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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1897
Page
8
Incomplete OCR text liststrain numbers and times for passenger and freight services. Mentions No 3 Fast Mail No 1 Limited No 23 Way Frelyne with times around 7 00 a m 1 30 p m 2 p m and 8 00 a m, with agent Bretscu referenced.
Read Oberfelder's new ad and notary service. Local trades, clothing, furniture, and a range of small ads punctuate Sidney notes. Mention of snow, politics, loans, rail activity, and community events with several named residents and businesses.
A local note reports Mrs Pomeroy is out of danger and rapidly recovering after a recent surgical operation. Other brief items mention ice palace construction by Bill Stuht, a telegram to Miss Whitehead about her sister, and assorted local notices.
Mr Gilman Brown of 24 Mill Street South Gardner Massachusetts was told by doctors his son had little time left due to lung trouble after Typhoid Malaria. He spent 375 dollars on doctors who gave him up. Dr Kings New Discovery cured him and let him return to work as a healthy man. Free trial bottles at W PF Bassett Drug Store.
Mr A J McGinnis of the Liverpool Engineering Society traces coal value per pound across steamship evolution. From 1840 displacement 0.678 ton at 8 knots with 10 percent cargo, to 1885 tramp and north Atlantic freight ships carrying 60 percent and 55 percent cargo respectively, and modern express steamers showing cargo down to 0.09 ton per pound of coal.
A westward gentleman recalls wandering Broadway in New York and mistaking a passerby for a known woman. He greets her, only to be met with a sharp rebuke from Mia as the crowd laughs at his error. The anecdote highlights urban anonymity and mistaken recognition.
Union Pacific and connecting lines will run a Pullman Tourist Sleeper from Minneapolis and St Paul to Los Angeles via Sioux City and Columbus without change. Car departs Minneapolis Thursdays at 7:40 p.m. St Paul at 9:35 p.m. Returns Los Angeles Thursdays at 2:00 p.m. This line offers fast west travel and sleeper space should be reserved early. Contact nearest Union Pacific agent for details.
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