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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1912
Page
3
Daily eastbound and westbound passenger trains listed with numbers and stop towns Edgemont Black Hills Billings Guernsey and bridgeport Denver with schedule times and service notes. Southbound and Sunday exceptions included for No 3803 and related connections.
Post office mails close by Mountain time with specific cutoffs for trains 44 42 43 and 41 and 303 301. West and south bound services have 12 20 p m and 11 00 p m deadlines. On Sundays and holidays all night mails close at 6 00 p m. IRA E TASH P M.
Hemingford brief with multiple passenger movements to Alliance and back, local trips, and household events. Names include Mrs C M Lomapeich Mrs Charley Davison Suate Rolla Johnson and families. Mention of Grand Pa McCabe death and Berea box social earnings.
Edgemont track washout at the big washout area noted. Brakeman Frank Mackey reported back on duty Friday after several days off. Mia and W. E. Spencer along with daughter visited Denver earlier in the week.
Local notes recount railroad workers moving about Alliance Nebraska. J W Barnes skips town leaving unpaid bills at a clothing shop. Brakemen and conductors swap posts, suffer injuries and recover. Train crews handle floods and cars fire incidents while residents travel to Hemingford Omaha and Deadwood.
John Burns traveled to Alliance on business. Cal and Mrs Duerr visited Angora after their white Orpingtons to set a second incubator. Postmaster Mr Duerr attended the assessors meeting in Harrison this week.
Dr C K 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 M D 1199 14 11 E C Whisman painting contractor 1Lesifl4
H H Hall formerly of Heming ford now in Los Angeles California visited Box Butte county friends this week. Attorney H H Harper of North port stopped in town returning from a boabeas trip to Omaha. T D Shrewsbury returned home for a brief family visit carrying Uncle Sam mail from local routes.
Burlington railroad paid W. P. Albee eleven thousand eighty seven dollars and fifty cents to settle a case. Albee, a Burlington switchman at Alliances, lost both hands when wheels passed over his wrists after being knocked from a box car last summer. He also received four thousand dollars from the railroad relief department.
A garbled testimonial notes Hall's Catarrh Cure as a cure all and claims a Toledo firm certifies its blood action. Mentions F J Chaney Co and National Bank of Commerce Toledo. Includes price 75 cents per bottle and a call to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
A Farm Journal quip has a hen complaining about laying eggs and a storage product owner joking about lying, reflecting rural humor and punning wordplay.
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