Ex-Slave Built Rich Nebraska Ranch and Died in Lincoln
Hemingford obituary recalls Robert Anderson 87 a former Kentucky slave who became a Box Butte county ranch owner with 2080 acres. He served in the Civil War era colored infantry, later ran a dairy and grain trade, survived a fraud loss, and married Daisy Graham in 1922. He traveled the nation and abroad before dying from injuries in an automobile accident near Union.
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Hemingford
Robert Anderson
Box Butte
Lincoln
Union
Plains
Davenport
Glenwood
Nebraska
Kansas
Anderson
Cuba
Mexico
South
Daisy Graham
Forest City
River Allotment Disappoints Omaha Upstream Boosters
River boosters protest the War Department annual report which allocates only 800000 for next year's work on the Missouri River from Kansas City to Sioux City while total Missouri River funding reaches 6300000. Omaha supporters planned protests and planned telegram campaigns to President Hoover and lawmakers to secure higher funding to complete the project promptly.
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Omaha
Missouri
War Department
Kansas City
Sioux City
Mississippi
Lytle Brown
Hoover
Upper
Nebraskan Fined for Illegal Beaver Trapping
Lincoln reports fines totaling 495 dollars for illegal beaver trapping with 300 dollars in fines and over 100 dollars in damages paid by a Nebraskan. Frank OConnell state game warden announced. Milo Horn Ham let paid 295 dollars and costs plus 110 dollars damages for illegal beaver and muskrat trapping. Authorities seized three beaver eight muskrats two raccoons six skunks two mink and there were other arrests for trapping without permits.
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Lincoln
Frank O’connell
Milo Horn
Prairie Chicken Season in Doubt
Lincoln Nebras l lincoln's game warden says no action yet on recommendations to the legislature about prairie chicken hunting. Last session banned hunting for two years. it is unclear if the season will be opened or closed by statute or if control will shift to the forestation and parks commission.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Game, Forestation and Parks Commission
O’connell
Game Commission
Wheat Improvements Rise in Pawnee County Fields
Pawnee County wheat areas improve after late rains. Early plantings were fair, but later fields show spotted stands needing moisture. Total wheat acreage nears 18 000, about a quarter of corn. Husking of the 1930 corn crop continues around Pawnee City with varying yields.
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Pawnee County
Pawnee City
Intexes State News: Eagle Captured After Lamb Theft
Walter Roberts, a Tecumseh area farmer, shot and captured a seven foot winged eagle that had earlier taken a fifteen pound lamb from his flock. The eagle was later shown in Tecumseh. In related notices, twelve failed state banks paid dividends totaling $163,196.67 in November. Depositor payments since January 1, 1929 amount to $7,084,163.96, with total payments through December 1, 1930 at $7,247,260.63 under Governor Arthur Weaver.
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Walter Roberts
Tecumseh
Clarence G. Bliss
Department of Trade and Commerce
Arthur Weaver
Nebraska Voters Approve Bank Liability Amendment
The amendment allowing immediate collection of stockholders liability in failed state banks is now effective after Nebraska voters approved it on November 4. Governor Arthur J. Weaver signed the proclamation recording the measure and indicated plans to sign a second proclamation on the initiative power referendum, also successful in November.
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Nebraska
Arthur J. Weaver
Hastings to Host New John Deere Plow Branch Opening
Negotiations completed for a Hastings branch of John Deere Plow Co to serve western Nebraska. Omaha headquarters will supply the region until the Hastings office operates. John Creekbaum of Omaha becomes branch manager. A stock of 30 to 40 carloads of farm implements will be carried at Hastings. Grand Island board of education approves $31 000 Lincoln grade school addition and will rush plans and a special meeting to expedite construction contracts.
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Hastings
John Deere Plow Co
Nebraska
Omaha
John Creekbaum
Hoover
Board of Education At
Grand Island
Lincoln Grade
Nebraska National Guard to use regular army horses at encampment
Adjutant General H. J. Paul announced the Nebraska National Guard will use horses from regular army posts at next year’s encampment. The move saves money, with army horses costing about 725 dollars versus last summer’s contract price of 2,340 dollars. Twenty horses will come from Fort Omaha and forty from Fort Meade in South Dakota.
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Nebraska National Guard
H. J. Paul
Paul
Fort Omaha
Fort Meade
South Dakota
Partridges From Czecho Slovakia Headed to Nebraska Reserves
State Game Warden Frank OConnell announced the purchase for distribution in Nebraska of 1000 partridges imported from Czecho Slovakia. The birds will be released on 30 state game reserves where several hundred pairs were already placed. OConnell said the partridge thrives in Nebraska and is a larger, excellent game bird now protected by state laws.
