This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 21 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1918
Page
12
An article extols soy beans as nutritious affordable food for humans and stock. It notes varieties, high protein and fat content, adaptability to poor soils, nitrogen fixation benefits, and cooking tips including soaking and optional flour to thicken dishes. It also mentions canning and use as emergency stock food.
Reforms to burn pulverized fuel in locomotive fireboxes could cut coal costs and ash disposal, with a ten wheel engine from 1914 cited as first US example. Fireman workload drops from shoveling 6000 pounds per hour. savings range 15 to 26 percent in heat value delivered. note on handling dangers and required care.
Railroads in the United States increased fuel oil use for locomotives during the war. Last year oil fuel consumption reached 136,645,408 barrels, up 5,555,200 barrels or 18 percent from 2014. Lower fuel prices and greater production in the Gulf Coast, Mexico, Oklahoma, and Kansas spurred the shift to oil fuel.
Multiple small ads from Alliance Nebraska seeking help. Grammar school boys for permanent part time work offered good pay with opportunity to learn advance. Also a lady with one child seeks cooking and housework on a farm or ranch. A cattle ranch buyer seeks easy terms and fair price. Furnished rooms wanted with income potential through renting to responsible occupants.
Wanted buy level unimproved quarter section within four to five miles of Alliance Berea or Hemingford. Thomas-Bald Investment Company Alliance seeks tax omitted land valued at $3 09427.
Want to sell that land quickly says the Thomas Bald Investment Company. Handier service offered in Alliance with a contact phone 209 32-tr-9405.
Businessman seeks potash lakes for erecting a reduction plant in the potash district. Owners with lakes large or small or options leases are urged to contact T. B. L. at Box 9780, care Alliance Herald, with full descriptions and location details.
FOR SALE We have ten special bargains in farms from 80 acres to 1600 in Lincoln Frontier and Dawson counties Nebraska Write for special price and terms Allay Bros Farnam Nebr 9421 9784 FOR BASE or LEASE Rooming house downtown Alliance 20 rooms excellently furnished Will sell or lease with or without furniture Address Box 9416 care Alliance Herald Alliance Nebr 38 1f 9416
Modern 10 room residence with basement and attic heated and lighted throughout. Gas piping, hot and cold water in bath and bedrooms. Located at 1200 Cheyenne Avenue near High School and the Academy. Six and a half acres of ground. Contact Fred Molering.
Improv ed land near town offered for sale with easy terms by Thomas Bald Investment Company Alliance. Contact 2tf9405 for details.
Lost on July 14 between Second and Fourth streets on Sweetwater avenue an auto crank. Finder return to Wilson Bros store for reward. Lost small spring shaft and gear wheel from Bendix drive on auto mobile starter. Parts identifiable. liberal reward for return to The Herald office.
Hundreds use Haralds want ads to find items and even potential mates. The column's listings draw readers seeking purchases lost goods and personal connections in a busy classifieds scene.
An Omaha recruitment notice seeks a local representative for the Duchess line. It promises easy, pleasant work with potential earnings reported as $15 to $30 monthly in spare time. Contact Duchess Drug Company at 117 Bromley Building.
SAM SHELTON announces a city scavenger wagon on regular routes and for special calls. Call 576 for prompt service bonded to do root work with reasonable prices. Contact Dity Scavenger at phone 6756.
Real estate and loan advertisement for F E Reddish at Reddish Block. Includes contact 15 tf 6727 and loan/insurance services.
Gray wagon and auto truck now equipped with latest appliances to move furniture without marring. Up-to-date wagon pads used on all jobs. John R. Snyder. Phone 16, 7-tf-6950.
The board of directors offers twenty five cents for each returned gasoline engine and saw mill tickets unsold at the Good Roads Fair. The buyback runs for three months. Alliance Community Club secretary W D Fisher signs the notice.
Creditors of the estate of Richard H Watkins deceased in Box Butte County Nebraska must file claims by October 6 1918 and debts paid by April 12 1919. The county judge Ira E Tash will sit in the county court room October 5 1918 at 2 p m to hear examine and adjust all claims and objections filed.
A terse notice suggests placing a found item advertisement under a FOUND heading as a method to locate the rightful owner. The message frames the ad as a direct, practical step in reuniting property with its owner.
Classified notice urges property sellers to use column ads to reach buyers. It markets land as the quickest, cheapest way to secure a sale and emphasizes broad exposure through the listing format.
Congressman Twobble writes that he is my representative and wants to serve me says Mr. Dubhwaite. He recalls a Washington trip where he was shuffled to a secretary and only met a hotel door man, reflecting disillusionment with the large political machine.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.