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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1921
Page
2
Random scraps recount local gossip with jokes about hunger, alimony, patent cures, potash, and a golf mishap near Alliance. Odd stories mix humor and social quips as union of men and women and a dash of small town scandal surface in terse, flippant notes.
A fragmented society page notes Elsie Ferguson’s contrasting appeal with a local caper about a tri tone exhibition plan and a returning soldier’s humorous misquote. Damages cited amount to 7.90, while trivia about ammunitions wagon and ambulance mix ups reflect light local humor.
A peculiar notice warns residents that the Ku Klux Klan may be summoned if a local man continues visiting a house in a respectable neighborhood while the Huboy is away. The piece also recalls a fictional inn in Merle England with a mock 1818 ledger detailing 126 bottles of port 48 sherry 64 bowls of punch and free ale and porter.
Patrick Welch, who died in a Sunday night auto accident, was mourned at St Bernard's church at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday with friends from the sand hills area in attendance. Welsh’s death follows a period of illness for others in the community as locals send sympathy to his family.
A European tale of a dying wife and hungry children ends tragically when a squandered lottery win leads to wealth for a stranger while Jean Kerrier returns from work to find his wife dead and his children abandoned to hunger. The crowd disperses as the little Marie ascends to the afterlife, leaving a scene of wealth beside want.
The Vienna market shows a severe men shortage with daily want ads by women seeking husbands. Advertisements, often ending with Object Matrimony, hint at incentives offered to attract suitors as Herald Want Ads circulate widely.
O Bannon and Neuswanger announce a second truck unload of new potato sacks and can fill orders of any size. They plan to attend Halloween events on Friday October 28 at the Presbyterian CG on East 93rd Street.
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