Random Shots from an Alliance Column Chronicle
A humorous collage of local notes from Alliance with odd anecdotes. Items include Harvard inquiries about Ruth Bryan, potash and oil talk in Antioch, a traveling man’s heart failure in a Crete hotel, boxing in the office, TV delays, sugar prices at Hot Springs, frost predictions, weddings, fashion trends, a San Francisco bank stocking room, prison iron bars cost, golf quips from actors, and a domestic worker demand in Alliance.
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Crete
Doctors Clash Over Ill Patient in Old Story
Two physicians argued about Jim Judson as he grew worse. One insists he is wrong, the other right, and the patient groans. A Rushville Record item notes tension at the bedside during a postmortem and signals a broader medical dispute.
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Jim Judson
Wron
America
Ens
Not Old Enough to Wear Short Skirts Says Mother
A girl named Mary complains about dress rules and her mother exclaims that Mary is too young for short skirts. The exchange reveals parental limits on youth fashion within a domestic scene.
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Mary
Flame of Youth and Ducks and Drakes at the Imperial
Tonight Shirley Mason stars in Flame of Youth with a Paris artist setting and Rebee the Belgian flower girl. Saturday features Bebe Daniels in Ducks and Drakes chronicling risky telephone flirting and secret meetings. Sunday Elaine Hammerstein appears in The Shadow of Rosalie Byrnes with a dual role and a climactic twist in a deserted house.
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the Imperial
Shirley Mason
Rebee
Bebe Daniels
Miss Innocence
Teddy
Elaine Hammerstein
Rosalie Byrnes
Miss Hammerstein
Leadite
Camilar
The Fighting Lover to Be Shown Monday
A wealthy Franka bets ten thousand dollars he can marry three girls in thirty days by advertising for candidates. He selects three hopefuls from a thousand replies, any of whom could make a young man happy, and the tale accelerates toward a dramatic climax.
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Franka
Desperate Case Echoes in Back Yard
A country doctor visits a neighbor and finds the wife hysterical after she ran into an echo in the yard and could not say the last word. The scene blends a domestic incident with a political quip about disarmament and action.
Funeral Services Held for Former Alliance Man Walter H Boon
Funeral services for Walter H Boon were held at 2 00 p m Wednesday from First Baptist Church. Boon a former Alliance resident died from a gunshot wound in Dixon Alabama his death described as sudden and tragic caused by mistaken identity while on another's land He leaves a wife Jennie Colerick two brothers Oscar Boon and W J Boon and many relatives and friends.
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First Baptist Church
Walter H. Boon
Alliance
Dixon
B. J. Minort
Emerio Boon
Shelby County
Indiana
Illinois
Morrill County
Nebraska
Box Butte
Oscar Boon
Dixon, Ill
W. J. Boon
Oregon
Ill
Jennie Colerick
N. C. Colerick
J. T. Barkhurst
H. Boon
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Antioch
Harvard
Neb
Babe Ruth
Ruth Bryan
William Lage
William and Jennings Bryan
Mr. O'Brien
William
Saeed
Cox-Roosevelt Club
Yes
The
Hot Springs
San Francisco
Alice Lake
Ole Buck
Ole
Mrs. Buck
Buffalo
Week
Rushville
Martin Horning
Denie
P. S
Desperate Case
Herald
Jerry
L. S. Singer & Co
Railroad Company
Keep-A-Neat Cleaners and Tailors
Box Butte Alliance, Neb
Highland-Holloway Co
Paige
Detroit Motor Car CO
Detroit, Michigan
Sturgeon’s
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