Scottsbluff Club backs enlistment for Fourth Nebraska regiment
J B Miller of Alliance pushed recruiting for Company G Fourth Regiment N N G during a Scottsbluff Commercial Club meeting. The club adopted resolutions urging patriotic support and immediate military buildup to defend the flag and honor. The text notes an exciting chase and capture with Lincoln safekeeping after an Ord trial moment.
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Scottsbluff
J. B. Miller
Alliance
Nebraska
Commercial Club
Uts
United States
Scottsbluff Commercial Club
Lincoln
Ord
Firefighters and town volunteers battle blaze at Iddings farm
The fleet arrived around 1 o'clock and a large group of nearly a hundred men and boys fought the fire to save farm buildings belonging to Mark Iddings and others. Schoolboys joined the effort and many returned with hair singed and faces blackened from the effort. A second fire was reported near town at the same time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Iddings
Ravisher and murderer Kamerad shot after siege near Ord
Louis Kamerad, convicted for the February 7 abduction and rape of 13 year old Alice Parkes, fled Ord jail using three stolen cars then hid in a barn seventeen miles south. Bloodhounds tracked him. when cornered he refused surrender and was killed by bullets from a sheriff and the victim's father.
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Custer County
Louis Kamerad
Alice Parkes
Ord
Kannerad
Kamerad
Sheridan County National Guard Deploys for Duty
Capt Leedom ordered Company I of the Nebraska National Guard from Gordon to Fort Robinson near Crawford to report for duty. First Lieut Urderant and Second Lieut Kipps lead the company on the early Sunday train, with Captain Leedom remaining to recruit. Eighteen privates under Lieut Phipps guard Belmont tunnel. others stay at the fort awaiting further orders from General Barry.
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Sheridan County
Leedom
Nebraska National Guard
Gordon
Fort Robinson
Crawford
Urderant
Kipps
Phipps
Belmont
Burlington
Fort
Leede
National Guard
General Barry
Western Department
Community Club hires Siegfried for haystack botom spread
Hyannis area roads will receive one hundred loads of haystack bottoms and manure under a contract with D. EK Siegfried. The Community Club says the practical work will make its presence felt across the county in the spring and summer months.
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Hyannis
D. EK. Siegfried
Prairie Fire Sweeps Land Near Bridgeport
A prairie fire near Bridgeport swept five miles east, endangering property and destroying hay and grass. Authorities suspect a bonfire spark started the blaze, though the cause remains unconfirmed.
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Bridgeport
Bridgeport News-Blade
New Burlington Train West From Broken Bow
Beginning May 1 the Burlington will launch a new local passenger service between here and Alliance with direct Caspar division connections. The train arrives before No 44 at night and departs before No 493 in the morning handling all local business between the two points. Broken Bow becomes the eastern terminus with Nos 48 and 44 remaining fast trains west of here. Local freight departures shift to daylight for better line transit.
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Custer County
Burlington Road
Here
Alliance
Casper
Broken Bow
Hemingford Community Club Reorganized
Hemingford community club reorganized to include rural residents and businessmen. Keith Pierce presided and spoke on plans while F. M. Seidell county agent discussed agriculture. H. H. Bushnell Jr. of Alliance spoke on community work and patriotism. A lunch followed.
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Omaha
Hemingford Community Club
Keith Pierce
F. M. Seidell
Box Butte County
H. H. Bushnell, Jr
Alliance
Associated Commercial Clubs
Nebraska
Mules Pull Six Ford Cars in Northport Feat
In Northport a team of mules belonging to H. H. VanDeventer pulled a 96 foot line of six new Ford cars weighing about ten thousand pounds from Union Pacific unloading tracks to Main Street. The cars were stiff from newness and bets surrounded the stunt. The feat showcased the mules as strong for their weight.
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Bridgeport Newa-Blade
Northport
H. H. VanDeventer
Union Pacific Railroad
Nebraska Potato Company Buys Dawes County Warehouse
The Nebraska Potato company, a locally formed group, bought the old storage house on the North Western warehouse lots of LaRue Broghamer. The firm aims to provide a quick market for fall potato crops, paying cash for spuds and planning a new large storehouse next to replace the old building.
