Pacific Junction Notes on Local News and Events
Pacific Junction community updates include Ola Fields moving to Plattsmouth, grain shipments southbound through the yards, a dance planned at IOOF hall with Kiger's orchestra, and road improvements touted after years of bad bottom roads. Also listed are staff changes, school graduations with ten seniors, a forthcoming alumni banquet, depot renovations, and local travel for comet and aurora observations along with several property and tax matters.
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Ola Fields
Plattsmouth
Omaha
Junction
V A Purcell
Woodbine
Foster Lumber Company
HO Mead Lumber
Rogers Bros
Hall
Kiger
Fred Rose
Emerson
Fred
Round House
iGee
Venus
B F Pierce
Hoh McCartney
Mac
Commencement Week in Pacific Junction Opens
Commencement week begins in Pacific Junction with a Sunday night baccalaureate sermon by Rev W N Graves of Glenwood Methodist church and the subject They ideal Life. The commencement exercises will be held at the Cannon's Mouth as part of the event. A war anecdote recalls an Irish private named Pat during a fort storm, where an officer sacrificed himself earning a Victoria Cross and Pat jokes about those below seeking the same honor.
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J W Rouquet
Omaha
Pacific
Jim O’brien
Sterling
Colo
Katherine Colgan
L M Shearer
Claude Anderson
Margaret Colgan
Edmundson Hospital
Council Buffs
Crane
Watkins Ditch
Methodist Church
Elsie Reed
EP Hall
Pacific Junction
W WN Graves
Glenwood Methodist Church
Pat
Homer Smith
Hastings
C. W. Kelsey
Solving a Mystery Overcome Distorting Effects of Loading
London engineers study long distance telephony to enable calls from London to Madrid via Paris. A Paris Madrid line awaits signature to begin laying wires. Distortion from line capacity and distance hampers speech. loading coils may extend practical range to about 1600 miles from Boston to Omaha.
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London
Madrid
Paris
Liverpool
Marseilles
Sangatte
St. Margaret’s Bay
Pupin
Boston
Omaha
Boy Falls From Window While Soaking Dream Sleep
Ten year old John Dougherty, son of William Dougherty of Crum Lynne, slept through a fall from a second story window. He was found in an alley saying Well, well after a thud in the yard. He claimed no memory of the fall, dreaming of being chased. Injuries include a sprained ankle and deep facial and body lacerations but are not dangerous.
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Chester
John Dougherty
William Dougherty
Crum Lynne
Oklahoma hens produce vast egg surplus and poultry value
Guthrie Oklahoma. The states second annual labor department report credits Commissioner Charles Daugherty with tallying at least 10 654 109 dozen eggs surplus sold to egg buyers for over 2 million dollars. Fiscal year output includes more than 14 million pounds of live poultry valued at 1 450 820 50 and 1 976 452 pounds of dressed poultry valued at 240 305 50. Feathers weigh 12 014 pounds valued just over 7 000. Total farm yard products reach 3 622 129 02.
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Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
State Department of Labor
Charles Daugherty
Co-Eds Form Etiquette Rules at Missouri University
Twenty women students at the University of Missouri are selected by Miss Eva Johnston to draft etiquette guidelines. Decisions planned include propriety of library trysts, dancing after supper, and walking about after dark.
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Columbia
University of Missouri
Eva Johnson
Flat-Footed Bill's Army Exam Turns Sour Joke
A jobless man named Bill seeks enlistment. An Army examiner tests him by wetting his feet and marching. Bill leaves thinking he performed well, only to be told he failed because he is flat-footed. The tale ends with the street departure and a humorous twist.
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Bill
Mothers Attend Night School in Philadelphia
One of the most remarkable sights in America is the attendance of mothers with children in their arms in the Philadelphia night schools.
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America
Philadelphia
Hypnotism and Will Power in Mental Health Discussion
A Woman's Home Companion writer argues strong will power aids hypnotizability. Dr Voisin failed to hypnotize over ten percent of asylum inmates, while English researcher Vincent easily hypnotized 96 percent of university men.
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Voisin
Vincent
Fitzgeralds Summary on Marriage and Omar Khayyam Dialog
Edward Fitzgerald, famed translator of Omar Khayyam, rails playfully against marriage as a state. He tells Miss Ellen Churchyard that marriage intrudes during work, a tale preserved in a brief anecdote from Youth's Companion.
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