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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1920
Page
2
Broadwater News notes a local parlour for ladies and gentlemen, with comments on vegetables, sweet corn, and small town fashion. It highlights a variety of anecdotes, clerks’ congratulations on engagements, a kidnap case update, and municipal ordinance text from Alliance Nebraska.
The Vancouver Province notes a writer predicting potato extinction in five years, a claim tied to long hope and spray use by growers. The piece also tangentially mentions marriages, safety of children, and various mishaps and deaths reflected in ominous verse.
A flirtatious figure, dubbed a toothbrush moustache lover, appears at a club with a clean upper lip. He claims a failed kiss bid after gum chewing girl. He waits at a neighbor’s porch until midnight then leaves alone as the party turns sleepy. The Lady Reporter notes razors in oriental stores.
The Good Old Days notes M. Slayter presented the News force with rhubarb and roasting ears last Saturday. It marks the first roasting event mentioned in the item.
Ordinance No 205 prohibits driving or using traction engines tractors trucks or heavy machines with lugs flanges ribs on paved streets and alleys of Alliance Nebraska and bars vehicles over 4000 pounds with hard surface tires within city limits with penalties.
Frank Veglis returns from Chicago Illinois after two months visiting friends. Alfren Nolan arrives from North Platte to stay with the Katen household at Stephenson and O Bannon. Sheridan County Fair set for September 7 8 9 10 in Gordon with planned festivities and guests.
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