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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
2
Feailroad notes recount visiting brakemen and families in Alliance and Gering. Pryor recovers from typhoid at St Joseph hospital under Dr Slagle care. Several crews change posts as routings expand, and a Crawford depot fire damages furniture. Grand Island plan noted. Hill's Great Northern history cited. October 5 1912 reports Blanche Macdonald Omaha trip and Pacific coast plans.
Nos 39 and 40 plan a relocation to Alliance to enter freight service. Mrs Emery visits relatives in the east and will move to Alliance when a house is found. Mrs Morrison has been ill but shows improvement after a week. Master Mechanic and Mrs Raycroft returned from Portland. Mrs Johnson leaves for Lincoln for the Grand Lodge meeting of the D o H. Mrs Hamilton returned from Lincoln after illness requiring assistance home. Louis Vandervoort out sick for several days. Pickering resigns from Ames Machinist to move to Horton Kansas. W A Davis of Sheridan Wyoming may purchase land in Scottsbluff. Mrs L Thomas now a stenographer in Mr Kriderbaugh’s freight depot office.
Mrs. R. J. Lint of Braintree Vermont urged the use of Dr K39's New Discovery for her husband’s dreadful cough. She writes that it cured him after friends feared he had little time to live. The item calls it a quick cure for coughs and colds and the most...
An ad offering a safe remedy for long throat and chest illnesses including bronchitis croup whooping cough quin cy tonsillitis and hemorrhages. A cril will convince you priced 50 cents and 1.00 guaranteed by Fred E Holsten.
Wing southeast of Alliance farmer J R Myers brought the huge squash to town Tuesday. It weighed 120 pounds and measured six feet seven inches around the long way and five feet five inches around the short way. The squash is shown at Jerry Rowans feed store and will be entered with exhibits on the Burlington car by Nebraska Land Company. No irrigation or special care was used.
Pimples eruptions blotches blemishes mar the face and the complexion. Impure blood is the cause and Dr King’s New Life Pills promote health and beauty. Try them 25 cents at Fred E Holsten’s.
Members of the Odd Fellows lodge in Hot Springs travel for a regional gathering described as an international convention. The report notes their energetic involvement and social activities surrounding the event.
Reeves of this city, Mr and Mrs EB Reeves, joined a recent Odd Fellows gathering in Blytheville with several members present.
Claude McDonald, three years with Burlington as stenographer and chief clerk to the trainmaster, will become a switchman in the yards around the 26th. He is a popular Alliance youth and his promotion draws interest. L. L. Smith of Deadwood will take his current post.
A North Carolina user reports a 14 year old boy avoided a fee and healed from an ugly ulcer after failing remedies. Buckton's Armeg Salve cured skin eruptions and piles in one box, sold for 25 cents at Fred B. Holeren's.
W C English formerly in charge of Bennett G I Plano Co Alliance store appeared in the city last Saturday greeting friends and boasting for Chadron, which he now calls home.
The article notes rural population decline from 1880 to 1910 and cites economic social and educational causes. It contrasts the country life movement with the back to the land idea, highlighting religion's role in rural life issues and suggests broader implications for national life.
Data shows percentages of counties losing population from 1900 to 1910 across nine major agricultural states. The piece argues urban-to-rural migration is misguided and emphasizes farm life improvements, education, and moral well being. It cites a country life commission asserting the church’s vital role in rural communities.
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