Holiday guest and home visits bloom across Nebraska towns
A cascade of holiday visits fills towns from Dakota City to Sioux City as families welcome relatives. Mrs Henry Nobbe tours with daughter in Dakota City while Stephen Daniels hosts in South Sioux City. Miss Sylvia Lamson returns from Fremont. numerous locals share meals and travel to Omaha and Pan ama plans pause for Christmas.
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Sioux City Journal
John Pooley
Sioux Falls
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Stephen Daniels
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Roles Street
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Robert E. Evans
Anna Evans
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Banker Pallbearers Finish Job After Twenty Years
A man who recently wrote a will names six bankers as his pallbearers. He explains they have carried him for twenty years and they might as well finish the job. The incident unfolds as a personal testament and farewell gesture by the deceased or storyteller.
Crald for News When It Is Liews
Fragmentary OCR text appears to reference headlines and news handling but lacks clear names places or events to identify. The readable fragments suggest a generic note on news or headlines without concrete details.
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Liews
Ready for Promotion
A motivational note urges workers to prepare for future vacancies above them by training and improving daily. It emphasizes readiness to handle bigger tasks, take charge if a post opens, and earn advancement beyond current duties and pay.
We Wouldn’t Want Everything Velvet We Wouldn’t Want Everything
A Baltimore Sun fragment reflects on balancing life with light and shadow. The piece argues that sweetness without trial dulls wit and that a burden of care yields the wages of cheer.
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Te Ane
Baltimore Sun
Four to six horns found on Asian antelopes and sheep
The four and six horned chouka of India features small front horns above the eyes and larger upper horns. Adults stand about 20 inches tall with bright bay backs and gray white underparts. Similar multiple horns occur in some isolated Asian sheep, with the lower horns curving upward and the large pair downward.
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Asia
India
Maynulne
Back Door Banter Reveals Worn Flagging Demeanor
A blunt exchange shows frustration with a man called a tramp and insinuations of chronic hydrophobia after a bite from multiple dogs. The dialogue suggests a rough, informal street scene centered on cleanliness and menace.
Gold From a Kitchen Tap Sparks Vancouver Prospecting Tale
Vancouver prospector Gartley notes a trace of black sand in a glass at his kitchen sink. He believes the find hints at local gold potential and begins plans to investigate near the area.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Gartley
Goose that Laid the Golden Kee hinted in Vancouver waters
Fragmentary passage describes hunting for gold in local waterways near Vancouver. The speaker jokes about finding gold deposits in creeks supplying the city and mocks the quest by referencing mythical riches and a plumbing source.
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Vancouver
Umbrella Rock Tale Suppressed by Landowner
A famed rock formation named Umbrella Rock or Ponderool Rock near Mileworth county drew fear from its owner who believed the granite boulder would topple onto cattle. He reportedly saw the upright shaft as a threat and reduced it to a mere pile, effectively excising the feature.
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Kanens
Colorado
Carberia
Keanepolle
Mileworth County
Remarkable Potato Growth From Old Seed Potatoes
An Ontario specimen in a cellar produced a new potato from the heart of the old one. As the new growth developed, the old potato split open and the new tuber emerged, about the size of a hand. The event notes a rare case of growth within a planted potato.
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Ontario
Paper money value noted in Louisville paper
The Louisville Courier Journal comments that some Russian paper money has value. It argues that any paper of value is properly assessed, reflecting skepticism about currency worth.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
When to prune trees in orchards and shade trees
A practical horticulturist notes the timing depends on owner needs from March to April, with differences in healing based on sap flow. Pruning duration scales with orchard size, about a month for ten acres. The key is proper method, not just timing, and clean cuts heal best regardless of month.
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University
Agricultural College
Housing Shortage Seen Across Rome and Europe
Rolf W. Bauhan head of the Princeton architect firm who worked in devastated France says housing scarcity is as severe in Rome as in the United States and tougher than Paris or London. He notes building costs have fallen but not enough to trigger wide scale housing programs.
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Rolf W. Bauhan
Princeton
France
Italy
United States
Parla
London
New York Women Push Housework Into Business Field
A group of New York women convert domestic service to a business occupation called home assistant. Workers clock 44 hours weekly at 18 dollars, receive Sundays holidays two weeks paid vacation and overtime pay. A bureau of household occupations acts as clearing house for the venture with several organizers named.
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New York
Bureau of Household Occupations
Ain Ad Ic
Minorca
Richard Boardman
George DP. Pratt
Henry 8. Patterson
Roberts M. Walker
Deer Fight Ends When Ranger Saws Off Horn Prong
Game Warden Theodore Wegmann on the north border of Imeca park Minnesota witnessed two bucks locking horns in a brutal battle. A wolf spooked then vanished as the fight raged. Wegmann and Supt. C M Roberts pried them apart after amputating a horn prong. both deer were released with injuries to one prong.
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Theodore Wegmann
Imeca Park
Minnesota
Wegmann
C. M. Roberts
Court condemns dog theft with strong rebuke
Beverly Clark pled guilty before Judge Otto A. Rosalsky in New York to stealing Brag Schulum a brindle bulldog owned by Mrs. Jenole Warren. The court sentenced him to thirty days in the work house and delivered a pointed lecture on the value of dogs and theft.
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Beverly Clark
Otto A. Rosalsky
New York
Rosalsky
Lurk
Court of Appeals
Peculiar bird arrives in captivity at Cincinnati Gardens
A unique Est Indian hornbill named Jim has completed a journey over ten thousand miles and is now housed at the Cincinnati Zoological Gardens. The article notes the bird’s rare captivity status in the United States and details parental care and nest defense by the species, along with its large size and distinctive long bill.
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United States
Jim
Cincinnati Zoological Gardens
Bie
Rooster Smokes Cigarettes Says Paris Kentucky Story
Local tale from Paris Kentucky notes a rooster trained to smoke cigarettes. Visitors from Columbus Ohio displayed two white Wyandotte roosters named Warren G Harding and Jimmie Cox, both trained to perform tricks including smoking.
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Animal Kingdom
Earl B. Wilson
Orson Schele
Columbus
Ohio
Florida
Warren G. Harding
Jimmie Cox
Warren Q
Hareadopted by cat shocks New Brunswick farm family
A tabby cat at a New Brunswick farmhouse brought home a young wild hare alive in her mouth and added it to her growing litter. Three of her kittens had been sent west the day before.
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New Brunswick
Partridge Flies Into Massachusetts Subscriber’s Bedroom
A Massachusetts subscriber reports a partridge entering through an open window and nestling under the bedclothes, unharmed, in a peculiar early morning disturbance.
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Ihn Massichusetts
English Chess Tourney Draws 800 Players in London
Eight hundred chess players participated in a recent London tournament. Both men and women competed, highlighting broad participation and strong competition across the field.
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London
Giant two ton shell dug from Havay crater
A two ton live shell from the wartime era was unearthed near Havay between Mons and Maubeuge after a year of dig work. The device weighs about two tons with a 1000 pound to one ton explosive charge and required large-scale excavation and caution to remove safely. Belgian authorities led the operation.
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Havay
Mons
Maubeuge
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