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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1912
Page
2
Washington report shows exports of American manufactured goods for the fiscal year 1912 totaling 1,021,763,918 dollars. Iron and steel, copper, mineral oil, wood and leather products, cotton goods, cars and carriages, automobiles and their parts lead the list.
Los Angeles reports the Darrow bribery trial may close soon with jurors to retire early the following week. Clarence S. Darrow is expected to lead the defense as witness and then counsel in the closing arguments.
Returns from the Democratic state primary in Texas show Congressman Morris Sheppard leading Jacob F. Wolters of Houston Cc B. Rendel and Matthew Zollner of Rockwell County for the Senate seat to succeed Senator Joseph W Bailey.
Cincinnati July 29 Coroner Coe attributes death of Dillard McCandless at Longview asylum to a mechanical vise like device found on the violent ward body. Coroner says head and face marks could not have been made by human hands, ruling out suicide or accident.
Atlanta July 20 Toronto chosen as meeting place for the 1913 Gideons convention. A B T Moore of Cedar Rapids Iowa was reelected president. Edgar Oliver of Atlanta vice president Nels Rylander of Chicago treasurer reelected Rev L De Sith of Wisconsin chaplain reelected.
Oliver Stafford of York Nebraska died in a blaze that destroyed the Craven farm home near Missouri Valley Iowa. Authorities say he slept through the fire and was overcome by smoke, his body burned beyond recognition.
Five masked men entered Mrs Helen Baumen s saloon in Chicago and opened fire wounding the widow and her daughter. A son who tried to defend the place was fired upon during the incident.
Four persons drown in the Kankakee river near Kankakee with victims named Louis Burkhalter, Mrs. Paul Mastello, Vida Hematock, and Walter Webster of Hammond Indiana. The incident occurred on July 20 as the group visited the river.
A compilation of brief items notes Kermit Roosevelt leaving New York for Brazil to pursue railroad work, Mexican minister Ernesto Madero and family departing Mexico City for a US visit, and other varied items from politics sports crime and industry.
A. Do. Weir, a former Nebraskan now living in West Fork Arkansas, writes about settling in the Ozarks. He praises the climate, water, health, abundant wildlife, and cheap land from $8-$10 per acre, with improved farms at $10-$30. He notes roads, railroad expansion, snakes, ticks, and rising corn yields while comparing Arkansas favorably to California and the Northwest. Church life and schooling are described as improving but still seasonal.
A Nebraska reader describes travel routes and land buying in the Ozarks around West Fork Arkansas. He warns about unscrupulous land men, praises honest sellers, notes malaria risks along rivers, and reports abundant wildlife and fruit. He invites readers to visit and stay at a 50 acre farm near West Fork before returning to Marsland.
A Denver Post feature humorously explains W. J. Hamilton’s triplicate fly trap, its working details, large scale manufacturing plans, and strong demand. It describes the woven wire trap, sugar lure, and the dramatic misadventures of flies seeking a non existent crevice before being “emptied” and reset for a new swarm.
Frank Sams sues W R Mellor and others in district court at St Paul Nebraska challenging the stallion registration statute as unconstitutional. Judge Paul’s injunction becomes permanent and the case proceeds to the Nebraska Supreme Court for review.
D M Wyckoff of Omaha travel ing salesman for Schmoller Muller piano house, with Ida M Ross as Alliance local representative, was in the city the first of the week.
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