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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1913
Page
5
Classified Adertisements explain want ads under headings for readers convenience. Rates: one cent per word per insertion with a ten cent minimum. credit rates apply with twenty five cent minimum and fifteen cents per week. black face double rate. Readers urged to mention Herald.
E Reddish operates the county’s sole set of abstract books from the McCorkle Building. The business advertises bonded abstracter services in Box Butte county.
Classified notices list furnished rooms for light housekeeping near town center, with contact phones for Mrs. Bayer and a couple seeking two rooms. Various rental items include seven room houses, farms for rent, and safety deposit boxes at the First National Bank with annual rates.
Local Grand Island Nebraska firm Paine F ishburn Granite Co advertises monument work at savings. Alliance salesman AL WIKER listed. mail to Grand Island for price list. Also First National Bank enlarging equipment for sale including Burroughs machine and a 2000 pound Diebold safe with time locks. Guns for sale by J G Herterich, gunsmith above Gadsby’s carpenter shop.
An advertisement listing include 78 Shire weighing 1450 pounds with contact F. B. Thomas at Keystone Restaurant. Den ton's Banner Variety Store offers Red Band candies and candles. It also promotes Niggerhead Lump and Nut coal and Eastern Hard nut coal with phone No. 22, attributed to Dierks Lumber & Coal Company.
A fragmented notice from Mrs Zehrung dated 1974 indicates actions to cut powers and seize pot plants. The incomplete text requests an early order and provides a phone contact 604. The details are unclear beyond these elements.
NTOWN’S BANNER VARIETY STORE advertises sanitary drinking cups for travelers at half price, promoting savings for rail passengers. The ad appears in the 15 21 1974 issue and highlights travel-related shopping deals.
A seven year old registered Percheron stallion named Stai Lion is for sale. Seller is J. C. McCorkle of the McCorkle block. Listing appears in the 1980s classified section with a reference code 181f.
The ad claims rheumatism is caused by stomach liver and kidney problems and promotes Electric Bitters as a cure. It cites Charles B. Allen of Sylvan ia Ga who suffered torture and was cured after four bottles. The ad emphasizes relief from pains and urges readers to try the remedy, priced 50 cents and 1.00, recommended by Fred E. Holsten.
Wanted solicitors of ability and energy to present a newspaper proposition of unusual merit travel Nebraska good money must furnish references Address Farmer and Rancher Hemingford Nebr Ad 1 1411961.
Job notice from Mrs Schwender Restaurant Bridgeport Nebraska advertises positions for a skilled woman cook with wages of 10 dollars weekly and dining room girls earning 7 dollars weekly.
E A Herbert offers moving service for household goods and pianos with prompt attention. Office located at Wilson's second-hand store and phone number 260 for bookings. Established in 1967 directory listing.
An 1892 advertisement touts a medical breakthrough remedy as the highest modern science achievement and guarantees permanent relief from rheumatism. F. J. Brennan is named as the exclusive local agent offering the product.
Local ads advertise Missouri sorghum at 85 cents per gallon at Rodger's with best goods and low prices at Banner Variety Store in Denton. Notices promote Easter flowers from Mrs Zehrung, Rhode Island Red cockerels for sale, shoe repair by M D Nichols, coal office at Rowan's feed store, and a burglar and fire proof steel bank vault rental by First National Bank.
Civil service exams will be held in Alliance on multiple dates in 1913 for posts including stenographer, library cataloguer, refrigeration assistant, economic carnithology assistant, dental interne, crop acclimation assistant, dry land agriculture, laboratory helper, electrical engineering inspector, agronomist in sugar cane investigations, civil engineer student, teacher in Indian service, and mechanical engineering inspector. Salaries range from 600 to 2500 dollars, with dates April 2, April 7, April 9, and April 16 17 and a March 27 listing.
