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Newspaper
Alliance Herald
Location
Alliance, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1919
Page
9
Te Avliance Heratio Burr Printing Co owners George L Burr Jr Edwin M Burr announce business timeframe and subscription rate of two dollars a year in advance. The notice states the paper is entered at Alliance Nebraska post office for transmission through the mails as second class matter and is published every Thursday.
A Nebraska Senate and House joint committee calls a public meeting to study remedies for profiteering. They criticize McKelvie for not acting and plan to push solutions, including petitioning the governor for a special session. Prospects look brighter for legislative steps to curb skyrocket prices.
A nostalgic column recalls dreamlike plans for a transcontinental aerial mall station in Hastings. The piece notes rapid world change since the editorials of the war era and recounts a humorous, wandering anecdote about a disembodied designer visiting various departments with a cardboard sheet and inks to pitch a roof‑top union station concept for Lincoln.
He explained the plan as a landing stage for mail carrying aircraft. The Thumbnall printed a humorous writeup that drew a big laugh, yet the concept gains attention as such stages are now being built. The remark about bats in the belfry hints at being ahead of the times.
The World Trade Club of San Francisco urges adoption of metric weights, spending thousands on editorials and items. The piece argues meters and grams belong in science, but commerce should stay with pounds and bushels. Congress should not act as a directive force.
The New Orleans newspaper argues that wartime migration left city living and wage shares imbalanced. It predicts mounting strikes could push millions back to rural life, suggesting a general back-to-the-farm movement as the industrial conference in Washington considers remedies.
The passage argues that blaming immigrant labor in steel and coal industries oversimplifies the industrial threat. It calls for examining broader causes and cautions against relying on a southern newspaper’s narrow perspective, urging search for wider systemic factors.
A false report quoted J Frank McElwain as predicting shoe price declines. Corrections were issued, but not as prominently, causing widespread confusion and trouble for shoe sellers nationwide.
The Roosevelt memorial association membership drive continues for another week due to weak advertising and slow local and state action. Box Butte county is asked to raise 440 dollars with four hours of effort, while supporters can enroll at Alliance or Hemingford locations. The effort aims for 100 percent Americanism.
Henry Duval turned himself in as a deserter to the local army recruiting office last Monday and is jailed in the county jail. He faces transfer to Fort Logan, Colorado, later this week. Duval claimed Canadian service with front-line gallantry, then five months at Fort Ethan Allen before enlisting with American troops. He is about 22 and in good appearance. his prior service could cushion punishment. The Alliance recruiting office ranks second in the district with Iowa and Nebraska, after Omaha and Des Moines, with sixteen enlistments this month. Major W A Cavanaugh of Omaha praised Alliance work and issued 37 victory buttons to discharged soldiers.
Chicago physician Dr. Dillon warns Chadron relies on shallow wells where contamination is likely. He says liquid chlorine, odorless and tasteless, prevents typhoid, noting Chicago’s success where typhoid epidemics have ended. He declined to address the welfare meeting to be in Chadron Thursday.
Mrs. Margaret Smart mother of General Superintendent A G Smart of the Burlington dies in the city on Tuesday afternoon at age eighty five. The body was shipped to Kansas City for interment aboard No 44 on Wednesday with Mr and Mrs Smart accompanying the remains.
Ashby Nebraska advertises a garage for sale with request for particulars and promotion of Ashby Garage. Also offers land listings in Northern Arkansas by Boone County Investment Co for farming timber lands stock and open range with a prompt to specify needs and they will arrange the rest.
In a brief exchange, Mickey disputes a misattributed quote about peace linked to Patrick Henry. The back and forth plays on memory and authority as the two old locals banter.
A reflective line notes that considering the current price per quart seems to dampen the milk of human kindness. The sentiment ties price awareness to diminished charitable feeling in everyday exchange.
A humorous anecdote recounts painter John Sargent at a banquet a young woman compliments his painting saying she kissed it for resemblance. He asks if it kissed her back, and when she says no he quips it was not like him after all.
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