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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1919
Page
10
Letters from Sidney Schroeder and other servicemen reveal postwar hopes and discharges. Lincoln area families celebrate returns, with Glenn Jackson, Fred Parks, and David Ells among those home or awaiting travel. Local notes mention casualties, wounds, courtship of relatives, and Doctors Rovhe and Shoemaker welcomed back.
A local telegraph shop advertises up-to-date job printing capabilities and invites customers to try its services for neat, efficient results.
John Wesley Skyatt, the inventor, developed the Hyatt roller bearing while testing materials to withstand heavy cane mill strains. His work on flexible materials for billiard balls led to the first flexible roller bearing and the cellulor invention.
Two British transports carrying 2,000 soldiers and 60 Americans ran aground amid heavy seas near Southampton and Deal. Tugs and lifeboats rescued troops as officials report possible fatalities and continued search for missing men. The Narragansett was later declared aground off Southampton, while the Piave broke in two at Deal with fears of lost lives and coastal salvage efforts ongoing.
The piece traces Bessarabia’s fate from Moldavian rule to 1812 Russian annexation, Napoleon’s influence, and the 1878 Berlin Congress. It notes the region's shifting control, decline in commercial importance, and its enduring Romanian identity among the Moldavians, who maintain the Romanian language despite upheavals.
An old newspaper notice promotes Tonic Nux I Tone, Western Drug Co products, and Good Year tires at Osborn Garage. It touts neat, prompt job work performed at the office with available tires and tubes.
Sidney Nebraska bank statements show assets including loans and discounts, cash, and reserves totaling over two hundred thousand dollars. The reports list deposits, capital stock, undivided profits, and a depositor guaranty fund, with officials John Johnson and Geo W Venell sworn in as cashier and directors.
The School Board of District No 1 in Cheyenne County Nebraska offers public auction for cash of one acre of land, a stone building, a frame shed and fence, formerly used as school grounds. District No 2 12 also offers sale of land, a frame school house, a frame barn with shed, pump head and rods, and enclosing fence. The Sunol school building and its grounds fence are included. Sale at the new Sunol school house on Thursday February 20 at 2 PM. Directors and officers listed.
A well known Scottish divine calms a drunken interrupter on a crowded journey. The minister interposed, preventing ejecting the disturbing passenger, then later the man muttered angry words and seized the cleric, declaring it is good to see what it is to be drunk.
A quirky line in a historical paper describes a dirigible horsefly as an imagined aid to navigate the skies. The snippet evokes playful robotics-era humor and the era’s fascination with air travel without naming people or places.
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