Excerpts from newspapers. TOPIC: 100 YEARS AGO. Compiled by Doris Dilbone in Nov.,
1999
100 Years Ago - November 1899...Pg 2
Thanksgiving Football SuccessfulSix Straight Victories For The High School Boys…..Forty to six was the score of the Thanksgiving day football game when the Sidney team trounced over the Greenville team. Line up for the Sidney team was Anderson, Kelly, Beebe, Herzstam, Oldham, Marshall, Milholland, Arbuckle, Pfefferle, Goode and Stockstill. Sidney Daily News, Dec. 1, 1899 500 Sidney Skaters!?
The roller skating rink opened for the winter season last night and it is estimated that there were over five hundred people present. Music was furnished by the Klute band and the rink will be in
charge of Karmire & Benjamin. Sidney Daily News, Dec. 1, 1899
Thanksgiving Food Ads from
Sidney Newspapers...
Sexauer’s fruit cake is now on sale.
Better fruit cake can not be made. Ask your grocers for it.
Go to Burkhart’s grocery for good things for your Thanksgiving
dinner. Fine raisins, currants, cranberries, celery, Florida oranges, apples, and Malaga
grapes at cheap prices.
Fine pig roast at Joe Bauman’s on Thanksgiving morning.
Sexauer’s fresh mince pies are on sale every day. Enquire for
them at the wagon or ask your grocer for them. Use no other.
Fresh fish, poultry and oysters every day at A. S.
Lanpher’s, opposite post office.
Dressed turkeys 12½ cts. a pound, dressed chickens, ducks and geese
at Piper Bros.
The Wagner house has
become noted for its elegant table on Thanksgiving day. Everything from the hot beds of
the south will be had on that day, such as new spinach, new wax beans, new tomatoes,
cucumbers, new beets, fresh strawberries, etc., and all meats will be composed of game
meats, such as roast venison, mallard duck, snow birds, etc. Save trouble and expense and
take dinner at the Wagner House.
N.C. DeWeese & Son, 726 Poplar
Street, Sidney, Ohio
Shelby County Democrat, October 20, 1899
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