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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1901
Page
8
Information on through trains to any point in the United States or Canada with maps time tables and tickets. Contact M A SupMay Agent or General Passenger Agent Ortod FRANCIS in Omaha Nebraska for details.
The fragment shows names and numbers of passenger and freight trains such as Overland Limited No 4 and No 101 Fast Mail, Pacific Express No 5 and Mail and Express, with scattered times like 9.00 am and 7.05 pm alongside unreadable notes about freight routes and passenger service.
Reinhardt the jeweler and Cyclone Store advertise goods from meat market prices to children's jackets. M Wright Co sells bicycle supplies and garden hose with new lines of mens and boys suits and overcoats. Dr Harris treats female diseases. Various sale offers include Hereford bulls, land office blanks, hotel furniture for sale, and saddles from Haney Wyeth. Indebted customers urged to settle with E Doran.
Wheat per bushel and corn, oats, rye, potatoes per cwt, eggs per dozen, butter per pound, chickens per dozen, hogs per cwt, cows and steers prices and hay baled prices listed for Sidney market. Prices range from 2.40 to 6.50 for various livestock and crops.
A collage of classified items lists pumps, pipes, harness repairs, second hand pianos, wind mills, wedding cards, harness oils, and bicycles for sale or rent from local firms. It notes births, auctions, theatre shows, and a May Pole social, plus a travel notice seeking a farm or ranch in Nebraska and praise for a drama troupe’s Sidney stop.
Residents report visits and births, machinery and legal updates, church elections, a town ball, and a planned land opening in Oklahoma. Highlights include dental visits, a Sandbeach ranch raffle, lodge and parish elections, a fireworks of social gatherings, stock notices, and Indian land opening plans for August.
The 1901 military drama Our Regiment will be staged in South Omaha next month for a fire department benefit. Cattle receipts last week were tight yet market active with good to choice steers selling from 4.40 to 5.25 while cows and heifers held steady to strong. Sheep demand was active with liberal receipts as markets opened steady for the balance of the week.
News from Gering reports the new village board is anti license and denied E Doran’s saloon license. Mias Blackburn’s Opera House entertainment was postponed due to bad weather with a new date to be announced. Dr Harris and Dan Atchison abandon Mitchell drugstore plans, moving to Julesburg Cab to form Julesburg Drug Co. Newt Biggs buys Cunningham ranch near Sidney Draw and moves into a new home. Al Kruse and locals pursue ducks along the creek, with notable bird shooting this week. Oregon land office decision upholds Edward J Elter’s contest against Cora Dixon at new Bridgeport. Nebraska Experiment Station releases Bulletin 70 on grasshopper destruction. Matt Daugherty credibly reports Wyoming oil finds near Evanston and Pioneer Hollow. many fear oil district growth and Standard Oil interest. Sate notices list Herford bulls near Potter Neb and cattle for sale from Sidney Neb and Potter Neb.
A vintage drug ad promises a one day cure for colds with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It offers a money back guarantee from druggists if the remedy fails and features E W Groves signature on each bottle or package sold for 25 cents.
Proprietor announces closing of saloon and halving whiskey and wine prices. Entire stock of wines and liquors to be sold at about one half former price starting April 15, listing several brands and vintages, including Gugenbimer Rye, Anderson Co Bourbon, Cabinet Bourbon, California Brandy, Imperial Gin, Scotch, Catawba and Sherry wines, Angelica, Port, Jamaica Rum, and Jamaica wine, with prices noted.
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