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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1911
Page
5
The page lists cash and credit ad rates per word per insertion with minimum charges. It invites writers to mention the Herald and describes the purpose of classifieds to connect buyers and sellers in town. Also includes a house for sale contact, lost coat notice, maternity nurse service, and a Red Cross nurse listing.
NICE FRONT ROOM to rent, fur nished. Call at Simmons' Millinery Store. sacreas FOR RENT.-Two sets light house keeping rooms, part payment in work. Enquire at Herald office. LARGE FURNISHED ROOM FOR RENT.-Bath and heat. Suitable for two gentlemen. Apply Mia, Black, 607 Box Butte. Phone 760.
Rooms available with light housekeeping for two. one or two persons may dine out. Contact M. Bayer at 219 Yellowstone, phone 529. Rent amount listed as $241-845.
Modern upstairs rooms available at 809 Box Butte. Contact telephone 216 for details and pricing.
A local abstracting office advertises exclusive title and lien search services in Box Butte County with offices in the McCorkle Building. The notice identifies the firm as the sole provider of abstract books in the area, listing their contact designation 10 tf 570.
Miscellaneous ads list garden plowing and hauling by C E Simpson and farm supplies from E I Gregg & Son including flour feed poultry food and stock salt. Glidden offers full jobs and work in Alliance with Red 266. Short time loans via Kaiser Davidson and F E Reddish real estate loans. Two furnished rooms for housekeeping and piano tuner services noted.
Beal & Sons guarantee all their cement work. Dr. L. W. Bowman has secured an office in First National Bank building upstairs at the east front rooms end of hall. Office phone 862 residence 16.
An assortment of classified notices promotes house cleaning with a four man crew and vacuum service, painting and paper hanging by E C Whitman, a desirable city residence for sale in Alliance with two lots a house and barn, and cement work estimates by W V Beal & Sons with phone numbers listed.
Classified notice advertising a gasoline stove for sale with inquiry directions to Colburn's store and contact details. Indicates the price line 798 to 26.
Advertises used sewing machines including Singer and other makes from six dollars upward. Apply at Singer Store, 405 Box Butte. Reefeze.
The new manager announces a baking department at Alliance Cafe with a focus on home made bread for local trade. Advertisements note cement work by Real & Sons and a modern dental office of Dr. James P. Maxfield near Brennan's drug store. Read card on front page. Cyclone photos available from Harvey Meyers, Al Hance, or Holsten's Drug Store.
Local scene shows Mrs. C O Davenport and children visiting relatives in Illinois. Mrs DF W Hughes and Estella plan Denver Boulder and Lyons visits returning before school. Several residents travel for visits and returns to Alliance. School opens next week as extra Herald copies sell fast.
Notice from the Alliance school board inviting bids for coal in car load lots delivered to 200 tons across school buildings. Lignite nut and egg coal types. Board may reject any or all bids. Bids due September 11, 1911. D. W. Hughes secretary.
1 500 tons of well cured alfalfa hay offered to cattle or sheep feeders at 7 50 per ton in stack on Valley View Ranch one mile from Lingle Wyoming on the Burlington railroad Guernsey branch Includes 2560 acres alfalfa stubble and pasture with water and two new sheep feeding yards Stubble pasture heavy due to early bird cutting and irrigation Write or wire Lloyd C Thomas 21 A LD Lingle Wyoming
Mr and Mrs Brown Griffith and children returned Monday from Oregon where they spent the summer. Brown visited The Herald office to leave fruit from Otto Vogel and share observations about western farming. The Vogels now live about twenty six miles west of Portland in a fertile area, finding it good but not as lucrative as Box Butte. Nebraskans prefer western states but question Washington wheat country east of the Cascades where farming yields are limited.
The article notes Brown Griffith and family plan to move from near Alliance to town for better schools after returning from Oregon. It mentions Molring store window design depicting a school scene and several local travels including Des Moines, Ottumwa, Marshalltown, and Omaha. A list of forty U S petit jurors for Chadron on Sept 11 is given with Box Butte names. An entertainment review praises Roy Gyves at Phelan opera house and mentions rising local subscriptions.
An advertisement touts cures for deafness through local applications and a constitutional method. It promises one hundred dollars for an incurable case and offers free circulars from Cheney & Co of Toledo along with a pill remedy for consumption-related symptoms.
Hemingford residents report visits from Sioux County and Canada. Mrs W D Johnson and children returned home after a stay with Johnson relatives. Lois and Ruth Wildy traveled home from Guernsey. Local dances and market movements tied to Alliance Chadron and Hay Springs activity.
U S Civil Service announces examinations on Sept 28 1911 for many positions excluding railway mail clerk. Inquiries about that exam should wait until Jan 15 1912. Application forms and full details available from the Civil Service Commission in Washington and from J N Johnston secretary of the local board at Alliance post office.
Mr and Mrs John Snoddy Eva Soules Emma Soules and May Snoddy traveled by car northeast of the city last Sunday morning stopping at Fairview to attend a church service.
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