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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1929
Page
4
A fragment notes that a Telegraph Want Ad helps readers sell items locally. It mentions a camp attended by Easton Everett and references various names and places in a garbled OCR segment. The overall tone suggests a community notice encouraging classified ads.
History items recount a plea for subscriptions to start artesian well drilling on the divide. Other notes include Mrs A A Comings donating 50 dollars, Fred Dawson taking a Garfield Beach cashier post in Salt Lake City, and local travel and business updates from Sidney and surrounding areas.
The text records a legal partnership forming in the Oberfelder block with Judge Shuman Challes Reill and Thomas Kane, a trotting exhibition by Col D. D Johnson of Minatare with stallion R. S. Lamont, a Sidney Clothing Co proprietor traveling for 30 days, Masons pursuing a new temple site, and related city happenings on Brot street near the post office.
The Bell system aims to invest about $530 million in 1929 to enhance and expand telephone facilities nationwide, the largest construction program in its history. Previous year spending totaled around $430 million, with $350 million net added to the plant this year, including $140 million for toll and long distance lines and long lines of AT&T. The growth reflects improved long distance service and rate reductions, plus a building program that will add to the system’s 2,300 owned buildings valued at roughly $335 million.
The Bell system outlines a vast program for 200 new buildings and 80 major additions in 1929, with 1929 projections spanning 1929 nationwide. The funds come from convertible bonds and aim to cover payments, supply procurement, and a large construction drive for improved telephone service.
Doris Brownson recovering from illness. Baxter Bowman visited Scottsbluff. A Kimball county car carrying Hulda Gerard family and Miss Pearl Vowers overturned near-Bronsen on July Fourth. occupants shaken and car wrecked. Ben Couch and Roy Couch spent the Fourth at Redington. others attended Sterling celebrations. Harry Courtright and C S Anderson visited Len Sherwin home near Crook. Borcher family visited C S Anderson. Rain Sunday evening welcomed. Hansen moving to Ogallala this week. Monday July 15 at 2 pm Leroy
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