A long line of Easter flowers and potted plants invites customers to call early and choose. Florals made to order and displays shown at the former Alliance Electric Light Company office in Box Hutte Avenue. Ray advertises plumbing and provides a phone contact Ash 435.
Keystone Restaurant offers Sunday chicken dinner and short orders as a specialty under proprietor F B Thomas at the 1820 address. Meals priced at 25 cents.
Physician and Surgeon Office to be found in First National Bank Hide with office and residence phones listed. Prescriptions and medicines may be furnished from the office or drug store if preferred. Also notes a piano tuner visit by W. H. Lunn during Orkin Brothers sale with orders via the piano store phone.
Fragmented items show notices for the highest price paid for hides and furs by Oscar O Bannon of Alliance with Rowan's Corner 1761 8 11. A coal ad urges Sunshine Maitland Monarch coal for the range. Additional notices mention Curtis Best and Gooch's Best at E I Gregg and Son's with guaranteed sacks and phone numbers.
Advertises Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a universal remedy for skin diseases, burns, and bruises, with user testimonial from John Deye of Gladwin Michigan. Cites previous twelve year ailment and $400 in medical bills. Product priced at 26 cents and recommended by Fred E Holsten.
Advertisement by A Kenoyer of Hanford California promoting land sale prospects in Sierra Nevada foothills with promises of good land water and game. Claims cheap living and near a railroad town and includes a 1915 township plat for $1.00. Restates reliability of Lennon’s Banner Variety Store and offers no additional goods.
In Box Butte Nebraska the county court sets a hearing for March 19 1913 petition to appoint Ralph W Sundstrom as administrator of Lewin C Sundstrom deceased. The hearing will be held April 4 1914 at 2 PM in Alliance Nebraska court room with three weeks public notice in Alliance Herald.
Culv Sean M Coombs fined five dollars in police court for drunken and disorderly conduct. J A Blurin passing through from the west with two cattle was fined one dollar and costs for drunkenness. Harold Bush a colored boy fined one dollar and costs for disorderly conduct. Tommy Jorden arrested for drunkenness and fighting fined fifty dollars and costs. James Burrell fined one day and costs for drunkenness.
Classified notice from W. W. Norton of Alliance inviting buyers to exchange or purchase farm and ranch properties and several business and residence properties with small payments required and possible trade options.
A classified notice lists homestead allocations for numerous residents across Nebraska towns including Harrisburg Hay Springs Oshkosh Morrill Mitchell Morrill Curly and Ellsworth. It cites parts of sections into 60s and 40s and mentions an ad reference with a phone number and a date in 1974.
A reader from Cherry County asks The Wardrobe proprietor T. 8. Fielding for cleaning and pressing prices for suits hats cleaning and blocking hats dated March 13 1913 from W W Mitchell Cherry Nebraska forwarded through The Herald in Alliance Herald.
W M Wilson of Alliance received a telegram from L M Timmons presumed Needles California chief of police reporting that A C Newman was killed there and asking to wire relatives. Wilson recalls no link to Newman and cannot trace the man's identity or how his name reached him.
A Monday night burglary at Mallery Grocery and A D Rodgers left the cash register at Mallery’s robbed of about fifty dollars. Thieves broke a rear window and entered the garage area of Rodgers store, taking five dollars in change and tobacco. No clues yet on suspects.
The district declamatory contest will be at Scott es bluff Friday evening with entrants from Sidney Alliance Bridgeport Dalton Minatare and Scott ebuff. Winners advance to the May state contest. three classes dramatic humorous and oratorical are represented. Alliance sends Pauline Montgomery dramatic Bess Reid humorous and Mary Baker oratorical. Prof Pate travels with the group and Mrs Jerry Rowan acts as chaperone. Delegates depart Friday noon.
Johnny King of Alliance leaves for Excelsior Springs Missouri to join the Denver Grizzlies winter training camp. He will begin the season in Denver as friends wish him well and expect him to rise in the baseball ranks.
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