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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1898
Page
8
The fragment lists East and West mail and freight service notes with numbers for fast and way freights and passenger carriage. Times like 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. appear, along with incomplete figures and prices.
Pleasant winter weather and local chatter fill the page with names, visits, and ads. Notary service offered, shops push goods at low prices, and arrivals from nearby areas are listed. County notices, legals, and upcoming events blend with farm and family news and ads for medicines and services.
Wm McCool now of Orangeville may relocate to Sidney. Photographer Miss Rankin visits December 13 to 17 for Christmas work. Exposition store highlights five top steel ranges and eye opening prices. Train line changes Omaha to Chicago prompt new Union Pacific time card. Duggan returns from Spokane. winter work abundant there. Hanaday sells North divide ranch to L A Stanton of Potter and will run Potter store and be postmaster. McCulloch of Lincoln reports strong hide market at $4 per lb for No 1 hides. Beerlin arrives to plan Cheyenne county home. Death of George M High aged 58 in New York. he was father of Harry High. L B Cary and Gering hog buyer ship four carloads from Sidney. first such sale here. Shipment puts $1600 cash in Cheyenne county. Hessey loses ranch house to fire. no insurance noted.
The passage reflects a practice in which rents from a widow of a city freeman funded buying fagots for a stated purpose. The rent allegedly circulated to parochial clergy for years before being redirected to purchase coal to warm the poor rather than burn them, noted with wit.
A young foreigner, newly arrived in London, was invited to a family dinner in his honor but did not attend. When questioned, he replied that he had not been hungry, in a candid remark captured by London Tit-Bits.
A Philadelphia piece contrasts American and Russian views on holidays. A traveler notes Indian children as skilled workers young, the Moki in Arizona celebrate Christmastide with a sun dance akin to midsummer rites. Hessian prisoners from the Revolution largely settled in Virginia.
An advertisement extols Swift's S S S as the only cure for catarrh claiming to reach the blood. It cites a Harrodsburg Kentucky patient who saw improvement after using S S S and urges abandoning local treatments in favor of the blood remedy. The copy stresses the product is vegetable and guarantees no minerals with free books from Swift Specific Company in Atlanta Georgia.
Passes through Nebraska Colorado Wyoming and Utah as the best route to Denver Cheyenne Salt Lake City San Francisco Portland and Puget Sound. Advantages include Quick Time Unequaled Service Magnificent Equipment Double Drawing Room Pullman Palace Sleepers Pullman Dining Cars Free Reclining Chair Cars Pullman Tourist Sleepers. For timetables and fare information contact E R Brbbrisch agent Sidney Neb.
From 10 to 16 hours between the Missouri River and Puget Sound points via the Union Pacific Overland Route. Daily Pullman Palace Sleepers Dining Cars and Upholstered Pullman Tourist Cars provide first and second class accommodations across Colorado Wyoming Utah Idaho Montana and Pacific Coast points. Includes call for rates and information. A Sure Sign of Croup Chamberlain's Cough Remedy stops hoarseness early and prevents attacks. Pleasant to take and sold by dealers.
An advertisement touts Hannel dampened with Chamberlain's Pain Balm as superior to plasters for chest or side pain and lame backs. It claims prompt relief and lists Pain Balm as a certain cure for rheumatism sold by all dealers.
Advertising copy for Stocklen Arnica Salve claiming it cures cuts bruises ulcers and other eruptions with a money back guarantee. Also promotes Celery Nerve and Blood Tonic at Bassett's drug store promising refunds if relief is not felt. Includes price 25 cents per box.
A block of 23 residence lots in Columbus Ohio offered for exchange for land with good title. Contact C W Morvopif at 1134 Livingston Avenue Columbus Ohio for details.
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