Time table and agent contact for multiple rail lines
Lincoln Omaha Chicago St Joseph Kansas City St Louis and all Points East and West listed. Dally and daily except Sun trains with passenger and freight services. Through cars available. Tickets sold and baggage checked nationwide. For information call M A Shipman Agent or J Francis General Passenger Agent Omaha Nebraska.
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Lincoln
Omaha
Chicago
St. Joseph
Kansas City
St. Lewis
All Points East
Sev
United States
Canada
M. A. Shipman
J. Francis
Paussenger Avent
Nebraska
Train Timetable East and West Services
The timetable shows Eastbound trains including the Overland Limited at 8:40 a.m. and the Atlantic Express, along with the Matland Express at 5:06 a.m. The Westbound list includes the Overland Limited at 7:35 p.m. and the Pacific Express at 4:10 a.m. Nos. 101 and 102 do not carry passengers. freight trains carry passengers at stops. W D Cristox, Agent.
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Overland Limited
Atlantic Express
Matl and Express
Fast
Pacific Express
Malland Express
Oberfelders and Local Advertisers Lead Sidney Shops
Local items promote Oberfelder’s as the exclusive clothing and furnishers in Sidney and Cheyenne County with a long history of sales. Several ads list Heath and Milligan paints, Miller’s Wisconsin shoes, and bicycle offerings from Wright & Parks. The Quarterly Conference of the M. E. Church is set for next Saturday at 7:30 with services led by Rev. L. H. Shumate and J. T. Hageman.
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Sidney
Cheyenne County
Oberfelders
M. E. Church
L. H. Shumate
J.T. Hageman
County Teachers Hold Bayard Session Amid Train Delays
The first of four county teacher sessions met in Bayard last Saturday with an afternoon extension after forenoon trains were late. County Superintendent CP Chambers chaired, Miss Elsie Poole served as secretary, and papers on primary pupils, corporal punishment, primary numbers, reading in higher grades, and power of association were presented with lively discussion.
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Bayard
Bridgeport
Sidney
CP. Chambers
Elsie Poole
Edith Walford
Lawrence Boyer
Waitman
M. &. Croaby
Crosby
W. J. Nelson
Chimmey Rock
de Vault
Flanningan
Manning
Mesars
Bayard School
Union Pacific Directors Eye Salt Lake Meeting on Double Track
The Omaha Bee reports UP directors will discuss completing a continuous double track from Omaha to Ogden with ongoing route improvements and possible re election of the old board. Also noted are leadership changes as R W Baxter resigns Nebraska division post, W A Deuel to take over, and E R Griffin succeeding in Colorado. Lenora M Lake of St Louis cites James Whitcomb Riley and Kemp’s rendition of Afterwhites as a notable reading.
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Union Pacific
Salt Lake
Omaha Bee
Omaha
Ogden
Siurt
North Platte Tribune
R. W. Baxter
Nebraska
Baxter
Union Pacific Company
Oregon
Wyoming
W. A. Deuel
Colorado
Deuel
E. R. Griffin
North Platte
Griffin
Lenora M. Lake
St. Louis
James Whitcomb Riley
Mr. Kemp
Why He Didn’t Marry
A humorous Bulletin sketch from Phil May depicts a prisoner before a mild judge who asks why he remains unwed. The prisoner explains that he and his fiancée Ann have not both left jail together in seven years, a gag reflecting comic hardship and romance.
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Phil May
Bulletin
Sydney
Australia
May
Sstter
Ann
Boston Post
Lottery scheme funded British Museum origin with £500000 raise
The British Museum began with a lottery authorized in 1753 by managers the Archbishop of Canterbury the Lord Chancellor and the Speaker of the House of Commons. Tickets at fifteen dollars raised 1,500,000 for prizes and purchases including the Sloane and Harleian collections. Peter Leheup allegedly cornered tickets triggering a Commons inquiry and an attorney general prosecution, resulting in a £1000 fine though profits were estimated at £40000.
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British Museum
Canterbury
House of Commons
Sloane
Peter Leheup
London Chronicle
Sampson Gideon
Leheup
Alum Mountain in China Yields Wealth and Crude Blocks
A Liverpool Post writer notes a distant Chinese alum mountain twelve miles from Lionchek village. The site measures at least ten miles around and rises about two thousand feet. Alum is mined by heating quarried stone, extracting boiling-water crystallization, producing six inch thick layers that are broken into ten pound blocks.
