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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1888
Page
2
A column extols Nebraska and Sidney highlighting rapid growth, strong local resolve, and the town's potential. It compares Sidney's awakening to Chicago's rise, praising the surrounding region and urging collective effort to boost development and prosperity for a 2,500 population town.
The article praises a broad coalition of local leaders and businessmen including Henry Domer John M Adams Judge Norvell and many others driving a board of trade effort. It notes strong enthusiasm from figures like J J Mcintosh Meyers Gutfreand and Doran Tobin and predicts success, while acknowledging some delays in progress.
Civil service notes reveal clerks offering payments to contest notices in various papers. Mentions Lodge Pole Express Centrepolis World Gazette at Froid and Big Springs Journal promoting county seat bids. References Abe's funeral and mournful procession as towns discuss local press ventures.
Last week the Potter Press published editorials of one or two sentences. They question Pat Miles and the imported editor of the Terr anari, claim the Sidney ring is busted, and accuse Gallagher. Miles forbids cattle from running at large while Callahan is urged to stay silent.
Joux M. Adams, register of the land office, returns from a southern trip to Georgia. He remains convinced of his party’s righteousness and carries an optimistic, placid outlook despite current setbacks. He notes Georgia as a favored place in his heart amid his official duties.
The article notes over 5,000 miles of railroad in the state led by Burlington with 2,115 miles, Fremont Elkhorn Missouri Valley 926, and Union Pacific 465. It contrasts Omaha’s share of national banking capital with 222 banks in Nebraska including 97 national banks. National banks hold $37,235,000 capital and $14,842,380 loans. deposits total $21,079,291 with $1,093,150 in surplus and $627,618 in profits. Private banks number 125, with capital $214,921,292, surplus $677,548 and deposits $3,449,089.
Editorial voices clash over campaign tactics in Cheyenne county race as lecteurs react to plans for new counties and a January 15 election date. The Tan Gering Courier thanks Scotts Bluff residents for rejecting the Potter faction and comments on county governance and local music ballads.
The column surveys western county seat disputes over Scotts Bluff with Gering offering to pay $15000 against Scotts Bluff’s $1500. It notes a new Producers Consolidation Oil and Petroleum Co in Omaha with $5 million capital and $1000 debt limit. It mentions Minatare paper support, a Kentucky whiskey maker McBuayenr dead, and West Virginia returns speculation. It covers post office name changes McDougal to Goose Neck, and Kearney’s distance from Boston and San Francisco with a proposal to make Kearney state capital. The Chunney Rock Transcript debuts from Bayard with local support.
A local note suggests Bavano precinct plans to launch a newspaper soon, remarking that starting a paper is easier than shutting one down. The remark underscores a possible shift in local media.
The December number of The Art Amateur is praised as the finest issue yet, featuring two colored plates a woodland winter scene and Heats are Trumps a blue tile dressed woman at cards. The magazine highlights amateur photography and strong editorial content, priced at thirty five cents from Mon tague Marks New York.
An old advertisement urges early treatment for consumption and nasal catarrh with California products. It promotes Santa Abie as a cure for consumption and California Cat-E-Cure for catarrh, sold by C. E. Borgquist of Sidney, Nebraska, priced at $1 or three for $2.50, warning that a cold can worsen into pneumonia or consumption.
An old advertisement claims dangerous breathing is to blame for many deaths and promises full recovery from diseases of the head nose throat bronchial tubes and lungs using Boschee's German Syrup. The text cites many cures and urges readers to buy the bottle for 73a cents from any druggist.
Scribner's Magazine outlines plans to grow readership in six months with enhanced contents. The 1888 program includes railroad articles, a serial by Robert Louis Stevenson, correspondence on Millet, French painters, and varied illustrated pieces on art, photography, electricity, fishing, and travel. Subscriptions advertised with cloth bindings and annual rates.
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