Good Old Days 01-24-14

COMPILED BY THE SIDNEY Sun-Telegraph Staff

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

'An Echo of The Past'

January 24, 1914

The death of Valeria Allenspach-Coad at Lincoln on Thursday night of last week turns the thoughts to early days of Sidney, say thirty years or more ago. Mrs. Allenspach-Coad, then Valeria Allenspach, lived here with her parents who ran a hotel. She was considered a beauty, in the wild, unpolished standards recognized in those days in this man's town...