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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1919
Page
5
A 1706 estate arrangement for Richard Johnson allocates funds from his estate to the Stationers' Company. The vicar of Hendon would receive one guinea for preaching the sermon on Human life is a bubble, while two wardens of the company each receive a guinea for listening.
An advertisement extols Africa as rich in iron ore diamonds rubber and ivory claiming vast reserves and comparing continental wealth to others. It promotes Cushman gas engines for farmers and invites customers to visit Dierks Lumber Company for demonstrations and help choosing the right engine.
The smallest national park covers 38 acres on Prince of Wales Island in southeastern Alaska. Established by presidential proclamation within the past year, it preserves an abandoned Indian village famed for totem poles. Notable Malay Indian architecture is also present among the remaining structures.
Thurlow Weed, famed New York political figure, earned the nickname the president maker for securing nominations of Harrison in 1840 Taylor in 1848 and Scott in 1852. He backed Lincoln in 1860 despite favoring Seward, and he never held public office.
An old health notice advocates drinking a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone each morning before breakfast. It claims this flushes the stomach liver and bowels, removes indigestible waste and sour bile, and improves overall health and freshness.
A Paris dispatch reports 241 American relief workers arriving as the city forms into three groups by sex. The piece also records humorous vignettes of daily life from Tokyo telephone woes to a soldier’s room and a nurse search, with a Nebraskan home guard notice closing the item.
The article describes timber claimed as the world’s oldest used by man, found in an Egyptian temple. The wood, likely tamarisk, forms the ties that join stone blocks in the 4,000 year old structure, believed to be the sole wood in the temple’s construction.
Advertisement request seeks fast cheap column space to locate nine hover vehicles. Text mentions LANL and FA ALE as identifiers. No clear event, date, or organization beyond those terms.
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