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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1917
Page
5
A columnist riffs on spring fashion greens, potato gifts, and social nerves in Alliance Nebraska. He mocks fake schemes, warns against courtesy cowardice, and urges speakout courage to avoid cowardice or missed chances.
An article by J L McBrien urges expanded training for rural schoolteachers. It argues many rural teachers lack high school education and professional training and calls for state normal schools to create specialized rural education departments with dedicated leaders, model rural schools, and outreach to communities to improve agricultural and rural life instruction.
Register T. J. O Keefe and Receiver John W. Morrow announce Circular No. 538 amending Circular No. 523 on stock raising homesteads under the 1916 act. It limits married women’s additional entries to those qualified for original entries and prohibits widows or heirs from adding entries. Additional entries allowed if two prior entries exist and residence requirements and land locations meet conditions within twenty miles.
An old advertisement touts Dr Kings New Life Pills as a mild laxative that regulates the bowels and relieves congested intestines by removing accumulated wastes without griping. It claims health benefits and urges taking a pill before retiring with a price of 25 cents.
The document explains how existing preferences from the May 14 1880 act interact with a new stock raising provision. It states that relinquishments with new applications do not create new entry preferences and that entries under earlier acts may proceed under provisos of the current act, with residency requirements aligned to the three year homestead act.
Forty four years prior, the great Easter storm of 1873 devastated eastern regions, driving settlers into harsh shelter. Ex County Clerk B K Cobb of Geneva survived the three day blizzard trapped in a frame house near Hamilton Township, subsisting on raw eggs. Many newcomers endured severe conditions in prairie schooners as rain turned to snow and winds howled.
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