Local and Army News From Garden County
A reader shares homecoming from Great Lakes and a Camp Dodge visit noting healthy soldiers and a large training camp. Judge Hobart sentences Ernest Sprague to one to five years in Lincoln for stealing a saddle horse. Sprague, 18, from Verys burg New York, was captured near Alliance with the horse that night.
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Great Lakes
Lawrence
Vialt
Camp Dodge
Iowa
J. M
Field Artillery
Nealth
Army Lfe
Army
Navy
Garden County News
Oshkosh
Hobart
Ernest Sprague
Lincoln
Fred J. Keller
Sherif Clark
Sprague
Verysburg
New York
Mr. Keller
Antioch
Art Peterson
Sheriff Cox
Mineral Leasing History Chapter Deferred to Next Week
Publication of the next chapter in Leases of State Lands for Minerals is deferred until the following week.
Fairy tale romance of delight and life’s facts
A playful fantasy of modern romance unfolds as a Cinderella heroine helps a dairy lunch hero win and learn value. The tale blends wit with life’s realities, offering a modern fairy story ending in happiness with a sales pitch for newspaper subscriptions.
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Solomon
Fifth Avenue
The
Daily Journal
Great Western steers set world record price in shipment
A Great Western Sugar shipment from this city set a world record price for fat steers. Fifteen steers averaged 1,669 pounds at $18 per hundredweight, and twenty nine averaged 1,570 pounds, with ten car loads shipped and eleven more in prep aration. The feat drew elation as cattle prices surge. Also, a new Gering fire truck arrived, a Studebaker with Northern equipment, after a Minneapolis to Gering run, piloted by R J Schwendiman and F E Neeley.
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Great Western Sugar Company
South Omaha
Scottsbluff
Great Western Company
NHW
Gering
Minneapolis
R. J. Schwendiman
F. E. Neeley
Studebaker
Schwendiman and
Neeley
Tiering Courier
Local Notes and Visits in Bingham and Nearby Towns
Bingham brief recaps visits to Payard Neb Alliance Neb citizens call to draft July 22 Red Cross iron drive ongoing delays. Loretta Welch daughter of Mr and Mrs John Redig dies July 4 at Mercy hospital Council Bluffs scarlet fever burial Gretna Neb. Community mourns as family and neighbors offer sympathy.
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Loretta Welch
John Redig
Mercy Hospital
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Margaret
Miss Margaret
Bedlam Name Origin In London Mental Hospital
A historical note traces Bedlam from Bethlehem to St Mary of Bethlehem in London. The priory became an insane asylum by 1402, later shortened to Bellam, and the term bedlam came to mean madhouse and used for chaotic clamor when inmates escaped.
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Bedlam
Bethlehem
Priory of St. Mary of Bethlehem
London
Bedloin
Immortalized Pets in Classic Poems
The excerpt notes poets who include pets in verse. Gray wrote on his cat drowned in a pail, Cowper's spaniel Dash brings a water lily and a render about a cat shut in a drawer, and Burns features his collie Lauth in The Two Dogs.
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Gray
Cowper
Burns
Moon Superstition Across Cultures
The fragment notes that Hindus and Egyptians linked a mouse to the moon. It cites De Gubernatis describing the pagan sun god crushing the night mouse, and adds a proverb about night shadows dancing when the moon is not present.
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de Gubernatis
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Payard
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Alliance
Bingham
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M. L. Kincaid
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Independence
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Paul Yake
Rushville
Red Cross
Ruth McCarty
Atlantic, Iowa
John Ray
Nelson, Neb
Lt. Levitt
Kansas
Alabama
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Gener
Hartford Live Stock
United States
Canada
Frede. Feagins Alliance
Nebraska
C. W. Spacht
Hemingford
Scottsbluff, Nebraska
W. B. Cheek
Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Omaha, Nebraska
Sturgis & Sturgis
Brandeis
Oamha, Nebraska
Lindell Hotel
Lincoln, Nebraska
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