Local Pacific Junction items mix holiday news and incidents
Pacific Junction notes reveal teachers visiting family, students home from out of town, and Christmas trips to Glenwood. A wagon accident near Plattsmouth injures no one, while engineer Faulk recounts a facial cut from a telegraph accident. Laxative ads and a Nebraska Jacksonian banquet announce plans for January with W. J. Bryan among speakers.
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Creston
Plattsmouth
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Nebraska Jacksonian Clubs
Paxton Hotel
Omaha
W. J. Bryan
Water analysis ranks Lake Superior cleanest of Great Lakes
Government tests show Lake Superior has the purest water among the Great Lakes, with Lake ice containing the highest incrustants. Calcium and magnesium in solution vary, forming scale in boilers. Incrustants rank Superior first, then Huron, Michigan, Ontario, and Erie, due to surrounding geology and ice drainage.
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Great Lakes
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Ontario
Erie
Lake Michigan
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Lakes Ontario
Lakes
Indiana
Ohio
Longevity Signs by a Veteran Doctor Read in 1900s Talk
In medical opinion, longevity is linked to physical indicators. A long lived person shows a large heart, lungs, and digestive organs, a tall trunk, short limbs, long palm with short fingers, and a low ear opening. Eye color and nostril openness are noted as favorable signs.
Tears of the Crocodile Phrase Traced From Old Traveler Tales
The Montreal Standard cites the origin of the phrase crocodile tears as a fable coined by early travelers. It references Sir John Mandeville in Travels describing mythical crocodile serpents that weep while devouring prey and move the jaw only to eat, with no tongue.
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Sir John Mandeville
Montreal Standard
Kidney Cure Proves Success For James Donahue
James Donahue of New Britain Connecticut reports that after failed attempts with kidney remedies and diabetes treatment he used Foley's Kidney Cure. After the second bottle he improved and five bottles cured him completely enabling him to pass a rigid life insurance examination. The claim notes back ache and kidney and bladder troubles were cured. A J Howe of Glenwood also endorses the remedy.
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New Britain
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A. J. Howe
Glenwood
Doings Of The Death Angel In Glenwood And Nearby
Obituaries from Glenwood area report Bertha Hutchinson Mys death in Council Bluffs at Jennie Edmundson hospital aged 25 leaving a 5 year old daughter and a sister in Randolph. Also Rev Willis M Kelly died in Monrovia Liberia at about 52 after African fever, survived by wife and two children, born in Mills county. David E. Cress died at his Glenwood home age 69, Civil War veteran, with funeral led by Rev Staples. he had lived in Glenwood eight years and leaves a wife and stepchildren. Bruce, Glenwood Granite manager, announced a large Woodmen memorials contract across central U S, expanding to Florida and Alabama.
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Weronas Hutchinson
Tony Hutchinson
Tabor
Jennie Edmundson Hospital
Council Bluffs
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Randolph
Mays
Hutchinson
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Glenwood
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Monrovia
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Mills County
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Gettysburg
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Omaha
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Doctor Donelan Adds Local Papers to Waiting Room
Dr J M Donelan of Glenwood has a new feature in his office a reading table with current county papers. Patients waiting can read local county news about familiar people and events and he notes it pleases his patrons.
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J. M. Donelan
Glenwood
Farmers Aid Berg Corn Field in Center Township
About 14 men and teams cleaned and harvested John Berg’s sixty acre corn field near Balfour, placing the entire crop in his cribs as he recovers from eye surgery in Omaha. The Malvern Gazette notes local frustration over hotel shortages in Silver City and Malvern despite population and transport links.
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Center Township
John Berg
Balfour
Berg
Omaha
Horses die mysteriously in Center township stalk field
J M Anthony of Center township reports three horses lost in two weeks. Animals appeared healthy one day and were found dead next morning after sudden illness. Local veterinarians cannot identify the cause or nature of the disease.
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J. M. Anthony
Glenwood
Center Township
Anthony
Deer Horn Found In Oak Tree In 1868 Narrative
Sampson Howard of Silver City found a deer horn embedded in an oak trunk while chopping wood in 1868. The log measured 32 inches in diameter and counting its rings showed the tree was 112 years old. All the news all the time in the Tribune.
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Sampson Howard
Silver City
Great Bill of Fare at Brooklyn Navy Yard
Washington Evening World reports 5000 sailors stockpiled lavish rations for Pacific voyage aboard six ships plus supply transports. The ledger details massive beef, pork, flour, sugar, eggs, coffee and tomatoes, with officers reserving luxury items for their messes. It notes unusual abundance versus other navies and mentions new female municipal councilors in England.
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Pacific
New York World
Singer
Uncle Bam
Uncle Sam
South
Tabor and Northern Arrivals at Malvern Station
Train timetable fragment shows arrivals and departures at Malvern with times around 4:30 pm to 2:00 am and segments referencing Tabor and Northern services. Indicates schedule details and platform notes for the routes.
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Tabor
Northern
Malvern
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