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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1905
Page
4
The Alliance paper notes strong local effort as the Fourth of July approaches. Citizens prepare to entertain visitors and ensure everyone enjoys the celebrations, with nearly double the circulation of other local newspapers reflecting community pride.
A call for a city wide patriotic celebration tops plans with emphasis on safe streets. Residents urge police to lead efforts against crime and deliver an orderly event for all. Community leaders vow to remove crime elements and restore civic pride.
A deadly assault in Lodz Rowsian Poland last week left many dead or gravely injured. Coxgaach soldiers were reported to have fatally harmed men women and children in a scene described as the most shocking in history.
Twenty nine years ago last Sunday the battle of the Little Big Horn saw General Custer and his command annihilated by four fierce western Indian tribes roaming the prairies.
The article invites families to attend the Independence Day event at Alliances to watch children who will become the town’s future men and women. It urges bringing all the little ones to see the coming generation.
Devecates to the suffragists convention in Portland Oregon hurry to the scene of conflict while husbands remain at home caring for the babies. Miss Anna Shaw declares the slogan No ballot to babies at Omaha.
An old proverb notes speed harms safety as the Twentieth Century limited wrecked near Mentor Ohio while speeding at seventy miles an hour last week. The incident highlights the danger of rushing rail travel and the need for careful operation.
Oro Vesuvius, the storied destroyer of Pompeii and Mecur Laneum, suffers a distressed stomach and around it locals fear a final eruption that could eclipse all prior disturbances.
The president lifts objections to the Chinese exclusion act by admitting Chinese with certificates and promises merchants students travelers and others in exempt classes the same courtesies as the most favored nations.
The Vermont governor pardons Mrs Mary M Rodgers who was condemned to death for killing her husband. The report suggests future women will not face the death sentence and hints at harsher public views on executions by men being central to hanging bee events.
The piece questions whether American emigration to the British northwest signals a preference for monarchy or exposes a crowded republic under strain. It contrasts liberty rhetoric with practical limits and policy pressures guiding population movement.
A North Platte dispatch reports a land department ruling on Kin kaid homestead law that disqualifies many entrants who moved quickly after enactment. The act approved April 28, 1904, allowed section homesteads and took effect sixty days later, prompting early entries under the old law in four forty acre tracts.
The passage notes that after entries opened under the Kinkaid act local officers allowed a second entry to claim the remaining portion of a section. The general land office commissioner rules these second entries void, leaving settlers with 160 acres instead of 640.
The biennial election law is struck down clearing terms for state and county officials. State level seats include one supreme court judge and two state university regents. In counties, sheriff, county treasurer, county clerk, county judge, surveyor, coroner, and superintendent of instruction must face new elections. Register of deeds, county assessor, and county commissioners remain for one year per the law’s division between constitutional and legislative offices.
A description notes acetylene a simple hydrocarbon produced from calcium carbide by water addition. The process begins with lime fused with coal to form carbide of calcium, yielding acetylene gas when water drips on the gray powder. Acetylene light is claimed to be brighter than standard coal gas light by about six times.
A fragment mentions Cromwell's pocket Bible given to soldiers and a land filing in Alliance and Hemingford Nebraska. It references a probate style notice for a settler with proofs of residence and list of witnesses including Allie H. and John Keele.
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