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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1880
Page
3
Fragmentary notice from a Cheyenne paper mentions Fidney Selegraph and Keith Company. details unclear due to damaged OCR.
Local items report Moore Hotel tables stocked with vegetation and fruits, store repainting, Day moving to Second street, a Deadwood treasure shipment, John Young winning freight, saloon renovations, prairie greens, Grand Island Times praise, indignation meeting, John Goeiert's meat market carload, busy carpenters and painters, Colorado Star flour sale, E M Day gallery stock, 75 bulls from Kansas City, local hotel men Shaman and Francie, telegraphic Chicago reports, Whites House Hall progress, Chicago nomination data, Peru Herald and Columbus Independent exits, Bronson birth congratulations, A Newman selling out, a social gathering on Front street, Deadwood Pioneer remark, Otis H Ballou confirmed U S Marshal, Gosdert case details.
A survey expedition led by Mr. R Harvey and Mr. Starkweather with fifteen men will map the 7th meridian and 7th 8th parallels to Nebraska's northern boundary. John Zobel leaves Sidney for New York as his brother lies near death. O K shop passes to C Schmutz. John Glickauf buys a barber shop. Mrs Dens prepares for removal. Rawlins family plans Plattsmouth departure. Garfield controversy noted. editor’s paper credit issue highlighted. Sidney brass band active. local cattle market shifts. FR Meermey plans a bacat market.
Fred Kennedy is recovering and expected to be released from care soon. The update notes improvement and outlines plans for his return.
Frequent visitors and residents, including John Anderson and Joe Connelly, arrive or stay in Sidney. Local events feature Milburn the preacher, new operators, drought and fire news, mining reports, and plans for a Fourth of July celebration. Custer area growth, road and mine developments, and retail openings paint a bustling regional picture.
A young man named Wheaton, once a deputy sheriff in Lawrence county South Dakota, arrived from the Hills and stayed at Lockwood Howe. He showed signs of mental instability and was cared for by Dr. Mosely of Fort Sidney. After a week of confinement and constant surveillance his condition partly subsided he is now weak but able to be up under continued care.
Greenhouse and Bedding Planta. Time and money saved by ordering from me. I offer the largest collection of plants in the west including sweet potato cabbage tomato and other seasonable plants. Address W. J. Huesan Plattsmouth Nebraska. Catalogue free.
The fantrain contest moves to the change set with Sunday departures on all Pennsylvania lines. Vandalia Pan Handle and Fort Wayne lines shift their special trains from St Louis Cincinnati and Chicago while Baltimore and Ohio maintains the 23 ult fast train schedule. The lightning express from Baltimore leaves at 5 15 p m as originally posted.
Rev Edward Hale authors opening piece "A Quart Millennium" tracing Massachusetts Bay Colony landings and early churches in Boston Salem and Dorchester. Features include sketches of Winthrop Colton White and Clapp, views of Boston eye before first house, old local map, and a 1690 to 1640 church drawing. Includes Modern Jewish Life, BeBe the Nailmaker, Little Hinges, poems, obituaries, and more in 128 pages for 24 cents a copy.
The June number of Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly features travel writing on The Ferry Across the Atlantic by W H Riding, tales by Etta W Pierce and R Brimwall, poems by P B Maraton and Ernest Trevor, and various sketches. The volume closes its IXth year with 198 pages, 100 illustrations, and a colored frontispiece. Single copy 25 cents, annual 3 dollars. Frank Leslie's Pulling House at Park Place, New York.
The Baltimore and Ohio launches a nonstop service from Chicago reaching Washington the next evening in under 28 hours with single-sight travel. The line touts improved track work, new Janney coupler platforms on passenger cars, and renovated finishing stations under Gales Bros. It claims faster routes to Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, and positions Baltimore as a key eastern hub.
Notion announces sale of slaughter house and butcher shop with terms via H V Redington Co Bidney Nebraska. Sioner M E Cavunca Rev Edward G Fowler Pamor. Union services held every Sabbath afternoon at 3 and Sunday School at 4 in the school building with all welcome.
An old time remedy advert promotes Brown's Tar Trachea to cure throat soreness and strengthen the voice. It claims the product helps those who cannot sing or talk and notes druggists carry it.
An ad proclaims Samazing 1088 and the Great Western Lung Healer will cure a cough. It is marketed for sale by all druggists.
An assortment of ads touts Brown's Arnica Salve for cuts burns and bruises and Dr Marshall's Bromotine and Romaline for liver and digestive complaints. Also promoted are new gold rings lockets and necklaces at Thoelecke's jewelry store. Colorado residents urged to use Brown's Family Medicines in the future.
An advertisement touts a German catarrh cure and remedy for severe head colds believed to lead to consumption. It claims to ease catarrh with a blend of dendstion and iodide weed, sold at 50 cents a bottle, and asserts restoration of lung health per N F Hasen and C K Horggaict of Fidney Neb.
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