Drake Hotel Plans Major Spring Additions
L Drake proprietor of the Drake hotel announces spring improvements including a fourth story and extension to the alley. The project aims to add forty rooms with hot and cold water on every floor and upgrade the lobby and offices. The expanded building will be 130 by 86 feet, making it among the finest in the state west of Omaha and expected to attract steady patronage.
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Co. L. Drake
Drake Hotel
Drake
Cattle Market Listings From Western Nebraska Hereford Sales
Market listings show cattle sent from Box Butte Sheridan and Garden counties to South Omaha on Sept 20 and 21. Farmers and dealers such as H. G. Clayton W. H. Fincher and L. E. Hood report feeders steers cows and heifers with weights ranging about 792 to 1,911 pounds and prices from $6.20 to $7.50 per hundredweight.
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Nebraska
South Omaha
Box Butte
H. G. Clayton
W. H. Fincher
L. E. Hood
Sheridan County
L. Timm
Thce Brothers
C. Plew
J. H. Bachelor
Cherry County
Sandy Hills Land & Cattle Company
Beck Brothers
Garden County
Stella Hoover
Sage Tea Darkens Hair Says Grandma Remedies
An old tip promotes using a strong garden sage tea with sulphur and alcohol to darken gray hair and reduce dandruff. A ready to use tonic named Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy costs about 60 cents per bottle and is advertised as improving hair color, luster, and scalp condition.
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Wyeth
Cattle Lot Prices and Weights Across Nebraska Counties
Market data shows multiple ranchers selling feeders and cows with weights from 700 to 1,100 pounds and prices between 6.10 and 7.00 per hundredweight. Notable entries include Henry L. Abold Sheridan county 17 feeders averaging 740 pounds at 6.80 and 12 feeders averaging 1,100 pounds at 6.70.
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Henry L. Abold
Sheridan County
IL. EB. Ballinger
Geo. M. Carpenter
Grant County
T. Simonson
Hooker County
C. T. Ison
T. W. Carr
Box Butte
G. A. Underwood
C. C. Hucke
Home town paper nostalgia in Alliance Nebraska
Lloyds column laments city scandal and gossip and longs for Alliance Nebraska. The piece recalls local names such as Billy King McCarthy Fisher Elijah White Lucy Horton and Sam and Mabel while imagining how the town and its paper have changed over time.
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Alliance
Main Street
Billy King
Frank Spon
McCarthy
Tor
Old Alliance
Fisher
Ford
Lowna
Elijah White
Lucy Horton
Jones
Sam and
Mabel
Silas
Virginia farmer and cow crossroad tale with a sharp retort
A Virginia farmer guides a refractory cow at a crossroad where a black man is urged to halt the animal. The cow picks the crossroad. the exchange escalates with a racist insult and a playful retort. A child watches as waves are described and a post office door narrows prompting complaints. Two nieces visit Mrs. McDonald and attend church.
Whole Family Benefited By Wonderful Reredy
Mrs. J. B. Hartsfield of Atlanta reports wide relief from stress and fatigue with Apti-Patn Pills and Anti-Pain Pills. She says the remedies renew energy, enable housework, and ease nervousness for herself husband and two sons. Miles Medical Co promotes the product with twenty years of claimed merit.
White Robes and Edinboro Niece Joke at Church
A church scene features guests in white robes prompting a ministerial text. Mrs. McDonald reveals the visitors are her two nieces from Edinboro. In a barber shop a bald man requests a hair cut and the barber suggests he only needs a shine.
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Mrs. McDonald
Edinboro
No Game Rain Refrains in a Sad Summer Dusk
A fragment notes the phrase No Game Rain as a somber refrain. The line evokes rain and absence of play, suggesting a reflective mood tied to a quiet urban dusk. No names, dates, or locations are provided.
Sale of estray mule by Alliance police chief
Notice states that on Saturday September 25 1915 at 2 PM in front of Alliance city hall Box Butte County Nebraska a gray brown mule about two years old and unbranded shall be offered to the highest bidder for cash the mule to be sold as an estray and conducted by Chief of Police W Jeffers.
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Alliance
Box Butte County
Nebraska
Estray. Co
W. Jeffers
Also Mentioned on This Page
L. Drake
Western Nebraska
Lloyd’s Column
the Home Paper
Father
Sidney Hocks
Steers
Harbor
Penn
Dr. Miles
J. B. Hartsfield
Plum St
Atlanta Ga
Miles Medical CO
Elkhart, Ind
Geo. J. Hand
W. J. Mahaffy
McKenney
M. & L. Dental Co
Farnam
Union Pacific Ticket Office
Scott
Scott’s
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfield, N. J
Rome
Omaha
Rome Miller
the American Tobacco CO
Phone Black
B. V. Reeves Alliance Nebr
Farris
Purinton
Marcy
Livestock Commission
South
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