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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1917
Page
10
Local notes report Freddie Melick ill with smallpox. Several residents visited or traveled to Alliance and nearby towns for visits or business. Names include Grimes, Shaffer, Melick, Adair, May, Marble, Kelster, Frank, Gabus, Branch, Cahan, Graham, Vera, May, Bobber, Kuhn, and others. details cover visits, travel, and Thanksgiving activities.
L W Everman of Gallatin invites neighbors to invest in 15,000 acres of mineralized land with discovered surface copper and oil. He offers to issue shares at $1 each, with Farmers Exchange Bank of Gallatin handling funds and trust arrangements, claiming quick profits from drilling oil and mining copper. Local geology reports support copper presence. Everman urges interested parties to visit Gallatin or mail for shares.
Miss Garland visited Miss Anna Heath in Alliance and returned Sunday. Mr and Mrs Coha visited Alliance with Mrs staying longer. School closed for Thanksgiving vacation with teachers at home. Mrs Schneider and Blanche visiting Frank Black family. Ruth and Charlotte Karen from Alliance spent Thanksgiving here. Robert Curry Sr family arrived from Arizona for a month in the area and Sioux county. W F Walker and John Leo Walker visited Alliance forjury and dental work.
A fragmented verse laments pervasive shortages and constraints on daily life. The speaker lists things absent or restricted, concluding with a note on common sense as insufficient against prevailing woes. The closing quip asks for a name: Ben Ki.
The piece describes the tank as a mobile warship able to crush obstacles and travel four miles an hour with rails laid along its sides. It notes American factories could produce newer models quickly and includes a light aside about a Swedish man asking for a marriage license after a hunting license mix up.
Mrs. Benjamin Hooper of Auburn New York lauds Cham berlain's Tablets for stomach trouble and constipation stating they regulate bowels stimulate the liver and keep the body healthy after two years of use
A brief quotable exchange from Cornell Widow remarks on refinement and literacy with a wry tone. The line suggests social judgment about reading habits and propriety in a campus or literary context.
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