News of State and Local Developments in Webster County
Frank J. Schmidt takes over the Johnson News at Talmage with R H Brett, effective November 1. Nebraska plans to pay 19 602 to hail loss claimants by December 1. premium receipts total 21 386 covering full losses and leaving admin funds. York hosts two new moon theaters near 100 000 each after Sun theater opening. Geneva starts city mail delivery November 1 with two daily runs and new street naming. Rotarians in Scottsbluff seek winter industry to boost employment. Richardson county shows high corn oats potatoes alfalfa yields per acre in US crop estimates. Nebraska school finance reform urged by Dr Paul Mort to fund minimum program and teacher salaries. Walnut log shipments reach 21 carloads from Wy more to Kansas City and Des Moines. Nelse Olson and son bring 60 carloads of feeder cattle to the valley from Wyoming. Crab Orchard thefts steal 1 000 in wearables. Great Western Sugar lifts beet delivery limits as sugar content runs 16 percent. Miller to gravel business district with 15 carloads from Endicott. Bayard Church of Christ erects new building. Bayard Church project advances.
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Frank J. Schmidt
Lincoln
Tribune
Talmage
News
Johnson
R. H. Brett
Nebraska
Sun Theater
York
Ebster
Geneva
Post Office
Kenneth Wilson
Arlo Howell
iScottsbluff
Scottsibluff
United States
Richardson County
Paul R. Mort
Nebraskk State Teachers’ Association
Dr. Mort
Mort
Wymore
Kansas City
Des Moines
Nelse Olson and Son
Cheyenne County
Sidney
Scottsbluff
Alliance
Bayard
Wyoming
F. Brown General Merchandise
Crab Orchard
W. C. Condit
Great Western Sugar Company
Miller
Aterial
Fairchilds Company
Endicott
Church of Christ At
State corn crop to average 21.5 bushels per acre
Lincoln reports the state corn crop will average about 21.5 bushels with 81 percent marketable from a total of 195,204,000 bushels. Yields range 15.7 to 30.2 bushels by region, drought and moisture patterns noted, harvests unfolding with crib dates set by early November and late October in parts. Prices for old corn hovered around 74 to 77 cents, while wheat seeding lags due to moisture. feeder lamb prices rose notably in the southeast to about 13.40.
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Lincoln
Bankers
Federal Bureau of Agricultural Statistics
Platte Valley
Southwest
South Central
Large Ranch Deal Fails as Raberg Passes on Two-Bar Purchase
Major Paul Raberg of Cheyenne Wyoming fails to exercise an option to buy the Two-Bar ranch from Swan Cattle Co and 100000 stock head. The deal valued at 1 500 000 would have merged the Two-Bar and Diamond ranches into a 400000 acre holding in eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.
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Kimball
Paul Raberg
Cheyenne
Wyo
Swan Cattle Company
Raberg
Chugwater
Wyoming
Nebraska
Record Stocker Feeder Sale Draws Buyers to Grand Island
Grand Island hosts its third annual stocker and feeder sale with nearly 10 000 head of cattle selling for 461 000 dollars. Buyers from ten midwestern states report steady prices and strong demand as 3000 to 5000 people attend daily.
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Grand Island
Resurface Roads In Nuckolls County Nelson-A Contract Let
A Nelson A contract started resurfacing grav eled highway across Nuckolls County. The project places a new gravel surface one inch thick from Superior to the county north boundary, about twenty miles. Gravel from a Cowles pit will be used. prior gravel from Superior to Sutton washed away.
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Nuckolls
Nelson
Nuckolls County
Superior
DLD
Sutton
Cowles
Oil Fire Threatens Mitchell County Fair Buildings
A crude oil spill from a break in the Sinclair pipeline near the Mitchell grounds ignited near fifteen barrels flooding the area. Wind shift saved the fair buildings as authorities investigate the cause, with oil company workers blaming alkali corrosion. this marks the second break in two years.
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Mitchell
Scottsbluff County Fair
Sinclair
Oil Company
Addition Ordered for Scottsbluff Jail to Ease Crowding
The Scottsbluff city jail will add a 12 by 18 foot block of cells due to crowded conditions. Both the men’s and women’s wards have been filled, with improvised facilities in use and prisoners assigned to construct the new addition in the machine shop behind the jail.
