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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1875
Page
5
A jumble of brief items notes Venus as the morning star and urges timely tax payment. It lists holiday printing, sales, and local business promos, plus weather and transit notes, a bridge project, a freight haul, and ads for second hand stoves, newspapers, and subscriptions. Various local names appear with notices about trains, theatres, auctions, and public conduct.
A report describes a bold robbery involving Buckshot and Geo W Opie with soldiers from Co C 3d Cavalry, the assault on Messrs Jones and Cochran, and bail set at 2000 for Opie. The piece notes prosecutions, alibis, and local calls to reveal accomplices while listing local ads and social notes from Sidney in 1876.
Hon C K Allen departed for Cheyenne on important business and will be away several days. North Platte businessman A B Senter visited the Commercial Center last week. W V Doolittle spent a few days in town. O W Lynam, Wright and Connelly returned from Omaha. Charles Smith formerly of Sidney is undergoing financial repairs in Omaha. We received Wick's Floral Guide 1876, a chrome 6x8 inch catalog with 12 annual varieties. send 2 cents to Jas Vick Rochester NY for the catalogue. November 1875 post office letters list gentlemen and ladies, including Burge, Luther. Fowler, Mrs L A. Murphy, Anna. Woods, Margaret, among others.
Listing weekly prices for commodities in Sidney including flour cornmeal apples butter imperial sugar coffee tea and other staples with unit prices per pound per hundred or per gallon. Items named include flour cornmeal sugar coffee potatoes potatoes buckwheat syrup chickens coal and various meats with values likely from a local market rundown.
Il Wittiase and Co keep ales cider chickens turkeys apples and oysters in every style at the American house. New supply of CandidaatC Borgquist’s. C A Moone keeps genuine Scotch ale and porter in bottle and the best lager beer west of Milwaukee. Go to A Moone for grain and the best winter and spring wheat flour at Omaha prices freight added. The largest stock of general merchandise at prices that defy competition at C A Moore’s. The best brands of ales wines brandies whiskies at the billiard room of C A Moore. W J Harbison has for sale the only good cigar in town. Go to C A Moonx’s for fresh butter and eggs.
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