State Expenditures in Early 1916 Report Released
Lincoln Neb April 26 State Auditor Wm H Smith issues first quarterly report for 1916 showing three months expenses at 1421841.85 including 44411 school apportionment. Excluding school funds total would be 986770 a drop from prior quarter. University costs 339468.81 normals 85637.66 state institutions 350481.32 with 33122.07 for permanent improvements. Remaining 221196.79 funds other state expenses. Catarrhal Deafness ad included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nebr
Wm. H. Smith
Board of Commissioners
Large Coffee Purchase Bid Secures Allotment for State Institutions
Lincoln Nebraska April 22 The board of commissioners saved about one thousand dollars on the coffee bill for the fifteen state institutions last week. Every three months they buy roughly fifteen thousand two hundred seventy five pounds on competitive bids. Previously they paid twenty six cents per pound but a bid of eighteen and four tenths cents on a tested sample was accepted, allowing one firm to receive the entire allotment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Nebr
Board of Commissioners
Kidney Health Ad And Potato Improvement Campaign
An old health ad promotes a salts-based drink to purify and energize kidneys while advising ample water. The piece then shifts to a five week potato improvement campaign in western Nebraska counties Box Butte Dawes Kimball and Sheridan detailing lectures seed treatment and demonstration plots.
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Nebraska
Box Butte Dawes
Kiniball
Sheridan County
Sage Tea and Sulphur Compound Restores Hair Color
The old time remedy Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur Compound darkens faded gray hair naturally. A bottle costs about 50 cents and is applied with a sponge or brush to reveal darker, thicker, glossier hair by morning. The product is a toilet vanity item not a medical treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eversbury
Wyeth
Live Stock Sanitary Board War on Horse Disease
Lincoln Nebraska April 25 The Live Stock Sanitary Board plans another vigorous assault on the disease known as a doctorine among horses. The northwestern quarantine was lifted but indications show the illness persists in isolated parts of the state. A supreme summer effort aims to eradicate it completely.
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Lincoln
Nebr
Live Stock Sanitary Board
Registered Hereford Bulls For Sale Near Thedford Nebraska
Advertisement notes three two year old bulls and three yearlings in good condition offered for immediate sale by Fred E Thompson, located one and one half miles east of Thedford Nebraska. Bulls described as good and reasonably priced.
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Fred E., Thompson
Thedford
Nebraska
Spring Rheumatic Ailments Relieved by Chamberlains Ointment
The piece notes spring’s damp cold worsens rheumatic pains but offers relief through Chamberlains ointment. It cites Adow-April as the attribution.
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Chamberlain
Morning Hot Water Wash Promises Clearer Complexions
An old health note promotes drinking a glass of hot water with limestone phosphate each morning to flush waste from the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims internal cleansing will improve skin glow and reduce headaches and bad breath, urging women to try it for a week.
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Jack Miller
Alliance
Civil Service School
Hemingford
C. A. Burlew
C. Lockwood
D. W. Butler
N. Frohnapfel
B. EB. Johnson
A. D. Rodgers
Wm. Hamilton
Mallory's
B. E. Johnson
L. H. Highland, Alliance
Hemingford Roller Mills
A. M. Miller
Nichols
Rumely
F. A. Clark
William H. Smith
Hall
Druezists
the. F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
O. Adv
Hereford
College of Agriculture
Potato Club
Agricultural College
University Farm
Dart
Autobile
First State Bank
Columbia
Grafonola
F. E. Yolstan
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