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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1923
Page
9
The Sidney Telegraph lists subscription rates at one year for postage paid at $1.50. The notice notes second class mail status and includes a foreign advertising representative reference to The American Pressation.
Rev Case assigned to this district. Shoes sell 1 to 1.50 a pair and cloaks 5 to 30. Charles Moore sells herd of 1400 cattle to Sheldley brothers for 19 each. Companies K and M of Third cavalry ordered to Ft McKinney Wy from Ft Sidney. Eastern tenderfoot chased four miles by Texas cattle for displaying red shirt near Sidney Lodge Pole. W B Reese employed as clerk in Dry Goods Bazaar. H W Redington hose company to hold ball at White House Hall October 8. Catholic society completes first house of worship in Sidney. New furniture for school house addition arrives. Dry Goods Bazaar moved to John McDonald store on Second street.
A senatorial gathering was held in Ogallala with J J McIntosh Ickes Ragan Ricker and Robertson attending. Sidney's irrigation prospects stirred local interest. A Lutheran Sunday school choir was organized with Misa Wallie Neubauer as organist and C D Essig as instructor. A child lost part of a finger at the fair grounds when a windmill pump severed it as the mechanism started.
The Telegraph lists Republican nominees for local offices including Treasurer Z Neubauer Clerk J E B Trinnier Sheriff Frank H King Surveyor R H Willis Superintendent O D Lyon Judge A Solomonson Coroner W F Bassett Commissioner second district A Pease. Florence Hadley and W A Grosvenor wed on Wednesday. Adam Gunderson and wife marked their twenty fifth anniversary. James Darrow, brother in law of E McLernon, died Thursday. P Smith veteran U P railroad worker returned from Hot Springs Utah in improved health and will join Denver and Rio Grande. Prof C K E Doran left to enter Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York.
Fourteen years ago the Sidney Military band led by V. Klein played at the Pine Bluffs fair while the first trans continental auto race began in Philadelphia for Seattle with thirty two cars and 100 mile changes. Groundbreaking planned for the Telegraph building and Judge Gapen’s office. Major Merriman celebrated his eightieth birthday. Wallace Oosterhondt strengthens his mill walls for a twenty room lodging house. The mill had burned years before. The Sidney orchestra reassembled with Fred Vath directing and Sam Fine on drums Ray Reynolds on flute and Clarabell Oberfelder on piano. Rudolph Kruse and Minnie Windsheimer wed September 15.
Lacey Laughlin son of Enos Laughline of Cheyenne has been admitted to practice in Washington before the Supreme Court. He graduated in law while serving in a government post in Washington. Born in Sidney, he follows his father a popular Sidney businessman from twenty years ago, a note of local pride.
Feaults of a French Sahara expedition describe Tuareg society where women hold strict sway over men. Although Islam brands women as inferior, Tuareg women dominate daily life, often not veiled while men wear veils. A husband can divorce by informing the chief, the card, and sending his wife away.
Scientists trace the four toed horse to Asia, noting the unknown Borse founder as a small live toed animal with monkey like teeth. Palaeontologists predicted its discovery and say fossil progress supports evolution, with the four toed horse appearing in Asia and America nearly simultaneously, implying a broader original stock.
The Board of County Commissioners met in Sidney, Nebraska on September 18 1923 with all members present. They reviewed road petitions tax corrections road machinery and related matters. The board adjourned to reconvene October 2 1923 or as called by Chairman Goding. F B Krueger acted as clerk pro tem.
In a Caveman and modern dual setting the film stars Milton Sills Anna Q Nilsson and Theodore Kosloff as an entwined love triangle. The episode moves from stone age visions to a modern plot with a broker husband and his wife entertaining Kosloff as the exiled king. One show at 8 p m.
In O Neill Nebraska local lore describes eerie ghost lights that beckon autoists. The luminous orbs flicker and drift toward a nearby graveyard before vanishing, drawing tourists from miles away to glimpse the phosphorescent glow. The phenomenon is said to outshine other regional legends and spookier tales from nearby areas.
A farmer Jake Leeds asks the village postmaster for a postal card from Aunt Jinny to learn her travel day. The postmaster and his wife playfully confirm Jinny is coming on Thursday, weaving a humorous glimpse of small town gossip and posted missives.
An inventor introduces a palm sized stamophone named the mik! phone capable of jazz rag waltz and one step music. It winds like a watch fits ten plates for twenty selections and slips into a waistcoat pocket. A compact six inch high widget weighs four pounds with a collapsible horn and uses full size records.
Miss Margaret Donahue a local school teacher said she and a companion were riding Saturday night about ten miles north of town when an automobile with a single light appeared about 150 yards ahead. No injuries or further details were provided.
Sweet potatoes should be well matured, dried, and stored at 55 to 60 degrees in a ventilated room. Wrap each potato in paper, pack in a box, or store in dry sand or soil. If frost threatens before digging, cut tops off immediately. Winter squashes and pumpkins store well.
The Hubbard can be kept until early spring though pie pumpkins seldom last that long. To store pumpkins or winter squash, pick with stems intact and place on racks in a cool dry room with plenty of fresh air.
The Missoulian argues that Montana’s economy depends on diverse farming rather than wheat alone. It cites Bitter Root and upper Flathead farmers as thriving through fruit growing dairying and livestock, contrasting with eastern Montana wheat growers and noting Western Montana’s lack of bank failures amid droughts and political alarmists.
The note mentions Monte Carlo as a favored scene of extravagance and color, with a brief cue to Bella Donna as a reference point or highlight.
A fragment describes a clash between scientific explanation of water and fish heated by fire and a native belief that the mystic Tungurague spirit provides fish during volcanic eruptions that ruin crops. The text contrasts logic with lore in a distant culture.
A note directs subjects to be photographed this year on their birthday at Phelps Studio and to send the prints or negatives to the laundry.
A shop owner in a small town eagerly showed off his new telephone. He pretended to take a $20 order, then learned the visitor had come to connect the line. The moment exposed the mistaken assumption and awkward misunderstanding.
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