History Items of Interest From Old Telegraph Files
Historical item set notes 14 and 24 years ago covering local sports results in Sidney Wyoming and Fort Morgan Colorado, a telegraph publisher’s California vacation, a target of a romantic search, a new gas lighting installation in Sidney, cross continental telephone talk plans between New York and San Francisco, boxing progress in Denver, Degree of Honor activities, a Buffalo Mystery film showing, smallpox rumors at Lodge Pole, horse theft concerns, wage payments and mortgage records in Cheyenne County, U P expansion, land filings, packing plant prospects, irrigation news, park work, storm reports, rail snow conditions, damper in drought, seed grain shortages, and military camp planning near Pine Bluffs.
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Rawlins
Wyoming
Sidney
Fort Morgan
F. A. Gapen
The
Telegraph
California
Sidney Merchantile
Mitchell
New York
Rolph
San Francisco
Fred Parks
Young Corbett
Denver
Degree of Honor
Buffalo
Tobin Opera House
N. P. Barber
U. P
Cheyenne
Lodge Pole
Warren Coulter
Redington
Union Pacific
Burlington
Cheyenne County
J. M. Gruber
Missouri River
U. S. Land Office
Cary and
Lyon
Belmont
Daugherty
Board of County Commissioners
Weather alerts and civic notes in city page
Daily telegraph weather warnings from the signal office. P Owens from New York seeks city site with public backing. About 30 locals rehearse Queen Esther at the Methodist church under C. D. Essig. Wagon scales moved to Pease's lumber yard. J. W. Harper builds a home in the southwest. Catholic fair planned at White House hall next week funds a city burial ground outside.
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Telegraph
P Owens
New York
C. D. Essig
Methodist Church
Cincinnati
Couch
Pease
J. W. Harper
White House Hall
New One Dollar Bill to Be Circulated Soon
Alliance Times-Herald reports the United States will introduce a shorter, narrower one dollar bill designed to be more durable and harder to counterfeit. The bill will be one inch shorter and half an inch narrower than the Civil War era standard, saving the government about $4 million annually in production costs and reducing counterfeit ease with a single design per denomination.
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United States
A Business Man and His Critics
A business man stands as the central figure of satire for the critical intelligentsia, supplying their wit and material life through his role in printing, distributing, and advertising. The piece argues his influence extends across the books, magazines, and newspapers that fuel their world.
Mayor Schroeder Celebrates 62nd Birthday at Home
Railroad Notes reports Mayor H. Schroeder marking his sixty second birthday with friends at his residence on January 24. Other items note J. W. Brennan, grain car inspector, visiting Sidney, Mrs. J. C. Proper's trip to Oshkosh to visit her ailing mother, Thomas Crosbie's improving health with expected return on February 5, H. Hargens assisting his son’s sale east of Gurley ahead of a Montana move, Nick Ellis and wife from Spokane visiting Sidney, their Grand Island stopover, and A Edner attending a Cheyenne safety meeting for maintenance staff.
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H. Schroeder
J. W. Brennan
General Grain Car
Sidney
J. CG. Proper
Oshkosh
Nick Ellis
Spokane
Wash
The Business Man Behind Critics and Civilization
The passage credits the business man with sustaining critics and civilization through heat, chairs, vehicles, walls, underwear, tools, bread, water, food, and institutions. It argues critics’ claim against him rings naive because without his gifts and endowments the institutions and comforts would not exist.
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Omaha
Fort Sidney
Fort Omaha
Fort Niobrara
Fort Robinson
Fort Russell
Fort Laramie
Pine Bluffs
Plum Creek
Kimball
Cody
Potter
Pumpkin Creek
Oberfelder & Company
Secur
Alliance Times-Herald
Booth Tarkington
Worlds Work Magazine
Areny
A. Edner
Buick
Nash
Hudson
Dodge
Chevrolet
Overland
Ford
Fordson Tractors
Sidney Motor Sales
Silver Canyon
Cheyenne County Lumber Co
Star Market
the Star Market
Frank Sehwasnick
Prop
Lincoln Highway
O. P. Skaggs System
S. D. Vogler
F. J. Buddemeier
Buddemeier
O. P. Skaggs
Mney
Nebraska
P. Skaggs As
Rens Eae
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