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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1877
Page
5
The Sidney Telegraph lists pricing details for air paid locals in the Local Column. Rates are 25 cents per line for standard entries and 15 cents per line for special locale headings. Black lines are charged at double rate.
Read through Sidney Nebraska notes from September covering harvest dances opinions on weather and rail, business updates at Oberfelder & Co, market prices for staples, cemetery fencing, city schooling, and local personalities. Reports mention future arrivals Gen Howard plans, oil rumors on Rapid Creek, and community concerns about local youths, advertising, and public services.
A noisy town column rails at a clubman who drinks, smokes, and dodges fair dealing, plus a notorious usurer in town. It threads in brief notes on stage lines, new arrivals, a party at the American House, and prospects for Union Pacific shops locations with rail line tensions and local booster rhetoric.
Cattle shipments noted with a baby’s death of six months son of Julius and Agnes Thiele, funeral at Sidney cemetery led by Lankins. Mrs Johnny Kernan opens a cigar stand on Front Street. Call for action on the removal of Union Pacific shops at Omaha amid Nebraska tensions. Western Nebraska seeks its rights as Omaha faces setback.
Brerbowsn director invites written bids by the 17th for a janitor to service two public schools. Duties include daily sweeping dusting water supply fire making and weekly floor scrubbing window washing and upkeep of outbuildings.
White goods store advertises new shoes including mules and horses for eight dollars. The oddly garbled item lists eight dollars as the price and mentions mules and horacs, indicating a small-town classified shoe sale notice.
Notice from Sidney dated August 16 77 states I will not be responsible for any debts my wife may incur and disclaims obligations from the above text.
The owner may reclaim by proving property and paying charges. The tax-payers of Chayenne County are notified that the taxes for the feu 1876 became delinquent May 1st, 1877. All delinquents should call and settle immediately. I. Syyper n2g, Treasurer. Sidney, Nob., June 1st, 1877.
A. L. Flint plaintiff files petition in 1877 against F. Hirshstein non-resident, and others, seeking judgment for 200 dollars plus interest on a promissory note and foreclosure of a mortgage on a subdivided parcel in Sidney, Cheyenne County Nebraska. Defendants must appear and answer by September 21, 1877. Attorney V. Bl...
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