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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1898
Page
8
A partial timetable fragment shows the U P R R schedule with times 4:20 a.m. and 6:55 p.m. for No 1 Limited freight and pass No Way Freight. The text is incomplete but indicates train timings and freight designation.
The Telegraph will render subscription accounts in arrears of more than six months on January 1. Some accounts are very old and partial payment is urged to settle this year.
Local column items report E B Pulley visiting from Redington and P C Wade from Lisco plus Huxley from Belmont and B G Hoover from Big Springs. Trade ads push cloaks boots hats and fifty cent blankets. land office blanks and a county jail renovation appear. Also noted are travelers, a masquerade ball planned by the Sidney Cornet Band, and medical notices for Chamberlains Pain Balm and Cough Remedy.
James Jones of Jones and Son Cowden testifies his wife suffered a serious LaGrippe that doctors could not treat. After using Dr King’s New Discovery she recovered from the first bottle, with a claim that it cured her consumption symptoms. Free bottles offered at WFP Bassett’s Drug Store.
An old ad announces a subscription drive by the Semi-Weekly State Journal asking readers to pay one dollar for a year of Tuesday and Friday issues plus three months of the Great Sunday Journal. The notice urges immediate delivery to Lincoln Nebraska and notes the unusually large amount of reading matter offered.
Tickets go on sale the first and third Tuesdays of January February and March via the Union Pacific to Missouri Arkansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Texas Louisiana Arizona and New Mexico. Minimum round trip rate is 37.00 orf over one fare plus 200. For exact territory and fare information call or visit EK R Breisch Agent.
The tramp retorts that he was a prisoner before age fourteen and rejects the lady's claim of improving his fortune. The exchange appears in London Fun with a sharp social conceit.
Mr. A. H. Crausby of Memphis says his wife ignored a small breast lump which worsened into a severe cancer. After failing with top doctors a New York specialist gave up. A recommendation led to S.S.S. treatment, which reportedly healed the cancer and left no recurrence for years.
A claimed vegetable blood remedy S S S promises cures for cancer eczema rheumatism scrofula and other blood diseases. Free books mailed to any address by Swift Specific Co Atlanta Ga.
An earlier medical ad explains the bladder and womb exist for specific purposes and warns against misattributing urinary symptoms to female weakness. It promotes Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as kidney and bladder remedy, offering samples and pamphlets by mail from Kilmer & Co.
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