North Platte Fire Dept to get new $12,965 station
The North Platte Volunteer Fire Department will occupy a new fire station at a contract value of $12,000, with the project to be let by month’s end. Secretary F. W. Dick notes the department’s strong standing and bright future, while ex-secretary G. R. Tighe has joined the U.S. Army aviation corps.
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North Platte
F. W. Dick
G. R. Tighe
Aviation Corps
United States Army
Tighe
Heiva Blonde
Fire Chief Hauser Keeps Jokes Alive in Fremont
The state president known for humor, Harry Hauser, once rode a Fremont fire truck at speed when a freight train blocked the street. To avoid a collision the driver swerved into a pole, sending Hauser airborne but unharmed. He remains joked about, despite the mishap.
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Harry Hauser
Harry
Fremont
E Street
Orner
Alliance
Esty
Alliance Herald
Lloyd
Hauser
Nebraska volunteers join army and navy in recent months
Inquiry asks how many fremen from Nebraska have joined the army or navy. The letter estimates several hundred among eight thousand soldiers and requests department secretaries provide names to compile a complete state list for firemen and public information.
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Nebraska
Army
Navy
Plunge in Box Butte becomes home defense drill site
The Alliance volunteer fire department has donated their large plunge and building to the Box Butte county Home Guards, a newly organized home defense company. The plunge is covered and the building is used twice weekly for drilling.
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The
Alliance Volunteer Fire Department
Box Butte County Home Guards
Married Men May Enlist Now at Alliance Recruiting Station
Alliance Recruiting Station has authority to admit married men to specific Army branches where wives or families are not dependent on them. Enlistment opportunities include quartermaster, engineer, and ordnance corps, with selective eligibility for the signal corps aviation section. Medical department enlistments are allowed if dependency is waived, and the cavalry opens for a limited number of recruits for the first time in months.
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Alliance
Army
Quartermaster Corps
Engineer Corps
Ordnance Corps
Signal Corps
Aviation Section
Medical Department
Cavalry
Money to Loan on Monthly Payments
Those who think of bundling this spring should see us at once. Fr. Be. Reddish & Son offer loans with easy monthly payments from 804% Box Butte Ave.
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BE. Reddish & Son
Box Butte Ave
North Platte reservation set as bird preserve in Nebraska
The Platte irrigation area in township 23 north range 63 and 54 west is reserved for the Department of Agriculture as a game preserve and breeding grounds for native birds. Hunting or disturbing birds is unlawful under penalties of the U.S. Penal Code. Some view the order as a war measure to protect crops and lakes in the valley.
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Secretary of Agriculture
United States
North Platte Reservation
No Hunting Within North Platte Irrigation Division
The Reclamation Service at Mitchell orders no hunting in the North Platte irrigation division of the Pathfinder unit. The ban affects the northeast region of the state including Scotts Bluff area and all laterals and ditches feeding the government created reservoirs Lakes Alice Minatare Winter Creek and Reservoir No 3. The notice bears the president’s signature and declares the executive order on four artificial reservoirs created by the reclamation service.
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The
Reclamation Service
Mitchell
North Platte
Pathfinder Unit
Scottsbluff
Alice
Minatare
Winter Creek
North
Backbone in 1884 political tale quoted in church notice
The page cites James J. Hill praising Grover Cleveland's honesty and backbone in 1884 politics. It includes a church schedule at St. Matthew's Church with Holy Communion, morning and evening prayers, and a reference to an article from The Life of James J. Hill in World's Work. John McCoy, M. D., Reddish Block offices listed.
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Cleveland
James J. Hil
Mr Hill
New York
Mr. Tilden
Mr. Hill
Mr. Tilde
Alliance churches set services for Sunday with new pastor
Christian Science Church in Alliance holds usual Sunday services and a 11 o clock lesson sermon with testimonies. First Baptist observes Nebraska Baptist Day with music and addresses on mission groups. M E church resumes morning and evening services led by Dr J W Morris who will soon arrive with Mrs Morris. Sunday School at 10, Epworth League at 7, evening service at 8.
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Christian Science Society of Alliance
Masonic Hall
Adler Block
Nebraska
M. E
J. W. Morris
Moris
Omaha
Morris
Alliance
Epworth League
Sunday services at St Matthews Episcopal Church
Sunday School at 9 a.m. Preaching at 11 a.m. and 7 30 p.m. B Y P U meets at 6 30 p.m. Special welcome to strangers. William Carson Shaw Dean. Holy Communion at 1 a.m. Morning prayer at 11 a.m. Evening prayer at 7 30 p.m.
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ST. Matthew's Church
Wm. Carson Shaw
St. Matthews Episcopal Church
William Carson Shaw
Loni Rothschild on Investment Style
Quote notes money-making strategy from Loni Rothschild praising not buying at lows or selling at highs. Emphasizes timing and long-term approach to wealth building.
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Loni Rothschild
Untitled Te on at
The fragmentary text provides few readable details. It mentions te on and at in a likely OCR error, offering no clear event, person, or location to identify.
Strawberries walnuts cider and farm goods ad
Wickham Berry Farm Salem Nebraska offers full size quarts strawberries at 3.00 per 24 quarts, black walnuts 61.25 per bushel, sweet cider 89.00 per barrel fifty gallons, apples by barrel or car load with delivered prices. Also scholarship for Nebraska School of Business Lincoln discounted. real estate ads list multiple houses for sale and farm land listings.
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Wickham Berry Farm
Salem
Nebraska
San Francisco Three Degrees East Of U S Geographical Center
An article notes San Francisco lies about three degrees east of the continental U S geographic center and closer to Maine’s coast than to the western United States. It states roughly 7,000 miles separate New York from the nearest Atlantic port and that Alaska sets the U S western boundary.
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San Francisco
United States
North America
Maine
New York
Agia
Alaska
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Byers Bros
Nebraska State Volunteer Firemen’s Association
Harry J. Hauser
John W. Guthrie
Wm. PF. McCune
Norfolk
E. A Miller
Kearney
F. B. Tobin
Sidney Chaplin
W. C. Rundin
Crawford Board of Cantrol
Jacob Goehring
Seward
C. H. Masters
Auburn
R Frasier
Gothenburg
H. Ty. Bartling
Nebraska City
Clyde Beckwith
Crawford
Plunge
Alliance Recruiting Station
North Platte Country
F. B. Reddish
Reddish Block
John McCoy
M. D
Tal Reddish Block
Christian Science Church
First Baptist Church
M. E. Church
Nebraska School of Business
Lincoln
West
Herald
Care Alliance Herald
Snoddy & Molleing
Immedi
Cole
ST Lo
Stove Department
Earler Ideal Oil Heaters
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