Local Advertisements and Late News Briefs
Rates listed for subscriptions and advertising in a Sidney Nebraska paper. Notices include a sheriff candidacy by J W McDaniel Lodgepole and national events: Roosevelt’s extra session set for Nov 11. Oregon senator Mitchell's land fraud sentence. Keith County stockmen charged with fencing government land. Also notes naval history, Daniel Lamont death, and a pyrotechnic naval battle at the Exposition with dummy ships and staged gunfire.
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Guild’s Lake
Kansas and Missouri swap corn stories in week of news
Telegraph dots and dashes report a lively western week with shocks from Pat Crowe’s Omaha return, Rockefeller urging temperance, Depew’s public image repair, and Smiley in Lacrense handling farmers at his private jail while anti-trust concerns loom over big players.
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West
Pat Crowe
Omaha
Rockefeller
Chauncey M. Depew
Equitable
Smiley
Lacrense
Kas
Hail and Weather, Dairying News From Nebraska Towns
Reports from Irving and nearby areas note grain harvesting and haying progresses. Weather brought a severe hail storm and a heavy rain with thunder, seen as much needed by the region. The Sidney Telegraph highlights Cheyenne county dairy growth, with five hundred dollars a month paid for cream in Sidney. The Payne Investment Co plans to sow 280 acres of alfalfa, aiming for August 15 completion, while Mannel Stroup notes fall sowing offers better root establishment and yields.
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J. W. Wehn
Clyde Spanogle
Bridgeport
George Eleass
Miss Hilda
Pat Rowlan
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Nebraska
Kearney
Payne Investment Co
Mannel Stroup
Payne Lands
North West Re settlement and growth noted in letters
The Sidney Telegraph reports letters from former Cheyenne county residents indicating plans to return and settle the area again. The Alliance Times notes signs of re development and permanence across the northwest, with those who stayed on farms prospering and content with their success.
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Sidney Telegraph
Cheyenne County
Northwest
Alliance Times
Special Interest to Women in Chicago Record-Herald
The Chicago Record-Herald offers extensive women focused content including fashion features in every issue. It provides kitchen menus, home tips, fashion pages, a beauty column by Mme Qui Vive, stories, book reviews, and Sunday fashion sections aimed at homemakers.
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United States
Chicago Record-Heruald
Mme Qui Vive
S. BE. Kiser
Dr. Withrow
Henry Symes
Burlington Low Rates for Westbound Trips
Burlington advertises low rates to points west including Colorado Utah Portland direct or via California. Travel times: Denver under five hours, Colorado Springs and Manitou seven, Pueblo ten. Call for information and advertising material. M. A. Shipman, Agent.
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Burlington
Colorado
Utah
Portland
California
Denver
Colorado Springs
Manitou
Pueblo
M. A. Shipman
Canary bird joke on a streetcar overheard in Chicago News
A streetcar conversation in Chicago draws a remark about Mrs Lofter and her baby. A contrasting tale follows as another woman recounts hearing a fat man speaking to a canary bird. The exchange highlights wit and urban humor.
Crockett and the Mules
An 1830s tale from Harper’s Weekly recalls Davy Crockett in Washington. A Virginia mule herd parades past the hotel as a congressman jokes about Crockett’s constituents bound for Massachusetts to teach school.
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Davy Crockett
Texas
Pennsylvania Avenue
Virginia
Heston
Crockett
Massachusetts
Harper's Weekly
Kitchen Central to Chinese Homes Says Missionary
A Chicago Chronicle report quotes a missionary describing Chinese homes where the front entry leads to the kitchen, noting kitchens define town populations and brick chimneys are rare. Smoke exits through ceiling or roof openings, and mud stoves serve the poor.
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China
Chicago Chronicle
The Medicine She Wanted Village Dame’s Aches
A village dame narrates a sore throat and failed remedies. She recalls tying an old stocking and consulting Mrs. Giles before deciding to send to the White Horse for three pence north of gin. The tale ends with a wry line that you cannot take it when you are dead.
