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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1913
Page
4
The American push to ease tensions with Japan amid California friction offers lawmakers and the administration a chance to drum up nationalist sentiment. The article notes intensified anti-Japanese turmoil and political reactions across the nation.
An appropriation of 25000 was vetoed by the governor though rejected by the legislature for an astronomical observatory at the state farm near Lincoln. The Lingolin Star claims the project aimed to aid agriculture students to observe cow jumping and astrological planting theories, with the stated reason that city observatories near streetcar tracks would be unsatisfactory for a large telescope.
The Oshkosh Herald denounces the new tariff law backed by the administration. It warns reductions will ruin U S factories and devastate farmers while alleging the tariff protected by a powerful trust has mainly benefited the well connected.
A local Alliance insurance writer argues for a preventive framework to curb arson losses. He proposes fire prevention bureaus and inspector reports on risk, value, and insurance, with agents using official OKs before policy delivery, and mailing a report copy with daily statements.
The article notes McFall likely stranded in quicksand while digging trees and failing to recover his body. It states he recently sold Antioch Reno store to Bushnell Hemingford and planned to travel to South America to study stocks. He did not build on Scottsbluff property and lived in a rented house, with no grounds for sensational rumors about his disappearance. He was content, happy, and regarded as reliable.
The author argues for a fire insurance based credit system with inspectors and reports to determine risk. Proposes state or city appointed agents, district inspectors, and charges per report to cover costs. Claims cost savings versus incendiary losses and cites experience over seven years. Mentions Bert Laing Jake Herman George Snyder in Denver with R A Chariton in a touring car.
W. M. Hughes arrived on 41 from Omaha Saturday to attend the Murphy contest case as a witness. Since moving back to Omaha he is healthier than last year or two while on the claim near Lakeside, though he remains careful about his diet.
Classified ad seeks a person to eat twenty one fat corn fed steers at the City Meat Market. Contact phone 40 for details.
A rough OCR fragment touts a cough remedy by Bret a lant and Cheapher lain's, claiming strong cures and wide reputation. It notes sale by FEB Holsten and mentions general distribution without coherent details.
The T P A convention opened with entertainment and cordial invites. President English presided as reports were approved. Ed FE Ewel of Grand Island was named President with a slate of vice presidents from Omaha Alliance Kearney Fremont and others. Alliance Post M boasted a record fifty members. Delegates to the National Convention in Richmond were elected.
Alliance Nebraska April 23 15 Board of County Commissioners met called by clerk Officers present Beck and Hashman Bids for Box Butte County Courthouse $65 000 04 were rejected due to bid amount unclear County Attorney Burton to travel to Lincoln to discuss state treasurer arrangements for bond purchase Claim for expenses to Lincoln $60 00 approved warrant issued Clerk adjourned to next session.
Summary of Nebraska measures: deaf institute funding in Omaha with 100000 dollars, hospital and insane asylum provisions, building and sanitation projects, statutes recodification, and various city and county authorizations. Includes bills on roads, health boards, pensions, and state infrastructure with multiple appropriations and veto notes.
Eight parents stay at the detention hospital along with one keeper and a person sent for waking quarantine. Most residents are under quarantine for smallpox, scarlet fever or diphtheria. Many families have members ill, others are boarding away from home to tend business amid the outbreak.
Farmers and ranchmen urged to come to Alliance within a week or two to leave dogs at home. Any dog or cat found on the range or streets will be shot. The directive states there will be no exceptions to the order despite valuing dogs.
The Herald notes the wager and city council will support the city marshal and assistants in enforcing board of health rules. Some school girls have ignored requests to stay off the streets and, if they violate the notice after publication, will be arrested and brought before the police magistrate.
Harold Bush, a colored boy, was fined five dollars and costs after refusing to obey a deputy marshal during a smallpox scare. He faced jail time in default of payment. The incident highlights the town’s tense mood as fears mount and business suffers.
George Snyder Jake Herman and B B G Laing traveled to Denver on 401 Sunday morning to assist Jas Keeler in bringing back two Overland cars. One had been sold to Herman. They ate in Greely and Cheyenne, stayed overnight in Cheyenne, and arrived in Alliance at 6 pm Monday. Crawford Nebraska dates listed June 26-28 1913. For Rent Vacuum Cleaner and reliable operator offered by Geo D Darling.
The Herald reviews enacted laws from the recent Nebraska legislature session signed by Governor Morehead. Key items include a Live Stock Sanitary Board to enforce inspections and stallion rules, a state-wide minimum seven months school requirement, and authority for districts to levy up to 35 mills. Other measures cover agricultural high schools, county farm demonstrators, switch light requirements, locomotive headlamps, and rail transportation rules for shippers. Some railroad bills failed, including the fifty mile bill and an added ticket collector for GR passenger trains.
Sanbury resident John Supsic praises King's New Life Pills as a prompt remedy for constipation indigestion and liver complaint claiming they restore bowel health. Fred K. Holstes endorses the product priced at twenty five cents in this advertisement.
A fragmented line references service calls and a numeric code. The text includes odd phrases about devices and a sequence of characters, likely OCR noise, with no clear event or identifiable persons or organizations.
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