Red troops drive Spartacists from Lichtenberg Berlin streets
An Amsterdam dispatch reports German government troops flanked and drove back Spartacists at Lichtenberg, eastern Berlin. Reds abandoned materiel as government forces advance on strongholds. Berlin streets littered with wreckage. heavy casualties feared. Riots and Spartacan revolt spread to Hamburg amid widespread robberies and killings of well dressed citizens. Noske allegedly pressed for unconditional surrender and arms.
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International
London
Lichtenberg
Berlin
Amsterdam
Russia
Copenhagen
Exchange Telegraph Company
Hamburg
Exchange
Spartacans
Neukolmn
Herr Noske
No Time Extension Says Collector Loomis
Omaha readers are told there will be no general time extension for individual income tax returns due March 15. The collector warns a 25 percent penalty and up to a $1,000 fine for late filing, with possible $10,000 fines and prison for tax evasion. Taxpayers urged to file now and read instructions. A Presbyterian Church group will hold a food and apron sale at Glenn Miller Furniture Store on March 15.
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Omaha
Nebr
Internal Revenue
Geo. L. Loomis
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Bank Robbery Hits Chicago Bank by Armed Bandits
Four armed daylight robbers looted the Metropolitan State Bank in Chicago this morning. An assistant cashier was fatally injured and a woman customer wounded by a stray bullet. The crime shocked the city as investigators probe the heist and track the suspects.
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International News Service
Chicago
Metropolitan State Bank
Pelicans Supposedly Used in Bootlegging Plot at Alliance
A Denver Post sourced tale reports that bootleggers allegedly fed pelicans at a Alliance area ranch with whiskey and tied bottles to their beaks to smuggle liquor from Wyoming. The yarn claims pelicans then return to Alliance with booze, prompting calls to amend Nebraska game laws to prevent bird aided liquor trafficking.
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Alliance
Nebraska
Wyoming
Sandhill
Alliance City Hall
Denver Post
Fire Department Nominates Officers and New Company
Seventeen new members were initiated into the Alliance Volunteer Fire Department during a Wednesday ceremony. A new company Louis Buechsenstein Chemical No. 1 was formed with John W. Guthrie as foreman. Annual officer elections set for March 26 with nominations for president vice president chief secretary treasurer and various foremen. Regular dances by the department will continue.
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Alliance Volunteer Fire Department
Marvin Dickenson
Chet Shreve
Henry Blume
C. W. Nation
Roy Miller
Lin Burrougha
Claude Hazelton
Chris Ebinger
Bill Clary
E. 8. Brower
R. J. Silver
J. B. Miller
A. L. Davis
Geo. Heath
C. W. Rathburn
Ross Sampson
Alfonso Hodkins
Louis Buechsenstein Chemical No. 1
John W. Guthrie
Dr. Gee
J. Hand
Harold Snyder
W. R. Harper
Vern Regester
Ray Trabert
Leonard Pilkington
Frank Merritt
Carl Rockey
John Hodekinsop
Guy Smith
Frank Abege
House
Foreman Hose Company
John Hodgkinson
Ed Brennan
Hook and Ladder
Vivian Hall
Lou Buechsenstein
Fire kills and burns three in Bayard home explosion
In Bayard a kerosene can exploded during attempt to start a fire at the Deering home. Three died including Mrs Deering and two children. the father and two other children were fatally injured. Neighbors rescued the father and a 2 year old, both badly burned, as the rest of the family perished.
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Philip Deering
Bayard
Familly
Peter Deering
Katie Deering
Mary Deering
Deering
Alliance Five Defeats Kimball in State Tourney Opener
The Alliance High School basketball team beat Kimball 13 to 11 at Lincoln in the state tournament opening game. Kimball had previously beaten Alliance twice, and the Alliance players promised victory leading to a forthcoming match with Dunbar High.
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Alliance High
Lincoln
Kimball
Alliance
Dunbar High
Woman Dies From Basement Stair Fall
A Cheyenne Avenue mother, Mrs. Herman Johnson, was killed Wednesday afternoon when she fell from basement stairs at the Johnson home. The family had left the house. she started to the basement to care for chicks, suffered a fractured skull, and died before the family returned from a city shopping trip.
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Herman Johnson
Cheyenne Avenue
Johnson
Choice Farm Sold in Western Nebraska for 75 Per Acre
T C Bradley of Bertrand in Phelps county buys the C L Powell farm three miles north of Alliance. The 660 acre property brings $42,000. Bradley plans to move with his family next month and believes western Nebraska land values will rise. The deal includes 130 acres of fall wheat and rye and 80 acres of alfalfa.
