Sidney Chamber of Commerce Sets Bold Growth Plan
The Sidney Chamber outlines a statewide growth program for Sidney and Cheyenne county with aims to boost irrigation projects, a farm station, hospital, viaduct, paving, Boy Scouts, county fair, tree planting, and a city park. Leaders urge universal support to make Sidney a bigger, better commercial hub in western Nebraska.
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Sidney
Sidney Territory
Nebraska
Chamber of Commerce
Cheyenne County
Lodge Pole
Charles D. Green
Union Pacific
Five Chamber of Commerce
Bell Telephone Grand Prize Awarded by International Jury
Bell system awarded grand prize for progress by the International Jury of Awards at the Sesqui-Centennial Exposition. Northwestern Bell part of the system. Citation honors epoch-making nationwide direct communication unified by Bell. Exhibit featured historic and modern telephone apparatus and a central office model.
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Bell Telephone
FP. C. Cunningham
Bell System
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company
Cunningham
Bell
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Palace of Liberal Arts
Philadelphia
Alexander Graham Bell
Great Britain
United States
Ladies of Christian Church undertake big fundraising task
The Ladies of Christian Church plan to raise 1000 for two causes the church building fund and their own pledge fund. They will host a Saturday all day lunch in the Cheyenne Trading Company basement on 2nd Street inviting the public to support the drive for a new church building.
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Ladies of the Christian Church
Cheyenne Trading Company
2Nd Street
Local notices and business mentions in Sidney area
Standard Oil advertises gasoline at 12c per gallon or 10c in barrel lots. The Sons of Veterans lodge organized in Sidney with charter members including Leslie Neubauer Fred Dresser Ernest Hietz H F Doran J A Britton W Otteman C Wright and Paul Borquist. A surprise party for Mr and Mrs John Hart drew about forty attendees. Chas Anderson promotes progress and immigration in Potter district. Mrs J A Carley was seriously injured after an attack by a cow last week.
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Sons of Veterans Lodge
Sidney
Leslie Neubauer
Fred Dresser
Ernest Hietz
H. F. Doran
J. A. Britton
W. Otteman
C. Wright
Paul Borquist
John Hart
Chas. Anderson
Potter District
J. A. Carley
Dancing Class Full as Sullivan Waits for Space
Prof. Sullivan warns his dancing class is capped at twenty four students as he cannot take more. Louis Cohn spent days wrestling with his locked safe after placing the book with the combination inside for safekeeping. A literary entertainment followed with an essay by L. J. Essig and a debate on congressional restrictions by L. Stevens, A. E. Ricker, H. Raynor and C. D. Essig.
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H. Raynor
C. D. Essig
Motoring Through Southern States
Gladyce W Simmons describes a journey from Chattanooga northeast through tobacco country. She notes rowhouses on stilts for ventilation, lingering Jim Crow signage, hospitable people, and a Knoxville tobacco sale with a vast warehouse where cured leaves are sorted and stored amid dusty, crowded conditions.
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Chattanooga
Knoxville
Auctioneers set minimums as growers face low bids
A warehouse sale saw tobacco firms bid against growers as baskets of flat wicker with leaves were arranged and priced. Growers left dissatisfied, saying bids did not cover production costs, while observers blamed warehouse minimums and industrial interests for prosperity in the city and poverty in the countryside.
Closing-out sale of John Peister announced
Notice to public announces a closing-out sale for John Peister scheduled for Tuesday February 15 with an upcoming advertisement to follow.
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John Peister
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Guy W. Doran
Geo. R. Adam
Central Avenue
Zone One
Ladies OF Christian Church
Gladyce W. Simmons
S.H. Snyder
Sidney’ S
White Rose
National Refining CO
Dwrane Motors
Sidney, Nebr
Owens
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