Telegraph Directory Details Nebraska Officials and Churches
Directory lists state officers governor and attorney general, legislature and district represen tatives, county treasurer and sheriff, plus village trustees at Sidney. Church notes cover Methodist Episcipal Catholic and Episcopal services with times and leaders in Sidney and surrounding areas.
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Overnor
Las A. Holcomb
Robert K Moore
Speke Wae Cee Foula
Piper
Eugene Moore
Joseph Ss. Bartley
Arthur S. Churchill
Henry R. Co Bote
Henry C Russell
Fraternal Lodge and Society Meeting Schedule
Local notices list multiple fraternal bodies meeting monthly or weekly. Franks Welch Lodge 74 AF and AM meets first Tuesday. Sidney Lodge 196 AO0W meets second and fourth Thursdays. Valiant Lodge 93 KB meets 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. Sidney Camp 1001 MW of A meets third Friday. Providence Chapter OES meets 2nd and 4th Wednesdays. and other groups such as IOOF, GFWC, US veterans, and KOTM announce regular gathering times and officers.
A MOUND OF ROCKS A Fatal Army Warning at Fort Laramie
A Wyoming claim links a 1853 massacre near Fort Laramie to a young West Point lieutenant’s overzealous bid to solve a cow theft. When he forced a village chief to reveal culprits, he fired after five minutes, leaving a field of Indian casualties and a lone survivor guiding later recovery. The tale ends with a mound marking the mass grave and a veteran’s warning about prudence in command.
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Fort Laramie
Wyoming
West Point
Colorado
Utah
Old Fort Lacomie
Brigham Young
Salt Lake
Nauvoo
Ill
Turkey Feather
McGrath
Denver Cor
New York Sun
Ancient Advertising Traces From Eve To Pompeii
A Cornhill Magazine excerpt surveys advertising’s origins from the first man with goods to biblical Eve, Greek town criers, and Roman wall notices. It notes curses on lead sheets for stolen property, blessings for repayment, and gladiatorial game adverts found in Herculaneum and Pompeii.
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Inquirer
Herculaneum
Pompeii
Cornhill Magazine
Dumas struggled with early writing process
The note recalls Alexandre Dumas as a beginner who wrote with great effort and confusion. He reportedly labored to connect sentences and often rewrote Dame aux Camelias five times, telling a friend he gnashed his teeth at slow idea development.
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Alexandre Dumas
Reading as substitute for education and fiction prep
A reader asks for a systematic reading plan as a college substitute and for books to prepare for historical fiction. Edward W. Bok says reading can substitute for college for some, while others need formal teaching. if education is inaccessible, a guided reading course is valuable. For fiction, Bok recommends studying English history through top novels, starting with Saxon times to the 19th century, and similar works on other European nations, to grasp American history.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Edward W. Bok
Bok
France
Germany
Spain
Italy
Europe
America
England
Tver
Wilkie Collins
Omaha
Stayden Bros
Neb
Weexly
Worlp-Herald
William J. Bryan
Nweruska
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U.S. Renate, Inc
Thurston Onuha
William V. Allen
Madison
Congressional
Bixth Die Eete
O.M Kem. Boken Bow
U.S. DaAnchie
aRohn M. Adams
Enya Pla. Griffith
Legislature
Nougland
North Platte
BK. Morgan
Oice Cee Eee
Chappell
H. M. Grimes
A Pease
Sidney
Aniel McAleese
Wes
C. Bullo K
Lodge Pole
Neubauer
G. P Chambers
Colton
Root
Willis
Camp Clark
F. Bassett
Leroy
Martin
W.R Woods
Weyrrts
Aes
W .Atkins
Weed A Harper
Ae Villiage Trustees
A. Peas
Ae Wees Ee
S Neubauer
J. McDaniels
Methodist Episcopal Church
C.J Osborn
Epworth League
Alien Kenworthy
Catholic Church
Ogallain
J McCarthy
Episcopal Church
Strout
Eee
Mediator
Venus
PLA
Griffith
T.B B. Dawson
Geo. F. Blanchard
Foho Baker
James J. Mcintosh
Ches, Dorin Y
Minnie Chase
Frank Welch
FE. Hart
Sec
Y. Geo
FE. Taylor
Sidney Lodge
O. F
A. K. Greenlee
Sec'y
Sig Gutfreund
Rebecca Degree
Island
Wm. Chowlns
Sec’y
J. Newbauer
N.G
Valiant Lodge
K. of B
F.H. DeCastro
K. R.S. J. J- McIntosh
J.T. McIntosh
Joseph S. Conrad Garrison
Realar Army and Navy Union of the
U. S
I. H. DeCastro
Thos. Whitenan
Adj
F. W. Summer
No. II
A. A. Ricker
Henry A. Morrow
C. Neubauer
Thos. Ishmael
V. Sumner
W. R
Etterly
Washburn
Sidney Camp
M. W.of A
James McMullan
Wm. Studt
L. H. Bordwell
W. M . A. Armstrong
A.O.H
Sunda
D. F. McKee
P. Sanders
Forrest
Pest
H. J. Snyder
R- K
Providence
O. E.S
Masonic Hall
E. R Breisch
C.P. Paes
A.P.T.L
The
American Protective Tariff League
Tis League
Causa
Wilbur F Wakeman
West 23d Street
New York
Mia. Ruyter
Dumas
Blackwell's
Durham Tobacco Co
Durham
N. C
Durham Tobacco
Greenlee & Benson
General Merchandise
Vredduce
United States
NEW York Weekly Tribune
Telegraph
Geo. W. Beat
Tribune
New York City
Postoffice
Sidney, Neb
Neubauer & CO
Proprietors
McKitz
Ukbach
Oberfelder Block
Rose Street, Sidney, Nebr
Chowins & Son
Chowins Block
Nebraska
Ripan
Review of Reviews
Astor Place
Agensts
Knabe
Weekly World-Herald
Jose
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