Man Alters Will Amid Laughter At New Play
An impoverished nephew urges the elderly man to attend a new play, promising laughter. The old man responds with a glare and soon radically amends his will for the forty fourth time amid a scratchy, dramatic moment.
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Pat
Is It His Tommary to Cut the Bride Question
A Brooklyn Life item notes a nervous young man about to marry seeking guidance on proper wedding conduct. He asks whether it is customary to cut the bride, highlighting playful or anxious inquiry about wedding theatrics.
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Brooklyn
Clubbing Offers For Sidney Telegraph Readers
Prairie Farmer and magazine and Chicago Weekly Inter Ocean are offered at clubbing rates to new and old subscribers of The Telegraph. Subscriptions paid in advance or paid-up old accounts entitle readers to the lower prices. The Telegraph aims to keep residents informed on county news and neighboring happenings across 211 local homes.
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Hisself
Famouy
Igs
Cheyenne County Mortgage Foreclosure Notice and Financials
Public mortgage foreclosure petition filed by William Winans and Annie Winans in Cheyenne county Nebraska against Albert C Nicholson and unknown wife. Case details include note of 50 dated 1889, due 1894, current due 2608.40 plus taxes and interest. court orders sale of property to satisfy debt. answer due by September 1905.
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District Court
Cheyenne County
Nebraska
Albert C. Nicholson
Nicholson
William Winans
Annie C. Winans
Albert Nicholson
Bank of Commerce
Grand Island
Range
Wes
Sidney
Anniec
Winans, Pinintifs
Land Office Notices for Thornburg and Nelson at Sidney
Department of the Interior notice lists settlers George A. Thornburg and Vernon A. Nelson filing proof of residence and cultivation on their lands in Nebraska. Thornburg seeks HL No. 4071 for section 22 in township 131 range NW, aided by witnesses Norfolk Lingwill Nelson and Osgood. Nelson seeks HE No. 3749 for the west half of section 12 in township 139 range WW with witnesses Norfolk Thornburg Bertramson Larson.
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Department of the Interior
Sidney
Nebraska
Neb
George A. Thornburg
Wiliam Norfolk
Potter
Peter Lingwill
Vernon Nelson
Milton Osgood
Vernon A. Nelson
William Norfolk
George Thornburg
Paul Bertramson
Nels Larson
Allot Potter
J. 1. Melnrosy
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J.H. Fiper
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Ayers & Pills
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Peoples Poniard
Duplay
F. A. Gapen
J. W. McDaniel
Lodgepole
Roosevelt
Congress
Mitchell
Oregon
H. B. Reed
Clarence M. Adam
Charles and
William O. Miller
Keith County
John Paul Jones
Paris
France
Annapolis
Ind
Daniel S. Lamont
Cleveland
Millbrook
N. Y
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Kansas
Missouri
Brown’s
Irving
Elsass and Sons
E. Swanburg
M. C. Ranch
Henry Riley
Jack
Pete
Albert Bowman
Harin Covall
Sand Hills
E. W. Slimm
Robert Walsh
S. Dunnhage
Crockett and the Mules
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Prairie Farmer and Magazine
N.Y
Tribune-Farmer
The
Nebraska State Journal
Omaha World-Herald
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Nebraska Farmer
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Bridgeport, Neb
North Platte Valley
J. W. Iddings, Prop
Wm. Gates
Sidney Loan & Building Association of
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State OF
Chas. Callahan
Chas. Callanan
Leroy Martin
A. Pease
Granneman
M. Rapeccir
Heaton & Lehmkuhl
C.N. Couts
SOG
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Sald
A. B. Persinger
G. C. McAllister
Rder
UN County
County
Said
James Tucker
William Stuht
Ernest Stuht
Peay
James 8. Hadley
Sante Tucazn
A. O, Oxe
A. M
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Pres
Omabs
A. J. Lowry
Princ
First Natt Haak
Business Men
Business College
N. B.C
Sidney, Neb
B. F Mitchell
A. Pease & Sons
Sidney, Nebraska
Schlitz
Budweiser
Coors’ Select
Kruse Brothers
Union Pacific Railroad
Exposition
Pacific Northwest
Exposition Grounds
Exposition City
W. W. Aldridge
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