Fairfield State Bank to Open in Clay County
Karl L Wilkins of Geneva State Bank and C V Glenn will run the Fairfield State bank which will start with 25 000 capital and 2 500 undivided profits. Fairfield has had two bank failures and is currently without a bank.
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Fairfield State Bank of
Fairfiell
Clay County
Karl IL. Wilkins
Geneva State Bank
C. V. Glenn
Fairfield
Fairfield State Bank
Tecumseh
Broadway
Sixth Street
Marvin Wallerstedt
Coleridge
Pollock
Platte River
Wallace & Co., Bankers of
Exeter
National Bank
Fill
Military Camps to Open in Seventh Corps Area
Major General Harry A. Smith announces seven camps to operate this summer in the seventh corps area from August 1 to August 30. About 5,000 men are expected to enroll with Fort Crook Nebraska and Fort Leavenworth Kansas among sites. Jefferson Barracks Missouri runs July 9 to August 7. Candidates must pass physical exams and travel and uniform costs are funded.
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Omaha
Seventh Corps
Harry A. Smith
Fort Snelling
Minn
Fort Lincoln
N. D
Fort Des Moines
Fort Crook
Nebr
Fort Leavenworth
Kas
Jefferson Barracks
Nebraska
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Iowa
Kansas
Missouri
Arkansas
City Council Allocates Funds for Spring Cleanup
Omaha city council appropriates 7200 dollars for the annual spring cleanup in Omaha next month. Trucks will haul trash from homes in the residence district.
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Omaha
Goose Lake Becomes Ideal Fishing Spot in Holt County
Clearwater residents hail Goose Lake as a beautified state stocked retreat for fishermen and vacationists. The state purchased the lake for public recreation, with Izaak Walton club support for improvements. The grounds are fence stock proof landscaped with trees, water plants added, four artesian wells planned, and a spillway under construction to regulate water. Last November over 1,000 pickerel about three inches long were planted. In Broken Bow a hotel company elected directors and aims to build a forty room fireproof hotel costing about 87 000 within the coming year.
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Clearwater
Goose Lake
Holt County
Clearwater Izaak Walton Club
Broken Bow
Broken Bow Community Hotel Company
Lroken Bow
John Kasper
Guy Cady
D. W. Predmore
P. H. J. Carothers
H. F. Kennedy
C. W. Layton
Frank Kelly
F. A. Bates
W. C. Talbot
Royal farmer sells eggs from 400 hens in local market
Joe Preuss near Royal keeps 400 brown leghorn hens in a standard hen house. The flock produces about six dollars a day, with eggs gathered in a bushel basket. Recently he marketed thirty four dollars worth of eggs in one day, selling locally.
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Royal—Eeggs
Joe Preuss
Royal
Preuss
Wausa City Council Backs Municipal Power Plant Plan
After a mass public meeting with Interstate Power representatives, Wausa residents urged better service and lower rates. The council favored building a municipal plant and instructed the city clerk to begin negotiations. The power company offered to cut street lighting to 8 cents per kilowatt but did not meet all demands.
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Wausa
Interstate Power Company
Brownville Opens Bids for Gravel District Street Surfacing
The Village of Brownville plans a gravel district in its business section and invites bids on April 10 to cover 15 606 square yards of street surface to a depth of three inches.
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Brownville
Kearney Weighs Beacon Light To Aid Night Flyers
Kearney council considers an illuminated aviation sign on a flat roof with yellow ten foot letters and a red signal on the highest building to indicate low clearance. Robert Huston, for the chamber of commerce, explained the plan urged by federal authorities and indications are the proposal will pass.
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Kearney
Robert Huston
Chamber of Commerce
Beatrice Prepares First Free Fair for Gage County
Beatrice plans an elaborate program for Gage county's first free fair after a recent agricultural society meeting. Ben Isaacson pledged cooperation from business interests as the business men's committee plans a drive to raise $4,000 soon after Easter. Free attractions are being booked and the exposition is billed as one of the best ever.
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Beatrice
Gage County
Agricultural Society
Ben Isaacson
Grand Island Plans Museum Following Hastings Model
Hastings museum success prompts surrounding towns to seek cost data and guidance. Grand Island sends delegation to Hastings to learn operation. Grand Island plans a museum centered on German war trophies. Kearney starts a museum using the Olson bird collection at the high school. Fremont recently opened a museum.