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Scottsbluff
Site for vets hospital not chosen in Nebraska debate
Omaha and other Nebraska cities contend the Omaha area is favored for the proposed veterans hospital. General Frank T. Hines of the veterans bureau in Washington wired Edward J. Wieland, Omaha regional director, refuting premature consensus and stating no decision will be made until the subcommittee’s recommendation returns to Washington.
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Omaha
Nebraska
Nebraska War Veterans Hospital
Frank T. Hines
Veterans’ Bureau
Washington
Edward J. Wieland
Hines
Sportsmanship Lacking in Football of Today
Dr John W Wilce of Ohio State University declares football has become harsher and less sportsmanlike. He criticizes the trend toward tougher schedules for financial independence and says the old ethos of fair play is fading in the pursuit of efficiency and wins.
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John W. Wilce
Ohio State University
Doctor Wilce
Columbus Chamber of Commerce Forum
Ohio State
Gvood
Syracuse Gridder Seeks Post on Rival Eleven
George Flint son of the Syracuse University chancellor seeks a freshman football berth at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware Ohio He stands 5 10 and 195 pounds at seventeen and may later play against Syracuse when Ohio Wesleyan faces its hometown rival The young player trained this summer on the HD 4 hydraulic dredge of the New York canal maintenance department.
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George Flint
Charles W. Flint
Syracuse University
Ohio Wesleyan University
Delaware
Ohio
Flint
Ohio Wesleyan
Syracuse
New York State Canal Maintenance Department
Yankee Pitcher Wileey Moore Seeks Spring Return
Wileey Moore, the New York Yankees pitcher who recently retired at his own request, plans a winter of light farm work near Hollis Oklahoma to restore his pitching arm. He told Miller Huggins that a sprained ligament does not mean permanent retirement and expects to rejoin the Yankee lineup in the spring.
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Wileey Moore
New York Yankee
Hollis
Okla
Yankee
Moore
Miller Huggins
Mandell Out With Broken Collarbone for Months
Lightweight title bid this winter collapses after Sammy Mandell breaks his left collarbone in the first round with Jimmy Goodrich at Flint Michigan. Mandell will be unable to compete for at least three months and must rebuild through warmup bouts before a title attempt.
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Sammy Mandell
Mandell
Jimmy Goodrich
Buffalo
Flint
Mich
Many Sports Notes From 1920s American Athletics
Autheribs Stanford team won ten of eleven in Australia. 1926 Cards clinched pennant on Sept 25. Pacific coast conference track meet planned for Sacramento next May. Golfers in Nevada traps could strike gold with niblicks. Billy Boutell won Minnetonka Golf Club title in Minneapolis. George Uhle a .300 hitter with a sore arm may move to outfield next year. Wife of an outfielder calls husband a poor provider. New York Athletic Club oldest athletic club. New York Yacht Club oldest yacht club in U.S. Bob Neyland targets four conference wins. Fordham football praised for forward passes. Pete Wisniewski 6 feet 7. Bill Lange set major league record by stealing 100 bases in 1896. Spring training camps expected to be grand army encampment. Red Lucas played every position in one game for Seattle 1925. Walter Hagen first American-born Open champion. 40 percent of Montreal fans in International League are French. Vanderstuyft set motor-paced record in Paris. W. J. Holmes says Winnepeg Maroons sold to Patrick interests. Amos Rusie and Dennis Brouthers at Polo Grounds. J. Cheever Cowdin long polo career. father John E. Cowdin on 1902 international cup team. Carl Mays signed by New York Giants. Harry Heisman hits in 21 straight Tigers games. Indiana football to have two captains per game, one for defense one for offense. Freshmen to study athletic education. broad sports curriculum at Indiana.
Study of Psychology in Athletics at Illinois Laboratory
Coleman R. Griffith explains the University of Illinois athletic psychology lab founded three years ago to study athletes and coaches. It analyzes mental alertness, memory, nervousness, sleep, and performance, plus experimental batting timing, to improve coaching education and practice.
Brown to Use Huddle in Grid Games This Season
Brown adopts the huddle and follows Coach McLaughry’s football style. The 1928 team is green and inexperienced as the opening week shows. The squad of 61 men on day one grew to 71 with ten more added, the largest Bear squad in Hill drills history.
