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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1876
Page
5
A compact roundup of year end notes, jokes, ads, and notices from the Sidney Telegram. It mentions New Year greetings, Christmas trees, local businesses like Borgquist and Rawlins & Campbell, and a mix of humorous quips about fashion, letters, coal thieves, and street life. It also notes a new photography gallery by Hamilton and a change in editor at the Sidney Telegram.
An 1875 Sidney Cheyenne County inquest reports John Carroll a former 8th Cavalry man died after a night of heavy drinking and a fatal skull puncture. The coroner and jurors, citing sections of the Central Statues, record the inquisition findings and warn on misusing criminal charges and official duties.
Legal discussion on coroner inquests and juries returns a verdict of unknown killer with emphasis on due process. Local items report Kinse from Ohio, Twinman in Sidney hash, Morton visiting Lodge Pole, retirement of a showman, a motel partnership forming at Ger man ia Notel, and a note on unsettled accounts due by January 1876.
Readers are urged to patronize five local business men advertised in the Troxonaric column. They claim reasonable prices and stock availability, noting monthly money handling allows greater profit and cheaper goods. The piece encourages buying from advertisers for cheap, fashionable wares.
Thought pictures of the holidays rise from Christmas and New Year scenes in rural homes and city windows. The quiet Christmas evokes stockings by the fireside and family gatherings. New Year brings boisterous joy, charity, sleighing, and calls to friends amid lamplight and bright rooms.
The Sarpy County Sentinel mocks sensational headlines and criticizes Gerrish for lacking ability to write them. The editors insist they will not repeat last week’s sensational language, calling it disgraceful for any paper.
Sidney Retail Markets Corrected Weekly by G. W. Dudley provides updated prices and trends for local shoppers. Includes vegetable fruit meat dairy and staple goods with weekly comparisons and notes on price movements in Sidney.
Advertisements highlight H Witte Co offerings at American House and C A Moore goods from Scotch ales to lager beer. C A Moon promises grain and premium flours at Omaha prices. OA Moors Billiard Room stocks spirits. W J Harbison touts cigars. C A Moons lists fresh butter and eggs. W J Harbison also sells a neat cigar in Sidney.
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