31 Aug 1895
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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1895
Page
1
A dense community column lists village trustees, school board and teachers, and church services across Episcopal Lutheran and Methodist congregations. It also covers fraternal orders, lodges, and veterans groups with meeting times, officers, and secretaries.
The article recounts Dr. J D Cushman of Racine Wis and later Chicago as an early telegraph builder and inventor. It notes his 1851 lightning arrester and a crude early telephone transmitter, suggests a frog croak 18 miles away sparked the telephone story, and mentions his fire alarm patents.
A mixed column recalls the first amateur telephony by Dr Cushman now in Carenzo with notes on early telegraphy in Michigan in 1861. It then recalls the Sanson family of executioners and the pawned guillotine tale, followed by a report on sound confinement in a deep Isle of Wight well and India’s waterworks telephonic links 18 miles apart.
The eight day clock gifted to Queen Victoria is described as a Louis Seize work by Lepante of Paris with ormolu mounts. The long-familiar timepiece winds only once a year and is praised for its flawless movement. It is linked to Matthew Mears and the verses about the clock linger like an unresolved melody.
A cabman's gripe about tipping and fare dodging contrasts with notes on monkish sculpture and courtly behavior. The cabman laments fare evasion by wealthy riders and women, while other excerpts muse on humorous church carvings and a poised, refined courtly stance.
A buyer who acquired The Sidney Telegraph states having moved a plant and now possesses all materials formerly used to publish the paper. The notice hints at resuming production or repurposing the assets.
The excerpt invites correspondence with the undersigned for the publication of a first class country newspaper. It signals readiness to use material provided and to engage interested parties.
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