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Nebraska
T. C. Bradley
Bertrand
Phelps County
C. L. Powell
Alliance
Bradley
McCorkle
Box Butte
Powell
M. A. Brown
Talmaden- Loomis Investment Company
Oma- Loomis Investment Company
Omaha
E. T. Kibble
Alliance Ronal Estate
Powell Jeav
Kibble
Unpaved Stretches Trap Cars in Box Butte City
Box Butte avenue left fourteen cars stranded as thaw turned mud to slick holes with Seventh Street worst, delaying drivers for minutes to hours. Street crews worked amid missing utilities and a dropped street bed, while residents urged rapid spring work and advised boots, life preservers, lifelines, and whistles.
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Box Butte Avenue
Seventh Street
Seventh
Box Butte
Hug
Atiecia
City Manager Proposal Opens For Public Vote
A. D. Rodgers former Alliance mayor and candidate says he will seek a vote of the people on adopting a city manager system before taking action if elected. He believes the plan can work but insists it must have majority public support.
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A. D. Rodgers
Alliance
Herald
Rodgers
Local Alliance election ticket outlines candidates and issues
The ticket led by Mr Rodgers includes W Harris former mayor and banker. H A Johnson foreman of Burlington stock yard. George Hills current councilman. Frank Abege seeks re election as city treasurer. Women over twenty one gain vote this year except for police magistrate. The plan considers appointing a city superintendent to head all departments and issuing bonds to cover a deficit, possibly $47000, with warrants at seven percent and bonds at about five percent.
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Rofigers
Neilman
W. Harris
Alliance National Bank
Couneilman
H. A. Jo’ Nsoh
Burlington Stock Yard
Alliance
George Hills
Freman
Frank Abege
Aeie Rolfson
Walter Buechsenstein
Rodgers
Eity
Colonel Roosevelt First Day Visitor at Canteen
The Burlington station Red Cross canteen records show Colonel Theodore Roosevelt registered on October 4 1918 as the seventh person to sign in during its first day. Also on that day Read Admiral R B Coontz joined the list while Roosevelt toured the west for the Liberty Loan drive. Agnes G Strong of Boone will organize a ladies society in Alliance on February 21.
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Red Cross
Burlington Station
Theodore Roosevelt
West
Liberty Loan Campaigd
Alliance
R. B. Coontz
U. S. Navy
Atlantic
John B. Guthrie
L. H. Heghland
Agnes G. Strong
Boone
Iowa
Ladies Society of the B. of L. F. and
Allance
Fire at Alliance school ends with dramatic rescue
Three hundred grade school children evacuated from a smoke filled building at 8 45 this morning as Principal Gertrude McHugh and teachers guided them to safety. A mud filled street trapped the Alliance fire truck until fifty men and two monster tow trucks freed it. Firefighters battled the blaze in thick smoke and kept the fire from spreading. The cause traced to a stove pipe through a wooden partition from Janitor Bill Coleman’s rooms to the main stack. Damage was light and classes resumed this afternoon.
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Gertrude McHugh
Alliance
Emerson
Bill Coleman
Nash
George Bliss
Republic
Ward Hall
Iin
Guy Martin
Pilkington
Jack Clausson
Fredeter A. Bald
Post M T P A Holds Annual Meeting In Alliance
Post M T P A elected officers for the coming year including President J H Hawes and Vice President R M Baker. Delegates were chosen for the state convention at York, while committees for sickness roads hotel employment and railroad were appointed. The group discussed hotel conditions and road improvements and plans to support Potash Highway Proposition. The post, totaling 134 members, scheduled another gathering in Alliance on April 5.
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Community Club
McKelvie
Bridgeport
Caton
Whitman, Crawford and Hyants
Nebraska
Oficera
J. H. Hawes
R. M. Baker
Secreary
Roy C. Strong
Geo. D. Reed
W. Thompson
W. G. Nieman
C. M. Looney
John Feyer
Joseph O'Connor
Lloyd C. Thomas
L. H. Highland
J. E. Cray
C. M. Reynolds
S. A. van Landringhan
Ben J. Sallows
York
Strong
No Confirmation Claimed Office Tendered Graham
Lincoln March 12. Inquiry at the State House questions how the Alliance Times obtained alleged information about a tender to Postmaster Robert Lee of Alliance by Governor McKelvie for the State Board of Control. The governor has not issued or authorized any statement on a successor to Judge Holcomb on the board.
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Herald
Lincoln
Nebr
Alliance Times
Robert Lee
Alliance
McKelvie
Contrel
State House
Holcomb
Times
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Fire Department
Dr. H
Alliance Five
Choice Farm
Nice
Powell Place
Emerson School
Hughes, Harris, Johnson, Hills
Roosevelt
Post M
T PA
Graham
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