The Sidney Sun-Telegraph - Serving proudly since 1873 as the beautiful Nebraska Panhandle's first newspaper

By Calvin K. Sunderland

Edited by Michael K. Sunderland

The following is a short excerpt from the Family History my father worked on until Alzheimer’s progressively destroyed his memory.

The nation, and the world, found itself beginning the slide into The Great Depression by 1930. The unprecedented economic disaster began with the stock market crash of October and November 1929. It can hardly be argued the crash caused the depression, but it was the curtain raiser. The Great Depression is still a subject of intense study by economists and political scientists trying to determine its ca...