Land Open for Entry in Southern Groux County
The Alliance land office announces release of 80 acres from withdrawal under the reclamation law. Located eleven miles north and one mile west of Scottabilll in Southern Groux County, the tract is described as S4%SE% of Section 28 Township 24 North Range 55 West 6th P M. Entry for homestead opens June 23 1919 at 9:00 AM. Applications may file in the twenty days prior. a drawing will decide ties. Retirement right applies June 36 1919 at 9:00 AM.
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Alliance Land Office
Department of the Interior
Scottabilll
Groux County
Thrifty NY Couple Lesson In Saving Dinner Plans
Ex Secretary McAdoo recalls a Brooklyn living friend who warned his wife by telephone about dinner plans. She proposed a thrift trick: if the call comes at six, she will not answer and the husband loses his nickel. The anecdote highlights wartime economy and frugal domestic methods.
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McAdoo
New York
Brooklyn
Lesson on idleness ends with a sharp child’s reply
A teacher uses a fable about laziness to illustrate consequences. He asks a student to name the loafer who reaps comfort without work. The boy Starkly answers with humor, calling the baby the wretched dependent.
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Charlie
Tales of Kidney Ailment and Wartime Anecdotes from Alliance
A fragmented Alliance column features medical advice urging Doan's Kidney Pills for tired worn out kidneys with back pain and irregular urinary flow. It also includes wartime remarks by Gen Crowder on black soldiers and a Beeman campaign story recounting a Yank and a Tommy trading tall tales about Zeebrugge.
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Alliance
Mia
J. M
Missouri St
Doan
Zeebrugge
Beeman
Pennsylvania
Britain
America
Tommy
France
Champagne
Submarines Sunk in Port Prompts War-Time Sentiments
A terse report notes three German submarines sunk in port. A Danish admonition encourages girls to master cooking before marriage. Icelandic women bake bread from cod ground flour while Australian women engage in an unrelated clothing jest about socks.
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Iceland
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Deane
Line
Foster-Milburn Co., Miers
Buffalo
N. Y
General Crowder
Darkica
Mandy
Maney
Selah
John
Farmers Union
Co-Operative Ass'n
Ford
United States
F. O. B. Detroit
Dealers, Alliance
Nebraska
Drake & Drake Optometrists
Broken
Box Butte Ave
Standard Oil Company
Omaha
Chandler
BUICK
Oakland
Crow-Eskhart
Ani Aa
Chandler-Hupmobile Agency
Schwabe Brothers
Second St. and
Laramie Ave
Nebr
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