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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1922
Page
2
The Alliance Herald is designated as the official newspaper of Alliance, Box County, published by The Burr Printing Company. It lists George L. Burr Jr and Edwin M. Burr as key figures with Rae or Rae Liwin M. Burr as vice, and notes post office handling for mailing as second class matter.
The piece argues that the Safety First creed, forged by rail workers since 1907, has cut railroad deaths dramatically and improved worker protection. It contrasts rail safety with rising automobile fatalities and urges universal adoption in all activities, including driving and walking. It notes 1920 rail travel carried 1 billion passengers with one death per 6,673,000 riders.
A community newspaper reflects on the duties of the ideal woman from entertainment to social responsibility. It notes young men and women falling in love and marrying, and begins a discussion about the cost and considerations of matrimony, including an investment of two hundred fifty dollars.
Knights of Columbus veterans of wartime morale work continue postwar activity. They foster patriotism beyond the war and aim to ensure history is recorded accurately. They push to promote historical study and preserve their role in the nation's war history.
A satirical advertorial mocks self styled bargain hunters who refuse list prices. It paints a caricature of the buyer wearing cheap union suits, cheap watches, and shoddy goods, claiming to live by his own terms and threatening penalties for those who cut prices.
Pleasant Valley notes list Lew Roberts family Ferg Thimblin and John Roberts households visiting, Ernest Osborn and family with John Roberts, Harold Bryant returning from Alliance, Mrs. Clarence Surface traveling east, Gus Deitcher and Gus Sohing visiting Otis Cox, Fern Eaton visiting Hemingford, with bank figures noting Alliance National Bank capital surplus and undivided profits at 150 900.00, plus a cultural aside on a French chef as decorator.
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