Alliance social notes and engagements at end of week
A composite Alliance column details a Tuesday play party at J. J. F. Tiller’s 1011 Big Horn Avenue with eight attendees, plus a Kensington gathering and various church and club events. It notes engagements, weddings, receptions, bake sales, and social teas across Holy Rosary, Presbyterian, Baptist, and Episcopal groups, with names, venues, and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. F. Tiller
Tiller
Big
Iern Avenue
Auction Bridge
Kensington
Community Events and Social Gatherings Reported
A roundup of local social happenings includes birthday celebrations for Dean Shaw and New Lewis McIntyre, a postponed Sierman music concert at the uriidian church, and upcoming Easter program work. Club activities cover Woman's Civ and WCTU events with lectures, solos, and institute plans. councilmen hosted a smoker after a city meeting. several groups note schedule changes due to weather and road conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sierman
Alliance
School of Music
Junior Endeavor Society
The
First Presbyterian Church
New
Lewis McIntyre
Marriage Unites Mildred Campbell and James Burlington Jr
Jadee Ira E. Tash officiated the Monday morning ceremony joining Miss Mildred Hope Campbell and Mr. James Burlington Jr. in marriage. The bride wore midnight blue crepe meteor with chiffon trim. Friends extended congratulations as the couple begin their life together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hannibal
Missouri
Tasue
Alliance
Ira Ellis
H. J. Ellis
Edgar Martin
William Foster
North Seventh Street
Enid Foster
Ira Elila
St. Louia
J. H. Ellis
Burlington
St. Louis
Jadee Ira E. Tash
Mildred Hope Campbell
James Burlington, Jr
L. 8. Campbell
Alliance Young Set
Alli
When James Took A Hand Hl A Story Of The Machine
A Rock Island shop tale describes a new machine with a pedal, fulcrumed lever, and a rotating disk that converts motion to shape steel by impact. Locomotive workers debate its power, while a lathe operator mocks the device as a grindstone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rock Island
Chicago
James
Tom Briggs
How to Learn to Write A Guide From an American Magazine
A compact piece advises that writing requires lived experience and deep study of human motives. It emphasizes mastering language as a craft through constant practice and observation, then shaping drafts by tearing them up. It recommends reading broadly from Shakespeare to Galsworthy and even Shaw.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shakespeare, Fielding
Dickens
Thackeray
Bunyan
Meredith
Barrie and
Galsworthy
Shaw
Earliest Known Artificial Leg Preserved in London
A 2000 year old artificial leg is housed at the Royal College of Surgeons in London. The bronze plated limb imitates a real leg with a hollow wooden core and bronze rivets. It likely featured enamelled red color and connected to the living stump with a bronze outline and riveted edge for leather harness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal College of Surgeons
London
Port of Damariscotta and its Pickled Alewives Trade
The Maine town Damariscotta boasts a unique name and a notable trade. Each year about 6,000 barrels of pickled alewives arrive from the Damariscottan waters for Haith consumption, highlighting small town industry and market dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine
Haith
Cambridge
Maass
Mount Washington
New Hampshire
Christian Science Monthly
Height of Trees By Shadow Proportions
A simple method to estimate tree height uses a vertical stick and the shadows it and the tree cast. If a 244 foot stick casts an 8 foot shadow and the tree’s shadow is 18 feet, the tree is six times the height of the stick, giving a 15 foot tree height.
Improbable Sympathetic Stranger Passage
A garbled excerpt shows a quarrelsome-era exchange with a sympathetic stranger and a sarcastic retort about perspiration, set within a passing show. The fragment suggests dialogue style and character interaction from a historical publication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tallo
Ely's Cream Balm Head Cold Relief Claim
An advertisement promotes Ely's Cream Balm to relieve head colds and catarrh by applying a small amount in the nostrils. The cream is described as antiseptic and fragrant, penetrating the nasal passages to soothe swelling and restore easy breathing. Relief is promised quickly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely
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Ladies of Holy Rosary Catholic Church
Gm. Patrick's Day
Drake Hotel
Seanberry
D. J. Nelson
Minnie Wiker
Rebekah
Alliance Hotel
Hfe
Mra
Cooper
Mra. M. E. Coleman
Big Horn Avenue
Esther Bryant
Deadwood
S. D
Clinton R. Garret
Mullen
Nebr
Garret
Arlene Birdeell
Alliance Elr
Paul E. Martin
South Dakota
Hot Springs
the Baptist Church
Mra. Layton
Ladies’ Altar Society of
Holy Rosary Catholic Church
Meadames
Joseph Bogan
Presbyterian Church
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Meadames Mounts, Spencer and
Pearson
Meadames F. W. Harris
Sam Tillett
Women's Guild of
St. Matthew's Episcopal Church
C. W. OH
M. of
the Christian Church
Fred Helling
Mississippi Avenue
Leoraelle Banks
Day Harold Cunningham
Marple
G. M. Banks
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
G. I A
1. O. O. F. Hall
Radical
Brotherhood
George D. Darling
Elizabeth Spencer
Denver
Colo
Edison
Abraham Bond
George Tourdac
Crawford
Spencer
George Fleming
Inter Se Club
William Weidenhamer
F. W. Harris
Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist Church
W. E. Lotspeich
Toluca Avenue
Mesdames W
E. Lotspeich
Waddell, Gibson
R. B. Lotspeich
Dean
William Carson Shaw
Mia
Dean Shaw
EE. T. Kibble
Box Butte
Civ
George Cbd
Reed Koll
Ldt
Cary
Snelmann
Thomas
Thelma Fireatrick
Irma Ellis
Phyllis Thompson
WCT. UO
W. B. Young
J. R. Lawrence
Mere A. Gregory
Christian Endeavor Society of the Christian Church
Clare A. Dow
Batte Ave
Alliance, Nebr
Herald Office
Herald
Cheyeone Avenue
Nebraska
Cheyenne Avenue
Laramie Avenue
Standard Mercantile Grocery
Woodbine
Iowa
Sand Hills
J. C. McCorkle
Nebraska Land Company
Alliance, Nebraska
John R. Snyder
Feagins Realty Company
Perity
Township Twenty
Range
Box Butte County
C. H. Marine
Farmers National Bank
Valparaiso
Indiana
Hole Ranch
Care Alliance Herald
N. A. Krenek
John Barry
George Barry
Alliance and
Sheridan
Wyo
Wm. E. Bates
Court House
Minneapolis
Minn
Wyoming
Allance
L. A. Berry
Rhode Island
L. J. Munger
Alliance Nursery
J. P. Barger
Particul
Are
Sturgeon
Alliance Herald
Herald Publishing
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