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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1901
Page
2
Sleeping dining and reclining chair cars seats free on through trains. Tickets sold and baggage checked to any point in the United States or Canada. For information maps time tables and tickets contact M A Shipman Agent or J Francis General Passenger Agent Omaha Nebraska
The timetable lists Union Pacific trains including No. 3 Overland Limited No. 4 Atlantic Express No. 6 Mail and Express and No. 102 Fast Mail Westbound No. 1 Overland Limited No. 101 Fast Mail No. 3 Pacific Express No. Mail and Express with various stop points and schedule times such as 6:20 p.m. 4:00 a.m. and 9:25 a.m. indicating passenger and freight routes.
Local items list offerings from Reinhardt the jeweler and Scanlon drug store. Includes promotions for Metropolitan Hotel meals, McMullan's flour and second hand bicycles, windfall reductions in jewelry and musical instruments, and affordable land office blanks. Also notes Round Oak stoves at Essig's, a new Commercial Hotel, Blacklegoid pills, and Chamberlain remedies with patient testimonials. Butter and eggs prices and poultry demand at McGullan's.
Wheat per bushel Corn shelled per bushel Oats per bushel Rye per bushel Potatoes per hundredweight Eggs per dozen Butter per pound Chickens per dozen Hogs per hundredweight Cows Steers Hay baled
Mrs R D Harris left Thursday for Omaha to visit friends. John Wilson of Kearney watched government revenue Wednesday. Mrs Harriet Gust returned home after weeks with her daughter. John Anderson shipped a carload of horses to St Paul Neb. A. G. Smith of Potter and D. H. Shultz of Dix sent in mail orders for The Telegraph. Casar teaches Bridgeport school with about thirty-five pupils. Joan Hart injured by contact with U S mail wagon. Invitations issued for party at Miles residence. James Hudson files to run for county judge with long petition. Several locals visit, travel and subscribe including J Mitchell, a Cheyenne county pioneer.
Emil Johnson and his wife left Monday evening for Menominee Michigan to purchase Up-to-Date flour, touted as best in the market. Wooldridge sells the flour and the millinery shop of C Thornburg & Co. presents a fashionable display for ladies. Mrs Susan Edwen remains very ill with a serious illness, relatives fear she may not recover.
The notice promotes the Metropolitan Hotel opening for business and lists multiple local advertisements including Girmann's Meat Market, Scanlon's Rheumatism Cure, saddlery by Wm Smith, and heating stoves for sale. It also mentions high cash prices for butter eggs and chickens at the hotel, and various goods from Miller's Wisconsin shoes to a blackleg vaccine. Other items include dental price offers, lap robes, wells drilling, and Chamberlain's tablets pitched for stomach and liver relief.
The Cincinnati Enquirer discusses a Darwinian view of drowning as an instinctive ape like clinging to the nearest support. It argues that fear drives arboreal reflexes, causing hand and foot climbing motions that impede buoyancy, contributing to fatalities even among trained swimmers.
Foundations of asphalt pavements traced from natural deposits in Neufchatel and Switzer land to early road uses. By 1854 Paris laid compressed asphalt on concrete foundations, expanding to London and other cities by 1870, marking municipal adoption of artificial stone roads.
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