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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1913
Page
3
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley argues United States lags fifty years behind Europe in farming. He advocates sugar beet culture as a centerpiece of intensive cultivation, soil feeding, and crop rotation to boost profits, soil fertility, and rural prosperity nationwide.
A London Chronicle correspondent notes personal selection of a present as essential. The writer explains friends choosing gifts would be a catastrophe, so yearly they buy books for themselves and refund donors. In return they reciprocate with a chosen article, keeping mutual happiness.
Robert Louis Stevenson attended a Charles Halle piano recital at Queen's Hall and afterward walked through Regent Street to Oxford Circus. In a slow, meditative voice he offered this critique: the elderly statesman at the piano was somewhat austere and chilling.
Use Spanish whiting mixed with cold water to form a thick paste. Rub onto the item and let dry, then polish with a dry cloth. Dirt lifts with the whiting and the polish remains brilliant. Ideal for window glass since no water is used and hands stay dry.
The text explains snow feels warm due to its light woolly texture and its whiteness. If snow were black it would absorb heat and melt quickly. white snow reflects heat, warming bodies above it while insulating the earth beneath.
When rubber plant leaves yellow and drop the plant weakens. Feed olive oil tablespoon every two weeks. Wash plant weekly with warm soapsuds, pour suds to moisten soil thoroughly. Sprinkle every other day. Use same treatment on ferns.
Excerpt shows Rastus asking about post office correspondence and a possible letter from a minister who married them. The dialogue references ongoing debates in newspapers about a conscience fund and hints at a missed or anticipated letter.
Cracker carton pasteboard boxes are suitable for doughnuts or cookies as they won’t dry out. They can also bake fruit cake because the oiled paper and stiff exterior help prevent burning. This tip from Ex change notes fruit cake tendency to burn without proper insulation.
A Ruskin quotation notes that nations and individuals show their intellectual error and hardened hearts through denying spiritual power amid mortal failures and misfortune in their careers.
The article notes that bracelets have long served as a badge of mental illness. It explains that before confinement in asylums, lunatics wore armbands to mark their condition as a form of distinction.
A reflective aphorism urges buying seasonal garments at the right time and embracing mental discipline as the foundation of success. A. C. Bartlett attributed wisdom emphasizes timing and discipline.
May 20 wedding at 715 Toluca Avenue Alliance united Win Neff and Ida M Hinman in a ceremony conducted by Rev Baker of the First M E Church. The groom, a ranchman from Moffitt, and the bride, daughter of W F Hinman, will reside at the groom’s ranch after a short wedding trip. Relatives attended and the Herald offers congratulations.
Elle Waldschmidt and a leading Deadwood couple were married in May Lith. Returning from a wedding trip to Denver they visited Alliance this week at the bride’s sister Mrs JR V Cox’s home. Treber is a druggist of Deadwood where the couple will reside.
Ingen Louise Hoda and Ray Sterling Whitaker were married Wednesday evening at Valley View Ranch in a ceremony led by Rev. Frank A. Woten of Alliance. The couple, both well respected in Canton Nebraska, received numerous gifts and will reside on their homestead southwest of Canton.
The Mississippi River Power Company develops a vast dam power house and locks at Keokuk. Engineer Hugh L. Cooper leads the $s construction engineering with Stone Webster handling electricity. The project claims to shift U.S. manufacturing toward the Mississippi valley and connect with St. Louis, creating a major industrial hub.
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