General Crook Visits Cheyenne Camp Near Sidney
General Crook arrives in Sidney with staff including Bourke and Hayes. He meets Cheyenne chiefs, hears their needs, and promises ammunition to hunt while the council breaks up and the party stays the night. The piece notes the Cheyenne camp, rations, and expected buffalo nearby.
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General Crook
Sidney
Bourke
Schuyler
Webb Hayes
Thronburg
Col. Gordon
Lieut. Creel
Crook
Bourké
Col. Thornburg
Clark
Ben’ Clark
Geh. Crook
Tol
County fair plans discussed at Tuesday citizens meeting
The Telegraph notes a local potato famine joke, then reports a Tuesday Court House gathering to push a fall county fair. A. J. Haskell chaired urging prompt action to secure state funds. A fundraising committee including Chas Trognitz M H Tobin and Haskell will report to the Fair Association. A Sons of Veterans reunion dance netted about $50 over expenses. Jacobson Bros. supplied music.
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the Telegraph
Court House
A. J. Haskell
Chas, Trognitz
M. H. Tobin
Fair Association
Sons of Veterans
Jacobson J Bros
Potter
Taft visit draws large crowd in Sidney Nebraska
Taft the Republican leader rode into Sidney on Friday at 11 30 am to a throng of thousands. Congressmen Kinkaid introduced Taft who spoke for ten minutes on the Republican record. The event followed a day of local notes from farms to weather and a big golf tournament plan at Sidney Country Club.
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Taft
Sidney
Kinkaid
Harper and Wright's
Rose Street
Old Telegraph Subscriber Remembers Sidney History
Mrs. Julia Scanlon, a longtime Telegraph subscriber since 1881, recalls Sidney founding days with tales of jail and lamp post lynching. A seismograph crew from Oklahoma surveyed Alliance area for potential oil structures near test wells. Pump irrigation interest rises as a well on Ed Killham farm in Sidney Draw is reported.
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Telegraph Publishing Company
The
Telegraph
Julia Scanlon
Scanlon
Sidney
Fort Sidney
Oklahoma
Alliance
Ed Killham
Sidney Draw
Gurley resident memorizes new post office box combination
Five years ago Gurley residents faced a memory test as a local patron adjusts to a new post office box system shift from key access to combinations. Postmaster Harold Lessig notes the change strains patrons memory.
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Gurley
Harold ‘Lessig
Sidney
Mark G. Howard
Ft. Collins
Potter
Championship Rodeo Set for Bridgeport 1963
Bridgeport Nebraska, the highway hub city, is chosen as the site for the 1963 championship rodeo. Local officials announce the event location and expected participation from top rodeo contestants across the region.
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Bridgeport
Nebraska
NSRA Rodeo Sets Two Shows at Morrill County Fairgrounds
The NSRA approved Togo State championship rodeo unfolds Oct 5 at 7 00 p m and Oct 6 at 1 30 p m one mile south of Bridgeport on US 88 Amateur cowboys from South Dakota and Nebraska will compete in six events including saddle bronc bareback bull riding steel wrestling calf roping and team roping top prize money noted with ads in Nebraska papers next week.
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NSRA
Togo
Nebraska-South Dakota
Morrill County Fair Grounds
Bridgeport
US 88
Nebraska
South Dakota
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Charles Callahan
Sidney Tele Ae
J. C. Bush
Chicago
Univn Week
Cantone Fotce
Bush & Callahan
Bush
Callahan
Fraternity
Cheyenné Dunty
Express
Devlin
Lodgepole Express
New Pratt & Lambert
Sidney Flooring E Supply Co
Jackson Sidney Peche
Rodgers
Greenlee & Benson
H. Bandy
E. Polley
Liberty Loan
District Court Room
Robert A. Barlow
Home Guards
Liebendorfer
Gould
Lodgepole
Francis de Brunner
Dalton
Presbyterian Church
W. J. Shoemaker
Denver
Plains
Sidney Country Club
Sidney Club
the Telegraph News
Cheyenne
Devel
Jaw
Tom C. Allington
Sunol
Europe
United States
Allington
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Albert Loveland
GOP
Rea Iné
Cheverna “Runty
Logan County
Colo
Wheat Belt Electric Membership Association
Art's Motors
ENCO
20Th & Illinois
Pontiac
Plymouth
Gatton
Hinds
William D. Harte
Omaha
Federal Land Bank
Harte
National Farm Loan Assn
Iowa
Wyoming
Mam
Dude's
Turkey
Brandin
Steak House
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