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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1905
Page
7
A historical overview details Canada’s western expansion from 1870 to the early 1900s. It highlights railway growth, provincial creation, vast land for settlement, wheat and livestock profits, rising farm infrastructure, and generous government support for schools and settlement programs.
In a Good Housekeeping sense the home should run like a business with the husband’s absolute right to refuse money and the wife’s absolute right to demand funds. The speaker argues this is a first step toward happiness despite seeming unromantic in a normal marriage.
In a battle near the Sea of Japan the Russian ship Borodino continued fighting until sunk. A final shot struck the Japanese ship Asahi injuring Lieut Morishita and seven crew. Morishita, mortally hurt, used his sword as a crutch to reach the deck and penned a farewell message to the Japanese navy before dying.
Department Commander John Lett announces a 1905 Denver encampment with 1 cent per mile rail rate from the Missouri River, Burlington as official route, and Evuphony Cornet band as HQ band. Free quarters and meals arranged. details to be published by August 15. Also reports on local notices including a water extension bond, a man adjudged insane, stockyards and church openings, harvest yields, and forthcoming construction contracts.
Lincoln reports William Henderson, a 33 year old African American inmate from Cherry county serving two years, escaped from the penitentiary. He took property valued at 475, two rings including one engraved Luree, another J. W. Swallow, two watches, and $28 cash. He is 5 feet 7 inches, 132 pounds, wore Deputy Fairfield s straw hat and black trousers. A $50 reward is offered for his capture.
Mrs J W Pickrel aged 24 was found dead in bed by her railroad worker husband in Lincoln. A bottle containing chloroform lay beside her and Coroner Graham ruled suicide, noting no inquest was needed. The husband offered no reason for the act and said she was cheerful when he left.
The State Board of Equalization condemns counties for rushing assessors reports. Reports were due nine days ago and four counties have not yet filed. If delays continue, the board will invoke extreme penalties against the assessors.
John M. Parish, held on a charge of house breaking near Philipps, hanged himself in the county jail. He tore a strip from a blanket tied to a water pipe, fastening the other end around his neck and strangling to death. He was a stranger to the locality.
A. Viney of Narka Kas reports a team of valuable horses missing from his camp near Ellis while en route home after tending a holiness camp meeting. The theft was discovered towards morning.
West Point reports a new town named Vehling platted seventeen miles southeast of the city. The site lies three miles south of the Cum ing county southeast corner on the Ashland Cut-Off line, marking expansion in the rail corridor.
Dr Edward Mc Millan collapsed while walking in Fullerton and died before medical aid could arrive. A physician was summoned but he was already deceased.
A Lynn Massachusetts sandal maker sparked a nationwide craze after a salesman noted two children aboard a steamship wearing sole leather pieces. Samples were produced and sold to broaden from children to men and women, with factories in Lynn and other New England towns producing millions of pairs.
An elder without a home church laments sudden double collections. He dreads extra plates but attends a friend's church where two offerings occur one for the regular fund and another aiding a struggling church in Marshall North Carolina. The man pays up, accepting fate with humor.
N. J. Neer, a noted railroad figure, spent an hour in a city station where a stranger sat opposite him. Both men secretly sketched each other, then Neer revealed he had promised his wife to draw a homely man and show it home. The stranger produced his own drawing.
Mark Twain reflects with Dean Howells on early poverty and later wealth. He credits thrift learned from difficulties and indecision over spending his last nickel for a cigar or an apple, noting that saving helped him become rich.
A fragmented verse piece recalls a writer who spun jokes from odd topics. It notes a humorist coaxing laughs from the brain with sly twists and nods to daily life objects. The shaky text hints at satire, meals, mischief, and cultural quirks of a past column.
A San Francisco man testifies that after eight boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills his indigestion pain insomnia and sallow complexion vanished. The ad urges readers to buy pills at druggists and requests a booklet What to Eat and How to Eat from the Dr. Williams Medical Co. Schenectady NY.
The commonest cause of headaches is nervous disturbance or weakness provoked by experiences, with two classes of causes: those existing within the body and those external to it that trigger latent evils into action.
A North Carolina man declares he is a woman after five years of posing as a man. He says he courted another woman who was prepared to marry him before she learned of the deception. The enraged partner confronts the case as a judge remarks on the unusual confession.
In Australia the discarded tramcars are repurposed by Sydney residents who paint them green and white, hang baskets of flowers, train creepers over the roof, and transform the cars into afternoon tearooms for neighborhood gatherings.
London shows a healthier profile as its population surpasses New York by about a million, yet last year both cities recorded nearly the same number of deaths.
A wife recounts how leaving coffee and adding Postum and later Grape-Nuts improved her husband’s digestion and reduced nervousness. She cites a nervous friend from Virginia who recovered after using Grape-Nuts, and notes her own recovery while nursing her baby. Names point to Postum Co, Battle Creek, Michigan.
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