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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1914
Page
11
A brief sale notice states a live colt offered for the 1914 season, described as located one and a half miles west of Sidney with terms of 812.50 dollars. The terse text highlights the property, price, and location for potential buyers.
A description of Jim Crow Jr. as a black jack with white points praised for yielding good color and desirable traits for mule buyers. Terms: twelve dollars and fifty cents to insure a live colt.
The above Jack and Stallion will make the season of 1914 at our ranch two miles north of Sidney. All possible care will be taken but we will not be responsible for accidents that might occur.
Notice from J M Smith of Peetz Colorado announces the Kentucky Mammoth Jack Denver will work the 1914 season at his place one half mile east of Lorenzo Nebraska. Expected costs stated as comparable to the county with terms ten dollars.
Practical gardening notes on pruning shrubs encouraging growth, lawn care, hedge maintenance, mosquito prevention, plant naming, concrete repairs, road improvement with clay, vermin control at fence corners, bulb ordering, azalea seed-pod pruning, iris watering, lawn mulch, cutting flowers for longer bearing, and transplanting wild flowers with minimal root disturbance.
The Hastings board of education re elected C M Barr for a three year term as superintendent at a salary of 2000 dollars annually. After Barr opposition plans formed the district mass convention endorsed him and the ticket supporting Barr won the district election.
The steel freight steamer City of Rome traveling from Buffalo to Toledo caught fire and burned to the water's edge off Ripley New York. The crew escaped in small boats and were rescued.
At the Nebraska State Eclectic Association meeting in Lincoln Dr Inez Philbrick promotes state licensing and funding of physicians to broaden access to care, while opponents call for caution. Crete mills seek Burlington ice rate relief and uniform coal shipping rates, and ex representative F L Gallagher hints at a run for state treasurer as a Democrat.
Friends urged General Iberta to retire in the wake of unrest in Mexico. Other notes report Governor Ammons backing strike legislation in Colorado and crop experts predicting a record winter wheat crop for the season.
A tornado 12 miles long struck ten miles northwest of Holbrook causing extensive destruction. Elmwood schoolhouse was blown apart, several sheds and barns collapsed, and grain losses were reported. Two inches of rain and hail accompanied the storm as residents assessed damage.
Advertises dairy farming on own land with 160 acre tracts in Nebraska or eastern Colorado and a 320 acre Mon dell tract in Wyoming. Promises access to prairie lands with rich soil 300 to 400 miles west of Omaha at 15 to 40 dollars per acre. Encourages starting with silos and feed crops, then adding cows, hogs, and poultry for profit.
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