Gossip, threats, and carnival antics spark town outrage
A local column blasts a town gossip for spreading malicious rumors threatening legal action. It recalls mockery at a carnival show and an angry confrontation in the newspaper office, with a caller threatening violence and warning about unpaved streets and social scorn.
Carnival buyers snap up editions at five cents each
Readers flock to purchase a carnival edition bought as novelty or for framing. An observer notes the spread of holes along Box Butte avenue from drilling activity and trash talk about old papers.
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Box Butte
Wisconsin
Carnival
Box Butte Avenue
Harry DuBuque
Live Stock Prices at South Omaha July 3 1917
Opening day at Union Stock Yards South Omaha reports mixed activity with cattle hogs and sheep prices. Cattle receipts about 540 head show a slow weak trend. hogs active and up about a dime from Saturday. sheep and lambs light with a downtrend. Includes extension service notes and barley rye seed advice.
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Union Stock Yards
South Omaha
Bilmu
Brent
Sittin Agel Ahiooyp
Liege
Fragments From a Wartime Newspaper Riddle
A garbled row of phrases appears to reference a newspaper piece about a man and his wife, with mentions of advice and refusal. The text is fragmentary and lacks clear entities, locations, dates, or outcomes to identify a single event or story.
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Alban Kaickoibocker Press
New Woman County Agent for Madison County
Madison county will have a woman county agent the second in Nebraska. A County Homemakers Association with more than 200 country women is formed to direct the agent’s work locally.
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Partment of Agriculture
Agricultural Extension Service
University of Nebraska
Homemakers’ Association
Louise Meredith
Home Economics Extension Service
University
Madison County
Nebraska
Morning Phosphated Water Promises Health and Beauty
An old advertisement urges drinking phosphated water each morning to cleanse the stomach and blood, claim clearer skin and better digestion within one to two weeks. It notes limestone phosphate is cheap at drugstores and benefits bowel cleansing and complexion for women seeking enhancement.
Nebraska farmers urged to boost poultry to meet world demand
Poultry experts at the Nebraska University Farm say time remains to produce a four pound Thanksgiving roaster. If Nebraska’s 136000 farmers add one hen and raise eight chicks each, output could total over a million chickens weighing four million pounds, aiming for a four pound bird for every Nebraskan.
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Nebraska University
Nebraska
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