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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1921
Page
9
Alliance may become the Universal City. A Gering man who has been deaf for twenty years was caught in the act of making home brew and will have his hearing Monday. A married man may admire bold bathing suits but sticks to the old fashioned style for his wife.
The notice laments Gassoway Miles departure from the city and its golf course. It hints he may seek solace on Denver’s links where golf bugs bite. It humorously suggests barefoot or rubber boots until he learns the course and mentions a stream, a hungry man, and Baby Dimples.
A joke traces a dead man’s heirs placing cash in a coffin and a check balance revealing the undertaker to be Scottish. A second note mocks home brew experiments with tales of ill effects and odd sequels, including sharp warnings about alcohol and its consequences.
The piece compares office workers during reconstruction to a brakeman and engineer climbing Crawford hill in a freight train. Mike Nolan, the engineer, recalls the eighty-car load reaching Belmont station and credits the new brakeman with saving the ascent by applying the brakes.
Dr G F E Condra head of the Nebraska state conservation and soil survey discusses a statewide effort to assess oil coal and other minerals. Geology work led by Prof N A Bengston probes promising oil strata across Florence Kansas to Blue Springs in Gage County with reports expected by year end.
Judge asks for verdict in a playful tone. Rastus refuses to answer lest it spoil the trial. Lou Bond departed for Wyoming this week. Charles Wolf, visiting Dunning, returned home Thursday.
An article discusses expanding goat farming for local consumers. It notes goats can be milk producers with high quality milk and cheese, citing British Columbia costs and a Beltsville dairy experiment. It highlights milking practices, immunity to tuberculosis, and varied goat products including milk cheese and roast kid.
The ninth annual session of Rebekah Assembly District 83 met in Morrill on Tuesday and Wednesday June 21 with reps from Torrington Mitchell Scottsbluff Gering Dalton Bridgeport Minatare Bayard and Morrill. Morrill Lodge staged a Memorial drill and Gering presented the initiatory degree and a flower drill. An instruction school led by Harriett T. Cain of Fremont preceded refreshments as attendees praised Morrill as royal entertainers.
At a Nebraska state railway commission hearing in Lincoln, Northwestern Bell Telephone Co of Omaha testified that 34 000 new subscribers joined since 1914, with per station costs up substantially. The company reported 108 775 stations, $4.3 million spent on improvements, and a surplus decline of $500 000 in five years, while first five months of this year yielded $260 000 on a $12 million investment. Representatives also noted a proposed rate spread for station-to-station and person-to-person tolls and a new Omaha building financed by capital, not earnings.
Delegations from Grand Island St Paul Seward Wymore Auburn and Wahoo gathered to discuss regional grain trade issues at the Omaha exchange. Leaders named were local representatives from each town outlining cooperative steps and price considerations.
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