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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1901
Page
8
Train list shows No. 301 passenger daily at 650 p m and No. 308 freight daily except Saturdays at 005 p m. No ac2 passenger daily and No. 804 freight daily except Sundays. Through trains offer sleeping dining and reclining chair cars with seats free. Tickets baggage and info via M A Shivman agent and Francis G P A in Lincoln Nebraska.
Timetable lists eastbound trains including Overland Limited No 2 8 40 a m Atlantic Express No 4 6 20 p m Mail and Express No 6 6 00 a m Past Mail No 245 a m and westbound No 1 Overland Limited No 101 Fast Mail No 3 Pacific Express No 5 Mail and Express. Freight trains carry passengers to points where they stop. Batkisen agent noted with unclear times.
Local items list merchants and services including Reinhardt jeweler McMullan hardware Casper Girmann groceries Essig selling gas stoves and doors C M Wright sewing machines Girman meats Dr Murlless dentist Beebe Beebe dental call and Scanlon drugstore promote Chamberlain stomach and liver tablets with a free sample on September 24 visiting Seymour Williams doctors to city again.
Drs Seymour and Williams at Pacific Hotel on Tuesday. Sept 24. Essigs offers domestic and new home sewing machines. J A Wolfs advertises reductions in jewelry and musical instruments. Remnant counter loaded with bargains in staple summer goods at BE McLernnon. Ladies of the Degree of Honor to meet at Mrs Chas Burton Tuesday at 2 pm. Chamberlains Stomach and Liver Tablets praised for ease and pleasant effect with 25 cent price and free samples at Scanlons drugstore. Wagon or buggy buys advertised by JW Harper & Son with shipping in car lots to save money. Ad copy includes a baby diarrhoea remedy testimonial for Chamberlains and a Yellowstone Park excursion by Burlington with nine-day trip and price details.
The report covers Dr. Webster's dental work in Bridgeport and a Friday stop in Kimball, local sign artists for M. J. Sanders and Dr. J. P. Dullard, a marriage license issued to Lorenz Suale and Susan R Leiby, and various civic notes. It also mentions land contest outcomes, Tobin’s hay yields, pension board examinations, weather impact on crops, and Sanders moving groceries to Callaghan block with a growing, well-regarded store.
The parliamentary register of 1806 notes one pot walloper in England a voter who boiled his own pot for six months before 1832. A curious tree in West Stockbridge Massachusetts grows birch currant and raspberry on a maple trunk and dates long past. A laundress’s boy is trained “by hand” to speak politely with a stammering polite refrain.
A London Chronicle anecdote recalls a lady blaming a fishmonger for wrapping her purchase in newspaper for a cat. The fishmonger retorts that they never wrap brown paper when the item is for cats, highlighting social faux pas and propriety in trades.
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