Tour of India Begins at Southern Tip and Roams North
E. C. Horn chronicles a voyage from Colombo to Tuticorin on the Africa steamship, noting a lively voyage with a seasick passenger, a breakfast mishap, and currency tricks as he plans a 1400 mile overland rail crossing to Calcutta with remarks on the Hooghly river and the dangerous rail line ahead.
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Catcurta
India
Tuticorin
Empire
Colombo
Africa
British India Steam Navigation Co
Colombia
Rangorn
Madross
Eli Perkins
South Indian Railway
London
Denver
Hooghly
Ganges
Calcutta
Asia
Tuticorn
South Indian
Madura
Athens
Madras
Currie Seeks Western Normal School and Prairie Dog Bill Wins
Hon. Frank Currie scheduled in Alliance on Saturday to discuss state legislature work. He urges securing a western normal school, noting Hastings may win bids but coalitions should keep pressing. Currie also helped pass the prairie dog eradication bill which allows county action and tax assessment on landowners who fail to act, with Governor Mickey signing after initial hesitation.
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Frank Currie
Lincoln
Dawes County
Alliance
Hastings
Grand Island
Aurora
Kearney
Broken Bow
Currie
Mickey
Mr. Curries
St Matthew's Episcopal church services and school report
St Matthew's holds morning and evening worship with Holy Eucharist and sermons, processions, and choral offerings. A March 27 1904 city schools report shows enrollment 669, daily attendance 578.78, punctuality 99.03 percent, and notable tardy reductions, with notes on truancy risk as warm weather returns.
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St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
Jackson “Pamedighia
Roper
Board of Education
Patrons of Alliance Schools
W. H H. Bartz
Public Sale Near Alliance Nebraska Set for April 15
Public sale announced to be held at the seller's place nineteen miles north of Alliance on Wednesday April 15, 1909 starting at 7 a m. Items listed include fight head of calves a Perkins windmill pump and pipe stock tank poles posts barbed wire and all buildings on the property.
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Alliance
M. Kror- Sin
Mountain toothache adds to human ills on Jungfrau railway
Workmen building the Jungfrau railway at 10,000 feet suffer a novel disease described as the mountain toothache. It causes fever for three days then subsides without lasting dental decay and is listed among over 2,000 diseases mankind faces.
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Jungfrau
William Shakespeare Jr. of Kalamazoo Makes Wormless Hooks
The New York Press notes a Kalamazoo manufacturer, William Shakespeare Jr., makes trick hooks that require no worm. The quip alludes to his fishing tackle as innovative.
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William Shakespeare, Jr
Kalamazoo
Mich
Hamlet
New York Press
Potato Day brings in shipments and subscriptions
The old man of Tue Herath recalls old times as Hemingford fills with potato haulers led by C. J. Wildy and B. E. Johnson. About $15,000 to $20,000 worth of potatoes arrive while readers renew subscriptions and locals donate money, including W. D. Cross, John Kinsella, and Orville Kidwell, as loyalty to the Alliance edition grows.
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Tue Heraun
Hemingford
C. J. Wildy
B. E. Johnson
E. Malin
Luke Phillips
Wim. Roth
James Planansky
T. Colvin
W. A. Clark
Tue Herath
Orville Kidwell
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Around
Catcutta
E. C. Horn
W. B
Molling Bros
Neb
St. Matthew's
Gilbert Kyrie Eleison
Elvey
Camidge
Vic
Jesus Christ
Ccas
Fred
Oliver Hawkins
J.C. Berry
Tak Herrato
Antioch
Lock Woods
T. L. Harris
Mother
Lockwoods
M. Sanford
Fairfield
Lockwood's
Geo. Fox
Zbinden
J. Hi. Dustman
W.K. Herncall of
Hecla
Smith F. Tuttle
Sheridan County
Lockwood
J. F. Fleming
Wm. King
A. O. Barnes
F. J. Brennan & Co
First National Bank Block
Nebraska
Forest Lumber Co
J. S. Mekine
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