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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1897
Page
4
Postage paid terms for one year and six months are listed. Advertising rates include display per single column inch and per MODEM, local lines, business locals, professional cards per month, and legal notices at statute rates. Entered as second class mail at Sidney Nebraska. Charles Callahan editor and publisher.
The Senate approved the amended Dingley tariff as the administration’s first pledge advances. Debate centers on sugar and internal revenue funding. experts predict improved revenue and near-law status this month, with Allison optimistic of 60 million more annually than before.
Populist representative from North Platte Lucien Stebbins denounces fusion with Democrats as a court of public opinion driven by office seekers. Stebbins, called the "father of Populism" by some historians, recalls his early organizing work and his Lincoln bid as a solitary campaigner on a rickety buggy. He notes the party’s occasional refusal to recognize him despite his pivotal role.
Statistics show west of the Mississippi contains 8,458,806 horses and mules valued at 402 million dollars, 30,970,619 cattle valued at 461 million, and 50,811,500 sheep and hogs valued at 168 million, totaling about 1.09 billion. The passage also warns a son away from loafing, cigarettes, and idle habits.
The excerpts critique a Democratic Ohio governor candidate tied to coal strikes and militia use, discuss Nebraska populists torn by prosperity, note a transatlantic subsidy tied to port restrictions, and reference Altgeld’s Fourth of July speech amid the Globe bank collapse in Chicago.
Land Office Sidney Nebraska lists Ernest Lange filing to prove his claim for the new land in section 12, township 12 north, range 1 west. The hearing is set before the Sidney Register or Receiver on August 23, 1897 with witnesses Pretz Brauer Herman Brauer William Berakboge and William Uottmeyer of Sidney Nebraska.
In Detroit a man sits with a shiny silk hat as he nerves himself for a trick. He jokes that when the magician asks for a hat he will lend his own to feel the crowd’s approval after ten years of political abuse. An alderman in front row with a brown derby is suspected to be in on the gag.
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