Alliance Notes from New Year Tables and Travel
Local paragraphs recount visits and arrivals in Alliance, with names such as R. M. Hampton Lee Basye J. R. Phelan Wm Johnson Clark Cldgg George Mollring and many others. Mentions lectures at the opera house, a new cash register for Holston drug store, births, deaths, business moves and family travels around New Year across Hemingford Lincoln Crawford and York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Hampton
Bunner
Lee Basye
Lincoln
J. R. Phelan
Chicago
Wm. Johnson
City
Clark Cldgg
Hemingford
Alliance
George A. Mollring
Kansas City
Sherwood
Rev
Mrs. Burleigh
Alliance Friends
Wn. King
Denver
Wilma Wood
North Bend
Geo. Fox
Geo. T. Feiner
Feiner Fish Company
Clinton
Iowa
Opera House
Holston
Wm. Corbett
Edgemont
Mrs. Cressman
Kearney
Newberry
J. F. Neeland
Dawes County
Mr. Neeland
Lawler Hone
J. M. Thornbury
Farmers and Merchants Insurance Company of
Norfolk
Lawler
Hazel Bowman
L. W. Bowman
Baptist Church
Parody's Bakery and Local Ads Feature Rentals and Services
Local classified items list offerings from Parody's Bakery at 114 West Montana and 905 Box Butte Ave rentals for furnished rooms. Services include dentistry by Dr. Allen, piano tuning, and hides purchase by Geo A Hills. Notices invite church and lodging access, sale of two milk cows and carload potato bids from Johnson Bros. Nebraska City.
Classified Snippets Include Livestock Demands and Local Ads
A jumble of short notices lists spring calf and colt availability, a tea and coffee sales job in Omaha, a home purchase inquiry for Alliance, a found brown muff, a $100,000 real estate loan offer, and a line about F. E. Reddish with a date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Reddish
The Rule of Three in Skyscraper Crews
A passage discusses Ernest Moore's note in Everybody's Magazine about how construction crews on skyscrapers earn high wages and share earnings with charity. It explains the superstition of the rule of three, used across oceans mines railroads and skies, and cites foremen who affirm belief that three accidents cluster before misfortune strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Moore
Everybody's Magazine
Rough Brothers
Sisters of Charity
Apell
Buying Chairs by Sight Not Feeling Comfort in Purchases
A New York ran item notes that shoppers rarely sit in chairs before buying. People inspect cloth and wood, ask about wear, then order delivery, with rockers being an exception where a test sit or rock is seen. The piece mocks the habit of buying without trying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Run
Learned by Experience on Polite Sunshine Habit
A humorous exchange features two men discussing spreading compliments to the Indies. One man proudly says he scatters sunshine for a price, while the other recalls breaking the habit after a breach of promise case. The dialogue highlights social quirks and personal roguish charm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. McKeen
Lincoln
Geo. A. Hills
George
Mr. McKeen
Indies
Woman Confesses Throwing Mop at Suitor After Cousin’s Wedding
The squire questions a woman who admits she threw a mop at Mike after asking if he loved her as much as on their wedding day. She explains she did not intend harm and that heartbreak often fills poor women's hearts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike
Origin of Geography and its Greek birth
The Phoenicians first traded knowledge of distant lands beyond the Mediterranean and drew early world charts. Geography as a science arose with the Greeks, Herodotus of Halicarnassus often called its real father, around 454 BC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mediterranean
Great Western Ocean
Herodotus
Halicarnassus
No Encouragement
A brief exchange between Mrs Short and Mr Short about wealth and doing good. Mrs Short laments riches and wants to help widely, while Mr Short suggests quiet, unseen generosity is possible and ends with agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Short
Mr. Short
Excuses and Diggs Banter in Chicago News Style
The exchange mocks a belief whisky cures colds. Diggs notes Swiggs often has a cold and asks how the habit was learned. The quip frame captures a light, urban newspaper banter tone with quick humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diggs
Swiggs
Chicago News
Repetition Husband Returns with Chestnuts at Home
A fragment shows a dialogue where a husband announces bringing chestnuts home and a wife responds in a calm, listening manner, with a brief stage direction about entering the house. The scene emphasizes domestic routine and a quiet exchange between spouses.
