125 Years

January 7, 1892

The delivery wagons of Sidney are among the most fancy vehicles. Nothing seems too nice to carry to customers the few pounds of groceries that are ordered at intervals. Dealers in the necessities of life have a desire to own a little nicer delivery wagon than their competitors and the skill of the wagon builder is put to the test for new designs. Henry Albers, the Main Avenue grocer and baker, has the latest wagon. It is a fancy one from Yager and Smith.

100 Years

January 7, 1917

Notice has been received by Mayor Crozier from the directors of the Xenia workhouse that the rate for keeping prisoners there has been advanced from 50 to 60 cents a day, effective at once. It will be necessary for city council to authorize the mayor to enter into a contract at the new rate.

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Much interest is being manifest in the Senior-Junior debate to be held Thursday evening in the high school auditorium. Discussing restrictions on immigration, senior class members, Raymond Love, Wesley Thompson and Martin McVay will support the affirmative. Junior class members on the negative side are: John Harmony, Dick Wolfe, and Cecil Webster. E.J. Griffis, Hugh Bingham and I.H. Thedieck will be the judges.

75 Years

January 7, 1942

President Roosevelt today laid before Congress a $50 million war budget for the next 12 months, beginning July 1. With 89 per cent of the expenditures going for national defense items, the President forecast a deficit of $35 billion and a national debt of $110 billion by the end of the fiscal year.

50 Years

January 7, 1967

Seven institutional representatives attended a meeting of the Shelby District Boy Scouts Committee this week. District Chairman Clayton Kiracofe in reviewing the purpose of scouting stressed the importance of the institutional representative in the functioning of the program.

IR’s attending were Harold Brautigam, Charles Zwiebel, Richard Stangel, Roger Lundy, Fred Poppe, Robert Pearson and Warren Gerkey.

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County commissioners completed arrangements today to visit the Champaign and Union county homes on Jan. 19 to gain ideas that may be used in the pending construction of a new Shelby county home with proceeds of $650,000 bond issue approved last November.

Accompanying Commissioners Roger Elsass, chairman, Merton Maxwell and John Gephrey on the trip will be members of the recently appointed building commission and Architect Ferd Freytag.

25 Years

January 7, 1992

The economy of the Cincinnati area is stronger than any other major metropolitan area, according to a national accounting and management consulting firm.

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For many, a job as newspaper carrier is a stepping stone to a later career. Florence Shine, however, has taken up carrying the newspaper after a successful career in nursing. Her new “job” is hardly a career, though. Consider it more of a pastime.

Mrs. Shine, a resident of Dorothy Love apartments, 2500 Kuther Road, delivers the news each day to about 10 of her neighbors on her floor. She delivers The Sidney Daily News in the afternoon and The Dayton Daily News in the morning.