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Good Old Days – 04-18-14

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.

75 YEARS AGO

'Sidney Man Dies In Auto Crash Monday'

April 21, 1939

A truck-automobile collision near Grand Island late Monday Killed John B. Spencer, 30, a resident of Sidney for about two months. Carl Schmeekie, 21, driver of the truck, and Frank Majewshi, a passenger, escaped injury.

A blowout of the left front tire on Spencer''s car apparently caused him to lose control of the auto-mobile just befo...

 

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