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Grand Island
Hastings
Hasting
Kearney
Olson
Fremont
Two Wings Add to Attractive Effect of New England Style
William A. Radford explains how a two winged New England colonial house enhances the boxy plan with sun and breakfast rooms. The two story frame home features central living room, dining room, kitchen layout, sun room, pantry, stairwell, and three second floor bedrooms with modern closets around a central hall.
Ventilators in Kitchen Described In Three Styles
The piece outlines three kitchen ventilator styles portable built in and hooded with duct to outdoors. Portable units hang over windows for renters and vent outdoors when opened. Built in models install during construction and share light with windows. Hood systems pull heat and fumes through a pipe directly outdoors while ventilating the whole house.
Hip Type Roof Adapts To Various Modern Homes
The hip type roof gains favor among homeowners and builders for its versatility across popular designs. It combines architectural suitability with economy in construction and maintenance, sloping from all four sides to a central point.
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America
Plan Foundation to Support House Weight
Plan Foundation to Support House Weight describes concrete foundation walls and footings needing sufficient strength to bear building weight without settlement. It notes basement walls must resist soil lateral pressure and be watertight while addressing all building types.
Foundations and frost considerations in building design
The text discusses extending foundations to avoid frost heave, noting firm bearing soil at shallow depth and frost penetration up to six feet in harsh winters. It explains using spread footings to distribute building weight and stresses that footing width depends on soil type and structural load due to varying load bearing capacity.
Painting Shelves For Longevity
The article advises protecting shelves with print or varnish on the bottom as well as the top and sides to prevent decay. It notes decay can affect any surface, so shelves should be fully painted or varnished as soon as installed.
Turkey Rearing Proves Profitable With Proper Management
Purdue University reports four years of turkey experiments showing growth parity with chickens using standard chick rations and management. Key factors include a 100 F brooder in early weeks, a good chick ration, and clean pens or ranges, with sun exposure and drying practices aiding care.
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Purdue University
Wet Mashes for Goslings Feeding Guide
Goslings should be fed soft wet mashes made of four parts corn meal three parts wheat bran and one part red dog. Add five percent meat scraps at one week old. Mix with water or skim milk and feed through a trough after cooling. Include fine clean sand as grit at one pound per 100 pounds mash. Feed four times daily first two weeks then three times daily next two weeks, then twice daily with range.
Heavier Breeds Useful for Raising Broilers
Heavier breeds suit broiler production though they mature slightly slower than light breeds. Any heavier breed can perform adequately depending on management. No single best breed exists for broiler production. select the best within the breed and handle the flock with approved methods for best results.
Dangers of Inbreeding Turkeys Warned By Farm Writer
A farmer warns that close inbreeding among turkeys risks vitality and development. If a single old hen is used with related young birds a danger arises, while having multiple hens reduces risk but still requires careful selection for strong offspring.
Breeds Compared White Holland and Bronze Turkeys
Favor White Hollands are esteemed by poultry raisers for docility and prized feathers. Health is a foundation stock concern. Bronze is the largest breed and excels others in vigor and vitality.
Renewing Hen Flock for Profit Through Select Replacement
Replacing the entire flock with pullets may not pay for Leghorns due to heavy second season laying. Raising a full new flock can offset gains from higher egg yield. Replacing about half the older birds with pullets and culling the rest typically proves profitable alongside the strain of broilers and eggs.
Tuberculosis in Poultry Requires Flocking and Sanitation
There is only one remedy for poultry TB: destroy the flock, then clean and sun the coops for months, and restock with disease-free birds. TB in chickens is highly contagious. symptoms include weight loss, pale combs, sleepiness, diarrhea, and sometimes joint swelling and lameness.
His Pet Aversion at Bedtime Quotation
A fragment quotes H. L. from the Boston Transcript where Junior is told by his mother to brush teeth before bed. He responds that brushing is his favorite thing he hates to do.
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H. L
Junior
Boston Transcript
Curb for Tempers in the Face of Disagreement
An American magazine urges that you need not be a Yes man to avoid anger. You can stand by your beliefs and refuse to concede an inch without losing composure.
Tree’s Peculiarity: Cedar Leaves Fernlike and Prickly
The red cedar is an evergreen reaching large sizes and sometimes bears two leaf forms on one tree. One form is dainty and fernlike, while the other features short broad prickles.
Largest Lock Gates Weigh 500 Tons Each
The world’s largest lock gates are built for a new dock entrance in Liverpool England. A single leaf of the gates weighs 500 tons and demonstrates remarkable scale and engineering.