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Brown
Talkative Players Use Distinct Baseball Expressions
Talkative Player Baseball labels two types of talkers. The clubhouse lawyer spreads disruptive propaganda while barbers are cheerful chatterers. Many good players lose salary due to prying into teammates personal affairs.
Air from electric fan may heat air near thermometer
The standards bureau notes that blowing air from a fan on a thermometer has no essential effect on mercury for very sensitive thermometers placed in front of a fan. It may cause a slight rise in temperature as air passing the motor becomes mildly heated.
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Bureau of Standards
Worthlessness of Dreams Expressed in Review
A brief critical note argues that recording dreams mirrors tracking the irrational, labeling dreams as the involuntary absence of reason while noting that only Freud treats dream analysis as a science.
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Freud
War seed in the South enriches farmers after Sherman’s march
Farmers in the South profit from seed scattered by General Sherman’s march to the sea. The seed, Lespedeza or Japanese clover, spreads across fields and boosts later crops, transforming local agriculture.
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Sherman
Sea
Multitalented Sarah Bernhardt A First Actress Of Her Era
A versatile figure, Sarah Bernhardt excelled as painter and sculptor of merit. She wrote plays and memoirs and was widely acknowledged as the premiere actress of her time.
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Sarah Bernhardt
California Fig Syrup Helps Los Angeles Boy
Leroy Young of Los Angeles appears a healthy student but suffered chronic stomach and bowel troubles as a child. His mother credits California Fig Syrup with quick relief from constipation and illness, praising its taste and natural relief and noting physicians endorse it.
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Leroy Young
Georgia St
Los Angeles
Leroy
California
Measles Cure Promise Sparks Patient Banter
A humorous exchange quoted from Smith's Weekly features a doctor promising a weeklong measles cure and a patient retorting with a witty limit on rash promises. The brief joke reflects light medical satire from the era.
Get Pape's Cold Compound Quickly Breaks a Cold
Advertises Pape's Cold Compound as a fast remedy for colds in a pleasant tasting tablet form. Claims one tablet will break up a cold in a few hours and promises astonishment at the speed of relief.
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Pape
True charity spontaneous and not importuned or imitated
Hosea Ballou states that true charity arises without prompting and cannot be bred by insistence or envy. It acts as a natural impulse rather than a calculated response.
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Hosea Ballou
Same Prescription He Wrote in 1892
Dr Caldwell began practice in 1875 arguing laxatives were needed less than in common days. His Syrup Pepsin, a liquid vegetable remedy, targeted women, children and elderly people and became a widely sold mild bowel stimulant. It was praised for relief from headaches, biliousness, indigestion and insomnia and offered free trial bottles via Monticello Illinois.
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Caldwell
Dr. Caldwell
Monticello
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Crimson Grid
Jack Quinn
Philadelphia Athletics
Cy Young
Babe Adams
Grover Alexander
Star
Benny Wattenberg
University of Chicago
Wattenberg
Autheribs
Stanford University
Australia
Cards
Sacramento Stadium
Nevada
Billy Boutell
Minnetonka Golf Club
Minneapolis
George Uhle
Cleveland
New York Athletic Club
The
New York Yacht Club
Bob Neyland
Tennessee
Vols
Fordham
Pete Wisniewski
Bill Lange
Chicago Nanationals
Seattle
Red” Lucas
Cincinnati
Walter Hagen
Montreal
Leon Vanderstuyft
Linas
Paris
W. J. Holmes
Winnipeg Maroons
American Hockey Association
Patrick Interests
Pacific Coast
Amos Russe
Dennis L .Brouthers
Polo Grounds
J. Cheever Cowdin
John E. Cowdin
Carl Mays
Boston Red Sox
New York Yankees
Cincinnati Reds
New York Giants
Harry Heisman
Tigers
University of Indiana
Indiana
Department of ‘Athletic Education
University of Illinois
Coleman R. Griffith
Athletic Association of
University of Ilinois
George Huff
Illinois
Isles
Aristotle
India
Hindoo
Ganges
Western Newspaper Union
Ron
Pennsylvania Star
Utz
Lou Young
University of Pennsylvania
Moone
Germania
Germania Tea Company
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