Horse and Buggy Courting Marked 1900 Era Entertainment
Frances Lathrop recalls 1900 Nebraska life contrasting with 1950. Sidney's early community scene relies on horse and buggy gatherings, home parties, and patent medicines. Prices for farm produce, local offices, and merchants are listed, alongside a snapshot of daily life, law, and commerce on the Union Pacific frontier.
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Sidney
Frances Lathrop
Nebraska
McKinley
Germany
Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Galveston
Texas
Charles Callahan
Fred A. Gapen
The
Telegraph
Union Pacific
Union Pacine
Omaha
Recreation Clinic planned for Sidney January 20 and 21
The district Recreation Clinic will be held at the Sidney City Auditorium on Friday and Saturday January 20 and 21. Led by Jane Farwell of Dodgeville Wisconsin, the school targets extension workers 4 H leaders churches and others in recreation. Five sessions cost 2 dollars or 50 cents per session. Farwell previously worked with the National Recreation Association and the Recreation Service West Virginia and runs her own program from Dodgeville. Attendees can learn about organized recreation including square and folk dances. The organizer Kenneth Van Skike hopes for strong turnouts in Sidney.
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Sidney City Auditorium
Cheyenne County
Kenneth van Skike
Jane Farwell
Dodgeville
Wisconsin
Miss Farwell
Nebraska
Farwell
National Recreation Association of
New York
Recreation Service
West Virginia
van Skike
Sidney
Scouts Renovate Christmas Toys In Sidney Troop 90 Aid
Boy Scout Troop 90 renovated 150 toys with help from the public and local firms to brighten Christmas for 90 children in Sidney. The effort, led by Godfrey Loper, distributed by the Kings Daughters to 23 families, included donations from American Legion post Mooré's Glass & Paint Co. and Madsen Electric and Model Cleaners.
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Sidney
Boy Scout Troop 90
Yuletide
Kings Daughters
Kings ‘Daughters
Godfrey
American Legion
Mooré's
Madsen
Mr. Loper
Knights of Columbus Meet New Class Monday Night
A regular meeting of the Sxi ney Council Knights of Columbus will be held Monday night January 2 at the new meeting rooms in St Patrick's Youth Center. This will be the first meeting for the newly initiated class. The program will include a film and lunch.
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Sxiney Council
Knights ‘of “‘Columbus
St. Patrick's Youth Center
FURNITURE SUPPLY OFFERS CUSTOM COLUMNAR PADS AND SHEETS
A supplier states they can furnish columnar pads and sheets in almost any size. They note that currently not in stock items can be produced quickly and that only a few are needed to fulfill orders.
Russia's Atom Bomb and Red Gains In China Top Stories
The small town newspaper editors rate President Truman's A-Bomb mastery and Communist gains in China as top news for 1949. Also noted are the US trial of 11 top Communists, coal and steel strikes, Kathy Fiscus tragedy, Tito-Kremlin split, Taft-Hartley repeal failure, and the Berlin blockade’s end among other prominent items. The survey lists many international and domestic events shaping postwar policy and era.
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America
Truman
Russia
China
Kathy Fiscus
Tito
Kremlin
Forrestal
Alger Hiss
Cardinal Mindszenty
Eleanor Roosevelt
Cardinal Spellman
Israel
Judith Coplon
A and P
Hickenlooper
Atomic Energy Commission
Germany
Hitler
Vishinsky
Molotov
New York Yankees
Big City
Curley and Hague
Barkley
Hadley
Extension Board To Meet With Director
The Cheyenne County Home Extension clubs council executive board will meet with Miss Ethel Saxton district extension supervisor Lincoln on Wednesday January 11 to plan the 1950 program. Miss Saxton will assist the board before their first official 1950 meeting at the home of Miss Violet Shepherd Cheyenne County agent.
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Cheyenne County Home Extension Clubs Council
Ethel Saxton
Lincoln
Miss Saxton
Violet Shepherd
Cheyenne County
Three Nebraska hunting seasons end in December
Three hunting seasons in Nebraska close in December with the sheer hunt ending December 23, the squirrel season closing December 31, and the duck geese brant and coot chase ending January 4.
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Nebraska
Four Traffic Deaths Occur In Panhandle
Four Nebraskan panhandle traffic deaths over Christmas weekend raise regional toll. Mrs. John Livoni, 58, Sidney, died when her husband’s car left Highway 30 and overturned. she bled to death from a severed artery. Livoni survived with shock and bruises. Funeral services planned at Trinity Lutheran Church. Other victims: Robert L. Lawson, 24, Crawford, in a wreck near Hemingford. Robert Howell, 12, Alliance, struck and fatally injured while crossing a street. Jake S. Moore, Sutherland, car left the road near Minatare. The period marked one of the region’s worst traffic records since patrols began, per Sgt. Leo Knudtson.
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Nebraska Panhandle
John Livoni
Sidney
Highway No. 30
Livom
Trinity Lutheran Church
Henry Monnich
Telegraph Mimeograph Paper Classified
Mimeograph paper in galley size offered by THE TELEGRAPH. Ideal for newsroom use or archival clerical needs. Compact, durable stock suitable for reproduction work and office filing.
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Telegraph
Oil Test Is Planned By York County Men
Officials of the York Development Company announce plans to drill an oil well in York County after favorable geological surveys. The new firm, led by banker Dean Sack, includes Cliff E. Miller and Jess Nichols among incorporators, with a second well in the area anticipated. A Fillmore county well near Strang has reached over 500 feet.
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York County
York Development Company
Fillmore County
Strang
Dean Sack
Cliff E. Miller
York
Central City
Jess Nichols
Geneva
J. W. Hammond
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