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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1895
Page
2
Advertising prices listed for display per column inch per month and per line for local and business locals and professional cards. Also mentions statutory rates and an official postmark notice from Sidney Nebraska.
CHAS CALLAHAN, Editor and Publisher. The editorial urges the upcoming Congress to end and praises tariff architect William Wilson as postmaster general. It criticizes Hawaii cable opposition, notes Cheyenne county’s destitution stigma, cites Missouri school age debates, urges compulsory education, and invites irrigation opinions while predicting Germany’s silver move will lift the dollar from money sharks.
Popular items include Afternoons in Italy by Mary B Welch and Literary Atlanta with portraits of Joel Chandler Harris and Frank L Stanton. Ida A Baker presents A Washington Logging Camp while Women Writers of Washington profiles Grace Greenwood and Kate Field. Idaho love story Beatrice closes the issue with the Prize Short Story and Poem.
An article discusses selecting vessels that suit flower growth, favoring plain vases to keep attention on the blooms. Harpers for March features fiction from Richard Harding Davis and Thomas Hardy, plus four short stories by Geraldine Bonner, Owen Wister, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Olga Flinch.
The Chicago Grain Brokers move to supply drought sufferers in Nebraska by funding seed distribution. A board of trade committee, with Lyman J. Gage as treasurer, will raise and allocate funds for seed purchases. A second committee led by H W Rogers Charles L Raymond and F G Logan will manage seeding purchases and distribution to farmers.
The passage touts famous contributors Conan Doyle and Kipling in a major magazine. It announces price reductions to 50 cents per month without Sunday and 65 cents with Sunday, plus a weekly journal at 1 dollar per year. It credits growth to lower prices and self-reliant policy rather than dictating content.
A vivid account describes a kangaroo directing pursuit toward a river where it wades, defends itself on its hind legs, and fights off dogs by submerging them, with rescuers and a hunter intervening as needed.
Land Office Sidney Neb February 2 1304 notice of final proof for George KR. Gunder for the southeast quarter section 13 township 120 range 1 west to be madeApril 6 1895 before register or receiver at Sidney Neb witnesses William Allery Frank Ackerman Oscar Waltz Charles Trognitz all of Sidney Nebr Jounn M AprMs Register.
Land Office at Sidney Neb announces Leopold W Schroeder has filed for proof on his homestead claim in section 14 township 16 north range 1 west with witnesses Henry Raymond Robert Toksera Jerome Halston and James K Hirdwell all of Sidney Neb. Josef Soral sues Wesley Fupil for abandoning homestead entry No 613 in Cheyenne County Neb with a hearing set March 20 1895 at 9 a.m. to present testimony.
Three miles east of Sidney a light bay mare with a small hiahds and a spotted forehead is taken up. Long mane. Owner can halve time by paying for this advertisement and care of the horse. R. Vorequist.
In Wheatland Wyoming near Cheyenne large crops and rich land are advertised with cheap farms via Union Pacific. Includes an Uncleared letter list for Sidney Nebraska with seven names and a plea to claim advertised letters. Also promotes Oberfelder’s closing-out sale and winter goods at actual cost to clear stock.
The writer asserts that all aspects are ready for the publication of a first class country newspaper and invites contact with the undersigned for use or correspondence regarding the material.
The Nebraska legislature will be a focus this session with Republicans in control of both houses. A U.S. Senator election and many legislative actions are anticipated. The Lincoln State Journal positions itself as the premier capital paper with strong commentary from Col Bixby Walt Mason and Wm E Annin, claiming top circulation and deep ties to Nebraska politics.
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