Rexall convention draws 4000 druggists in Boston
Mr and Mrs F E Holston return from a Rexall convention in Boston after a tour of New York and Chicago. The Rexall gathering included 1500 stockholders and 600 ladies with tours of laboratories and confectionery plants. Speakers touted pure drugs, cooperative buying, and dealer profits. Holsten's Rexall drug store in Alliance noted.
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F. E. Holston
Alliance
Boston
New York
Petereas
Chicago
Holsten
Omaha
United States
The
Herald
United Drug Company
Rexall
United Drug Company Laboratories
The Octopus Prayer Parody in a Man’s Satirical Plea
A spoof prayer blends references to Wall Street Rockefeller Medicine Hat and local Mad World imagery. The text, signed A Man, mocks economic and social pressures with grandiose phrases like lock stock and barrel and ultima thule.
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Wail St
Rockefeller
Medicine Hat
Wall St
Windy Tuesday Wrecks Dairy Wagon Bottles
High winds last Tuesday toppled a West Lawn dairy wagon breaking numerous bottles. Mrs. Thos Cory returning to Hemingford on 43 after visiting relatives. Roy Craig hosts his mother Mrs. Craig from Scotts Bluff. She may move to Alliance.
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West Lawn
Roy Craig
Mrs. Craig
Scotts Bluffe
Alliance
Miss Mame O'Donnell Joins Gray & Guthrie as Clerk
Miss Mame O'Donnell becomes office clerk and bookkeeper for Gray & Guthrie. She is an experienced accountant expected to aid growing business. Mesdames W. B. Young and J. J. Vance attended the Nebraska WCTU convention at Fairbury as Alliance delegates. Mrs. Young returned Saturday and Mrs. Vance visited Wymore. Miss Rawley sold her rooming house to Mrs. Pierce and left for Long Beach California for the winter.
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Mame O'Donnell
Gray & Guthrie
Mesdames
W. B. Young
J. J. Vance
Nebraska
Fairbury
Alliance
Mrs. Young
Mrs. Vance
Wymore
Miss Rawley
George Darling
Mrs. Pierce
Long Beach
Calif
Plans Under Way to Keep Joder Family in Alliance
The note says it may not be necessary for M. O. Joder and his family to leave Alliance, a welcome outcome for friends who favor their remaining in the city.
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M. O. Joder
Mrs Nerad Return From Saline Visit and Apple Car Drive
Mrs Joe Nerad returned Tuesday from a week with friends in Saline county and reports a carload of apples from the county due in Alliance late next week to be sold from the car. Mrs J A Anderson and four boys and youngest daughter leave this morning for Dilley Oregon where Mr Anderson has kept a fruit farm nearby and they regret leaving Alliance.
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Joe Nerad
Saline County
Alliance
Herald
J. A. Anderson
Dilley
Oregon
Anderson
Alliance, Torope
Local Residents Visit From California Past Alliance Ties
Lawless of Los Angeles arrived Tuesday for a short visit with old time friends in Alliance. He is a former resident who still holds property interests in the city. Three daughters remain there: Bertha, Julia, and Mrs Ray Hoag.
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Bertha
Julia
Ray Hoag
Lawless
Los Angeles
Cali
Alliance
Daly Family and Roy Wilon Visit Alliance for County Fair
Mr and Mrs Daly and Roy Wilon of Lusk Wyoming relatives of Mr and Mrs T M Currows visited Alliance to attend the county fair Mrs Burrows accompanied them for a short visit before returning home.
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Mrs. Daly
Roy Wilon
Lusk
Wyo
T. M. Currows
Alliance
Mrs. Birney Returns from Nine Week Chicago Trip
Mrs. W. R. Birney came back Friday from a nine week visit to Chicago Peoria and St. Joseph. She was in poor health before leaving but her trip greatly benefited her. She noted shade trees and lawns in svarious places and did not feel hot weather during the travels.
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W. R. Birney
Chicago
Peoria
St. Joe
Alliance adds new subdivision with 200 lots sold fast
Several buyers in Belmont buy into a new Alliance addition where over two hundred lots sold in under five days. Ranchmen plan winter homes near Alliance’s good schools, boosting the town’s image as a city of homes.
