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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1917
Page
4
Hemingford residents report visits from D W Kenner and Rupert Walker and welcoming social calls from Mrs. Chas Burleigh and D W Kenner family. Barber shop owners Jerry Butler and Davis Crist plan upgrades. A quiet marriage for Mr. Browne Church and Mrs. Bertha Rees is noted. Red Cross donations and community lunches highlighted amid illness and local commerce updates.
Mrs Margaret Wilson arrives in Alliance after a summer on her homestead. The Castle family plans a move to Alliance next week. Diles Howell and family departed Monday for Batesville Arkansas as they leave the hills.
Three weeks away included visiting and night-seeing. Mrs. W. H. Ostenburgh of Council Bluffs returned home after a visit with her son William Ostenburgh. Mrs. Rolland Clark visiting her daughter in Merna this week. Mrs. Guyinning of Hogard Nebr. a guest at the Dallas Vining home. Miss Dolly Shepherd visited Lena Jamison in Alliance. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson now in a new hill home. Mrs. Spear of Mullen visiting daughter-in-law Mrs. C. H. Spear. Mrs. Cora Batten returned to New York after summer here and made many friends.
Wish her well on the trip home. Miss Batten contributed greatly as a Red Cross worker. Mr. McGowan’s wife and baby arrived Saturday and will manage their home on Ostenburgh avenue. Miss Leota Williams returned Saturday. O. W. Brewer returns from a two week vacation in Thermopolis Wyoming. Master Thomas Heninger, sick with yellow jaundice, shows great improvement. Cr. Spear, at Camp Funston, named quartermaster sergeant of the 36th regiment. formerly Hoffland postmaster, has many local friends glad for the appointment. Milas Gertrude Brown hosted a birthday gathering for eight. Gifts and cake were shared with fifteen young guests.
Union Stock Yards South Omaha records cattle receipts around 14 000 head with western rang er offerings and mixed quality. Prices for prime beef and yearlings range from 12 to 15 dollars, hogs averaging around 17 75 and sheep and lambs trading slower with steady to lower quotes.
A syndicated testimonial piece praises Doan's Kidney Pills with ongoing Alliance reader Mrs. Lee Moore recounting relief from backache headaches and fatigue. The article cites 60 000 Americans recommending the medicine and urges sufferers to try it first for kidney and urinary disorders.
An advertisement promotes Dean's Kidney Pills priced at 60 cents at all dealers. The copy advises not to delay for a remedy, claiming Mrs. Moore used the same product. Foster Milburn Co of Migera, Buffalo NY is cited as the supplier.
A cat ran amuck on Highland avenue near Fortune street at 1 am biting a neighborhood child. Policeman Wood who confronted the cat was also attacked. The cat was shot and its head will be sent to the City Board of Health for examination for rabies.
The Calumet Baking Powder Company of Chicago will award more than 10 000 in Liberty Bonds to high record salesmen this year. The plan blends patriotism with merit, promoting loyalty to employees while supporting the nation in a time of need and encouraging sales of Calumet baking powder. The move aims to stimulate demand and tie sales success to national duty.
In Duncan's addition a buggy driven by E. P. Woods and an automobile driven by Frank Beal collided at night. A Woods horse was fatally injured and killed. Woods and his daughter Miss Timmy were thrown from the buggy. the car occupants sustained minor injuries from a broken windshield.
John Wert a brick layer about forty died at Hoffland plant Friday noon as he prepared to catch a train to this city Cause of death apoplexy The body was moved to Darling parlors for instructions relatives live in Omaha
The record lists multiple property transfers: U S to Joseph Sirovy and Frank Patty. Frank Jerecki and wife to E T Kibble for sums including 2700 dollars. sheriff to Alliance Building and Loan Ass’n for Lot 2, Block T, First Addition to Alliance. Alliance B L A to Grace T Miller for Lot 2, Block 7. Mary A Potts widow to J D Mallon for portions of Section 19-35-47. Eva E Pevey widow to F A King for NW 15-25-50. Values range from 1000 to 11200 dollars.
Thomas Cham berlin of Kanab Utah once imprisoned for polygamy has eighteen sons twelve are in service including one volunteer and ten summoned before district draft boards with eleven in the army.
Aberdeen Washington report an eighty foot sulphur bottom whale captured in the Pacific. The whale weighed about 160000 pounds and is the largest ever taken in North Pacific waters at the Bay City whaling station.
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