Train schedule note from Sidney to Bridgeport area
Train service update lists passenger and freight trains with daily and local stop details. Nos 301 and 302 will not stop locally between Sidney and Bridgeport and between Sidney and Seattle. Through trains offer accommodations and through tickets to United States or Canada. contact agent M. A. Shipman or General Agent J. L. Wakeley in Omaha Nebraska for maps and timetables.
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Sidney
Bridgeped
Seeeling
United States
Canada
M. A. Shipman
JL. W.wakeley
Omaha
Nebraska
Adler-i-ka claims instant relief from bowel issues
Sidney buyers report dramatic results from Adler-i-ka a buckthorn bark glygerin mixture. A single spoonful supposedly cleanses both upper and lower bowels and relieves constipation or gas within a minute, with even use cited for appendicitis. The Western Drug Co.
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Sidney
Adler Ika
THE
Western Drug CO
Profits in farming come from efficiency not cutbacks
Extension findings from Gage Madison and Thurston counties show higher profits come from smarter spending rather than trimming costs. In Thurston county the 15 most profitable farms spent 1 211 per farm versus 1 033 for the least profitable, and 5.74 versus 7.07 per crop acre. Apples to hogs not needed says the College of Agriculture. marketable apples stored for winter raise prices while rotted or unsprayed fruit floods the market and wastes fruit and value.
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Gage
Madison
Thurston
College of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
Thurston County
Slower horse pulls more in team load theory
The Department of Agricultural Engineering of the College of Agriculture argues the slower horse does the greater share of a draw. If one horse leads by eight inches, the load divides about 100 to 106 pounds when the center hole of the equalizer is misaligned by four inches.
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Department of Agricultural Engineering
The
College of Agriculture
Anti Hog Cholera Club Organizes in Gage County
Members of the Gage County Farmer's Association in Big Springs township form an anti hog cholera club led by their agricultural agent. The plan divides the township into four sections with a farmer supervisor per division to extend across the county and curb outbreaks. Nebraska’s principal 1915 crops: Wheat 227,000,000 bushels, Oats 70,710,217 bushels, Corn 72,751,284 bushels.
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Gage County Farmer’s Association
Big Springs
Wife Strangled by Rope, Husband Arrested in Dante SD
Coroner's jury returns verdict on Mrs. Mary Manzel aged seventy who died from strangulation with a rope around the neck. Husband John Hanzel aged seventy five is arrested as a suspect after the investigation on the outskirts of Dante South Dakota.
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Mary Manzel
Manzel
John Hanzel
Dante, S. D
Hall appeals conviction over sales of hog cholera serum
Cushman C Hall was found guilty in Douglas County district court of selling hog cholera serum without a valid government veterinary license and fined 50 dollars plus costs. He has appealed to the Nebraska Supreme Court.
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Cushman C Hall
District Court
Douglas County
State Supreme Court
Queerly Old Maxims for Housewives Dinner Card
Queer old maxims offer kitchen counsel for housewives to read at feasts or copy on dinner cards. They advise thrift, careful cleaning, prudent scouring, and proper serving, stressing dignity and hospitality in domestic life with rustic verse.
Thanksgiving Customs Across Regions in Early America
The piece traces early Thanksgiving practices from New England to the West and South. It notes northern settlers perpetuating the feast as western states formed, while southern governors in 1858 issued proclamations for the last Thursday in November despite Civil War tensions and opposition to a Yankee custom.
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West
New England
South
North
We Thank Thee For Flowers And Sky Emerson Poem
Prayerful verse from Ralph Waldo Emerson praising nature and gratitude. Lines express thanks for flowers grass birds streams sky blue skies branches shade fragrant air and cooling breeze. A serene devotional piece celebrating the beauty of creation and heavenly thanks.
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Father
Ralph Waldo Emerson
King of Festivals in Autumn Thanksgiving Era
In Harriet Beecher Stowe's Oldtown Folks the autumn thanksgiving reigns as festival king and high priest. After harvests of apples, cider, pumpkins, and corn, a calm, genial repose settles over the community. The deacon suggests the Sunday minister prepare the Thanksgiving proclamation, marking a golden new season.
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Harriet
Beecher Stowe
Oldtown
When Her Back Aches Dean's Kidney Pills Ad
Sidney readers learn that kidney and urinary troubles cause backaches and headaches and that Dean's Kidney Pills target kidney disease. A Sidney woman, Mrs. S. Willis of West Second Street, reports relief after one box and a return to normal kidney function. Sold for 50 cents at dealers. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Sidney
Dean
S. Willis
W. Second St
Divorce Papers Served on Mrs Thaw in Pittsburgh Train
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, traveling with a St Louis bound train through Pittsburgh, was served with divorce papers in the Pittsburgh suit initiated by Harry K. Thaw. Officers boarded the train and she locked herself in a Pullman stateroom as the papers were pushed under the door after two months of attempts.
Prairie fire danger grows as grasses dry across western Nebraska
Severe drought and dry grass raise prairie fire risk from hill to valley. A recent blaze west of North Platte destroyed hay stacks and farm buildings over a 25 mile long path. Lightning sparked the 18 mile south fire near Dickens. 100 tons burned at the Will iam Sole ranch. Warnings by telephone and rapid response saved lives as hundreds joined to fight.
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Here
North Platte
Griffith and
Latimer
Dickens
William Sole
Nebraska
Jonas
Italian Steamer Bosnia Sunk by Submarine
The Bosnia, a 307 foot Italian steamship, was sunk by a submarine flying the Austrian flag. Passengers and crew launched four lifeboats. three boats reached safety with men aboard, while the fate of occupants of the fourth lifeboat is unknown.
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Bosnia
Texas Train Derails in Kirbin Trestle Crash
Fifteen people injured when a Trinity Brazos Valley passenger train jumped a trestle at Kirbin Texas. A baggage car and one passenger coach derailed. Doctors said three seriously hurt but expected to recover.
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Trinity Brazos Valley
Kirbin Tex
Prairie Fire Destroys Hay Stacks in Lincoln County
A prairie fire in Lincoln County destroyed thousands of dollars worth of hay in stacks and many farm buildings. The blaze swept a path four miles wide and twenty five miles long, starting eighteen miles south of North Platte. Telephone warnings prevented loss of life as hundreds from miles around joined the firefight.
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Lincoln County
North Platte
Griffith and
Latimer
Dickens
William Sole
Accounted For Landlady and Survivor Exchange
A compact exchange hints at a bronze turkey and a survivor from the bronze xgwe. The dialogue suggests a tense, cryptic moment centered on a shared object andoutsider status within a small scene.
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