Nebraska potato crop projected at record high
Estimated 12 840 000 bushels of potatoes to be raised in Nebraska this year surpassing 1916 by 5 175 000. national crop put at 462 000 000. Box Butte County may yield about 750 000. government may appoint a potato dictator and set minimum prices, reports say.
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Nebraska
Bureau of Markets
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau
United States
Box Butte
Packer
Wisconsin
State Council of Defense
National Council of Defense
Food Administration
Washington
E. Percy Miller
Albert Miller , Co
Chicago
Hoover
Dpd
Sweet
Daily Press
Miller
Market
Citizens Protest Fishing Rights Enforcement at Lake Erickson
Citizens of Erickson form an association to stop fishermen from taking more fish than the law allows. Lake Erickson is well stocked, but state laws have been violated this season and townspeople grow weary of every excess.
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Erickson
Lake Erickson
Lake Ericson
Alliance High School Football Starts Practice In 1917
Alliance High School begins football practice with many new players and only captains Floyd Lotspeich and Howard Bennett returning from last year. Coach Crawford expects a strong but raw squad as four home and three away games are planned, including Morrill high school on October 5.
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Alliance High School
Floyd Lotspeich
Howard Bennett
Lotspelch
T. R
Morrill High School
Alliance
Morrill
North Platte
Scottsbluff
Torrington
Wyo
Hot Springs
Floyd Lotspieth
Howard Beenett
Jerome Pleming
John Carey
Heed G.connor
Sam Graham
Arthur Dillon
Howard Lotspeich
Ray
Flags You Want Big 3x5 American Flag Offer
The Alliance Herald offers a large 3 by 5 foot American flag with brass ends and cotton bunting for two dollars. Buy the flag with a one year Herald subscription for 2.60, available to new and existing subscribers. The Herald touts demand and a cross-ship purchase model.
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Herald
Alliance Herald
The
Pherald
Iac
Doulas County Plans Elkhorn River Dyke Project
The Elkhorn river is to be dyked along its entire course through Doulas county. A large share of the expense will be taxed to the property owners along the river and the balance will be assessed against the county.
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Elkhorn
Doulas
Advertising lowers prices by spreading cost of paper and reach
A reader explains that advertising in The Alliance Herald reduces consumer costs by diluting the paper’s per copy expense across 3,000 homes. It argues ads lower production and selling costs, allow cheaper prices, and keep goods truthful and well-made.
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Alliance Herald
Herald
Advertiser
Lincoln
Allo
Potash boom reshapes Alliance Nebraska mining town
Alliance experiences a rapid potash industry rise near Holland in Sheridan County with 260 workers on site around a multi‐stack plant. The settlement grows from sand hills to homes, stores, a church, and entertainment as locals chase fortunes in Nebraska potash lakes driven by wartime demands.
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Sheriduin
Kaa
Holland
Vieoe
Karl Matlery
Hoffland
Carl Modiset
University of Nebraska Bay
Burlington
Koowine
Nebraska
Germany
Inter
Omaha
Soup Strainers Appear in Camp Cody Nebraska Infantry
Camp Cody near Deming New Mexico reports growing mustaches as a new style for Company G of the 4th Nebraska Infantry. Soldiers drill daily with an NCO school, praise for the unit, requests for basketball uniforms, and a note on Jackson Valve-in-Head Eight cars arriving for Reston Motor Co. agency.
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Camp Cody
Deming
N. M
Nebraska Infantry
Reston
Rumer Motor Co
Carioad
Jackson
Bushnell Resigns as Glub Secretary for Nebraska Food Plans
Bushnell resigns as secretary of the Alliance Commercial Club to become secretary to Gordon W. Wattles the new Nebraska food administrator. Wattles to enforce the food act statewide with a Nebraska executive committee. office in Omaha United States National Bank building. Bushnell previously re-elected for 1917 1918 and came from Lincoln to Alliance in 1916.
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Beehwell, Jr
Alliance Commercial Clint
Box
The
Commercial Club
Hurl Mallory
Omaha
Bushnell
Wattles
Nebraska
Gordon W. Wattles
Wilson
U. S
Herbert Hoover
United States National Bank
Sixteenth
Parnam Streets
Northwestern considers Hay Springs to Scottsbluff extension
The Chicago & North Western Railway contemplates building a line from its Hay Springs main line through Antelope valley to Hemingford and then toward Alliance or Scottsbluff. Officials say the decision hinges on traffic data, labor, and wartime postwar development, with Alliance urged to push its case.
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Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company
Hay Springs
Antelope Valley
Hemingford
Alliance
Hoffland
Antioch
Lakeside
Scottabluff
Union Pacific
Gering
Northwestern
Herald
Scottabluf Star-Herald
Scottsbluff
Ashton
Star-Herald
Tt Ie
Corinto
Northwestern Railroad
Hay
Secottebluff
FC. Martin
The
Aghton
Martin
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Dule
Lincoln Star
TES
Thanspformathos
John W. Outright
Lincoln Daily Star
City Hall Park
Woods
Carright
Nebr
Sheridan
Cherry
Star
EL M. Bushnell, Jr
Ince Commercial Club
Dilan
Potash Products Company
Holand
Company G
GLUB
Nuaha
N. W
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