Serving proudly since 1873 as the beautiful Nebraska Panhandle's first newspaper
Serving proudly since 1873 as the beautiful Nebraska Panhandle's first newspaper
It was the month of May in the year 1873 that the first published newspaper appeared in the frontier town of Sidney, Nebraska. The owner, editor, publisher, and pressman was one man, L. Connell, who distributed the four-column folio sheet under the banner of The Sidney Telegraph.
The town of Sidney began as an end-of-track, Union Pacific railroad town in 1867 with all the drama and excitement that towns with those beginnings bring. Gamblers, whiskey peddlers, barrooms and brothels provided all the amenities that many hardworking railroad laborers could want. In December of that year, due to th...
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