03 Aug 1917
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Newspaper
North Platte Semi Weekly Tribune
Location
North Platte, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1917
Page
1
Local residents travel to visit relatives in Lexington Omaha Lincoln and Sutherland attend Chautauqua and autauqua events. New marriages and military draft notices appear alongside market notes and local business ads.
Allied forces pushed into Belgium seizing up to thirty square miles of ground, taking 5,000 prisoners and large war materials in two days as German trenches were breached. Emperor William convened a war council amid signs of troop distress. In Nebraska, Mrs. Henry Nelson of Gothenburg visits town and local social notes record dances at the Ivanhoe club in the Lloyd opera house on Friday evenings until Company E is called.
Shopping notice from Wilcox Department Store offers Bucllla embroidery packages at one-third off on Saturday Monday and Tuesday. The sale includes handker chiefs child s dresses collars center pieces doilies and table runners.
Local briefs cover Chautauqua ticket guarantees, crowd support, and plans to recruit 100 guarantors this year. Also notes on civic projects, post office stamp increases, regional job ads, and community events from North Platte and surrounding area.
Will Burklund southwest of town was bitten on the leg by a rattlesnake while operating a grain binder. He bound the limb to delay poison and rode to the house for aid. Dr Gordon treated the bite and stated the fangs may have barely penetrated, with a calm prognosis by noon. The snake, a large rattler, was killed by farm boys.
Funeral service car options Aleo five or seven passenger car available from Mogensen-Louden Auto Co Chandler and Elcar Agency corner Eighth and Locust Streets with 126 contact.
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