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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1903
Page
7
An advertisement extols Dean's Kidney Pills for back pain swelling and kidney issues. It features short patient testimonials praising relief from back pain and urinary symptoms after trials, including named witnesses from Wisconsin and Kentucky.
Stephen Phillips once close to literature and the English civil service fled his house after a real ghost appeared. He and his family ordered a furniture mover to box up their belongings as they departed.
James M. Beasley, an Alaska contractor who fled with 3800 from a forged treasury draft and was later captured in South Africa after a 17000 mile pursuit, appeared unremarkable on a trans Atlantic liner. He mingled with passengers during the voyage and shared in the voyage’s sociable atmosphere until dockside officers revealed his criminal past.
A historical note records the heavy royal baggage for the king and queen during their Ireland visit, totaling about 200 tons. It contrasts with Edward the Prince of Wales on a Riviera tour, who carried 290 boxes and parcels. The Irish trip required royal robes and state robes, plus the king’s field marshal uniform alongside his other attire.
Oct 8 Pierpont Ohio recounts Mr A Turner over seventy one who suffered kidney trouble waking four or five times nightly. He found relief and permanent cure with Dodd's Kidney Pills, saying they have no equal and are easily obtained from dealers nationwide. The notice mentions price and factory details, with other snippets on soap starchy goods and bank money talking.
The excerpt notes views on education and starch brands and then wanders through papal history. It mentions Pope Pius X in Hall Caine's The Eternal City, lists early Pius popes from Pius I to Pius VII and VIII, and cites their reigns and the last pope to adopt a non‑reused name, Pope Lando.
An old advertisement claims a new discovery cures all kinds of piles including itching bleeding and protruding. It mentions mail delivery from a Lock Hiox 852 Le Roy New York address and promises refunds only in certain cases. The text also contains a political aside about patriotism and self-image.
General Nebraska News notes the dedication of a new Swedish Baptist church in Oscadia with large attendance, plus a Beatrice telephone exchange upgrade expected in two months. Reports include a Waliso anniversary, cattle shipments to South Omaha, wage raises for Lincoln transit workers, a district G. A. R. reunion planned for Ainsworth, and a grandmotherly suicide in Grand Island. Additional items cover a 40-year-old fence post found in Beatrice, a Byron bank robbery, multiple self-harm attempts in Kearney, blackleg vaccination by Dr. Robertson, rising Leatrice school enrollment, a sensational district court case in West Point, Norfolk deputy arrest precedent, Long Pine electric plant plans, a Cass county library scheme warning, a marriage license for Watts pair, and an upcoming Masonic home opening in Piattsmouth.
Lincoln treasurer Mortensen published a monthly balance near 250 000 dollars. He included a list of bank accounts showing deposits spread across many institutions including Farmers and Merchants Bank of Lincoln First National Bank of Omaha and Union National Bank. The note also references a medicinal and advertising mix embedded in the OCR text.
The Standard Sugar company reports many western state beets entering processing with high sugar content. Assistant Chemist Connell notes averages near Tremont at about 14 percent sugar with strong purity. irrigated beets reach as high as 23 percent. Expected average yield is six to seven tons per acre. some fields spoiled by floodwaters cannot be harvested.
Delinquent lessees of school lands receive final notices from the land commissioner warning of foreclosures set for October 14. The new law imposes high reinstatement costs, and when advertised, lessees are shut out. This has reduced delinquencies and led to tighter enforcement.
Ned Lizzie M. Kyner of Long Pine petitions the state board of irrigation for right to use waters of Long Pine Creek to run a turbine wheel powered electric plant. The $12,000 project aims to supply lighting and power to four mills and other industries with an estimated 100 horsepower.
The Nebraska fish car from South Bend travels via Rock Island to Langdon Kansas carrying oriental goldfish. The plan is to swap for 6,000 yearling largemouth bass owned by a private hatchery. The deal values goldfish at 1 per pair and bass at 83 per thousand.
In Lincoln Nebraska Judge Holmes rules the state board of health is part of the executive branch not inferior to the district court so the court lacks jurisdiction. Worster an Omaha dentist had his certificate revoked for alleged unprofessional practices and pursues appeal to the Supreme Court.
The issue features Leyendecker cover art of a hunter and dogs and a collection of field sport pieces on France Britain and America. Andre Castaigne Sterling Heilig J M Gleeson and Dwight W Huntington contribute pieces on hunting parks aristocratic and democratic traditions and current field sports trends.
English caricaturist Phil May drew a flattering menu sketch at a London supper in honor of an Indy. A wealthy woman admired it and sent ten pounds to obtain a similar drawing. May refused then returned a blunt caricature of her features on the back of the banknote.
A tale from The New York Outlook mocks Turkish telegram censorship. A German engineer in the Lebanon orders station ary gear via a Paris firm and replies to the revolutions per minute question with one hundred. At court the judge recognizes him as the man who telegraphed 500 revolutions a minute in the Lebanon.
A testimonial claims that switching from coffee and tea to Postum Food Coffee cured years of nervous headaches for a man and improved his wife’s health. The speaker credits Postum with removing sickness, improving sleep, and boosting vitality, urging others to try the drink and consult the company booklet.
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