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Liverpool
England
Innovation and Progress Reconsidered in Reform Movements
A reflective note questions the premise that first impressions of progress guarantee real improvement. It argues many reforms may revert or fail to advance, urging scrutiny of what counts as meaningful change.
Annual Loss by Lightning Reveals Multi‑Million Property Destruction
Authorities estimate the annual value of property destroyed by lightning in this country exceeds 20 million dollars. The figure highlights the broad impact of electrical fires on homes farms and businesses nationwide.
Can You Beat It? Workers Paid in Vegetables in Hungary
In parts of Hungary farm laborers are paid with vegetables. Workers may request higher compensation for a long week, such as more celery.
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Hungary
Why He Is Unpopular
A short quip notes that many men are so self satisfied they never consider being pleasant to others.
Will Come Right in End Let Us Fear the Worst
Quote from Victor Hugo urging faith and perseverance amid fear. The message emphasizes courage and trust that the best outcomes follow steadfast effort.
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Victor Hugo
Weather note on cy clones near the equator
The weather bureau states that cy clones do not occur near the equator or very close to it.
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The
Weather Bureau
Equator
Thought for Today Pardon Ever Follows Sincere
A compact reflection prompts readers to consider forgiveness as a natural consequence of genuine remorse. The motto urges honesty in intention and suggests reconciliation follows sincere actions and words.
Film Favorites Set Fashions for World
Paris fashion experts travel to Hollywood to keep pace with movie stars as Liberty Magazine notes. A Hollywood insider says Paris often trails Hollywood while French designers study studio fashion trends. New York and London react but acknowledge films drive global fashion.
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Paris
Hollywood
Campbell MacCulloch
Liberty Magazine
Womaan
MacCulloch
New York
London
Question Apartment Hunter Plays Piano for Price
A playful exchange centers on an apartment hunt where a manager asks to hear a piano before quoting the rent. The caption captures curiosity about the unit’s value and character.
Soon Setiled Barrister to an excited English witness
Witness replies no to a claim about a barrister in an excited English setting. The fragment hints a courtroom exchange with a curious tone and minimal detail. The item preserves a spoke doubt and a terse answer.
Carnivorous Plants Use Ingenious Traps to Capture Insects
Plants feed on insects as a principal food source. The carnivorous group includes the pitcher plant, sundew, and Venus flytrap. Their catching apparatus consists of modified leaves and flowers forming tubes and other structures, and the adaptations seem almost intelligent.
Roquefort Cheese Praised Since Ancient Gaul Times
The article notes Roquefort cheese as an ancient Gaul treasure praised by Julius Caesar and Pliny the Elder. It withstood invasions and was repeatedly mentioned in medieval feudal charters as part of annual tributes.
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Roquefort
Julius Caesar
Pliny the Elder
Punctuation Time Values Explained by Rhetorical Marks
Reader guidance on punctuation timing assigns numbers to comma semicolon colon and period. Text notes readers count pauses by punctuation and may vary with reading pace and grammar, affecting interpretation.
Ship’s Husband and the Port Revictuation Duty
Every ship on arrival at port must be revictuated with stores and gear overhauled and made fit for the next voyage. Each contact is handled by a single firm whose representative, who calls for orders, is known among sailors as the ship's husband.
Rise of the Republican Party and Lincoln's rise
The newly organized Republican Party grew rapidly after its 1856 formation naming John C. Fremont as its first presidential nominee. Fremont lost to James Buchanan, but the party gained strength and in 1860 elected Abraham Lincoln as its candidate.
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Republican Party
John Dc. Fremont
California
James Buchanan
Abraham Lincoln
One Cause for Wonder A dialogue on money and wonder
A short humorous exchange features an inventor famed for wonders and his discontented spouse. She asks where the money went and where more will come from, while he claims living in an age of wonders. The dialogue plays on financial strain and ambition.
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Boston
Pranscript
Clock displays unique hand Made Glasgow clock in London
A famous one of a kind clock on display in London showcases hand engraved craftsmanship. It keeps perfect time and chimes every quarter hour on eight bells, then plays a tune on 14 bells after the hour. Tunes include Auld Lang Syne and Scotland national anthem. the clock was built in Glasgow over two years.
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London
Heur
Scotland
Robin Adair
Glasgow
California’s New Garage Living Room Style Unveiled
At a Detroit convention, a Californian rejected traditional styles as impractical for the coast. He touted an original architecture aimed at Southern California needs, featuring a three-car garage with a built in living room as a defining element.
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California
Detroit
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