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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1920
Page
9
The document presents Fred W. Johansen’s platform stressing farmer protection, eradication of middlemen, and collective bargaining. He pledges support for teachers, equal pay for women doing equal work, fair wages for all workers, and better roads. He advocates state ownership of key agricultural processing facilities to restore competition and curb monopolies.
A reader from Hay Springs Neb argues profiteering by war winners must be taxed to fund war costs. He calls for conscripting wealth and fines plus jail for profiteers, urging legal limits on interest and broader regulation of unscrupulous businessmen.
Angora residents share a week of routines from credit at Angora State Bank to visits in Bridgeport Bayard Alliance and Lincoln. Families relocate, business matters and travel features include the Geil move to Gering Falen renting farms and plans to Missouri or Arkansas for a year. Merle Thomas visits his sister in Bayard, Delia King returns from Alliance, and Alvin Trueman suffers a windmill accident injuring two fingers while working at the Tom Kong ranch.
Thirty four Christmas Lake property owners sign telegrams to the surgeon general and treasury departments denouncing the Radisson Inn lease for a tuberculosis sanatorium for disabled soldiers. The protest follows an indignation meeting at the Minneapolis Athletic Club, contrasting fears of property loss with calls for humanitarian duty.
A narrator recalls an awkward visit with a host who takes him to a ball game between a hometown Black team and a visiting team of similar color. The pitcher loses control, four balls are called, and a heated exchange reveals racial tension during the play.
Uncle Mike moves from Muskegon Michigan to make his home in Hollywood with Keaton, taking a step toward a new living arrangement.
A note describes Uncle Mike, now a gentleman of leisure, aiding the chief carpenter by sharpening tools in the afternoon. He recalls the boss’s instruction to re grind all but one tool, unable to remove the final gape.
A quirky exchange appears where an avout asks where the boy is and answers that he is “down there in the hog jet.” He directs someone to tell him “Hi” is the one with chin whiskers.
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