Local train stops and through service notice
Passenger trains Nos 301 and 302 will not stop locally between Sidney and Bridgeport and Slaney and Sterling. Local extra daily except Sunday will carry passengers Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars seats free on through trains Tickets sold and baggage checked to any point in the United States or Canada For information maps time tables and tickets call on or write to Mr Shipman Agent or to L W Wakeley General Passenger Agent Omaha Nebraska
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Sidney
Bridgeport
Slaney
Sterling
United States
Canada
Shipman
L. W.wakeley
Omaha
Nebraska
Daily State Journal Offer Stresses Low Price
The State Journal advertises a yearly subscription at one dollar for the rest of the year and one dollar twenty five cents with the Big Sunday paper. It touts AP and telegraph coverage and positions the Lincoln paper as clean independent and reliable for Nebraska readers.
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Daily State Journal
The
State Journal
Associated Press and Telegraph Services
Nebraska
Lincoln
Roosevelt Epigrams on Citizenship and Self Help
The quotation compiles Theodore Roosevelt insights on patronizing, personal duty, and self reliance. It argues a citizen must be breadwinner husband and father, rejects unsupported help, and weighs hardness of heart against softness of head in long term outcomes.
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Theodore Roosevelt
County Fair Notes Preview of September 1911 Exhibition
Dates set for September 13 to 16 1911 with premium lists mailed this week. Gus Wellner leads building work and the track has been scraped and leveled for fast races. Railroads eye added trains from Kimball Julesburg Bridgeport Sterling and nearby towns to and from the fair. Secretary R A Blake reports railroad encouragement and ample space for exhibitors across grounds and downtown. Folks encouraged to prepare animals and displays stock grain vegetables hay and crafts for prizes. Barn room rental notices go to R A Blake.
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R. A. Blake
Union Pacific
Burlington Railroads
Kimball
Julesburg
Bridgeport
Sterling
Veterans in Line Parade for Taft at Rochester Encampment
The forty-fifth Grand Army of the Republic national encampment in Rochester drew President Taft for a parade reviewed by about 25 000 veterans. Taft toured city streets with the Twenty ninth Infantry and attended a campfire address at Convention hall. A death in a rooming house was reported for PD Mercer of Eldorado Kansas.
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Rochester
N. Y
Grand Army of the Republic
Taft
Washington Square
Twenty-ninth United States Infantry
Verbeck
George Aldridge
Gilman
William E Werner
Reid
Vernont
Danforth
Thomas B. Dunn
Convention Hall
New York Central Station
General McElroy
Washington
PD. Mercer
Eldorado, Kan
Police Inspector’s Arbitrary Act Sparks Debate
A police inspector’s action, criticized as arbitrary despite purported good intent, draws debate over authority and due process in the force. Citizens question enforcement methods while officials promise review and guidelines to prevent abuses.
Engineers Ransomed After Greek Bandit Capture
A Salonika dispatch says German engineer Dr Edmund Richter was captured by Greek bandits for a $225,000 ransom and has been rescued on the Greek frontier returning to Salonika.
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Berlin
Salonika
Turkey
Edmund Richter
Salon‘ka
Sullivan Held in Oregon for 1910 Kansas City Slaying
James Sullivan, tracked across the nation by Herman Weeks, now faces murder charges in Portland Oregon for the death of Thomas Weeks in Kansas City during May 1910. Police say Sullivan confessed to killing Weeks in self defense.
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James Sullivan
Portland
Ore
Thomas Weeks
Kansas City
Herman Weeks
Sullivan
Weeks
Gcelf
Divorce Granted After Twenty Years of Marriage
Mrs Cornelia Dyer Parker sues for divorce from Thomas L. Parker in Los Angeles Judge Conley presiding. The decree was granted citing prolonged marital strain as the main cause for the action.
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Conley
Los Angeles
Cornelia Dyer Parker
Thomas L. Parker
Tornado Toll Rise In North Dakota
Grand Forks reports indicate eight fatalities and thirty to forty injuries from the August tornado, as the storm's path through the state is detailed with new casualty figures.
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Grand Forks
N D
A Line of Money Kings in the New York Press
A quotation notes a family famed for wealth with a father a parlor car porter, grandfather a plum ber, and a great grandfather a hotel waiter, highlighting a lineage of riches in the era.
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Ela
Stella
New York Press
Kansas Volcano Rumors Spark Southern Farm Alarm
Residents in Harper county report cracks two feet wide on farms of J. M. Jordan and Edward White with ground noises like thunder. Geologists assess possibility of rekindling activity from the long extinct volcano as dust and cracking widen across the fields.
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Kansas
Harper County
J. M. Jordan
Edward White
Porson’s cucumber riddle proves a linguistic chain
In a 19th century note, Rev A H T Clarke credits Richard Porson with a playful philological jeu d esprit. A farmer challenged him to derive his name Jeremiah King from cucumber. Porson traced Jeremy King Jerry King Jerrykin Jerkin Gherkin, concluding that the name is a cucumber.
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A. H. T. Clarke
Richard Porson
Porson
Gibbon
Jeremiah King
Jeremy King
Jerry King
Jerrykin
Jerkin
Gherkin
Woman scorns first seat on Brooklyn Bridge cars
Mrs. W. Penfield, acting chairman of 30,000 suffragists in New York, denounces the new police system giving women first seats on electric cars crossing the Brooklyn Bridge. She says women seek justice not privilege and urges the principle be reconsidered.
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W. Penfield
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Extravagance as a Municipal and National Fault
James J. Hill argues extravagance hampers progress and drains resources into adornments and battleships. He criticizes city beautification drives and needless state and national policies, claiming funds are diverted from productive commerce with little tangible gain.
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James J. Hill
Parrot Demonstrates Logic With Hollow Nut Observation
The passage notes a parrot separating light, hollow nuts from heavy ones. It claims the bird uses comparison to judge weight and deduces a nut is hollow via a syllogism like all light nuts are hollow. The remark credits Max Muller and presents a humorous view on reasoning.
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Perret
Max Muller
Big Show at Fairgrounds and State Legislature Reunion
Sidney enjoys fair entertainment this week from the Medoras and Leonard Amusement Co. Leo Blondin presents The Cowboy Indian and The Lady at Sept 1 shows under canvas. A legislature reunion is set for Sept 6 at the New Live Stock Judging Coliseum to show farmers how a real legislature looks. F J Foley of Omaha and party, en route to Cheyenne, visited Sidney Monday in a Thomas touring car.
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Sidney
Medoras
Leonard Amusement Co
Leo Blondin
F.J. Foley
Omaha
Nebraska
Julius Hahler
North Platte
Cheyenne
Aldrich
Liberati
Storm threat passes over Sidney as winds fade
A severe storm arced over Sidney Friday evening with gusts and dark clouds later moving away. By Sunday afternoon a strong cloud brought heavy rain and wind with a cyclone-like twist, but the weather men report it mostly dissipated. Meanwhile Nebraska Telephone Company officials R A Grim and F C Lambert are in Sidney this week to oversee a new line starting toward Big Springs.
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Sidney
R. A. Grim
F. C. Lambert
Nebraska Telephone Company
Big Springs
The Cowboy Indian and The Lady Theater Piece
A lively Southwest comedy drama praised for its romantic spirit and well drawn contrasts. The play builds a unique sensation with vivid scenes and strong life from start to finish. Friday Sept. 1.
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Southwest
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