Concession Sixth District and State Officers Listed
The Telegraph Directory lists the Concession Sixth District and names state officers including Governor Las A. Holcomb Lieutenant Governor Robert Moore Secretary of State Joel A. Piper Auditor Eugene Moore Treasurer Joseph S. Bartle Attorney-General Arthur Churchill Superintendent of Public Instruction Hone R. Cobett Commissioner Public Lands and Buildings Henry C. Russell U. S. Land Office officials John M. Adams Register PLA Griffith Receiver Henry E. Gapen Chief Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S Las A. Holcomb
Robert, & Moore
Joel A. Piper
Eugeng Moore
Joseph S. Bartle
Arthur
Chucchill
Public Instruction
Hone R. Cobett
Henry C Russell
U. 8. Land Office
30th Ferato Beal Abba TY Wm R Akers
A fragmented list appears to trace district officials and school staff. Named entities include Marrisburg, Ogalalla, 137th Judicial District with Judge Wm Neville, commissioners W R Woods and A W Atkins, treasurer T B Dawson, director Geo F Blanchard, and educators Minulie Chasen Miss Whitehord Miss Blanchard Miss McKee L F Shelton Miss Mueller. The text seems to be a partial roster of local government and teaching staff.
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Ferato Beal
Abba TY
R. Akers
Marrisburg Mth
R. D. Harris
Ogalalla
Wm Neville
North Pintto
A. Case
Ars PA
Church Services and Schedules in Local Denominations
Local church notices list Sunday services for Methodist Episco pal, Catholic, Episcopal, and Lutheran congregations. Times include morning worship at 11, Sunday schools, evening services, and midweek prayer meetings, with pastors named for each parish. Strangers are welcome at all services.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
C. J. Osborn
Epworth League
Allen Kenworthy
Episcopal Church
Strout
Societies Listings From Local Lodges and Camps
Fraternal and auxiliary organizations listed with meeting dates and officers. Frank Welch Lodge No 75 meets first Tuesday monthly. Rebecca Degree and Sidney Lodge No 91 and 196 of AOUW. I O O F chapters meet varied Mondays and Wednesdays. Valiant Lodge No 9 K of P. Pythian Sidney Division 31. Army and Navy Union Nos 33. G A R No 22. W R C No 6. M W of A Sidney Camp No 109. division AOU meets first and third Sundays. Railway Trackmen and K OT M locals noted with meeting days. Providence O E S dates. multiple secretaries and officers named.
The Fastnet Light Landmark of Ireland
A London Sketch description of the Fastnet lighthouse on a rugged rock nine miles south of Crookhaven Ireland. At eighty feet high the rock and seventy foot tower endure brutal Atlantic gales that have even smashed the lantern. Landing is by a 58 foot jib crane and a hoist system used to ferry visitors to safety.
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Great Britain
Fastnet
Crouckhaven
Ireland
London
Engineering by a Mouse at Byron Mo
A Western Union worker recalls a mouse trapped in a 41 foot deep hole 20 inches across. The creature dug a spiral shaft to the top over four weeks, aided by food drops from helpers, and finally escaped unseen.
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Byron
Western Union
New York Sun
The Only Venomous Bird of Papua New Guinea
A St Louis Republic report describes the arpir p'doob or bird of death, a venomous marsh bird from New Guinea. It is pigeon sized with gray plumage and a long tail, and uses a venom apparatus in the roof of its mouth to inject poison via a knob when biting. No human has recovered from its bite, with agony likened to rattlesnake and Gila monster envenomation.
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Papua
New Guinea
St. Louis Republic
Descriptive Portrait of Professor Lombroso
A commentator portrays Lombroso as short and stout with a gray mustache and white imperial. His appearance is plain, but his speech is engaging due to a powerful memory and vast learning. Years in Turin give him Piedmontese words and phrases.
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Lombroso
Turin
Bargala Box of Cigars Sparks Banter
A playful exchange centers on a box of cigars, highlighted by a man claiming the box alone justified the price and a brief rebuttal about already having cigars to burn. The Yonkers Statesman note adds local flavor to the quip about value and worth.
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Yonkers Statesman
Venomous cobra di capella resents injury with hiss
The cobra di capella, favored by Indian jugglers, keeps its fangs but uses them only to resent wrongs. When provoked it lifts its crest and hisses, then darts at a victim who must seek escape.
Enterprising photographer tricks bald doctor with coupons
A New York physician known for a bald head was targeted by a traveling agent selling photograph coupons. The ruse led him to a photo studio where an elaborate setup photographed him with a full head of hair, exposing a clever bunko scheme by the gallery team.
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Park Avenue
New York
Pasa
Bunko Atearers
New York World
First Telephone and Fire Alarm Hero Cushman Remains Active
In Racine Wisconsin Dr S D Cushman the inventor of the first telephone and lightning arrester explains his early work with Morse and his 1851 transmitter. A frog croak miles away explains the old telegraph relic and the now Chicago based inventor packs a ton of patents in a vast office. An amusing garrison anecdote from London Tit Bits closes the note.
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Racine
Wis
S. D. Cushman
Chicago
Stuck Cachange
Far West
Cushman
Professor Morse
Bell
Prairia
Building
Et Racine
Chicago News
London
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Sidney We
W. Harper
Bronson
James J. McIntosh
Sidney
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Potter
Osborn
A.A ' Becker
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Leroy Martin
Catholic Church
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McCarthy
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A.B
A.M
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E. Taylor
Sidney Lodge
O. F
A. K. Greenlee
Sec’y
Sly Gutfround
N. G
Rebecca Degree
Het
Wm. Chowins
J Neubauer
N.G
Valiant Lodge
K. of P
F. H. DeCastro
C. C
Sig Gutfreund
J. T. McIntosh
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Regular Army and Navy Union of the
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E. V
A. A. Ricker
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Henry A. Morrow
Neubauer
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E. V. Sumner
Fetterly
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Sidney Camp
M. W. of A
James McMullan
Wm. Studt
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D. F. McKee
P. Sanders
Forrest
Pest
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H. J. Snyder
R. K
Providence
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Masonic Hall
E. R. Brelsch
C. P. Davis
W. M
Are You
Phrenological Journal
Phrenological
Fowler & Wells Co., Publishers
East
Katharine Tynan Hinkson
Greenlee & Benson
General Merchandise
United States
THE
NEW York Weekly Tribune
Telegraph
the Telegraph
Geo. W. Beat
Tribune Building
New York City
Postoffee
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Neubauer & CO
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Oberfelder Block
Ulines, Liquors & Cigars
Rose Street, Sidney, Nebr
Chowings & Son
Chowins Block
Sidney, Nebracka
R.I
Umhreview
Albert Shaw
Pleer
Review OF Reviews
Tea Magazine
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Reviers
Astor Place
Knabe
Wilkie Collins
Uayden Bros
Neb
Weekly World-Herald
William J. Bryan
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