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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1913
Page
2
Rail timetable fragment shows Unity No 4 passenger and Dally No 306 frelelit services with early morning and afternoon departures around 1 45 a m and 1 45 p m. Includes No 602 passenger and frelelit designation.
Local note urges Sidney residents with chronic appendicitis or vague stomach trouble to try Adlerika a buckthorn bark glyc erine compound. A single dose allegedly stops gas sour stomach and constipation instantly and quickly.
An old advertisement warns against giving opium based cough medicines to children and touts Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as a safe option for coughs colds and croup in both children and adults saying it contains no opium or harmful drug and urging use by all dealers.
Local and personal notes list several visitors and shoppers in Sidney from Potter Lodgepole and surrounding towns. Names include Miss Hazel Thornburg, A Gunderson, L Olson, Wesley Seda, John Junken, William Morrow, Mrs Banta, Principal Pond, Bert Bates, Miss Gertrude Wilcox, Hugh Slawson, Mons Johnson, E T Stark, T J Quinn, Ed, Fred Baker, William Neinheiser, Tom Perkins, Henry Horst, Rehmer, Henry Raymond, and Mrs Dr Wright. Visitors come from Pal tion Denver Cheyenne Iowa Lake View and Chicago while others travel to Pot t er and Denn. Mrs Knox hosts, T R Martin travels to Fairfield, and Robert Epps visits from Arkansas.
R L McAdam and Miss Mabel McAdam of Potter left Wednesday by Union Pacific for Montreal Canada to remain indefinitely. Mrs Banta departed to Wheatland Wyoming Wednesday evening to spend Christmas with her daughter Mrs E Davis and her husband.
Miss Janesta Clark arrived Monday from Sioux Falls South Dakota and will spend two weeks with her parents Mr and Mrs A A Clark and sister Mrs Alva Witters of Cheyenne.
Samuel Cohn of Milwaukee sues St Paul Railroad in Montana state courts for 10,000 claiming illness after being bitten by a bed bug on a sleeping car. Railroad argues car was new and free of such bugs and suggests Cohn may have brought the insect from a western hotel.
James E. Foye former clerk for Farmers' Loan and Trust Company New York pleaded guilty in Philadelphia criminal court to four indictments for fraudulently making and uttering forged written instruments. He obtained about 200000 dollars in loans from local banks using forged stock certificates. Nearly all funds have been recovered leaving 32700 dollars unrecovered.
H. R. Fuller returned Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with his wife while heavy snows kept him in Bridgeport country. He remained there to supervise cattle care due to the winter weather.
Charles Faytinger of near Sunol accidentally shot his index finger last Sunday while hunting. Joe Schimpke and Paul Vacik drove him to Sunol where a train ride transported him for medical care in Sidney.
Messrs Nick and John Treinen returned from a four week stay with relatives in Minnesota visiting Hampton Hastings New Trier Cannon Falls Minneapolis and St Paul. They enjoyed the trip immensely noting the lovely weather and that they had not seen their relatives for thirty years.
Madame Schumann Heinke files for divorce from William Rapp in Chicago. Desertion charged. married May 1995. singer has since resided in Chicago. No children.
A lyrical meditation on seasons and time. The speaker wishes well to friends who roam far from home, signaling timeless grace in springtime, harvest moons, autumn haze, and winter noons through golden notes from iron throats.
The Nebraska State Teachers Association voted to hold its meeting in Omaha for the fourth year running, beating Lincoln 498 to 2,552 votes. Election week was set as the meeting time with Thanksgiving week favored by some. Kate McHugh of Omaha was elected president, E M Cline of Geneva vice president, J F Matthews of Grand Island treasurer, Matthews the only re-elected officer, Charles Arnot of Schuyler joined the executive committee, and Mays of Lincoln replaced W G Bishop of University Place.
Mrs G C Dunn of Arnold praises Chamberlains Tablets for stomach trouble relief. She says prior bilious attacks bothered her for some time, but one bottle brought great relief and she feels like a different person. Ad advertises the product to dealers.
Miss Jeanette Hart taught Herdon No 2 near Sidney this year. She closed the Christmas term and returned home to Corad, Nebraska. An appropriate program pleased pupils and parents as they enjoyed treats and watched the children perform.
Lincoln coal workers walk out over freight rates with some firms sticking to the old 40 cent per ton steam coal haul. Other firms accept 30 to 35 cent charges. Code Commission submits expenses totaling 850.01 with various vouchers and salaries noted. Governor Morehead weighed a Christmas pardon appeal from Kansas City inmate Clarence Gathright. Accountants board organized with Robertson as president and Howard secretary. Chiropractor Yarl A Thrvey appeals license conviction. W T Thompson resumes legal practice in Lincoln.
State Engineer D. D. Price reports completion of fill on the north side of the Platte river bridge at North Bend, a 800 foot section with a 300 foot willow mat to protect it. He ordered a new cement piling after finding a defect and will inspect county contracts later next month for possible irregularities. A separate incident tells of a stranger named Martin Grierson, robbed and beaten, then thrown into the Big Sioux river near Garretson after being intoxicated and lured by unknown persons.
Chicago hosts the formation of the American Association of Public Employment Offices as labor commissioners from several states discuss unemployment. The group aims to shift unemployed workers to where jobs exist, establish offices in all states, and create interstate information exchange and monthly labor market bulletins. The federal government may fund interstate agencies, and plans for uniform agency operation will be proposed. Advisory committees of employers and workers will seek impartial handling of casual labor.
Lieutenant Baron von Forstner of the Ninety-ninth German infantry received forty three days imprisonment from a court martial for cutting down a lame shoe maker with a saber in Zabern Alsace on December 2. The case followed his insulting remarks about Alsatian citizens to recruits, sparking days of rioting and leading to the regiment's transfer by order of Emperor William.
Kansas will no longer be called a cyclone state according to J S Lewis state insurance commissioner who rejected rate hikes by tornado insurers. He cited a Weather Bureau observer noting Kansas had no recorded tornado disasters and a per century probability under one sixteenth of one percent for any one mile square area.
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