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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1920
Page
2
The piece lampoons a nationwide overalls craze, noting its reach from Boston to Alaska and even the American Legion's mixed response. It muses on fashion, prices, and improvising outfits while wryly imagining tropical exile to Fiji as a last resort.
An Alliance storm stranded a Denver reporter who notes the ensuing demand will push prices up. The piece suggests the public may struggle to obtain goods, criticizing the outlook and urging cautious interpretation of market effects.
The annual meeting of the First Presbyterian Church of Alliance reported a successful year with full financial quotas, a church membership of 88, and balanced budgets across congregational, benevolent, and missionary funds. Officers were elected to new three and two year terms, and pledges supported Hastings College and Nebraska colleges.
Fragmentary note mentions a treatment with unclear scope and a person named Jenell. Location given as 1100 McGee and names Poa Katte Stee and Guite. Details are obscured, no clear event or outcome.
Nebraska News Notes from years past report Sunday shaving banned in Blue Hill, court openings at York, Ord corn worth fourteen cents, Salt Creek frozen, Omaha coal find in river bottoms, efforts for a Baptist college at Grand Rapids, home for the friendless discussed in Omaha, a Norfolk board of trade organized, Union Pacific surveyors in Wyoming, death of John W. Burnside in Alma, a missing nine-year-old near Wilber, the Ulysses Herald’s demise, Papillion Fort Omaha bid idea, Box Butte formation from Dawes, constitutional amendment pay hike fail, Schuyler day police idea, pig accident near West Point, storm-era chicken passenger, $370 damages to C. C. Crowell, Emerson’s suicide, Oakland Farmers’ Union grain venture, Hunts missing from Davenport, and a call for exchanges to copy.
Alliance Baptists aim to subscribe full quota of Nebraska share in a 100 million dollar New World Movement. A. H. Robbins will assign campaign teams at Friday supper and finalize plans. Local church quota is 16011 toward 1506000 statewide allocation. Sunday April 25 will feature home visitation and canvass follow ups. Senior class play Safety Fire scheduled for April 23.
The speaker informs that a late arrival was caused by bed confinement with lethargic encephalitis described by doctors as sleeping sickness.
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