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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1922
Page
3
A columnist riffs on travelers' vices and quirks, mentioning fatness among roadmen and jokes about used cars. Anecdotes include a Hartington youth, overseas French wives, and playful pranks at social gatherings, with locals and venues named in a breezy, humorous tone.
A collage of humor and local tidbits. Jokes about cruelty to animals moralizing in a Sunday school, a court house lawn comparison, meat eating slogans, jokes about Mexican pilfering, Buckshot column leftovers, golf profanity, Albion civic groups, a proposed public forum, and a Lincoln flapper's joke about Grainger Twist.
A fragment from a city newspaper item discusses local social events including wrestling and dance. The piece mentions Dylany Hotle related to trimming wording and references readers’ supposition about a profit plan. A police court payment of 9.70 is noted and local witry jokes circulate amid a terse, unfocused column.
Eynercon school students in sixth grade enter a poetry contest themed Clean-Up Week. Adah Twiner writes about washing and burning trash as kids imagine a cleaner yard, while Miss Louise Cogswell's entry describes a village transforming its streets and homes through communal cleaning and repainting efforts.
The Alliance Chamber of Commerce Employment Department reports multiple applicants seeking work. A frightened mother with three children asks for a home and job as housekeeper or cook, while others include a colored woman seeking private work and a father with two children wanting farm work. The department emphasizes fair wages and placing one to four people daily, urging employers to contact the chamber for connections to the needy workers.
Readers glimpse a quirky trend as large barber shops install orchestras and offer menu style services with catchy names. Musicians perform while patrons browse hair tonics and massage options, turning routines into theatrical experiences with evolving trendy branding.
An odd fragment hints at barber shops advertising theater style programs. Patrons may hear music and see acts. the piece imagines offerings by Wil atteridge and Victor Werhort with ads for tea and perfumed scenes. The tone parallels a bustling harbor scene mixing commerce and culture.
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