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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1876
Page
3
The item compiles local items in Sidney about housing, weather, ice supplies, a court call, and social life. It notes Calico balls, a Germania House dance, a shooting scrape notice, painting by A Baldry, and a long critique of local commerce, temperance, and moral exhortations with jokes about holidays and the year 1876.
The meeting in Sidney appointed C. Fenris as chair and C. W. Surra secretary. A committee of five was authorized to draft a petition for Cheyenne County officials to fund a public highway and bridge from Sidney toward Custer City, with discussions of private subscriptions and tax support. The group set future sessions and authorized letters to Stephens Wilcox offering four to five thousand dollars in stock, then adjourned to future meetings.
A 1876 letter from Stephens & Wilcox of Omaha to C A Moore requests a full cost estimate for a river bridge project. It asks about a four mile downstream crossing, timber availability for piles, ground survey, possible bonuses from Sidney, stock contributions, and timing. The firm urges prompt action and notes a 60 day build window if partners cooperate.
A penny dreadful style piece recounts a boot black from New York aged about 15 who roams Sidney streets and confronts a man with a revolver. The tale condemns juvenile violence while noting a mountain sheep, elk, and buffalo head shipment to Paris via Julius Meyer and H. R. Beauman in Omaha.
A defense of the Cheyenne and North Platte line as the superior outfitting route to the Black Hills. The piece counters Cheyenne and Sidney claims, argues the Omaha route lacks bridge issues and wood water, and touts shorter distance, better resources, and higher freight receipts along the North Platte corridor. It cites Cheyenne Leader and Omaha Bee as contemporaneous sources.
Mr. Wmn. Harbison has funded a premier drop curtain west of the Mississippi and secured a talented troupe led by John Brace and wife Ben Murphy and wife Chas Stacy and wife Master Gilmore and Ed Diamond. They offer first class entertainments drawing crowded houses nightly at the Globe.
The Fourth of July 1876 celebration should be massed to support a permanent memorial fund. Each county should prepare an address detailing its history from settlement, growth, resources, and industries. These addresses would be published uniformly like Congressional documents to form a bound historical repository. designation of authors should begin promptly.
A reflective tribute extols a woman's dual nature from tender fragility to fierce resilience. It contrasts delicate affection with courage under fire, describing how calamity reveals inner power, endurance, and healing influence, framing woman as a central source of life and charm.
District Court of Cheyenne County Nebraska to convene in Sidney starting February 17 1876 at 9 o clock am. Judge Winland Gassin presides Sixth Judicial District. The notice frames questions about literacy value and public access to newspapers as educational tools.
A terse maxim argues that prudent budgeting avoids debt and noise from collectors. It cites John Randolph on the Philosopher's Stone found in pay as you go. The speaker claims steady, self owned money leads to peace of mind and financial happiness.
The piece argues parents should guide sons toward skilled trades rather than professions or retail work. It cites that skilled mechanics gain independence, while many prisoners lacked any trade. The author warns that neglecting trade training creates idle, dependent, or even vicious individuals and stresses yeoman strength through craft.
County Clerk of Cheyenne County Nebraska invites scaled proposals for jail floor concrete of at least one foot thick, oak plank covering at least two inches thick, with six inch spikes, and a doorway addition to the hallway into the cooking room. Bids due January 31 1876. commissioners reserve right to reject all bids.
A fragmented OCR shows varied commodity prices including flour cornmeal sugar butter tea coffee eggs cheese and produce. Values appear garbled with many misread tokens but indicate a retail market snapshot with per unit and per hundred pricing alongside items like potatoes buckwheat chickens coal and salt.
The notice lists groceries and alcoholic beverages at the American House with C. A. Moore offering Booth Ales and Lager, a tinware and hardware stock, fresh dairy items, and a first class photograph gallery run by Mr. Hamilton near Germania Hotel, promising high quality and reasonable rates.
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