Secretary of State Gathers Names of Legislative Candidates
The Secretary of State has compiled a list of Democratic and Republican nominees for both houses. Some districts face vacancies filled by party committees. two senators and several representatives are named as nominees. The long roster lists candidates with home towns across Nebraska and notes one death triggering a replacement.
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Union News Service
H. H. Meyer
Fontanelle
Dodge
Washington
Phil Kohl
Wayne
D. M. Douthett
Overton
R. C G. Regan
Platte Center
H. J. White
Ainsworth
W. Lt. Bates
Lodgepole
Japan Considers Broad Gauge Rail System Change
Tokio reports Japan may switch from three feet six inch gauge to standard broad gauge. The move aims to enable higher speeds and strengthen national defense by improving communications across the railway network.
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Tokio
Japan
United States
France Awards War Crosses and Honors Facing Death
The French government has awarded 120000 war crosses since creation with 16000 during the present war. The chamber of deputies approves a distinctive sign for those who earned the cross facing death. Critics say noncombatants have also received the medal, seen as unfair.
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France
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Horses Shown to Avoid Battle Front Reaction
French army veterinaries report that some horses collapse in bombarded zones and seem too weak to move yet recover quickly after returning to camp. Close observation suggests these horses lie down and appear nervous, later regaining strength within days.
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France
Lands Open for Colville Reservation Farm Lot Draw
Spokane offices open for a vast land lottery the Colville Indian reservation south half totaling about 350000 acres will be divided into 160 acre ranches for settlers with winning numbers after the July 27 drawing registration books are available in Spokane Wenatchee Wilbur Republic Omak and Colville Washington.
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Spokane
Wash
Colville
Wenatchee
Wilbur
Republic
Omak
University of Nebraska property value and new control system
The University of Nebraska owns 2.7 million in total property not including endowment funds and lands. Of this 1.85 million covers lands and buildings while 0.85 million is general movable equipment. The regents directed a centralized tracking system and efficiency expert A. O. Johnson has installed it to track ownership location and present value of every item.
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University of Nebraska
Board of Regents
A. O. Johnson
Lincoln
Nebraska Press Association
Nebraska
State University
State Agricultural College
Animal malingering in racing horses blamed for avoiding work
A veterinary expert notes that血血 malingering among blooded animals is common. Horses are said to feign lameness to stay in the stable or cough to avoid practice, with brutal conditions and terrifying noises described in training spots.
Northland Briefs See War Boom Drive Scandinavian Prosperity
A Copenhagen correspondent reports Danish industry and farming booming as war profits fuel building in Zealand and Jutland. Norway's war prosperity feeds a stock market boom with insurers and bankers wary of a panic, while shipping expands and a tax plans to temper excesses. A Swedish editor notes captain Irgens of Bergensfjord advocates temperance aboard, and Norway shifts to one hour time, with 1915 shipbuilding rising and Bank of Norway gold holdings at 283 million crowns by May 15.
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Denmark
Copenhagen
Zealand
Jutland
Germany
Stockholm
Norway
Dagens Nyheter
Insurance Corporation
Bergen Steamship Company
Sweden
Knudsen
Irgens
Bergensfjord
Kirkwall
Bank of Norway
Sweden and Aland forts and war time trade notes
In a Washington statement Swedish minister W A P Ekengren said Sweden will not act against Russian fortifications on Aland but will seek settlement after the war. The Aland islands near Stockholm have become a Russian naval base with mines in the Baltic stirring economic losses for Sweden and boosting Baltic trade. Sweden benefits from war through rail and port traffic, while German influence and espionage concerns rise as Stockholm grows with new banks and marble buildings.
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Aland Island
Washington
W. A. P. Ekengren
United States
Russia
Aland Islands
Stockholm
Petrograd
Great Britain
France
Ekengren
Bascia
Baltic Sea
Gulf of Bothnias
Norreland
Europe
Archangel
Kola
Siberia
Baron Lindner
Berlin
Kungstradgard
Enskild Bank
Wallenberg
the Wallenberg
Affarsvariden
Germany
Verdun
France Adopts Old-Age Pension Law of 1910
France implements an old-age pension system with a 1910 law amended in 1912. Employers and workers fund pensions for all wage earners, contributions cover up to age sixty, and the state adds 100 francs. If an insured worker raises three children to sixteen, the pension increases by one tenth.
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France
Our Diet Principles of a Varied Diet
A diet should provide a wide variety of chemical substances for the body's structural needs and energy for work. A reasonably generous varied diet is more likely to meet body needs than a restricted or scant one.
Editors of Nebraska to Have Unique Excursion
Nebraska Press Association plans a Western Nebraska rail excursion for about 300 editors from Grand Island to Scottsbluff Gering and back. Stops include Broken Bow Crawford Alliance Sidney Kimball Bridgeport Mitchell North Platte and Kearney with entertainment arranging teams and a strict no liquor rule aboard the Pullman train.
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Nebraska Press Association
Omaha
Scottsbluff and
Gering
North Platte River
Nile Valley
Nebraska
Chadron
Crawford
Sidney
Alliance
Bridgeport
Broken Pow
Kearney
North Platte
Grand Island
Broken Bow
New State Normal School
Kimball Commercial Club
Kimball
Burlington
Union Pacific
Sheld
Scottsbluff
Mitchell
Minitare
Grand Grand Island
Association
Western Canada a Mecca for Land Hungry Farmers
The piece extols Western Canada as the wheat frontier with 30 plus bushels per acre averages in 1915 and 32.84 in Alberta. It notes free 160 acre homesteads, low land costs, first class arable land, and a population of about 1.75 million vs Minnesota Iowa Wisconsin Illinois Indiana. It compares yields to the United States, mentions colonies of arrivals, similar climate to Minnesota North Dakota, free education, and land-value taxed districts with improvements exempt.
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Western Canada
Canada
Western
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Indiana
United States
North Dakota
Do It Yourself Door Stop Bumpers From Spools and Cans
A DIY guide describes making door bumpers from a large spool and screw head attached to the baseboard. The spool fits over the head to protect woodwork, with a rubber tip screwed into the open end if needed. A second option uses seven hollow tin milk cans filled with crushed rock, covered in blue serge, and capped with a decorative top.
Debate on Capital Punishment at Afro-American Club
At the Afro-American Debating club meeting the issue of capital punishment for murder dominates discussion. A speaker argues against vigilante justice and sanity, while the final speaker ends with a passionate commitment to opposing capital punishment.
What Mist Is
A short excerpt defines mist as water in the air near the ground, describing it as like a ground level cloud. The text cites boys and girls asking at home questions.
Crocodile Threat Drives Village Bathing Fence Use
Villagers along a dangerous Indian river erect bamboo fences around bathing spots to deter man-eating crocodiles. Despite warnings, crocodiles still enter at night by clawing openings, ambushing bathers. The fence traps the creature inside and locals attempt to kill it before it escapes.
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India
Dire Japanese Prophecy Cited Amid War Talk
An old Japanese prophecy reportedly states that when men fly like birds ten great kings will go to war against one another. The line appears in archival commentary amid escalating global tensions.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Hailed by Richmond Woman
Richmond woman Mrs Lena Wynn reports that after seven bottles she feels revitalized and symptoms of the Change of Life fade. The ad promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for hot flashes dizziness headaches backaches and other menopausal discomforts.
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Mrs. Wynn
Lydia E. Pinkham
Richmond
Lena Wynn
E. O Street
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