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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1921
Page
6
Pastor B J Minort of Alliance’s First Baptist urges readers to drop nostalgia and accept present blessings. He cites biblical prompts to avoid pining for past eras and notes some preachers promote gloom about today, deterring church attendance.
The passage argues that nostalgia rewrites history and that traits once scorned may have been undervalued, urging reflection on how people idealize the past while overlooking its flaws.
A reflective meditation on how memories of past eras fade or glow with distance. The piece notes that what seemed glorious in youth often loses its luster once viewed from the present, suggesting memory and sentiment shift over time.
The speaker argues that past times are imagined and today offers more good things. They challenge calls that the young, crime, immorality, and churches are worse now, asserting modern schools and teachers are better and that gratitude should focus on the present.
The author contrasts past captains of industry and politics with today, praising present offerings and urging focus on improving the current world. They warn against dwelling on bygone preachers and glorying in old successes, urging Christians to apply lessons to the present.
Speech urges focus on present effort and upcoming achievements. It emphasizes leaving past triumphs behind and chasing new goals with determination. No dates or places are mentioned.
In a visit north of the fair grounds the Herald Traveler profiles EB A Bennett and several neighbors. Bennett farms 480 acres with 160 winter wheat and rye, 80 spring wheat, 40 corn, 40 potatoes and sod breaking, using a Hart-Pain 580 tractor and believing corn, rye and potatoes offer best returns. F W Krohn runs 480 acres with 80 wheat, 70 oats, 40 corn, 40 potatoes, 20 alfalfa. he ranks corn and hogs as top money makers, then spuds. Wilteden, a longtime settler, owns 450 acres with diverse crops and a warm homestead. Aspden farms 25 acres each to wheat and oats, 75 to corn and 40 to spuds, with 75 alfalfa. he lives north of town and notes the county and York County as favorable for a young man starting out. J T Nabb farm, seven miles north of the fairgrounds, is run by J T Nabb Sr and Jr on 440 cultivated acres with substantial tractor work, feeding operations, and a notable Poland China hog herd.
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