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China
Lionchek
Liverpool Post
How humble pie got its name from numble pie
The article explains that in old Me pref hunting days the quarry was split between huntsmen and common people. The entrails known as numb ies were made into numble pie for the crowd, and eating it came to mean abasement. The shift from numble pie to humble pie followed the word’s significance.
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England
Mimosa Plant Feigns Death to Deter Grazers
A South American mimosa imitates death when touched. In its natural green state it collapses into a tangle of dead looking stems upon contact, a strategy to prevent herbivores from eating it. This resembles animal death feigning used by many species.
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South America
London Globe
Henley and Stevenson Exchange Witty Reflections
W E Henley once met Robert Louis Stevenson who felt distressed for not being a Voltaire or a Dumas though he possessed a talent that should have matched them. Stevenson blamed his weak lungs for his failings and Henley quipped about being a blessed cripple who could have seized the earth and hurled it into the sun.
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Henley
Stevenern
W. E. Henley
Robert Louis Stevenson
Voltaire
Dumas
Sevenson
Louis
Rumor Gossip About Lily-Well Engagement
Nellie dismisses rumors of Lily-Well's engagement after a long talk with Lily who says nothing on the subject. The exchange includes playful forgiveness and reflections on fame.
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Lily
Nellie
Brooklyn
Strayed or Stolen cattle and ranch goods advertised
A notice from N. Foster of Higgins, Nebraska seeks information about strayed or stolen livestock including a one year old red steer a red milk cow a red dry cow and 22 year olds with brands camp stool on the left hip. Also promoting Beckwith Round Oak stoves coal stoves Essie stores and a line of cheap stoves with good values and new scythes all warranted.
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N. Foster
Higgine
Neb
Essie's
Essic's
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Beaver
Helena
Datte
Portland
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Points West
Gqing Soutti
Iisiken
Union Pacific Railroad
Sidney, Web
WDD
Crietosx
Oberfelder Sella
Wilson Brothers
Ahirta
Peckwear
B. A. Jones
Heath & Milligan
D. J. Scanlon
W. Murlless
Greenlee & Benson's
Miller
Wisconsin
Dan Bergman
Wright & Parks
Dr. J
Teame
E. R.fortner, Sterling, Cole
Casper Girmann
D. J. Scanlon’s
J. R. Merifield
Testa
Oberfelder Block
Oberfelder & Co
County Teachers’ Association
Humble Pie
the Teast
Ladder of
Fame
Atchison Globe
Senate
J. A. Killian
Glasner & Barzen
Krug
Budweiser
Choice
Essie’s
Essie
Everett Kemp
Eugene May
Arion Male Quartette
Phil Hunter
the Telegraph
Tae
Ege
W. P. Wood
Front ST
Leroy Martin
Attorney At Law
Erbert S. Crane
F C. Beebe
Callahan Block
Rooma
Sidney, Neb
H E. Gapen
Court House
Nen
A D. Stowitts
U. 2. Railroad
Oberfelder Building
F. Kucera
Simon
The
OWL” Saloon
Dworak & Vath
Proprietors
Krug's
Omaha Beer
McAleese Building
Swan Dedrick
Metropolitan Hotel
J. Sanders
J. Calelanman
Ralston. & Fonda, “Sion Wirenams
Union Stock Yds
South Omaha, Neb
Nepenal
J Mith. Bros
Camp Clarke
John Anderson
Stagepale Creek
Arkiclow & Lindsbeng
Redington
Lawrence Fork
AQAC
Cedar Creek
Farmark
W Co
Bullock
Lodgepole Creek
Cheyenne Co
Logan Co
Colo
H H. Tobin
Pole
McLernon
George Cattle
Sidney Draw
Ion
BK. Beard
Nkimbali E
Lawrence Forks
H J. Flood
Puast
Ickes
Navison
C. Amos
Kimball
Kimball County
Stowitts
Range
Fon
Meeapa ™ Bros
Potter, Neb
Potter
KA. Aspland
Ileathe
Kanner County
Selz
Pest
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