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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1920
Page
5
A Scotsbluff Star-Herald aside notes a twenty year old young woman in Alliance who has not learned what mistletoe means. The piece jokes about how people overthink small personal matters and exaggerate simple truths.
The piece envisions a revival of old fashioned serving girls with maids of all work at seven dollars a week or a dollar a day. It notes a surge of Scandinavian Irish and Italian girls traveling in and mocks minor faults but highlights potential cost savings for households.
A column mixes social opinion and jokes on labor rules and dress codes. It notes Pennsylvania Railroad bans cuss words with a list of acceptable expressions and mocks union nerves, mentions Alliance packing plant, includes a Armenian love poem translation, and jokes about whisky shipments and a lynching card.
A mash of notes from Alliance Nebraska and Aurora Register items covers population hopes, oil fields, new shops, and a power plant thermometer project. It notes Milliken’s Colorado Springs land purchase, a $125000 deal, oil wells yielding ten barrels daily, and plans for a 120,000 population in five years.
The Alliance recruiting office in operation since April 1919 shows 161 examinations with 104 enrollments and mainly three year terms. Seventeen went to government schools, 25 to overseas duty in France and Germany, while others sought Panama, the Philippines, or Hawaii.
Mrs. Thomas Kelley hosted an eight o clock New Year dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Lape Clifford Sward Miss Meta Koester Glen Wilt and Miss Chloe Richards. John Gill held on forgery charges will be moved to Rushville for sentencing by Judge Westover. Albert Boland named new night watch replacing Calvin Cox. Wiley Taylor brother of Police Chief Nova B. Taylor visiting from Milan Missouri. he plans several weeks stay. Chief’s brother served in France earning near three gold stripes, discharged last March after eighteen months abroad.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels recommends federal aid to rehabilitate and fund state naval militia groups cut off after wartime reorganization. He calls on Congress to act immediately to restore arms and equipment funding, noting some states are reviving militia units but lack Navy support.
A London Opinion quip features a woman lamenting her partner's gift as she says she cooks for him and gets nothing. He retorts that she is lucky since he always has indigestion.
A massive war production feat at Muscle Shoals Alabama built a city for 25000 workers and a large ammonium nitrate plant in eight months after ground breaking. The project used cyanamid chemistry, Westinghouse Kerr as contractor, and the J G White Co to power a giant steam electric plant. The facility produced 360 tons daily at a cost far below standard methods, aiding Allied explosives supply in World War I.
A humorous collection of trimmed proverbs about engagements, romance, wealth awareness, business intent, and eating etiquette. It ends with a playful line about Callimachus and the idea that a good man never dies.
The treasury department plans a campaign starting January 1 to reduce living costs. Four million women will be urged to keep careful accounts of daily expenditures to identify items to cut. The effort runs through April 1.
A Swede enters a saloon asks for squirrel whisky but is told none is available and offered Old Crow. He protests that he does not want to fly but to hop around a bit in a humorous exchange.
Two Irishmen plan a duel with one proposing distance twice his length. The second marks two linen chalk lines on the opponent’s coat to define the range and warns that hits outside the lines don’t count.
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