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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1901
Page
8
Advertisement for through passenger service with sleeping dining and reclining chair cars on through trains. Tickets and luggage checks available to any point in United States or Canada. For information and tickets contact M. A. Shipman agent or M RANCHS General Passenger Agent in Omaha Nebraska.
Rail timetable lists eastbound trains including Overland Limited No 4 Atlantic Express No 4 Fast Mail No 3 Pacific Express No 5 and Mail and Express services with departure and arrival times around 8:24 p m 230 p m 340 a m 2340 a m and freight trains noted as frequent stopping points in Sidney Nebraska.
A collage of local ads lists jewelers, hotels, flour brands, second hand bicycles, and heating stoves. It promotes McMullan's and Wooldridge's for flour and discounts, J. A. Wolf's jewelry, a resident dentist, and land office conveyancing services. Also touts Up-to-Date flour, Mount Oak stoves, and Chamberlain remedy with local testimonials.
A busy page lists businesses and services including Ginnann's Meat Market, Scanton's Rheumatism Cure, and Wm. Smith saddles. It notes two large heating stores for sale, high cash prices for butter eggs and chickens at the Metropolitan hotel, and Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines via C. M. Wright. Also advertised are Round Oak stores, Blackleg vaccine by Essig's, remnant bargains, saddle horses for sale, dentistry prices, lap robes by Wim Smith, Chamberlain's tablets, and M. E. church services led by Pastor R. Eb. Grivin.
Sidney residents and visitors are noted in a sequence of brief items. Reentries include Mrs. W J Shoemaker returning from Omaha, various travel for voting or visiting relatives, a Christchurch service schedule, administrative actions in probate court, wedding and housekeeping news, and local business and subscription updates. The column also records land deals, relocations, and new residents joining the community.
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets claim to cure a cold in one day with a no cure no pay offer. The ad lists a 25 cent price and emphasizes fast relief through a medicinal laxative formula.
A London Standard note recalls Lord Savile warning about wary diplomats facing Russian agents at balls. It then describes a curious white deal wood from Sweden, sunk with a whaler’s boat and dragged half a mile, so dense it would not burn in a gas jet as water pressure compressed it.
French writer Henri Coupon argues that birdsong cannot be imitated by instruments due to their unique timbre and extra vibrations between our scale notes. He notes birds sing only briefly, thrushes and chatters two to three seconds, blackbirds four or five, and larks two to five minutes.
A Norwegian fisheries director seeks the salmon’s jumping height when crossing a waterfall. Experimental masts measure the leap, with reports suggesting a fish can reach about twenty feet. Observed attempts show the fish entering the falling water and then twisting to spring upward and clear the fall.
Syracuse Kansas editor H N Lester recounts two years of failed cures for eczema on his hands until Bucklen Arnica Salve healed him. He calls it the world’s best for eruptions and sores and urges readers to buy from druggists for 25 cents.
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