Nebraska Notes Spark Steady Growth Across Towns
Germantown erects a tire engine building while Mrs. Killen Dobson of Lincoln is elected grand matron. Central City's council reorganizes for business and Beatrice forms a new board of education. Beatrice suffers a mysterious morning fire burning valuable horses. Curtis faces smallpox with about twenty cases. Gretna reports measles depopulating schools. Oakdale’s Charles O'Neil buys Gross Brothers’ general merchandise. Wayne hosts court sessions and a busy saloon license hearing. Holdrege reviews sewer plans with a $15000 test. Madison lacks a licensed saloon for the first time in 28 years. Lincoln’s A. Williams declines an oil post. Wymore tightens regulation through four orders. A Gosceois charivari turns to an accidental shooting. Oakdale mumps spread to older residents. Seward draymen form a union, lifting hauling rates. University Place faces political shifts over a Lincoln substation. North River line rails unload 27 cars, signaling Northport project revival. Ashland rescuers find cause for doubt after two boys’ death clues. Dr. Meyers completes a 204 mile auto trip home. Beatrice bank meeting focuses on insurance rates. Holdrege to add a normal department. Chadron road work expands with substantial subscriptions. Box Hider notes a Mrs. Bible as resident. North Platte UP freight receipts rise 25 percent in April 1907. Beatrice Rock Island condemns a nine acre tract for wiring project with potential stone plant.
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T. F. A. Williams
Lincoln
Wymore
Qosceois
Richard Peterson
Oakdale
Seward
Burkett
University Place
Raila
North River
Union Pacific
Q’fallows
Northport
Frank Dewey
Roscoe Wortman
Ashland
Burlington
Salt Creek
E. L. Meyers
Cambridge
Beatrice Commercial Club
Pink Pills Claim Cure For Stomach Trouble And Anemia
An advertisement asserts Dr. Williams Pink Pills cure stomach trouble and anemia, sharing a testimonial from Mrs. Mary Stackpole of Lowell Massachusetts who recovered from long illness after using the pills. It touts benefits for nerve and blood health and lists sale details.
Aged farmer found burned beside road near Syracuse
William Frank seventy five, retired farmer, was discovered lying along the road south of Syracuse Nebraska with his clothes burned. He had been in Syracuse days earlier, rode home in a buggy whose bottom was burned, and likely died of heart failure with the fire from his cigar. He leaves a son, John Frank of Nebraska City.
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William Frank
Syracuse
Neb
Mr. Frank
Otoe County
John Frank
Nebraska City
Condensed Telegrams Summarize Sugar Prices and Notices
Condensed telegraph items report a 10 cent per hundred rise in refined sugar prices and note cremation of four horses valued over $1 000 in Council Bluff. Other items include a postponed drug trust hearing in Indianapolis and a Memphis music clubs convention. Federal injunctions restrain Alabama rate laws. George Curry sails from the Philippines to become New Mexico governor, June 3. Colorado coal land patents surrendered. deeds to government recorded.
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Council Bluff
Drug Trust
Gase
Indianapolis
National Federation of Music Clubs
Memphis
Tenn
Dying Student James Wadman Found at 11384 N Street
James Wadman a Lincoln business college student was found unconscious in a bath tub at his rooming house on 11384 N Street. Initial signs suggested poisoning but medical examiners diagnosed a brain hemorrhage from a fall related to asphyxiation or apoplexy. He died after midnight with doctors concluding a blood clot on the brain.
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James Wadman
Lincoln Business College
Friend
N_ street
Holyoke
Carr
Slattery
Omaha Hastings Road Crew Arrives with Grading Outfit
GC D Conover of Omaha arrives in Hastings with about twenty men and four freight cars loaded with grading outfits for the Omaha Hastings electric line project. Horses are unloaded at the stock yards while scraper cars are moved to Blaine siding for use.
