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Newspaper
Falls City Tribune
Location
Falls City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
2
Poem reflecting on a mother cherishing simple items from a baby’s clothes and keepsakes. The speaker notes tears at a baby’s dress and booties, centering on the sacred, tender memories stored in fabric keepsakes. From the De counted Free Press.
A satirical sketch discusses gossips as a male and female problem, noting whiskered town gossipers spread embellishments about families. It contrasts old punishments like the ducking stool and pillory with modern legal fears for minor sidewalk offenses.
The Missouri Pacific cuts the Falls City stubtrain and surrounding Omaha runs as retrenchment amid the 2 cent fare law. Falls City merchants fear losses while hoping for reversal, as railway families return and trade with Howe Stella and Verdon would decline. Todd Henderson sprained an ankle attempting to catch a train at Salem while en route to Falls City.
The article traces Christmas on December 25 to a pagan sun worship rite tied to Mithra and the winter solstice. It describes early Christian adaptation in the fourth century transforming that rite into a Christian festival, uniting East and West in praise of Christ.
Senate bill introduced December 4 1907 provides for a site purchase and erection of a U S post office and government offices in Falls City Nebraska. The Treasury is authorized to spend up to seventy five thousand dollars for site and building with fire protection provisions and open space of at least forty feet on each side including streets and alleys.
Advertisement notes Bees Laxative Cough Syrup available from your dealer. It targets coughs colds croup and whooping cough with a gentle laxative action to expel the potion from the system and clear the head. Sold by A Gi Wanner druggist.
Services at 2 30 pm on alternate Sundays led by Rev O H ExGiuneercut. An advertisement promotes Pineules claimed to ease rheumatic back pain and stiffness, with a 31 00 treatment and a bedtime dose. Sold by A G Wanner and others. Fat City visitors Miss Manel Poteet Miss Bill Houston and Karl Carothers joined the Misses Carothers for a day in Hiawatha World.
On Friday evening between 4 and 4 o clock a coat pair of pants and a cravonette coat owned by Pearl Vandeventer and John Allenbaugh were taken from the Lindell hotel lodging area used by boarders. Suspected individual named but no proof yet available.
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