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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1903
Page
2
A short ad item praises keeping garments clean using Red Cross Ball Blue. It notes large packages are sold by grocers at 5 cents. A concluding line asserts that a man should have religion in his business.
The Bible Society sold scriptures in multiple languages across regions including Ayuasian empire, Burtah, South Malaysia, and the Egyptian agency. This shows broad linguistic outreach with dozens of languages, reflecting global distribution efforts last year.
A St Louis World’s Fair Information Bureau has opened at 1601 Farnam Street in Omaha Nebraska. Harry B Moores leads the bureau which offers free information to visitors and locals alike.
A Lewiston man defied city authorities to pay his poll tax and was jailed. He has been behind the barn since August 6 running up a weekly bill of 1.75 dollars in addition to the 2 dollar poll tax. He must pay both before release, suggesting a costly lesson for stubbornness.
An old style advertisement touts Defiance Starch with a suggests white fabrics and a price of ten cents. It includes testimonials about brokers and medical lines, plus a free trial offer and street address in Philadelphia.
Grocers avoid De fiance Starch due to stock of 12 oz brands. A 16 oz package costs the same, offering more value since it requires no cooking. Consumers urged to choose Defiance starch for convenience and economy.
Budd Doble recalls a country church sermon that reshaped his view of eternity. The preacher defined eternity as forever and forever with endless periods, noting that even after countless ages it would still be a long way to breakfast time.
An 1900 advertisement from N. W. Samuel of Ucon Grove New York claims Piso a Care for Consumption as an infallible medicine for coughs and colds dated February 17 1900.
Secretary general M. Abel Combarten to President Loubet states after seven years in office the president will resign from the presidency and return to ordinary citizen status. He says it would violate the constitution to seek re election despite his current role.
Major Charles G. Davis, sergeant at arms at the Massachusetts state house, preserves a brass thimble made from his battle belt plate. Presented after Kellys Ford Va, a cavalry charge into concealed Johnnies left him knocked from his saddle with a deep dent and no abdomen wound, a tale of luck and iron.
A Connecticut woman attributes years of digestion and heart trouble to poor diet and fear. She reports severe nausea, emaciation, and nervous exhaustion until trying Grape-Nuts, which she says restored health, reduced symptoms, and improved energy. She praises the product and endorses Postum Co. contact for the Road to Wellville booklet.
Franklin requests immediate examination and plans to leave town the next day. He aims to bid farewell to his alter ego and follow the wagons west, potentially by rail from the last station at the head of the track. The judge comments on the young man’s hurry as the committee might be appointed for the night.
Franklin reaches Ellisville near the Missouri River boundary between known and untried lands. A rough, developing town greets him with cowboys, a staged horse trade, and a brash rider Curly who tests Franklin with a hiplock wrestling duel before agreeing to walk together toward Battersleigh’s land plans and new life.
Franklin, urged by Curly, climbs into a saddle and endures a brutal bucking run on a half wild Western horse. The scene explodes with red lighting, bone jarring lurches, and gritty rider grit as Franklin fights to stay aboard and find his seat.
Bangor News recalls a grandmotherly pumpkin pie ritual with boiling mashed pumpkin, flour crust, sweet milk, molasses, ginger, nutmeg, and salt. The bake sheet filled, oven heated, children waited as a thick spicy dessert emerged, lavishly praised as ambrosial and uniquely satisfying.
Cholera is blamed for the rise of 15.49 deaths per 1000 in the army during the fiscal year, with three and a half men dying per 1000 due to the outbreak.
A fragment notes use of a Defance torch to improve starching results and mentions Okun as a referenced figure. The passage is fragmented and lacks clear context or dates.
Near Macon Georgia a wealthy farmer installed a large costly monument in a cemetery. Local residents protested by venting revolvers at the shaft and later burned the farmer in effigy. He raised a $500 reward for those responsible, and the town answered with a $1,000 bounty to reveal the perpetrators.
The new publishers hail the holiday number as the publication’s best yet produced. It moves beyond light fiction and festival pictures, delivering lively stories clever pictures and timely articles. Contributors are top writers, with no dull potboilers.
December issue of Leslie's Popular Monthly presents twenty two contents items with ten stories and color art. It features The Degradation of Wall Street as a leading article and includes Christmas themed pieces such as Christmas Memories and The Wild Beasts' Christmas Dinner with color illustrations.
A fragmented ad style snippet touts a cold water starch claim and a boast about superiority over rivals. It mentions an aeronaut aiming to rise on the occasion and references Bromo Quinine Tablets as a remedy, with crude promotional phrasing and unclear context.
De Wet, Botha and Delarey prepare to travel to India to persuade Boer irreconcilables there to take the oath of allegiance. Few prisoners remain in camps, with only five in Ceylon, and repatriation proposals suggest confinement in South Africa until oath is sworn.
Rev Dr David G Downey of Brooklyn leads the New York conference against a proposed consolidation of Methodist Book Concerns. He warns the plan, with capital stock up to 20 million and a central western location, risks materialism over spiritual aims and pledges an emphatic protest.
Joseph Chamberlain, the British statesman, resigned from the cabinet amid a sensation. He is described as perhaps the world’s most enthusiastic orchid collector, with a vast collection surpassing most. About 6,500 varieties exist and Chamberlain represents more than half.
Lon Manley, once told by physicians he would never recover from Bright's Disease, describes his cure after four to five years of kidney liver and stomach trouble. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills for his recovery and ability to work again.
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