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Omaha-Hastings Road
GC. D. Conover
Omaha
Hastings
Burlington
Omaha-Hastings
West End
Burlington Stock Yards
Blaine Siding
Grape-Nuts Cited As Cure For Dyspepsia in Testimonial
A Mrs. testimonial claims Grape-Nuts food cured years of dyspepsia after a doctor's suggestion to eat it every morning. She asserts the predigested nature eases stomach strain and supports nervous energy, noting it suits both adults and children and that the family consumes four packages weekly.
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Wellville
Textile strike spreads across Orizaba mills in Mexico
The strike in the textile district near Orizaba Mexico has spread rapidly with nearly ten thousand workers out. Most mills are paralyzed as isolated disorder is suppressed with severity and wholesale arrests have occurred.
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Disciet
Orizabar Mexico
Cure for Eczema in Baby via Cuticura Soap and Ointment
A New York family notes a six month old baby’s eczema cured after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, costing $1.25, following ineffective treatments from several doctors and hospitals. The message includes a testimonial from F. Kara at 348 East 65th Street, dated March 30, 1906.
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East 65Th, Street
New York
Miscellaneous Fragment Notes On Remedies History and Facts
A compilation of varied statements includes Garfield Tera herbal claims for relief of ailments and purifying effects, slang origins, influenza theories tied to planets, seasonal lemon availability, Bank of England cash payments history, Chinese etiquette academy, preservation tips for oil, pest control with hellebore, iron softening of putty, apricot abundance in China, number of stove varieties, horse measurement unit, South American serpents and creatures, peroxide hair whitening, and pineapple juice as a digestive aid.
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Bank of England
China
South America
Falls Dead in Court Room During Testimony
James Hadfield, a Polk County pioneer, testified in a Des Moines civil case when he suddenly gasped and collapsed dead from heart failure. He was described as sound for eighty five and in good health moments before the incident.
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James Hadfield
Polk County
Des Moines
Hadfield
Indiana People in Western Canada Lifted by Free Land Push
Letter from Tipton Indiana describes a group traveling through Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta to inspect farms and railways sharing observations of new cities thriving wheat fields and modern amenities. They purchased about two thousand acres and planned joint ownership with a partner. one member reports needing to build granaries as wheat demand boomed and railroads strained.
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Tipton
Ind
Western Canada
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Canadian Pacific Railway
Calgary
Edmonton
Canadian Northern Railway
Tipton County
Yoerr
Indiana
Kansas
Oddities in 17th Century Craft and Modern Tips
The text mixes antique and quirky notes such as long time Parisian crates, an ostrich plume shade, and a 1647 blaze in France. It also mentions keeping water colors in tight jars, Italy's silk industry employing hundreds of thousands, alum polish for stoves, and artificial garnitures.
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France
Womencare and Craft Notes from a Vintage Column
A garbled slice from a magazine page covers butter handling, cleaning bronze, perfume aroma, and fabric notes. It mentions Marquisette fabric, a large coal mining workforce, and British camel ownership in a scattered, period-voice style.
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Germantown
Central City
Board of Education of
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Curtis
Gretna
Charles O’neil Company
Gross 'Brothers
Wayne
County Board of Supervisors
Slay City
R Ve Clark
Vic O. L. Evans
Wayne Commercial Club
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Madison
Luther Academy
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Chadron
W. F. Hayward
Williams
Mary Stackpole
Liberty Street
Lowell
Mass
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady
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Japan
Gyok County
United States
Alabama
George Curry
Samar
Philippine Islands
New Mexico
Philippines
Danver
Department
Colorado
Northwesten University
Evanston
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Planeta
J. M. KnaLtrr
Jackeen Building
Denver
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Free Farms
Canada
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W. D. Scott
W. W. Bennett
New York Life
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Sarpy
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L. A. Sayre
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Timopkins
Great Jones Street
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J. ’Treloar-Tresidder
Walter Ow
Italy
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British Museum
St. Vitus
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Rob Daggd
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SterHog Remedy Company
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