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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1905
Page
5
Hemingford community chatter includes subscriptions and ads, town visitors like C Donaghue and Leopold Mueller, potato market notes, sales events, and a carload of items from H L Bushnell. Reports mention health, a school entertainment, Odd Fellows talk, and a rail crossing dispute with police intervention.
Marland updates cover visits from Ellsworth and Alliance residents, farm work on homesteads, new school location, horseradish vendor arrival, sick residents, and several local errands. Notable items include Miss Nora Niece finishing a term in Trussel district, Miss Josie Kendric hospitalized in Hot Springs South Dakota, and George Gregg treated for a neck abscess in Hemingford after a prior failed attempt.
Local market notes list prices for hogs beef cattle butter hens and potatoes. An item from the Rushville Recorder describes Nicholas Lehman growing three bushels of imported Minnesota potato seed last summer yielding 147 bushels versus less than 50 bushels from home grown seed, urging use of new imported seed to raise yields.
Report from Rawlins describes engine 1057 on the Cheyenne & Northern hauling a fast freight that struck and killed two coyotes. Snowy country slowed their escape as the animals tried to flee the iron horn, but the pursuing train ended the chase after about six miles.
A quirky tale recalls how a native Australian cry spelled danger for a bush ranger. The robber, who robbed a Ballarat bank of 20000 pounds, was tracked after a London sighting. A detective used a sharp Coo ee call in the Strand, triggering recognition and capture for extradition.
A downtown oyster house tale features Co. Abe Gruber recounting a customer’s elaborate instruction to a cook for a milk stew with oysters. The anecdote includes jokes about mixed signals and literal misinterpretations from a newspaper page roundly lampooning press errors and a misreported colonial editor.
A Willard Cafe patron demanded four Scotch Nisky sours with sour mix of lemon and half time. The bartender, unfamiliar, asked for clarification as delegates to the city congress drank several of the icy beverages before leaving.
A jeweler explains that about ninety of every hundred watches brought for cleaning fail due to pockets, especially men's waistcoat pockets. He notes women's watches need less work because they wear no waistcoat. He warns about dust and grime from pockets causing internal damage to watches.
A published remedy for frozen toes suggests belittled ethics and drastic measures such as exposing the foot to a cold stump and removing toes with a hatchet then burying them in snow until spring. The item mocks the improvised treatment and notes the grotesque outcome of frost bite.
The Nebraska Stock Growers Association lists officers and an executive committee with members from Rushville Alliance Ogalalla and other Nebraska towns. A. M. Modisett is president and M. Hampton is vice president with B. M. Searle Jr. as secretary-treasurer.
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