Way Back When 75 Years Ago Local Hints of Everyday Life
A dated column recalls local happenings from street news and shop notes. Items include sales at the Dry Goods Bazaar, bread specials, street cleanup, carpenters and shoemakers, touring travelers, a mystery with Doc Middleton, banking moves, sewer plans, and church notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Second Street
Cedars
McGowan
John Christ
Rose Street
A. B. Persinger
Esty’s Park
Denver
Doc Middleton
Descriptive Nebraska Wheat Crops Across Minatare Area
Lice CPt Al a-ee and shipments to Lodgepole. Mr Birney returns from Minatare with wheat oats and barley samples showing irrigated land crops promising a fine year. Local reports note drought relief and robust agriculture in western Nebraska amid ongoing county and town developments including church dedications and infrastructure updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lodgepole
Birney
Minatare
Nebraska
Sidney picks up farm news and film notes from week
In Northwestern Logan County West Plains drilling is to begin on two oil tests under West Plain Oil Company agreements. Work starts soon as crews raze the Union Pacific Hotel in Sidney. Also top film notes include Goodbye Mr Chipps with Robert Donat and Greer Garson and fight pictures featuring Louis and Galento. Grocery specials list Roma coffee 14 cents a pound and butter cookies 10 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rie
Lucille Ball
Mr. Chipps
Robert Donat
Greer Garson
Louis
Galento
West Plains
Logan County
West Plaine Oil Company
Union Pacific
Sidney
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John Holden
Chicago
Robert Oberfelder
Bob
Alvin Saunders
Pacific Coast
American Bank
Old State Bank
Cheyenne County
Potter
Anderson
Ashford
Banner County
Charles E. Dooley
Mac Radcliffe
Christ Church
W. C. Couch
Buffalo
N. Y
New York
Canada
R. O. Heaton
Lice Cpt
Ala — Ee
Krueger
North Platte
L. R
L. B. Cary
Dr. Graham
Fred Price
W. C. Bullock
Wirs. Bullock
W. C
Episcopal
Cheyenne County Commissioners
Dalton
G. H. Willis
C. W. Minshall
Herman Armuth
Belle M. Stoutenborough
Robert A. Barlow
Kansas City Red Sox
J. A. Bentley
W. E. Swatzlander
Bentley
N. Theinen
Nick Mahr
South Divide
Fort Morgan
Colo
Russell Dedrick
Edward Shoemaker
Salt Lake City
Deuel County
Barker
Burke
Henry
Norman
City
D. W. Prye
Lincoln
Yellowstone
Denver- Yellowstone
Messrs
M. Kremer
Albert Benish
Mr. Benish
Lorenzo
Kintzen & Son
Kearney
Sidney City Auditorium
Tobin Opera House
Chamber of Commerce
Bobby Chick
C. F. Chick
East
USA
Lillian Gish
Ramon Novarro
Kenneth D. Kepler
Box Butte County Credit Rating and Reporting Association of Alliance
George Winslide
Ravenna
Ravenna Mills
Conrad Nagle
Myrna Loy
Tim McCoy
Panhandle
Lodgepole Bank
Old Settlers
O. J. Melton
The
Fox
Chester Morris
Wendy Bar
Ures
Neal Morris
First Christian Church
Roberts Brothers
Shreveport, Jr
Cheyenne County Wildlife Club
Jack R. Knicely
Wisner
Nebr
R. P. Kepler
J. L. Thorpe
Sidney Jaycees
the Fox
Barbara Stanwyth
Deanna Durbin
Mary
London
England
LD Ko Gao
Fhone
Amatl
Ala
Nia
Ewe
zSge
McCormick Farm Equipment Store
Illinois
Riz
International Harvester Co
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