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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1920
Page
7
A playful courtroom note praises a Denver judge for boldly chastising a wary plumber, recounting years spent shuttling between workplaces in search of forgotten tools. The piece blends humor with local color, hinting at past merriment and broader city life.
Judge Dunn criticizes a plumber paid $11 to $12 a day for smoking on the job while refitting pipes and damaging woodwork with tobacco juice. He orders consideration of a reduction and condemns the practice as wasting valuable work time.
The speaker contemplates higher court review of a landmark decision and questions the consequences if review fails. They illustrate potential societal responses by imagining how various professionals would adjust wages or policies for trivial time losses and office habits.
The piece argues about stenographers seeking jobs with lax supervision and printers avoiding shops controlled by publishers. It notes smoking as a harmful, costly habit and suggests workers perform better with the habit than without the cue of the smoke.
In Box Butte county six women have applied for precinct committeewoman posts while neighboring towns vie for city offices. A women's club meeting spurred strong interest and one man notes a need for electing all. The line hints at early local political fervor with references to historical editors Alans Bul Barlow and a Douglas, Wyoming Budget link.
An outlandish old column condemns Wan Lee the street laundry, alleging Chinese washermen mix up garments and return wrong items. The narrator laments repeated errors, joking about mismatched collars, cuffs, and clothing from several patrons, with residents swapping shirts among unrelated owners.
J W Good files for renomination as Republican candidate for State Senator from the 28th district. He cites legislative service in 1919, farming and mercantile work, and railroading experience as basis for improving laws. He hopes for farmer ranchman business support and asks for votes and influence.
A salesman on a country road alerts an old woman that her house is on fire in a humorous miscommunication. She mishears him until he repeats the warning with urgency. The anecdote appears in American Legion Weekly, with a separate note about monument sales by Al Wiker of Alliance for Paine-Fishburn Granite Co. The joke ends with a wedding-day proverb about courtship and marriage.
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