Real Estate Offers Farms and Ranches for Sale
Local real estate firm promotes farms and stock ranches for sale with bargains across agricultural and range lands. Encourages owners to list property with the firm for quick selling.
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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1909
Page
6
Delay in Delhi Boots Telex Reveals Language Trap
A Middlesex regiment awaits boots for a Delhi parade. Calcutta firm replies with a cryptic telegram that mocks gendered wording and requests a specimen, exposing a language pitfall in a humorous anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Middlesex Regiment
Delhi
Calcutta
Middlesex
Heavyweight editor contemplates quitting writing duties
A famed heavyweight, former sporting editor, sighs at daily pen work. He jokes about resigning after trying every writing tool from steel pens to fountain pens, lamenting the burden of daily columns and the need for an amanuensis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim
John
He Knew He Was Alive Coma Tale Delivers Callback
A young man in a coma fooled friends who thought he was dead. As life returned he described hunger and cold feet proving he was not dead. He reasoned that in heaven there would be no hunger and in hell no cold feet.
Prize change at Indian garrison shocks colonel
General Creagh presented prizes at a district garrison in India. A private requested to swap a carving set for a meat knife and fork, explaining the carving tools were too large for eating meals. The exchange highlighted practical needs over ceremonial prizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Creagh
Creath
Emerson Quote on Knowledge and Nature’s Enchantments
A condensed reflection by Emerson on how true wealth and greatness come from understanding the secrets of the earth waters plants and skies and how masters of the world seek nature’s aid to reach magnificence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emerson
Highlander Harry Seeks Advice To Make Notable Splash
A humorous tale follows Harry the highlander seeking fame in Scotland and England. He asks a renowned Scotsman in shipbuilding how to make noise in the world and receives a terse response: Hoot, mon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry
England
Inquirer
The Town That Push Buel
A verse about local merchants and advertising, detailing a clothing dealer who spends freely at a hardware store and other trades through bills from a furniture dealer, dry goods merchant, butcher, grocer, and workman paying sums. The piece extols local dealers who always advertise their wares.
Definition of bachelor stirs New York classroom
In a New York school a class struggles with the word bachelor. A pupil defines it as a very happy man, saying her father told her so and the teacher follows up to confirm the meaning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hoyt Recounts Hotel Room Tale From Pennsylvania Visit
Charles H. Hoyt, famed New England playwright, recounted visiting a Pennsylvania town where George Washington was said to stay. Hoyt joked that the hotel gave him the top floor room once used by Benedict Arnold, while another guest got the Washington room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles H. Hoyt
New England
Pennsylvania
George Washington
Hoyt
Washington
Benedict Arnold
Sailor Billy Grimes Stands by Ship Rules in River Port
Billy Grimes, a disciplined sailor, overhears a river pilot clash at a foreign port. He refuses to violate ship’s ladder rules despite a voice up the ladder demanding boarding. The exchange ends with Billy holding firm under maritime discipline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Grimes
Billy
Too Eager For Work A Southern Surgeon Parable Tale
Dr John 8 Buist notes in a state college lecture that physicians and gravediggers avoid boasting of busyness. A village gravedigger seeks steady work but the minister cautions the yard would bury Paint Rock in a week. A rabbi answers a student with the command to love one’s neighbor as the essence of the law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John 8. Buist
Paint Rock
Scotsman Seeks Burns Turns to Rubber Bandage
A Scotsman in a Montreal bookshop asked for Robert Burns but corrected the shopkeeper saying he wanted rubber banda instead. The clerk fetched several Burns editions, only to learn the customer meant a rubber band.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Robert Burns
Robert Burne
Letter Mixup Reveals Twins Fertile Night Confusion
A lovesick suitor arrives at Constance Withers door to deliver a letter. Constance explains she and twin sister Vivian look alike and the letter was addressed to Constance. The man discovers the note’s apology and marriage proposal were meant for Constance but sent to Vivian by mistake. He realizes Constance mistake as Vivian was confused for him during the previous night’s romantic encounter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constance
Vivian
Swain
Constance Withers
Never Again for a New York Broker in a fib
A young New York broker vows never again to deceive his wife after a failed lie about being "unavoidably detained" and missing the 5 20 train. He telegrams home with a false excuse but his wife reveals the truth with a telegraph slip reading received at 4 45.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Westchester
Ter
Hubby
Twins Named Steak and Kidney Cause Church Confusion
In an English village a miner's wife presents twins at christening. The father answers the minister naming them Kate and Sidney after a joke about food. The anecdote ends with the wife’s quip and a smile about the odd pairing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George
Geordie
Kate
Sidney
Artistic Temperament Strikes Back in Two Husbands Affair
Two women who had not seen each other in years discuss their separations. One reports her husband left her in a hospital claiming artistic freedom. The other reveals her plumber husband did the same. Both agree temperament played a role.
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Rodman-Looschen Land Co
W. S. Rodman
Moore Building
Sidney, Neb
Kivett Land CO
J. R. Kelly
Bancroft and Dalton
Neb
Cheyenne County
Nebraska
The
Union Pacific Railroad Co
Realty
W. E. Swatzlander
Mgr
F. L. Johnston & CO
P.O. Box
Sidney, Nebraska
Earth
David A. Wasson
Hels Bockstadter
Cement Contractor
Nature
P.S
Hittel
WIFR
Joel Hawes
Pacific
Salt Lake City
Omaha
Union Pacific
E. L. Lotiax
Omaha, Neb
OUR
American Bank
NEBR
Sidney Mercantile Co
Sidney Com
Mercantile Ipany
Schlitz Beer
Tobin Biock
Atlantic
Wisconsin
Michigan
Colorado
Yellowstone Park
Seattle
California
Black Hills
Hot Springs
Cody
America
MCC Rts
M,. A. Shipman
L. W. Wakeley
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