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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1936
Page
2
The Sidney Nebraska weekly newspaper announces its independent voice serving Sidney Cheyenne County and Western Nebraska. It lists mailing details and postage rates for one year with zone pricing for local and distant readers.
The semi weekly news review reports a Northwest Airlines crash in north Idaho, sighted by Lieut. Byron Cooper. Pilot Joe Livermore and Arthur A Had are presumed dead. Amelia Earhart Putnam investigated fate of seven aboard a Western Air Express ship, but found no trace near Great Salt Lake. A Supreme Court ruling upheld broad presidential power in neutrality matters, while Lincoln gas dealers clamored against below cost pricing. Washington humor and social notes follow, including Gridiron club satire and dating woes for single women in D C offices.
Gladys Pavla reflects on the Duke of Windsor and Mrs Simpson romance, the churchs stance on remarriage, and a broader critique of monarchy. She notes a Washington mission drive, social justice concerns, and the urban reality of lonely women as winter begins.
Christmas and New Year wishes frame a column of social visits in Grand Prairie. Neighbors share meals, showers, cardings, and greetings with families including the Millers, Pearsons, Johnsons, Irwins, Jorgensens, Tremains, and Flessners, plus hospital news from Sidney and Chappell.
Local residents hosted and visited across Sidney with gatherings at the Brandi Tremain Nelson and Welton homes. Attendees included Rexroth, Olson, Flessner, Frerichs, Welton, Johnson, Livoni, Tremain, and many others, sharing dinners, birthday parties, and Christmas programs throughout Friday to Monday gatherings.
In seventeenth and early eighteenth century London, thieves known as tail-drawers menaced the streets by snatching gentlemen's swords from their sides as they turned corners or moved through crowds, prompting urban vigilance and security concerns.
Kapok from Randoe tree seed pods mainly grown in Java and to a lesser extent in Ceylon and the Philippine Islands. US imports about 700000 tons yearly. It is used for pillows and mattresses, buoyant for life preservers, and an excellent heat and sound insulator. Ionization describes electric conduction as the motion of charged particles called ions, distinct from molecules. The formation of ions is ionization.
Mr and Mrs Charles Welton enjoyed dinner Thursday with the Richard Welton family and spent time together. The note records a social visit at Bunker Hill with local residents and observers.
The column lists daily visits and gatherings among local families. Names include Iva Beyer, Wallis Beyer, Eleanor Beyer, Theo Borcher, Hilbert Borcher, John Borcher, Fred Beyer, James Rezac, Richard Welton, T W Hawkits, West Point visit, Keuhler family at Crofton, Edna Scriber and Bunker Hill pupils, Santa Claus gifts, and various Sunday gatherings at the Ever home.
Oshkosh Nebraska dealer Don Merlo buys a Regular Farm All Tractor with rubber tires. The column weaves farm ads and rustic quips about farmers and country life, including bargain plows, old trucks, and a joke about a boy and an army camp.
For sale a rebuilt McCormick Deering tractor in first class condition priced at 350 dollars. Also a Grand De Tour Three Bottom Plow in good condition offered at a fair price.
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