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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1901
Page
8
Daily passenger and freight schedules listed with services and routes. Baggage checked to any point in the United States. For timetable details and tickets, contact Shipman, General Passenger Agent, Omaha Nebraska.
The timetable lists fast trains including Overland Limited and Atlantic Express routes to western points. It notes mall and express services, freight lines, and passenger connections stopping at key locations. details are partially obscured but indicate Western travel via Overland Limited No 101 102 and Pacific Express No 5 with stops and connections at Union Pacific lines through Sidney Nebraska.
Local items advertise a variety of goods and services including neckwear flour and lard sales at McMullan Casper Girmats and Essig's, dental and medical services, sewing machines, seeds, and patent medicines. Repeats of stores and prices suggest a general small town commerce page with multiple vendors and offerings.
Hors, cows, hay and baled goods listed with prices seen in Sidney market notes. Reads like a compact daily tally of agricultural commodity prices and quantities.
A fragment set shows J A Wolf and McMullan selling jewelry and linen and a Lutheran church meeting at 3 30 pm. Dentist Dr Salisbury will visit Sidney July 27 28 for painless extractions. A wagon accident at Krugers Lake injures Granville Aldridge but all children escape unharmed.
George Miller completed a deep well on the South divide at 292 feet with 140 feet of water. Cattleman Jack Fischer lost a well caving in. drought pushes Milton Abrens to sink deeper wells. Alfalfa on the high divide by JC Slingluf proves winter feed possible with proper care. Road work urges gate removal on the new highway. Lyles and a horse thief case involve Sheriff Woodard. Jesse Moffit reportedly in Binghamton NY awaiting snow. Miller dam suit goes to jury. verdict for Finnahont. Grasshopper plagues devastate eastern county crops. County finances show a debt of 87,523.68. two-mill levy reduction noted. Peach & Bowers minstrels praised in Salt Lake. show moves to Sidney July 24.
The piece reports a drunken man slept atop a Sidney standpipe last Sunday as crowds watched in heat. It notes a new lodge for independent promoters, a Colorado case with no verdict after a day of jury deliberation, and various local oddities including a jailed insanity case and questions about a former newspaper editor and his ties to THE TELEGRAPH.
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