Nebraska Woodmen insurgents seek support in Colorado tour
Nathan Bernstein of Omaha travels to Lincoln for a Modern Woodmen insurgent committee meeting to oppose new rates and monitor injunction cases in Minnesota and Iowa. He plans to visit Denver Pueblo and Trinidad to rally insurgents and counteract administration actions, citing vast treasury projections and alleged misallocation of funds.
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Nathan Bernstein
Lincoln
Modern Woodmen of America
Nlinolls
Iowa
Denver
Pueblo
Trinidad
Colorado
Bernstein
Trinidad High School
Woodmen
Nebraska Sues Contractor Over Insane Asylum Work
The state sues William G. Certen in district court to recover 20 482.52 for breach of contract on a cottage wing and storehouse at the Norfolk insane asylum. It contends Certen abandoned the job causing delay and extra costs and that some materials were deficient. The state had already paid 57 932 of the contract price.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
William G. Certen
Certen
Norfolk Insane Alum
Nebraska Homestead Lands Near High School Privileges
Lincoln reports a Brooklyn North Carolina inquiry asking if vacant lands open for homestead near Nebraska have nearby high school access. Land Commissioner Cowles replies most open lands lie about twenty miles from suitable high school facilities, affecting families seeking education for children.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Cowles
Brooklyn
N. C
Prince appeals stay of execution in double homicide case
Albert Prince condemned to death for the murder of Deputy State Prison Warden Davis secured a Supreme Court appeal for a stay. The court adjourned until September, potentially delaying execution for months. The February crime sparked a chain of penitentiary deaths, with four officials and three convicts killed.
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Lincoln
Albert Prince
Prisom
Davis
Supreme Court
Prince
State Penitentiary
Miss Frankie Gosnell Injured in Wire Collision
Miss Frankie Gosnell sustained serious injuries after colliding with a guy wire stretched from a pole to a new Ed Jones residence on a Central City sidewalk. Her family prominence heightens community concern.
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Frankie Gosnell
Central City
Neb
Ed Jones
Ranchmen Stock Up on Female Heifers and Steers
Hyannis rancher Peter Becker notes a shift from cows to steers earlier, then a shortage of young steers in the last year or two as many ranchers buy large herds for fattening. He links crowding demand to high beef cattle costs and a move from cattle raising to fattening.
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Peter Becker
Hyannis
Omaha
Becker
Becher
Nebraska fruit crop shows lower state yield but more shipments
Letters from Nebraska fruit growers report the average apple crop at 60 percent of full, with 100 percent relative to 1911 and 110 percent of the five year average. State production may mirror 1911, though more apples will be shipped from commercial areas while home orchards lag behind 1911. Minden seeks depot upgrades as railway hearings assess depot size, modern facilities, and through trains Nos. 1 and 6.
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State Horticultural Society
Minden
Neb
Nebraska Railway Commission
Commissioners Hall
Clark
Newark
City of
Parole Board Papers 116 Applications for Pardons
Lincoln reports year ending July 1 with 116 applications for parole and 142 for pardon or commutation. The pardon board parole d fifty six men and one woman, totaling 6199.10 in earnings verified by employers. Only five paroled individuals are known to have violated parole agreements.
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Lincoln
Piper
Wheat yields and harvest prices in Harvard Nebraska
In Harvard and nearby, threshing yields for winter wheat range from fourteen to twenty-seven bushels per acre with best fields at twenty to twenty-five and grain testing sixty-two to sixty-three pounds. Harvest wages run from about two to two and a half dollars per day for shockers. In Norfolk preparations by the Nebraska State Volunteer Firemen's Association for July tourney include over 3400 dollars in prizes and numerous contests scheduled for July 23 to 25.
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Harvard
Neb
Norfolk
Nebraska State Volunteer Firemen's Association
Cattle herd dies after outbreak in Thayer county cane
A herd owned by Henry Hazelbring in northeastern Thayer county escaped into a cane patch. After ten minutes amid the cane, eighteen cows and two calves died of poison, valued at 800 pounds.
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Deshler
Neh
Henry Hazelbring
Thayer County
Lincoln Monument Event Absence Cited By Robert Lincoln
Robert T. Lincoln son of the martyred president replies that health will prevent his attendance at the Abraham Lincoln monument unveiling on the capital grounds following Secretary of State Walt's invitation.
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Walt
Abraham Lincoln
Robert T. Lincoln
Phelps Seeks Omaha Storage for Government Armory Assets
Adjutant General Phelps traveled to Omaha to secure a site for stowing $18,000 worth of military property sent to replace items burned in a prior armory fire. The assets accompany the government effort to replace lost equipment for Omaha companies.
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Lincoln
Phelps
Omaha
Boy Killed In Fall From Horse Near Bridgeport
In Bridgeport Nebraska on July 15 a twelve year old son of Reverend W H Davis pastor of the Baptist church was fatally injured in a horse fall. He was kicked in the abdomen or the horse stepped on him as he fell.
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Bridgeport
Bridgeport Neb
W. H. Davis
The
Baptist Church
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