Traveling Through Time With the Shelby County Historical Society
Excerpts from newspapers. TOPIC: 100 YEARS AGO.  Compiled by Doris Dilbone in May, 1999

100 Years Ago - May 1899...Pg 3

For Sale Cheap
All kinds of flowers, cabbage, yam, sweet potato, tomato and mango plants. Also 2,000 fine pansies in bloom. At Henry Ehrhardt’s, near the fair ground.
Sidney Daily News, May 4, 1899

 Odds and Ends
Twelve barrels of ten year old rye whiskey was received by Wm. Shine on Tuesday from the old Lyndhurst distillery of New Jersey, the oldest distillery in this country. The fine qualities of its whiskies have made it famous, which is distilled on the old plan, over open wood fires in copper kettles…J. S. Laughlin has presented Neal Post G. A. R. with a gavel made from a tree that stood on the Shiloh battlefield. The gavel is similar to the one he presented to Sidney Lodge, I.O.O.F. last week…The Underwood Whip Company plant has been recently improved by the putting in of some additional fire protection…The May number of the Cosmopolitan magazine contains a tribute from the pen of Milton E. Ailes, formerly of Sidney and now of Washington, D.C. It is entitled, "Arctic Perils," a story of adventure and death in the far north.
Shelby County Democrat, May 12, 1899

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