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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1905
Page
8
Train routes and schedules listed from Lincoln to Denver along with through cars and services. Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars are available. Tickets, baggage check and maps offered by M A Shipman agent and Francis general passenger agent in Omaha Nebraska.
Going east No 2 Overland Limited at 12:05 a m No 4 Atlantic Express 9 350 p m No 6 Mall and Express 1 0 a m No 10 Fast Mall 5 205 a m Going west No 1 Overland Limited 7 30 p m No 9 Past Mal 7 45 p m No 3 Pacific Express 4 27 p m No 5 Mall and Express 6 25 a m All freight trains carry passengers to points at which they stop W Careronx Agent
Land listing offers 160 acres located 14 miles east of Sidney. Features a two room frame house and a shed, a good well, priced cheap for cash. Inquire at the Telegraph office.
Advertises eating potatoes at 50 cents per 100 pounds with delivery available. Call or phone Paul Borgquist for orders and delivery details.
A second-hand Steamway Piano in good condition offered for 50 dollars by C. D. Essie. Also listed is a full-blooded Jersey cow with calf, offered by T. M Brewer of Sidney, Nebraska.
Furnished rooms for rent described as neat and clean. For particulars contact Mrs J E Wilson at the second door west of the Metropolitan hotel. Harper and Wright report several wallpaper shipments with more to follow. Land office blanks available for sale by Tue Telegraph.
Scanlon's offers Sarsapurilla as a superior blood purifier and promotes Dr E W Murless for affordable first class dentistry. The Heath and Milligan paint lasts ten years. one gallon covers 300 square feet two coats at 1 40. J R Merifield tests eyes free with guaranteed satisfaction.
A series of land transfer records shows F Sanford and wife to A B Persing for property in 17-14-46, J H Barnhart to M B Smith with multiple parcels in 27-19-48, C L Wagner to Scott and Atkins in 17-20-51, and Lincoln Land Co. sales to Elsie Anderson and Ellen Lozier in Bridgeport. Other transfers include LTA parcels, minor sums, and deeds between Lincoln Land Co. and residents like F E Stearns and Rosa P Rogers.
The bird eating spiders of South America Africa and Australia are large nocturnal predators. They hide by day in ground crevices or hollow trees and construct silk tubes. They hunt at night leaping on prey and have earned their name from feeding on small recently killed birds.
A child of three or four flings a ball to a dozing Lord Kitchener aboard a voyage. The girl insists Pick up my ball with increasing urgency. He finally complies and flees to the smoke room after the tense exchange.
An 19th century reflection notes cursing in Christian times, citing fierce penalties such as god's curse and judgment. It contrasts terror of Anathemas from the Nicene fathers, 318 to be exact, with the everyday offense of littering in a sacred inclosure as a comic yet sobering example.
The Westminster Gazette reports that Anthony Trollope, early in his postal career, was accused of rude treatment by a young woman. The next day two men learned of his prior conduct, locked the door, and severely beat him as punishment for alleged insolence toward the sister of the complainant.
The 1858 cable weighed ninety three pounds per mile with seven copper wires of twenty two and a half gauge. Deep sea wire per mile cost 200 dollars and apun yarn and iron wire 265 dollars per mile. Outside coating tar and gutta percha 25 dollars per mile. Total per mile 485 dollars. At 2500 miles the deep sea wire cost 1,212,500 dollars. Adding twenty five miles of shore end wire at 1,450 dollars per mile yields 1,250,000 dollars for the first ocean cable excluding nutriments.
A Heating Jelly flsh sinks as a ship’s shadow passes overhead. The text muses whether it senses darkness or feels pressure from the onrushing wave, noting the jellyfish eye’s primitiveness and ambiguous perception.
The list presents long eight syllable terms such as anthropom entamorphosis antisupernaturalism anticonstitutionalist and iatromathematician. Also included are incomprehensibility individualization unconstitutionality unintelligibility valetudinarianism and vicissitudinality as examples for advanced vocabulary study.
Harper and Wright advertise overstocked heating stoves with reduced prices for the balance of winter.
The World Herald reports services at Christ Church next Wednesday evening March 8 at 7 30. An exam for stenographers and typewriters for service in the Philippines is set for March 22. Rev Frost held ten day mission closings in Kimball and went to Pinebluff Wyoming on Thursday. A pioneering gasoline powered car built for Union Pacific in Omaha is finishing final touches and may reach 90 mph. It will serve mail and passengers and is said to float if a bridge fails. Trials are upcoming.
The following letters remain unclaimed at the Sidney post office March 38 105. Those calling for these letters should say advertised. C B Alderson Charles Becher Hanna Johnson I L Dryden E McLernon.
The text records 5th and 6th graders drawing leaves and notes Hazel King’s several days’ absence. Blanch Kulp returns to second grade, and Clyde Warner is a new pupil enrolled in the second primary this week.
The piece observes thrifty practices where horse nail remnants become weapons, broken beer barrel hoops become dye, tinker chippings mix with hoof parings to produce blue dye. It links street waste to fashion, beverages to medicine, and notes nature’s economy as the model.
A family physician refuses to treat until the patient pays the last bill in full. The sick man promises to obey before payment is made, revealing a sharp, ironic exchange reported by the Philadelphia Press.
A reflective line about life losing pace without future hope. It argues that without anticipation for a brighter day on the horizon, daily existence lacks pleasure and meaning. The author contrasts present hardship with imagined upcoming happiness.
A Philadelphia Ledger quote contrasts woolgathering with lambe wool on Wall Street and extols temperance in eating and drinking as a virtue. It notes that many people ruin themselves with excess, metaphorically digging their graves with their teeth.
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