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1 YEARS AGO ‘A Unique Sight’ April 26, 1913 A unique sight in town last Saturday was when Mr. McDonald of the South divide came to town with four loads of potatoes which he pulled with his tractor engine. Whatever that may have cost he saved at least four horse feeds at a livery barn, and the wagons were loaded more heavily than for teams. 75 Years Ago April 26, 1938 City Officials Keep Constant Attention On Power Program Sale Of Property Comes, Citizens To Get Chance To Buy Sidney Plant DEFINITE ACTION IS NOT YET INDICATED Although the cit...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘Wonderful Future In Store For Sidney And Cheyenne County’ April 17, 1913 During an interview with Mr. McNish, who is president of The First National Bank of Wisner, Nebraska, and who has been one of the largest land owners in Cheyenne County for many years and through whom many present, happy and contented Cheyenne County farmers first learned, while fighting high rents and grasp...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘Most Thrilling Drama’ April 12, 1913 One of the most thrilling plays and at the same time “the most interesting and amusing is Molnar’s comedy play, “The Devil,” which will introduce the eminent actor, Eduard Waldmann and his company in the above play at the Opera House Saturday, May 10 where Mr. Waldmann has been selected as the special attraction. Although he has appeared in...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO April 5th, 1913 ‘The London Girls’ The London Girls Musical Company, which is book to play the Opera House in our city on Saturday night, April 19th, in “Gay Paree” is a first-class company usually playing nothing but long stock engagements in the big cities. This organization is now on its way to Washington, California and British Columbia, and our local management has gone to...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘Poison For Medicine’ March 29, 1913 Miss Mabel Brewer made a mistake Sunday which might have cost her her life. She was not feeling well and took a medicine bottle from the shelf and took a dose from it. One swallow was enough and a scream brought her mother who promptly gave her mustard and water while another member of the family called a doctor by phone and still another ran f...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘Tossed By A Bull’ March 22, 2013 The 14th, Black Friday, was a good day to stay where you were, and nearly everyone had to. A call came from the Carlton ranch that a man, Mr. Eber, had been severely injured by a bull. Dr. Swatzlander, having no other means of locomotion to be secured for love or money, made the trip by walking down the railroad. The sensation was just like bei...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘Fine Home Burns House and Contents Totally Destroyed During Blizzard’ March 15, 1913 When the storm was at its worst yesterday, a fire alarm was sounded for the sixth ward. R. A. Barlow’s home was found to be in flames. The volunteer firemen responded in what numbers and with what speed could be managed in the teeth of the worst storm of plain’s history. The engine house was almo...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘Sidney Tourists’ March 1, 1913 H. R. Fuller and wife are touring on he Pacific coast, an outing they had planned for some time. Before returning they will visit Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Fresno and nearer home will stop a Mount Rosa and Denver/besides a umber of lesser places all along the route. Here’s hoping they will have a delightful trip and...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘Burlington has a wreck’ Two Engines Ditched and Several Cars Smashed Up in Yards February 28, 1913 At 5:40 Saturday morning a wreck occurred in the Burlington about one hundred feet east of the house track switch. A southbound ore train, a double-header, became uncontrollable because of frosty rails and ran into a southbound extra freight. The latter could have made it to safety...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘Usual Sprints’ February 22, 1913 The village had its usual two runaways last Saturday. These are getting to be so regular that citizens hardly look at a team speeding by. The first was Ray Nelson’s well-trained team. They objected to the looks of a bull tearing through the street hotly pursued by Nelse Olson and son. Roy managed to guide his runaways toward the east end of town...
subscribe online at www.suntelegraph.com & These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARDS AGO ‘Parks Barred’ February 15, 1913 Fred Parks, Sidney’s popular boxer, went to Denver to take part in the tournament held there this week. He went to the ring Monday night and knocked out his opponent with neatness and dispatch. A repetition of the success of the boy was forestalled by the powers that be who ruled him out of the amate...
1 YEARS AGO ‘Sidney Man Takes Potter Store’ February 8, 1913 E. C. Banta went to Potter Monday to take charge of the drug store which he has purchased at that place. Mr. Banta is a registered pharmacist and quite competent to handle every line of the drug businesses. For the past several months he has been employed at the Sidney Mercantile while looking about and deciding whether the climate and country were suitabble to his desires, and during this time he has proven to be a pleasant and upright young man and generally liked by the pub...
subscribe online at www.suntelegraph.com & These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘Man Badly Hurt’ February 1, 1913 When Chris Anderson, working for Clarence Chambers, failed to respond to the supper call Mrs. Chambers went to the barn where she found him lying unconscious in a stall. The man was brought to town to the C. P. Chambers home and given medical care. He remained unconscious all night and it took sev...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘A Big Scare, But Little Hurt’ January 25, 1913 As No. 5 pulled into the station Tuesday and unloaded her passengers, a wild horse dragging a lariat with a saddle flying from the far end dashed on the scene. The way the passengers had of falling over the park fence was not restrained by such little impedimenta as grips, narrow skirts and dignity. The saddle in describing a par...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS GO ‘Finish In Sight’ January 18, 1913 The iron stairs for the courthouse are expected any day now as they have been shipped some time. Contractor Goodhand will arrive as soon as the stairs are here and will not be long after that in completing the building. C. M. Wright will have finished his part of the work in connection with the furnace in another week, and the long looked for fin...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘At The Opera House’ January 11, 1913 On Thursday, January 16th at the Tobin Opera House, Jones & Crane will present for one night only their newest and brightest attraction “TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY” Grace Miller White’s famous novel of that name dramatized by the master dramatist of his day, Rupert Hughes, author of “Excuse Me” etc. This play has enjoyed a remarkably pr...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 Years Ago Jan. 4 1913 ‘The Old Year Out; A New Era Dawns’ Perhaps as profitable a watch party as was assembled in the city was at the office of L.O Fundingsland New Years Eve. Twenty prominent citizens were present with a unanimity of motive, that of promoting a greater harmony of feeling and conduct in the village, looking to a common welfare of good for the town and its tributary cou...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO ‘A Serious Accident’ December 28, 1912 Last Saturday little Harold Edens four years old, son of Gus Edens, living fifteen miles northwest of town, fell through the plate glass window, completing severing the muscles at the back of the neck. Mrs. Edens was alone at the time, with the two children. Leaving the baby in the high chair she ran with the injured child half a mile for hel...
These stories from the past first appeared in The Sidney Telegraph. Original writing is preserved, though some stories were shortened for space reasons. 100 YEARS AGO December 21, 1912 ‘Dalton Boy Hurt Jumping Freight’ On last Tuesday several boys were pressed into service to drive teams on grains wagons to the Dalton market. While in town they proceeded to find entertainment, winding upon a freight car sluggishly moving out of the yards. When but a short distance out the boys thought the speed picking up and each lad made a jump. All lan...
