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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1922
Page
3
The passage instructs striking all references to the groundhog and its shadow from a weather record. A physician warns sudden morning bed-throws are dangerous, noting years without peril from that source.
A storekeeper known for laziness sits reading when a customer asks for shoe laces. He apologizes and says he cannot assist until he is standing up, prompting the customer to leave and return. The anecdote highlights the clerk's idleness and awkward refusal.
After a business meeting a club group debates a social hour mood. A participant criticizes Mrs Bumptions for yawning at a conversation, with banter about etiquette and a joking remark that she might have been saying something else.
A preacher on the golf course offers a moral line about low scorers not swearing. A golfer retorts with a curse and a dig at turf. Old Man Weeks calls a popular car a "worry wagon" in a wry aside.
A Bridgeport incident reports two colored men fighting led to arrest. The more injured man protested his charge of fighting saying he was beaten and restrained, while a Denver newspaper ad shows a Bridgeport girl seeking correspondence with marriage as a goal, hinting at local suitors.
In Canon City a thinly sketched exchange recalls a man noting his marriage license cost two dollars. Peter Loss and Sheriff Morse made a business trip to Canon City. the sheriff returned, leaving a wry, condensed tidbit on local civic activity.
A humor column rails at flattery of committees and tax ideas while poking fun at editors and poets. It cites a New Year piece from Hemingford Ledger and mocks wage costs with sample verse about booze busts and town naughtiness.
A rough poem mocks alcohol prohibition and jail threats, urging officers to bow to demands or risk a New Year payout. It cites Alliance and Reardon, lampooning married versus single men and promising jail terms, mail delivery, and better living quarters.
In Box Butte County Nebraska the estate of Jose Sanchez deceased faces a hearing on the administrator Glen Miller final account and petition for distribution. The court orders publication for three weeks in Alliance Herald before February 11 1922 to notify all interested parties. Jan 18 1922 seal county judge and attorney signatures appear in the notice.
Attendance figures for Bible school reach 245 as Judge Tash and Judge Paine address classes and the school community. Plans are discussed for a Rally Day, a Get-together social, and ongoing monthly class addresses. Sermon series on "The Dance" aims to warn youths and parents about modern social life.
Sunday services at the Baptist Church drew record crowds with high Bible school turnout and full evening services. An improved church orchestra received praise as plans unfold for a life service sermon and a Lincoln sign lecture next Sunday. members urged to donate primary chairs for tots and classes encouraged to buy chairs to help fund eighteen seats.
Notice of chattel mortgage sale on a Ford Touring Car No 3209347 defaulted debt 296.96 owed by C C Whitnack and R E Beasey to A H Jones Company. Public auction at northwest corner Third Street and Cheyenne Avenue Alliance Box Butte Nebraska March 1 1922 at 2 pm. Attorneys Boyd Metz Meyer.
Classified brief announcing the sale of Rollys Washday Wonder with delivery available and contact phone 561 W Former Broa. Includes marketing teaser for Tanlac with Holsten endorsement and Herald Want Ads reference.
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