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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1920
Page
10
A Denver mail order clothing house spent three days in Alliance seeking railroad men’s suit orders at bargain prices but found local Alliance merchants offered better prices and stronger guarantees. Residents learn home merchants back every sale ensuring satisfaction, while out of town mail order buyers face stings and shrinking lists.
The Herald reports vacancies in the railway mail clerks at Alliance with examinations on January 15. Entry salary is 1600 dollars yearly plus travel allowances. Applicants need arithmetic and US geography knowledge and must be 18 to 35 years old. males 5 feet 5 inches tall and 130 pounds. Apply for form No 304 at Washington or the Alliance post office civil service secretary.
Exceptional good values in women's suits and dresses at Highland Holloway Co. were noted. The Alliance schools all three campuses were dismissed Tuesday morning due to the snowstorm, though Superintendent Pate said sessions could resume this afternoon if the wind eased.
An advertiser offers 35 boys overcoats priced at $4.75 each for ages up to 16 years. Cleaners note.
Nebraska chamber warns local groups to beware appeals for donations from unknown agencies. Secretary Moss cautions many requests are fake and urges suspicion of organizers asking to place glass cash boxes in hotels and restaurants for the Goulden Rule Alliance fundraising effort.
Postponed game rescheduled for December 27. Fragments mention apples from Winesaps and Rome Beauty in baskets at the Farmers' Union and a crude joke about price drops and agricultural items.
Readers are reminded that daily reports of large illicit alcohol transactions suggest a vast underground economy. The piece notes the scale and ongoing nature of these financial dealings. Concerns about enforcement and public impact are implied.
A Danish scientist pursues Atlantic eel spawning grounds with field expeditions to Asia, seeking the missing link and possibly shifting focus to the lost chord after preliminary findings. The work hints at cross continental research and future energy studies.
Three day wholesale fur sale advertised by Highland Holloway Co. promises lower prices amid a public note that the country shows prosperity yet voices worry over its gains and welfare.
Phillip Vance, lonely after a broken engagement, faces a series of revelations begun by a dying stranger Vera Liscomb. Vera confesses her revenge against Evelyn Wilton, Vance's wife, and Evelyn's past. Vera dies, exposing Evelyn as the true mother of Dorothy, Vance's child, and the couple reunites in sorrow and forgiveness.
A satirical history snippet notes France seizing 72,000,000 Bolshevik tables and Germany introducing porcelain money. It quips on clean money, Lenine, and profit cycles while observing a rise in cotton shirt popularity as a sign of the times.
Readers glimpse a fragmented line from the Knoxville Journal and Tribune discussing a dinner pall and the term cons¢uttie, reflecting the era's spelling and typographic quirks in a partial quote.
A fragmented quote from a Paris fashion scene or student note mentions a coed seeking attire and a French heel style. The line hints at social tension and wardrobe constraints in a campus or club setting.
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