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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1896
Page
4
The item notes Cheyenne county residents urged to boost home merchants, mentions a beet sugar factory push for Sidney, Neb, with ideas of thirty plants statewide to produce raw sugar for a central refinery. It cites editor Wisner stepping back, Cuba questions, irrigation law changes, and federal office protections under civil service.
Senator Allen delivered a pointed eloquent eulogy of Nebraska in the senate yesterday defending the Populist legislature. He asserted the body had no intention of delaying the enforcement of legal contracts or obligations and challenged aspersions cast on local credit.
The Times Herald reports that Senator Allen and Governor-elect Holcomb defend state actions defending its credit amid debates over silver coinage. They argue the electorate rejected dishonest currency and that Nebraska will not jeopardize its interests or scare eastern capital by radical policy.
Sidney Nebraska November 25 1896 county treasurer A Pease announces duties under Nebraska statutes for tax collection. Distress warrants may be issued after January 1 1897 if taxes remain unpaid, unless voluntary payments average fifty dollars daily in December and continue after January 1 1897.
An Indiana Territory letter praises Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best cure for coughs and colds and as a certain preventive of pneumonia. It claims thousands have used it without a pneumonia occurrence and urges those with weak lungs to keep the remedy, available in 2 and 50 cent sizes from druggists.
The Overland Limited now operates daily with new Buffet Smoking and Library cars on the Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern Line between Salt Lake City and Chicago. Cars feature modern design, writing materials, papers, magazines and other comforts. Union Pacific pioneered this service west of Chicago.
Citizens are urged to provide information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone throwing stones breaking windows or causing disturbances in Sidney and Cheyenne County Nebraska. A reward is offered by Sheriff D McCaleeese.
A Scottish physician uses carrier pigeons to speed prescriptions to patients during long rounds. An assistant at the surgery prepares medicines once the pigeons deliver messages. He may also leave a pigeon to summon him later, saving time and labor.
Advertised medicine claims to restore tired nerves to vigor with vegetable ingredients. It purports to tone nerve centers in the stomach, stimulate liver and kidneys, purify blood, improve appetite, and aid digestion. Sold for 40 cents or 1.00 per bottle at W. F Bassett's Drug Store.
Mim A. L. Armstrong of Clinton Missouri quotes a prominent druggist who sells forty cough remedies but notes Ballard's Horehound Syrup outsells all others. He calls it the most perfect remedy for coughs colds and consumption. Sold at Seanlan's Drug Store.
Beaversville LL Mr G Caillouette recalls how Dr King's New Discovery saved his life after La Grippe baffled doctors. He used three bottles and recovered, saying it was worth its weight in gold and that his store would not be without it. A free trial was obtained at Bassett's Drug Store WoOF.
White's Cream Vermifuge, a vegetable preparation, claims to expel worms and aid growth in children with signs of worm-related fatigue. Available in large or small bottles for 25 cents at Scanlan's Drug Store, with refund if unsatisfied. Also advertised Salve for cuts and skin ailments, guaranteed money back, 25 cents per box, via W F Basvett.
A letter dated February 14, 189 describes how prolonged nervous derangement can affect vital organs, with the Reverend N. F. Burface of Fawn River Michigan noting heart involvement as a dangerous indirect result.
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