacoma
Seattle
Portland
Vancouver
Victoria
Ashland
Astoria
Oregon
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
California
Washington
Montana
Utah
Idaho Pointe
Pacific Coast
Addrena
W. W. Aldridge
A Postal-Worker Cipher Lets a Wall Street Plan Survive
A Brooklyn Eagle tale notes a Wall Street financier wiring consolidation plans from Chicago. Facing time and no cipher, he split a plain English message between Postal and Western Union and sent half by each. A second message instructed partners to read both together by alternating words. The device succeeded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wallstreet
Brooklyn Eagle
High Finance
Chicago
New York
Wall Street
Odd Yarborough Hand Creates Six Trick Whist Challenge
A whist hand labeled yarborough appears vastly strong with hearts as trumps and a dealer holding seven hearts and six clubs. The scenario shows only six tricks possible even with expert play, as the partner's and other players render the hand unbreakable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore Sun
Canterbury Whipping Day Tradition Among Historic Schools
Canterbury school in England practiced an annual whipping day where all round birching targeted boys for general improvement rather than any fault. The belief that corporal punishment benefits discipline appeared in medieval scholastic works and was endorsed by renowned head masters from Dean Colet to Dr Keate. Erasmus and Charles Lamb reportedly noted flogging as common in their times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canterbury School
England
Ss Green
Canterbury
Dean Colet
Keate
Erasmus
Charles Lamb
Christ's Hospital
Gifted Amateur Card Trick Ends With Rabbit Escape
A description of a stage illusion where a deck is burned then transformed into a rabbit and vanishes. Giles asks to name the selected card, with Punch cited as the response. The piece also recalls a Trinity College sermon and a witty exchange about ambition and lazy genius in Philadelphia Ledger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giles
Luther
Trinity College
Hartford, Conn
Eather
Haman
Mordecai
Philadelphia Ledger
Quoted Satires on Marriage and Idleness
A jury of quips contrasts marriage with cloth care and laundry in light verse. The lines compare a husband’s fixer status to washing and starch, while a nervy woman’s proposal nerves are reported as playful banter. An old thunder about idleness as original sin closes the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Press
Pearson
Vaunting Vanity and Future Respect in a Wealth Tale
Mr Dustin Brax debates naming a fortune that will be respected by the present generation over future fame. He confesses vanity is limited and aims to secure wealth while earning current regard. The Washington Star presents a witty dialogue on priorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gir
Dustin Brax
Washington Star
Legal notices from Sidney Nebraska court and sale orders
Court in Aton County sets April 2 1905 hearing on administrator request for Charles A Higginins estate with notice via The Sidney Telegraph. Multiple real estate and judgment sale notices list properties in Sidney Cheyenne County Nebraska with dates May 9 1905 and May 1905 hearings, plus a drug permit application for Sidney Drug Co to sell liquor for medicinal purposes from May 1905 to April 1906.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nerce
District Court
Cheyenne County
Nebraska
Leopold T. Rezanina
Plaintnr
Kimball-Champ Investment Company
Cheyenne Coty Nebraska
Frank Rezanina
Cecelia Rezanina
Kimball-Cham Investment Company
Nebraskia
Lyopold T. Rezanina
H. E. Garen
Aton County
Court Court Room
Said
James Tucker
Charles A. Higginins
Reading
Lily A. Higgins
Leroy Martin
Cnpernep
Olatler
Sidney Telegraph
James TuCken
LA True
Reyenne County
H. M. Grimes
A. L
Mary Furner
Towit
Township
Steen
North Range
Willl
A. D
Court House
Sidney
Cheyennne County
Thom. Grimes
Jacob P. Eckert
Shrabeth Potinbarger
M. HH. Tobin
Board of Village Trustees
M. H. Tomix
Sidney Drug Co
Board of
Village Trustees
Scanlon
Dworak & Vath
Dvorak & Vata
Kruse Bros
Nnuse Bros
Lileunse
P. HL
Schlesinger
Lcense
POHLN
Schlesinger, Applicat
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ayer
Eee Neen Af Lyers
Were
Lowell
Mase
Mair
the Telegraph
Sidney Telegraph and
Peoples Poniard
Teporrud
Sidney, Neb
F. A. Gapen
St. Louis
Lincoln
Mickey
United States
Huntington and
Namipa
Idaho
Anuxious
Rder
Herife’s Sale
Heripe's Sale. Se
Sidney Drove Co
A. Pease & Sons
Sidney, Nebraska
F. Heinzman
Maleese
Schlitz
Budweiser
Coors’ Select
Kruse Brothers
VIA
B. F Mitchell
Prop
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