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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1893
Page
1
A porous ad touts guiding principles of value and quality. It argues merchants offer fresh, high quality goods at fair prices and pledge to adjust stock to meet customer ideas of value. It claims to avoid overpricing while matching market assortment and honesty in every sale.
The period sees rising settlement and prosperity in Sidney Lodge Pole and surrounding areas as new homes, blocks, and improvements appear. Merchants expand stock while farmers push land, fences, and blooded stock to reflect a thriving western community with notable real estate activity and growing commerce.
Items of Interest announce low spring stock and dower prices at Ober Felder and Co. A first class passenger car costs 1 A4287. A man walks eight miles an hour while a slow tiger moves nine, a fast river seven, a trotting horse seven, wind seven, sailing vessels ten, steamboats eighteen, a rushing horse twenty, a storm thirty six, a hurricane eighty. Electricity travels 288000 miles per second and there are 2751 languages in the world. A humorous local exchange mocks editor progress, with Lyon replying that progress is fine and cuts of certain fellows would aid illustration. Prominent citizen New Lyon comments, the prospect amuses the crowd while the shopkeeper jokes about finishing a customer.
Mrs Carrs A guides three series of first readers while six weeks remain for juvenile story books and imagie zines Roy. Sidney teachers will attend the Inter county Educational Association on the 27th, with the schol board granting Friday for this occasion. Alton Jones of the Primary room has moved to Redington. Mrs Whitney, Mrs Wright, and Mrs Lyon recently spent an afternoon in the Primary department.
Font Sripney Nebraska April 18 1893 notes post water access from the dam, restricting hours on Tuesdays Wednesdays Thursdays Fridays Saturdays and Sundays. Citizens of Sidney may use water on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays under ordinance 42. Garrison seeks gate closures during canal maintenance to avoid post dispatches. Order by Lieut Colonel Lysten and Lieut Tiganns Infantry Pout Adjt.
Items from Bethel Burkes noting Atkins buys a young horse from Elder of Kimball and local work plans for W D Elder and W Robinson. News of weddings, crop prospects, and family visits. A death in the Cedar Creek area, a fire threat on the north river, and farm losses from a large blaze. Roy Gillman buys Bayard drug store. talk of politics and crops. storm and wind conditions described.
Local farmer Charles Nelson claims he was tricked by a man who played on his Missouri background to mislead him about crops. Nelson says he bought 250 bushels of chop feed, sowed it, and nothing grew, then advised Sig Gul to plant roasted peanuts which also failed to sprout. Nelson defends his actions as a prank but admits the plan backfired on both men.
Clothing bargains and a marriage notice for Abram C Neeves of Oswtalla and Miss Beuma Thyes, married in the groom's home. Also a publicity notice for a world race from Chadron Nebraska offering $1,601 to the winner, with registration and route details and dates in May and June.
The State Journal notes Nebraska farmers in the Republican and Viattee river basins face a dry season with little rain since last fall. It argues irrigation ditches along streams make land productive, predicting higher prices for corn oats wheat and potatoes and calling irrigation a true test of Nebraska's farm viability, with future ditches expanding along available streams.
The proprietor announces the establishment offers the largest and best selected line of spring fabrics and furnishing goods in Sidney. Emphasizing steady supply of working clothes and fine dress suits, the stock is chosen to meet trade wants with quality not previously seen in town.
Prominent sale catalog touts low prices with items listed for quick glance. Boys' suits age 4 to 12 priced at 0.98, men's worsted suits from 3.60, gold mixed mens suits from 3.50, working pants 1.00 each, plus bats caps and J B Lewis shoes. Sale emphasizes value and variety for families seeking affordable options.
A vintage notice advertises BALBRIGGAN men’s underwear with suits starting at $1.00 each. The ad highlights affordable pricing and product type aimed at male customers seeking basic undergarments.
A California selling pitch touts overalls priced at 75 cents a pair. The ad claims this price has moved many pairs and promises the best value for working men, urging shoppers to buy at the town’s large clothing store.
A department highlights making every style of business or dress suit to order with a guaranteed perfect fit. The shop notes its enviable reputation for satisfaction and lists prices from eighteen dollars upward per suit.
The shop advertises a complete Gent's Furnishing line with varied prices and grades to meet every whim of the derving young man or the plain reader. It promises suitable options for all, inviting broad customer appeal.
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