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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1903
Page
8
Train listings show southbound and northbound services with passenger and freight trains. Through trips offer sleeping dining and reclining chair cars with free seats. Agents in Omaha Nebraska provide maps timetables tickets and baggage handling.
Timetable shows Eastbound trains from Sidney Nebraska at 8 40 a m Overland Limited No 4 Atlantic Express 525 p m Mail and Express 305 a m Fast Mail 255 a m Westbound No 1 Overland Limited No 16 Fast Mail 705 p m No 3 Pacific Express 410 p m No 5 Mail and Express Freight trains carry passengers at some stops Nos 101 and 102 do not carry passengers W D Gueros Agent
Multiple local notices show sales and goods from Oberfelder and Scanlon stores. Offers include Heath & Milligan paint at ten year coverage, free eye tests by J R Merifield, Stetson hats, summer apparel cleanup, cheap lard at 10c a pound for 30 days, and various furniture and home goods with low prices. Also bicycles, tinwork, and gas appliances promoted.
L M Bickel visited the city. The Republican committee of the thirteenth judicial district set August 15 for a Sidney judicial convention. Knights and Lady Maccabees held a picnic at Krueger Lake with a dance afterward. Patrick Tobin heads to China July 21 with rail workers for the new China Central railroad. Judge Grimes issued a habeas corpus writ in Bayard, about Blanche Lyman, as the Lymans seek custody. Saloon license remonstrants failed to appear. license granted. Capt Solomon Sparrow, 44, U.S. Army, dead from carbolic acid, once stationed at Fort Sidney. Prof H M Steidley and Miss Addie Harris to visit Sidney July 19 for Sunday School program and institute with talks on management and the Boy God Made.
The Burlington adds coaches to meet summer demand as Union Pacific. Burlington workers receive pay totaling over $10,000. An explosion on a Union Pacific engine near Dolores Wyoming kills Engineer Mike Lyons and seriously injures Fireman Alfred Housen. The company cites a leaky boiler as a possible cause. A drowned man, William Wood, found near Torrington, Wyoming, after crossing the river on horseback. body recovered and interred on an island.
Executrix of James O Kane estate conducts sale at the Ed McLernon ranch near Sidney Colton on July 23 1903 at 10 in the morning. Auction lists 47 head cattle 3 horses farm gear and equipment with credit terms 12 months at 10 interest or 5 cash discount. Auctioneers V F Kucera and Fred Lehmkuhl clerk.
Prohibitionists of Cheyenne county are urged to convene at the Sidney court house on Tuesday July 28 at 2 pm to nominate county candidates and elect delegates to the Lincoln state convention on August 10 1903. Ladies may attend. Epworth assembly offers reduced rail rates. E W Murless is county chairman. House and lot in west town known as the Fast property offered by Mrs A L Fast with terms available.
Two high grade Herford bulls aged 11 and 5 years weigh about 1700 pounds each. Bargain price for quick sale. Viewing at 10 miles north of Sidney. A. L. Fast, Sidney Neb.
Notice to the public states that undersigned merchants will close their stores every evening in the week at 8 o'clock promptly. Customers are urged to shop early as the rule will be strictly enforced.
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