Sidney Telegraph editorial page from Nebraska paper
The Sidney Telegraph publishes editions every Monday Wednesday and Friday. It identifies itself as Western Nebraska’s oldest West newspaper founded in 1873 and an Associated Press associate member with Nebraska Press Association membership.
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Nebraska Press
Ais
Akchitinge
Sidney Telegraph
The
Telegraph Printing
Co., Inc
11Th Ave
Sidney
Nebraska
Peter ‘Syphe
Western
Associated Press
Nebraska Press Assn
Nebraska Property Taxes Rise Across Two Decades
A survey highlights Nebraska property tax growth since 1940 with state totals climbing from $90 million to $731.6 million by the present year and projections exceeding a billion by 1970. It discusses how government size drives taxes, notes motor fuel taxes as top revenue sources, and weighs property tax reforms against sales and income taxes.
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Nebraska
Council
Fred Herrington
Busines i
E. B. Schmidt
Legislative Council
Spears
Schmidt
Property tax fairness debated by Schmidt in state finance talk
Schmidt argues state agencies rely on an unstable income tax, while fairness in taxation weakens when property ownership and income diverge in modern times. He cautions against abandoning the property tax but supports a blended tax system to reduce inequities and administrative costs driven by high tax rates.
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Schmidt
Schmitt
Nebraska
Andi
Schanidt
Gas Demand Surges 1940 to 1960 Outsells Oil Market
A study shows natural gas and gas liquids rising from 18.2 percent of the petroleum demand in 1940 to about 45 percent by 1960, while crude oil share falls from 72.7 percent to 42.8 percent. The data urge producers and refiners to expand gas output and reassess oil product oversupply.
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Kierk Petroleum A
United States
Ise
Whle
Christmas Snow Fears and Local Notes From Sidney
A Sidney column recalls a snowless Christmas wish by Rev William Murphy a missionary priest in Brazil. The page reports on Dalton farmer Henry Hippen death, Sidney officials’ Nebraska County group leadership, a donated TV for polio sufferer Kenneth Mitchell, and a gateway of local notes including a sheep camp tragedy near Sidney, a senior cotillion, Gurley speed limits dispute, Sidney Greyhounds hockey, and Kansas politician Alf Landon.
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Sidney
William Murphy
Lloud O’holleran
O’ Holleran
Father Murphy
Brazil
Amazon River
Henry Hippen
Dalton Area
Cheyenne County
Dalton Pioneer Hospital
George Fleming
Friday
Nebraska County
Commissioners, Supervisors and ‘Highway Commissioners Association
Kenneth Mitchell
Klein
Don. Erickson
Potter
Erickson
Sidney High School
Junior Borcher
Maxine Tamasi
Jack Welsh
Gurley
Sidney Greyhounds
Laramie
Legion Park
Howard Maley
Don Jorgenson
Fred Meick
Fritz Vath
Landon
Mr. Fishman
Tribune
Kaw
Sunflower State
Radio Interference Report Sought By City Officials
Citizens urged to report radio interference to City Clerk Carl C. Jones to help the municipality locate and reduce nose interference from electric motors and signs, with cooperation from city authorities. 45 Years Ago the Doran family nearly suffocated by gas from a stove as fumes filled their home after a chimney obstruction.
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Carl C. Jones
H. T. Doran
University of Wyoming
Peetz
Louis Stahl
Proctor
Paul Hecker
William Sutter
Sidney
Stahl
Nelsen
Stone warehouse rises for D. J. Scanlon drug store
Stonemasons work on a stone warehouse at the rear of D. J. Scanlon's drug store. Scanlon plans a new stone drug store at the current site with construction set to begin in early spring. Sidney R. Oberfelder is noted in the fragment after two.
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Dean Kratz
Sidney
University of Nebraska
Ebraska
Verlin Walter Livingston
Methodist Church
George Frederick Mandel
D. J. Scanlon
A Christmas Tree and Town Notes in Sidney
A long church piece by Rev H C Michael extols a children's Christmas tree scene with toy filigree and a village railway. Other items note young Sidney residents in New York fashion work, local ornaments, sidewalk rules, and holiday plans. The 1895 headlines celebrate the irrigation convention and local winter events, with Christmas programs, social gatherings, and a boxing match at White House Hall.
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New York City
Sidney
Our High School
Kruse Beothers
F. M. Kemp
Post Theatre
Santa Claus
Belle Chapin
Allie Ickes
Lillie Chowins
Bertha Billings
Miller
White House Hall
McCarty
F’? Company
Ryan
E’ Company
Morrison
Patrick Bradley
Anderson
McDonald
J. E. Cofffey
Harry Nolan
John Fisher
Frank Rihn
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Sidney Telegraphy
Weeversity of Nebraska School of Journalism
Carroll ‘Kraus
Ois
Ottier
Ofr
Ees Lakstadt
H. C. Michael
D. D
Redington
W. F. Paine
Chicago
California
Mr. Paine
Lexington
Holcomb
Convention
Sidneys
Pat Lunny
J. J. McIntosh
Mesdames Bullock
Radcliff
Stevenson
Sullivan
Phillips
Winkleman
Peterson
Dawson
Jessen
Trognitz
Hart
Gorham
Sharmer
Callahan
JO Dalton
Dalton
Illinois
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