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Frank OB. O’connell
Nebraska
Czecho-Slovakia
O'Connell
Czecho- Slovakia
O’connell
Excavation Reveals Poorly Preserved Skeletons At Weeping Water
University of Nebraska archeological survey digs in the Weeping Water valley uncover two poorly preserved skeletons over hundreds of years old. Only a few chipped arrowheads and flint implements are found. no pottery. Old flint quarries nearby suggest Aboriginal activity. Anthropologist W. Duncan Strong estimates the skeletons may be quarry workers. More Nehawka mounds to be excavated in spring.
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Weeping Water Valley
University of Nebraska Archeological Survey
W. Duncan Strong
University
Nehawka
Strong
Hastings to Build Giant Poultry Plant at $30 000
Plans were announced for a large Hastings poultry plant with an estimated cost of 30000 dollars excluding equipment. J T Oder, a leading Hastings poultry dealer, will direct the operation, aiming for about half a car of dressed poultry daily plus eggs and other products.
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Hastings
J. T. Oder
Oder
Nebraska
Rullman to Represent Nebraska at International Older Boys Conference
Russell Rullman of Omaha will represent Nebraska at the international conference for older boys in Toronto next July. His selection caps the state older boys conference closing in Lincoln, where more than 700 boys attended. Rullman leads the Omaha Hi-Y and North High School senior class, with Soderland named as alternate and Lincoln Hi-Y president and Lincoln High School senior class head.
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Russell Rullman
Omaha
Nebraska
Toronto
Canada
Rullman
Lincoln
North High School
Soderland
Nebraska 4-H winners sweep at Chicago livestock show
Ellen Cole of Cass county captured first in the national individual girls room competition. She and Katherine Jones of Jefferson county led Nebraska’s girl’s room team to national team honors at the International Livestock Show in Chicago along with two Nebraska judging teams securing top honors.
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Chicago
Ellen Cole
Cass County
Katherine Jones
Jefferson County
Nebraska
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Nathan Soderblom Named
Dr Nathan Soderblom archbishop of Upsala Sweden was chosen as the 1930 Nobel prize for peace recipient for his efforts toward international harmony and church‑state cooperation.
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Nathan Soderblom
Upsala
Sweden
William N. Doak Appointed Secretary of Labor
William N. Doak of Virginia, an official of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, is named by President Hoover to succeed James J. Davis as secretary of labor.
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William N. Doak
Virginia
The
Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen
Hoover
Labor
James J. Davis
Wyckoff 92-5 100 Yards Best in Americas A A A Meet
Frank Wyckoff of California set a 100 yard record of 92-5 which was approved at the Americas Amateur Athletic Association annual meeting marking a standout performance in track.
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The
Americas Amateur Athletic Association
Frank Wyckoff
California
Inside the Mechanics of Piano Construction
Most of the piano's construction details remain unseen to the average person. A book on piano making would reveal the numerous interdependent mechanical ingenuities behind tone quality, from key strike to hammer striking the strings.
Wild cherry leaves threaten cattle and other notes
The column lists assorted facts from 1930 including poisonous wild cherry leaves for cattle, coconut oil used mainly in soaps, twin studies at the University of California, a 2.8 percent rise in the cost of living, Chapel Hill scientists, ancient Egyptian beliefs about the heart as consciousness center, an Ohio mound excavation with a boy skeleton and old toys, and coal mine deaths totaling 979 in the first half of 1930 versus 1,013 in 1929.
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United States
Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina
Ohio
Coffee Doctor Braun Counts Steps In Coffee Making
Detroit News notes Dr Braun claims observation shows a woman takes 80 steps to properly prepare a cup of coffee. He argues the problem with average coffee is insufficient road work in its making.
Red Indian Games and Their General Classes
American Indian games divide into two general classes: games of chance and games of dexterity. Games of pure skill and calculation such as chess are entirely absent.
Mystery Angkor Unveiled in Silent Jungle Ruins
The Angkor complex in Cambodia, discovered by Mouhot, astonished scholars with its immense step pyramid Angkor Wat and walled Angkor Thom. Once a vast, literate city, it vanished leaving grand temples amid jungle. Modern roads and tourism reveal its enduring mystery and monumental architecture.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
Indo-China
Angkor
Asia
Mouhot
Saigon
Angkor Moat
Vonle Sap
Great Lake
Angkor Thom
Rome
Augustus
Carthage
Hannibal
Angkor Wat
Tower of Babel
Quoits Ancient Game History Traced to England
The article notes quoits likely originated from discus throwing in ancient Greece and traces its presence in England to the early fifteenth century, outlining its long-standing games and cultural significance.
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Greece
England
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Sangamon County
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Pnompenh
Cambodia
Kingdom of
M. Mouhot
Tonle Sap
Indo- China
Mekong Valley
Angkor Vat
Notre Dame
Paris
Egypt
Taj Mahal
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