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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1912
Page
5
A high school boy seeks after school and Saturday work. Inquiries should be made at the Herald office. Also note a Rhode Island Red hen and eggs for sale by Mrs. E. J. Owen of Hewett Nebraska with prices per unit and per dozen.
Multiple rental notes list furnished rooms for light housekeeping in Box Butte County. Properties include two downstairs rooms at 708 Box Butte with phone 299, rooms at 908 Box Butte Ave, a furnished unit at 314 Sweetwater Ave with phone 387, and additional rooms at 121 Yellowstone Ave and 603 Box Butte Ave. Also mentions offices in McCorkle Building and First National Bank Building with various contact details.
Classified notes list house cleaning request and money to loan on real estate from F E Reddish. Real estate ads include lots for sale on Toluca and Platte Avenues via W B Young and a four room cement block house in Belmont Addition Alliance. Also a 640 acre claim with plow land for 125 acres of hay near Morris County at Watson and Watson’s grocery Alliance.
The Knight Campbell Music Co of Denver announces a big illustrated piano catalog for 1912 with prices and the Knight Campbell Easy Pay Plan. Prepaid mailed catalogs are available on request, with options for a high player piano catalog. The ad touts buying direct to save middlemen profits and notes the company’s long standing Western sales record and four decades of reputation.
Subscribers can read dates stamped on papers or wrappers to see how long their subscription is paid. The example 2-20-12 means February 29, 1912. The ad promotes Rowan & Wright coats and provides phone number 71.
I, A J Pickett of Alliance Nebraska, date March 2 1912, certify I will not be responsible for any debts contracted by my wife Mivs Hessie Pickett since our separation notice filed at Alliance Nebraska.
Earnest appeal to subscribe for Alliance daily and urge friends to subscribe. E I Gregg and Son advertise a large stock of first class alfalfa and wild hay offered at a reasonable price.
ROWAN & WRIGHT operate a coal office at the Rowan's feed store. Old papers are available at The Herald office for 5 cents per bunch.
Private sale includes rugs, brass bedstead, mattress, springs, dining chairs, rockers, dresser, roll top desk, Kurtzman piano, book case at Snyder's drug store office 210 Box Butte Ave. B H Perry 6 Lips 4 See E C Whisman for lowest painting paper hanging and calssomining services 1158tfi4
The Alliance Herald office lists a large stock of conveyancing and legal blanks including deeds bonds licenses and notices. Call or write for any other blank and quantity desired from Herald Publishing Company Alliance Nebraska.
Local residents report social visits and church activities in Fairview. J R Lawrence and Casper Worn visited Southland hills Saturday, Sunday school organized with Mrs Munger as superintendent and Mrs George West as secretary, plus multiple visits among the Lawrence, Nason, and West families throughout the week.
A broad survey of events includes Yuan Shih Kai taking the oath as president of China, a London window-smashing incident affecting public morale, and a series of political and legal motions across the United States. The report notes pension reform, a New York brokerage quit, and multiple fatal accidents and trials in various cities.
Live stock prices at South Omaha report scarce sheep and lambs with high demand. Cattle and hog prices rise while stock cattle and feeding cattle show mixed demand. buyers seek packers, with fat lambs and woolly stock selling at top year prices. Prices for cattle, hogs, and sheep and lambs are listed with ranges for prime to common grades.
After a harsh winter, thaw reveals bare ground as residents resume outdoor work. Johrt Burner Wis attended a trial last week and returned Thursday. Cal Duerr and Henry Duerr travel to Minatare for hay. Joe Duerr begins work at the Tri-State as a ditch rider while Geo Denton hauls hay from the river.
A jumble of old ads lists remedies for catarrh and coughs with testimonials, a furniture and sewing machine rental, a New York hat shop, a granite company in Grand Island Nebraska, and local sales pitches. Names include F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio and National Bank of Commerce Toledo.
Beginning March 346, prices increase from 25 cents to 40 cents for team to hay at noon and from 15 cents to 25 cents for single horse to hay at noon with other prices adjusted accordingly. Signed by H. P. Coursey and Ed. Henry.
Notice from GEO. D. DARLING dated April 1, 1912 that Mr A H Morris is no longer in his employ or any other capacity. Also a classified line offers a soda fountain with fittings for sale from Bee Hive Store,WItil 192.
Dr C E Slagle who has been with me the past five years as assistant is no longer in my employ. All bills for work done by him prior to Feb 1 1912 are payable direct to me H H Bellwood MD 1130 1442 E C Whisman painting contractor Lisfi4
Allen H Morris announces he is no longer with Geo D Darling but remains available to serve former customers as funeral director and embalmer. Phone 17.
Douglas county grand jury returns indictments charging J J Kegan Josep Pivonke and Mayor P J Train er with accepting bribes along with three others including City Clerk Frank H Good and former Justice of the Peace PC Caldwell who allegedly passed bribes to fire and police board members. A noted agent testified about a slush fund used to fix the board. Also referenced is an unrelated report of Walter Thinkley, a fireman with Union Pacific Railroad, who was killed.
A manleaned from a moving train and fell from the coal chute section, his body later brought to the city on a return train and prepared for shipment to his home in Santa City.
Dwellers along the Platte Loup and Elkhorn rivers face record floods from Platte spring breakup. Columbus Schuyler Norfolk Fremont crews rally levees as rail lines struggle and lives are endangered. Hunters missing after a boat washed away. three boys stranded between washed bridges near Schuyler. Fremont braces with sandbags.
Warren Stone predicts the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers will see less than 2 percent oppose a wage strike in a 264000 member union. He cites eastern railroad talks where managers do not deem the demands unjust but say they cannot grant the raise due to freight-rate limits.
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