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Family Band links found in Sidney Telegraph founder story
The article traces Joseph Gossage founder of The Sidney Telegraph and Rapid City Journal and his tie to Vermillion’s Bower family, the origin of Laura Van Nuys The Family Band book, and the Disney film The One and Only Genuine Original Family Band opening at the Fox Theatre. It recounts Gossage’s early career, marriage to Alice Bower, and Rapid City journalism history.
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John Davidson
Joe Carder
Joseph Gossage
Sidney Telegraph
Gossage
Bower
Vermillion
Dakota Territory
Fox Theatre
Sidney
Fox
Journal
Black Hills Journal
Sam Scott
Rapid Street
Laura van Nuys
Joseph Brooks Gossage
George Darrow
Sidney, Neb
Telegraph
Rapid City
al Gossage
Darrow
Joe Gossage
West
Dream Merchant
Chicago
Midwest
Calvin Bower
Alice Rhoda Bower
Father Bower
Alice
Jane van Metre
Isle Philip
Vermillion Standard
Horatio N. Maguire
Black Hills
Maguires
Ottumwa
Iowa
Joe
Sixth
Quincy
Felix Poznansky
Rapid City Daily Journal
Jake Fuhrman
Minnilusa Pioneer Museum
Railroad
Main
St. Joe
Joe Cauley
Fremont
Neb
AUCC
Gossages
Geneva
Switzerland