Proverbial Insight on Wives and Husbands
A Servian proverb notes that a wife’s face reflects her husband and a husband’s shirt reflects his wife, illustrating mutual perception within marriage.
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B. E. Johnson
A. W. Pierson
Council Bluffs
Mrs. L. A. Baschky
Crawford
Agnes Rowland
Ella Haynes
Miss Weber
T. J. Threlkeld
Laclede
Ira Reed
Guernsey
Scottsbluff
John
Allie Mabie
Margaret Barrett
O'Neill
Co. A. Anderson
Cheyenne Avenue
Laura Miller
Albion
E. A. Hall
Ellsworth
Kansas
L. A. Baschky
Hal Hubert
Muimperia
Crescent Cattle Company
Mary A. Reed
Dr. Kreamer
Seneca
Kreamer
Thos. H. Beeson
Mr. Hicks
Platte Valley
Nebraska State Volunteer Fire Association
Wm. Sherlock
Mise Bogue
Mise Belle Haff
Laramie
Wyo
C. H. Tully
Rushville
Geo. Gadsby
Omaha
Ida Posvar
LaDell
Nellie Cofin
L. A. Bowser
Genoa
Nebi
John H. Ellis
Ira
Havelock
Margaret McLernon
Emerson School
Sidney
H. J. Ellis
Isaac J. Holt
Father McNamara
Scribner
M. M. Kelley
Hastings
Kelly
J. W. Guthrie
Carroll
Guthrie
Minneapolis
Southern
Watkins & Feagins
Nell Morris
J. A. Reardon
Chadron
Joe
Marie Basse
Keegan
R. G. Holden
Sterling
Mid Regan
Rebeccah
Lodge
St. Agnes’ Academy
Daniel Egan
Hyannis
Charlie Tash
Montana
Poncatello
Salt Lake
E. E. Ford
Lawn Precinct
Lawrence
Genevieve
Hazard
Jerry Wells
F. L. Wescott
Alliance Creamery
Spencer
Anna Feidler
Mitchell
N. A. Kirk
Sioux City
Kirk
W. F. Rodgers
York
Philip Nolte
Mr. Rodgers
C. I. Rodgers
Nolte
B. H. Perry
Bridgeport
John Hevner
Crystal
Franklin
Neb
Old Boreas
Marsland
Geo. L. Moffitt
Mr. Moffitt
Burlington
Colorado
W. C. Heelan
Will
Mullin
Creighton College
Bobby Burns
H. E. MacCray
E. L. Everetts
Scotland
Huss & Nabb
Herald Office
Crawford Tribune
J. Bergman
Oscar
Tere
Agate Ranch
Eliza. Spearman
Orville Hampton
Glen
Orville
East
Peter Watson
Sioux County
Alliance New Year's
Watson
Jacksonian Club
Paxton Hotel
Homn
W. J. Bryan
Shallenberger
Robinson
Arkansas
Italy
Holy Rosary Church
Chadron Journal
G. T. H. Babcock
Box Butte County
St. Agnes' Academy
Women's Club
Brakewan
Michael Landrigan
Alliance Hospital
Dennis Landrigan
Philathea
Baptist Sunday School
C. H. Churchill
United States
Churchill
C. A. Newberry
Charles Cressman
John Wiker
Ray Wilson
Nohe
Calfornia
N. P. Lundeen
Texas
Victoria
H. C. Haken
Commercial Club
Dr. Allen
Opera House Blk
Pardy
Pardy’s Bakery
Opera
Odd Fellows' Hall
Wyoming Avenue
Johnnson Bros
Nebraska City, Neb
Box Butte Ave
Parody
Weat
Montana Street
C. E. Rosenberger
Hemingford, Nebr
Grand Union Tea Co
Nebr
Brennan's
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