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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1911
Page
5
Classified ads describe rates and instructions for placing notices. Listings include garden plowing services, job notes, furniture, a piano sale, and miscellaneous household items with contact hints and local business mentions.
Several ads advertise poultry eggs from Buff Orpington and Rhode Island Red hens with prices per setting and for 100 eggs. Hogs and cattle are sought, plus a shoe shop and a framing shop in Alliance. Other notices promote real estate loans and farm supplies with contact details listed.
A prompt notice lists delivery of Monarch and Colorado coal to Office Greggs Feed Store. The entry includes a contact name M. Vaughn and a phone line 666, indicating a business or supplier arrangement.
Classified notes show farms for rent through C. McCorkle and two domestic help listings. A 605 phone line seeks a girl for housework at Mrs W Ridgell, with address 14622 and an experienced waitress ad directed to Herald office.
Road overseers are urged to note extracts from Nebraska statutes concerning injuries caused by uncovered wells or pits and protections related to prairie dogs as published in this issue of The Herald.
Due to higher material and labor costs, the Puinter-Contractors of Alliance Nebraska announce new charges for the coming year. Rates cover two cent work at 20 cents per square yard, various papers and wall coverings, staining roofs, oiling floors, graining, and hour-based labor, with prices shown per item and per square yard.
Uncle Sam offers examinations for railway mail clerk post office clerk carrier and other clerks with salaries from 800 to 1400 yearly. Free scholarships and information are available to all, including common school educated and rural applicants. Apply now to Central Schools Dept 5 624 Rochester NY for details and immediate preparation.
Advertisement notes a cash clothing, furnishings and shoes business opportunity in a western Nebraska county seat. Surrounded by farming and cattle country with a new railroad and limited nearby competition. Prospective parties urged to write to the Alliance Herald for particulars.
Quick fire range or cook stove ad notes the celebrated Emerald Colorado and Mon arch Wyoming nut coal offered by Vaughn with a phone contact 66 1hrf646 for purchase and delivery.
Seed oats offered at 500 bushels of Kershon oats for sale near Alliance. A Multiscope plate camera with accessories is priced at 315 for quick sale by Alliance Art Studio. Also ads for furniture, house furnishings, and farm supplies from local sellers.
Classified line items list various real estate offerings including a new four room house with outbuildings on Missouri Avenue and a residence with a swimming pool at Turner Mississippi Ave and Fifth St. Other entries advertise farms for rent Reeves steam plow and tractor box butte land and four alliance lots with contact details. Also mentions J C McCorkle as inquiry contact and J L Kerry selling a residence with a watering system and notable swimming pool income.
An old classified-style notice promises home cleaning including tran and vacuum cleaner delivery to remove car obstacles. The nearby names mention GEO. D. DARLING and J. A. HEDGE with painting and paperhanging services by W. E. Phillips offering carpentry work, all with phone contacts.
The Herald Publishing company will handle a calendar line for 2012. The main products come from the Buler Paper company of Chicago. Import calendars will also be printed since no commissions to traveling salesmen are needed and prices are lower than usual.
Notice warns all property owners and tenants to clean up their premises and adjoining alleys within ten days or the city will perform cleanup and charge costs and fines under city ordinances. Dated March 1, 1411, Carlson Street Commissioner and Mongaker City Material. Lost near Burlington yards a small coin purse Howard return to Herald Office.
Subscriptions to the Christian Herald are received by W. A. Dunlap. The price is 1.50 per year. Persons who wish to leave their subscriptions at The Herald office may do so without extra expense to subscribers or Mr. Dunlap.
A saddle was found and the finder asks the owner to prove property at First National Bank, 15 187. The notice also advertises wanted to buy offices items and mentions used office chair sales. Contact Herald Visios at phone 340.
A fragmented, period voice urges tree preservation and bird protection. It praises children planting walnut saplings, recalls long-running tree care campaigns, laments adult apathy, and warns that English sparrows threaten native song birds and forests unless controls are enacted.
A critical column questions mayoral inaction on liquor sales to minors, street prostitution, and illegal gambling in Alliance. It asks why dives operate unchallenged, houses of prostitution spread citywide, and liquor licenses are unevenly enforced, while probing a mayoral fourth bid and potential self-interest.
Local residents attend various visits and social events in Hope. The town hosts a literary program on April 1 at the Hope churchhouse with a debate on Nebraska abolishing capital punishment.
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