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Chadron Chronicle
Dawes County
Nebraska Potato Company
North Western
LaRue Broghamer
Potato Company
North Western Line
Dawes
Knowles Speaks at Bluff Tabernacle Revival
Evangelist Harry G. Knowles leads nightly services in Scottsbluff at a newly built 600-seat tabernacle behind the Christian church. The 36 by 72 foot hall features a 14 by 36 platform, electric lights, two stoves, new Haddorff piano, and comfortable back seats as volunteers help finish the hurry-up construction.
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Haddorff
Haddorff Music House
Harry G. Knowles
Bethany
Nebr
Christian Church
Knowles
Orpheum
Tabernacle
Rise of the New West and Other Works in History List
A catalog of historical books listed with authors including Frederick Jackson Turner Woodrow Wilson Theodore Roosevelt and William Archibald Dunning among others. It catalogues works on American expansion politics reconstruction and national power with titles such as The Winning of the West and Reconstruction.
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Woodrow Wilson
Frederick Jackson Turner
Theodore Roosevelt
The
United States
Bri. L. Bogart
Lower South
William Garrett Brown
Abraham Lincoln
John T. Morse
William Archibald Dunning
Davis R. Dewey
America
John Holliday Latane
Fremont
Paul Leland Haworth
State Eagles Convention Planned in Nebraska City
Nebraska City prepares for the annual convention of the State Aerie of Eagles to be held there April 23 to 25. The meeting will gather members from multiple chapters for events and discussions.
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Neraska City
Aerle of
Engles
Youth pleads guilty for bank attempt in Talmage case
An 18 year old, identifying as James Johnson of Kansas City Missouri, pleaded guilty in district court to attempted bank robbery at Talmage. He received an indeterminate sentence of three to fifteen years in the penitentiary.
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Talmage
James Johnson
Kansas City
Farmers Seek Wheat Seed to Replant Damaged Wheat Fields
A committee formed by two hundred farmers bankers grain exchange members soil experts railroad representatives and the University of Nebraska in Omaha aims to secure and provide at once enough wheat to reseed damaged winter wheat fields in the state. Seed available at cost via the Omaha Grain Exchange.
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Omaha Grain Exchange
University of Nebraskan
Omaha
Reading Course No 10 of the Bureau of Education opens
The United States Bureau of Education announces Reading Course No 10 American History. A certificate is issued on completion. Free application blanks and book lists are available from the Home Education Division. books are not provided. The list covers 23 titles by Cheyney, Thwaites, Parkman, Fiske, Lodge, Woodburn, and others.
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United States Bureau of Education
Department of the Interior
Washington, D. C
United States Commissioner of Education
Home Education Division
Bureau
E. P. Cheyney
Reuben Gold Thwaites
Montcalm and Wolfe
Francia Parkman
Old Virginia
John Fiske
New England
John Fiskes
Sidney George Fisher
America
Lecky
James Albert Woodburn
Henry Cabot Lodge
Henry Clay
Carl Schurz
George Washington
Iowa firm Huys Elpothic Light Pla in Cedar Rapids
The Nebraska Electric company of Cedar Rapids has taken over the light and power plant at Emerson. The Alliance Herald costs $1.60 per year and is issued 62 times annually with 12 to 24 pages per issue.
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Iowa
Huys Elpothic Light
Nebraska Electric Company
Cedar Rapids
Say
Hne
Io Light
Alt
Emerson
Alliance Herald
Jad Salts for Kidney and Bladder Relief Advised
An old remedy praises Jad Salts made from lemon acid to ease bladder irritation and urinary disorders. It claims two to three doses daily for two days neutralizes urine odor and reduces discomfort, noting the product is inexpensive and promotes a pleasant effervescent lithia water effect.
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Hemingford
Ommunity Club
Fremont, Neb
Hereford
Pierre
Chadron
Union Pacific
Burlington R. A
ED J. Askwig
Maurice Degen
Bluffs
State Aerif
Eagles
Nebraska City
Bureau OF Education
F. F. Stephens
Box Butte Ave
E. Holsten
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