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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1900
Page
8
Communication lists multiple rail routes and schedules to and from Omaha Nebraska. It notes passenger and freight daily services, through sleeping dining and reclining cars, and baggage checks. Contacts W. P. Heaton Agent and J. Francis General Passenger Agent in Omaha for details.
Union Pacific rail timetable lists No. 2 Overland Limited No. 4 Local Passenger No. 6 Atlantic Express going east and No. 1 Overland Limited No. 101 Fast Mail No. 3 Pacific Express going west with listed times 5 40 p m 7 30 5 p m 3 50 a m all freight trains carry passengers to points where the train stops E R Breisch Agent
Market rates list wheat corn oats rye new potatoes eggs butter chickens hogs cows steers hay baled with per unit figures. Prices shown include a range from wheat at 40 to hogs per cwt at 10.00 and eggs per dozen at 17.00 with other grains and produce priced accordingly.
Local items advertise a range of goods and services in Sidney Nebraska. J W Harper & Son offer furniture pipe lumber fixtures windmills and oil and salt. Beard & Wooldridge sell salt and flour. McLernons sells dress goods blankets and bed linens. C M Wright sells bikes sewing machines and stove repairs. Britton advertises a Hereford bull. Dr Harris treats female diseases. Marlless is a Sidney dentist.
Dr Seymour eye specialist coming. McLernon's fall stock on display. Hall Studio offers free portraits with cabinet photos. Joseph Wolf jeweler and watchmaker. Beард Wooldridge furniture lots. Mrs J W Addama visiting Sidney. Dr Salisbury dentist in Sidney Friday and Saturday Oct 26 27. Rev Geo Beecher to preach at Episcopal church. Stray black mare and colt offered reward. Ex Senator Stewart speaks at Court House. H G Hall offers photo specials Oct 27 thirty days. Chamberlains Cough Remedy praised by Rev Donahoe.
R P Scott visits Bridgeport and supports river valley development. Chas Pickerall sells five miles west of Redington to H Bartling for 3500 dollars. possession next May. Rev D M Hadler from Muscaline IA lectures on God’s covenant to Abraham at the Lutheran church nightly for a week. J V Moore and Frank Cary visit Harris family from Zanesville and plan trips to Denver and Colorado Springs. Frank Wisner and Jas Harris injured in Burlington yards while unloading depot sections. Misner cut and Harris with a fractured shoulder. Dr A D Stowntes treats them.
The awit of sec 32 township 16 range 51 offered at a bargain by W C Flinn. For price inquire at this office.
Live active men and women can earn from five to ten dollars daily by canvassing for Frank G Carpenter's South America Social Industrial and Political. The book is new and selling rapidly by subscription only. We seek hustlers to introduce this work in territory with liberal terms. Write for territory and fall particulars to The Saalfield Publishing Co Akron Ohio.
In winter 1897 James Reed of Clay West Virginia bruised his leg on ice and suffered severe swelling. After ineffective treatments he used Chamberlain's Pain Balm and recovered in four weeks, crediting it with avoiding amputation. The ad extols Pain Balm for sprains bruises and rheumatism.
One fare round trip to all points including Black Hills to Sheridan and Guernsey Wyoming with many stops. Return limit fifteen days. Train leaves Sidney at 5:80 a.m. Information and tickets at the B and M depot.
The Platte valley region near Kearney and Bridgeport is eyed for a B M railroad extension with North Platte as a division station. Engineers report heavier locomotives and bigger trains strain crews, prompting demands for higher pay as railroads modernize. A Union Pacific contractor predicts the Sherman Hill tunnel will finish in sixty days, with the tunnel about 1800 feet long and end cuts larger than first planned.
The Burlington Overland Excursions offer 48 hour tourist sleeping cars from Omaha to San Francisco and Los Angeles with gas lighting, heating, and clean furnishings. Departures are Tuesday and Thursday. passengers may join at Lincoln Hastings Oxford or other stops. An excursion manager and porter accompany each car. A 72 page California booklet is available for six cents.
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