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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1908
Page
7
New institution under the direction of the Sisters of St. Francis opens in Alliance offering Primary to Academic departments. Curricula include Christian Doctrine, math, languages, music, painting and needlework with a focus on thorough training. Board tuition and instrument fees listed for various ages and sessions.
The notice describes provided items for boarders including free aprons shoes rubbers a bed blanket bed spread rug toilet set and sewing supplies. It notes the school opened September 1st and offers accommodations for eighty boarders with education for children and inquiries directed to the Mother Superior. Accommodations are available for boys.
A Chicago column recounts street scams and oddities around the city, including an airship swindle foiled by a detective near the Masonic Temple, a lamp post marriage-license tale from Evanston, and a veteran city clerk Morris Salmonson who issued thousands of licenses. It also notes a German violinist who wed a Chicago businessman, a Chicago school teacher Miss Grace Reed sparking a suffrage debate, and changing debutante bouquet fashions trending toward grand heirloom posies.
The article reports that William Howard Taft intends to appoint Philander Chase Knox as secretary of state, noting his long public service under McKinley and Roosevelt. It highlights Knox's legal career, Senate tenure, Pennsylvania roots, and personal interests in golf, horses, and automobiles, along with family details.
Local store touts full value for money with pure goods and guarantees on items. Canned foods, soups, sardines, and fruit are sourced from reputable houses and warrantied for customer satisfaction.
A fine seven room modern house on Laramie avenue Alliance offers hot air furnace electric lighting bath lavatory and a connected steel range with hot water system. Features a dumb waiter basement barn laundry and electric lighting. Not lasting act now with J C McCorkie manager Lioup C Thomas secretary phone 251 Alliance Natl Bank Bldg.
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