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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1927
Page
5
The article extols Lincoln as the state capital and premier convention city valuing publicity through conventions. It notes the city’s hospitality, attractive buildings, progress, and civic pride gained from hosting the Nebraska Press Association and welcoming visitors to experience Lincoln’s hospitality and development.
The Nebraska Press Association held its fifty fourth annual convention in Lincoln on February 17 18 and 19. A splendid program and a history making meeting left The Telegraph editor honored as a member of the executive board. The piece extols cooperation and organization as vital to success, ethics, and unity in the newspaper trade.
The Chappell Register argues boosting is mutual value not free favors. Editors provide space and community promotion while merchants pay for notices and ads. Subscribing individuals should not expect personal boosts without fair monetary return, and boosting must reflect legitimate revenue.
Nebraska is the only state in the Union with no state indebtedness. The compilation shows total funded debt for all states at 1,558,742,483, with roads absorbing over 40 percent and soldiers’ bonds next. Nebraska ranks fourteenth in national wealth and leads in low per capita blindness and low immigrant deportations.
Kretz Radio and Ignition Company announces a new location at 706 Central Ave in Brewer’s Machine Shop. The notice confirms the move and provides mapping for customers and deliveries.
In a 34 year old recap from the Sidney Telegraph files, the M E church plans a fifteen cent supper at Mrs E B Ross home in Lockwood house upstairs, Washington’s Birthday observances in Fort Sidney feature Prof Willard’s orchestra, and Cheyenne county endures eastern blizzards halting transit and business. The Lutheran church reduces debt by 300 in a month as fundraisers aid the organ, Miss Chowins and others plan a home talent play April 2 to fund a rectory, paupers to be boarded out this year, land filings rise 80 percent per Register Blanchard, Gunderson flour marketed locally, Grover Cleveland set to be sworn in March 4, and a three month Lutheran organ fund concert series begins March 16.
43 years ago land hunters boarded at Chappell and took land nearby while rumour spread that railroad land would soon open to Sidney. A hand powered pumping apparatus arrived at Fort Sidney to aid the local fire brigade. General Hunt reports for duty at Omaha department HQ after a two year illness. Ogallala figures, ranchers from Rush Creek visit Sidney, while Lon Brockway returns from Michigan content with western Nebraska. Ross Davis and wife note sheep losses this year are small but lingering. O W Fowler, father of eight, plans to move from Wisconsin to the county. Firth Booth and Billy Hoppen travel to Pumpkin Creek seeking a ranch site.
The Cheyenne County Farm Bureau and the Extension Service of the Agricultural college at Lincoln are mailing four letters on hog lot sanitation to county farmers. Livestock specialist M. B. Posson will visit March 4 and 5 for two talks, drawing on years of experience to discuss improving pig farrowing and rearing through better hog lot sanitation. Meetings are March 4 at the John Poppin farm near Gurley at 10 a.m. and March 4 at the P. J. Beyer farm near Bunker Hill at 2 p.m.
On March 6 at 106 a m the R O Bond farm four miles north of Lodge Pole hosts a meeting in the hog lot if weather permits. On March 1 in the District courtroom at Sidney at 2 p m another meeting will be held. Everyone is invited if days are suitable.
Public notice offers information on the sale of the Charles S Hower property and includes an advertisement for Better Used Cars Sidney Motor Sales Company. The notice provides a contact phone number 2192 for inquiries about the sale and printing sale bids.
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