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Belmont
Alliance
Ladies' Aid Meeting at Mrs McCorkle Next Wednesday
The Ladies' Aid of the M. E. church will meet with Mrs. McCorkle next Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. A full attendance is desired as there is work for all.
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M. E. Church
Pacific Monthly Introductory Offer Explains West Coast Resources
The Pacific Monthly of Portland Oregon advertises full west of the Rockies resources and opportunities including government reclamation projects free land and districts suited to fruit dairying and poultry. It features stories by Jack London and others and offers six months for fifty cents with a February 3 1911 deadline.
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the Pacific Monthly
Portland
Oregon
Rockies
Jack London
Washington
Idaho
California
Training School for Nurses at Mercy Hospital Alliance
Mercy Hospital Alliance seeks young ladies to enter the Training School of Nurses conducted by the Sisters of Mercy. Apply to Sister Superior.
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Mercy Hospital
Sisters of Mercy
Alliance
Count Flies and Census Echo in Roosevelt Influence
A brief item notes Count Flies headline linked to a foreign aviator and hints at the Roosevelt era census debate. The piece suggests bureaucratic preoccupations with population measures and political influence shaping U.S. demographics.
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America
Two kinds of lifters and leaners quoted by Wilcox
The passage presents a verse attributed to Ella Wheeler Wilcox about two human types lifters who help others and leaners who let others carry the burden. It questions which class the reader belongs to and assigns social roles.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
School clubs seek funds for gym and lab gear amid new courses
The Crisie Club plans to use 75 dollars raised last year to buy gym apparatus and lab equipment, while the Athletic Association adds 25 dollars for gym gear. The Board of Education contributes about 40 dollars, bringing total investable funds to 115 dollars. New courses include Manual Training and Domestic Science for seventh grade and high school, with 40 girls enrolled in cookery.
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Crisie Club
The
Athletic Association
Board of Education
Enrollment Figures and Attendance Report From Sept Month
The Superintendent’s report to the Board of Education shows 768 enrolled this month with 374 boys and 394 girls. Daily attendance averages are 441 boys and 364 girls. overall daily attendance is 07.62 with 46 tardiness cases and 569 present every day. Truancy stands at 65, and there were 69 superintendent visits and 65 visits from others.
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Board of Education
Local Street Cement Crossing Completed In Mayo Street
The McClusky Bros have finished the cement crossing on Mayo street improving appearance. Elmer Vaughi's quarantine for smallpox has been lifted after five weeks. Dr. McEuen returned from Omaha on 44. Mrs. Hollinrake operated on for appendicitis and is recovering. Mrs. Johnson and Mrs. Ward travel to Lincoln to visit mother and sister. Mrs. Melick heads to Bennett Nebr for Xmas with relatives. Mrs. Wilcox and daughter return from Alliance. Grandma Carey visited and has left.
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Los Angeles
McClusky Bros
Mayo Street
Elmer Vaughi
McEuen
Omaha
John Hollinrake
B. E. Johnson
W. A. Ward
Lincoln Thoreday
McCeandless
Mis
Fred Melick
Bennett
Nebr
Mrs. Wilcox
Alliance
Grandma Carey
Roosevelt’s Swings Spark Wide Hero-Worship in August
The piece notes Teddy Roosevelt captivating the West with his circle swings among lariat-throwers. It mocks the era’s hero-worship and mentions doctors, dentists, chiropodists, and obstetrics as clued into the Roosevelt craze.
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Teddy
Ballinger Pinchot Question Looms Over Tense Times
A fragmented conjecture-laden piece laments uncertainty of life and death and links it to the Ballinger Pinchot dispute, noting the inevitability of the national question between President Wilson era tensions and Progressive era reform debates.
Insurgents and Noah: a rustic arkyard patter
Uncle Isaiah jokes about insurgents while recounting Noah's ark tale with a folksy patter. The speaker quips that Noah kept a stronger stance on the roof than Uncle Joe, hinting at a forty day flood and divine punishment in a humorous regional voice.
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Isaiah
Noah
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Charlie Wallace
Wildy
Ira Rowland
C. H. Henderson
Robert Laughman
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Crawford
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H. E. Jones
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Chadron
Ward
Joel Brown
Des Moines
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Enyeart
A. M. Miller
Lincoln
Eolly
National Farmers’ Convertion
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Feidler
Nerud
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Phelan Opera House
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