Pair Separated 40 Years Marry in Denver
Eva Thompson of Lincoln and Edwin A. Brown, both sixty eight, wed quietly in Denver after forty years apart. Brown, once poor, later became a millionaire and famed tramp philanthropist. Thompson, sister of David E. Thompson, led civic work and ran railroad dining houses. They vow to aid the needy together.
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Lincoln
Neb
Eva Thompson
David Eugene Thompson
Mexico
Brazil
Denver
Edwin A. Brown
Mrs. Brown
Brown
Miss Thompson
Burlington Railroad
Lincolnshire
Mayor Speer
Kansas Woman Makes Farm Pay
Mrs. J E Ford of Sanford built a debt free 400 acre Kansas farm after seven years of drought and hard work. She shifted from teaching to farming, profiting from hogs cows and chickens, renting 240 acres and cultivating 160, with milk sales and eggs supporting mortgage payoff and taxes. She plans more cattle hens and hogs and less wheat going forward.
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Hutchinson, Kun
Kansas
J. E. Ford
Sanford
Ford
Nebraska 1923 highlights and local incidents in brief
Nebraska news roundup lists events from Tecumseh to Omaha including a 7 cent streetcar fare order, flood impacts in Omaha, new bridge openings, a cantaloupe shipment to Chicago, yegg raids in Geneva, oil prospecting near Campbell, and widespread farm and civic notes across the state with numerous meetings, elections and notable local happenings.
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Johnson County Teachers’ Institute
Tecumseh
Auburn
Nebraska Railway Commission
Omaha
Fred Harson
Yutan
Saunders County
Red Cloud
Lawrence Pierce
South Dakota
Council Bluffs
Col. L. W. Ainsworth
Des Moines
Baptist Church
Gibbon
Norfolk
Hemingford
Central Nebraska Press Association
Broken Bow
Woman’s Missionary Societies of
The
Presbyterian Church of the Synod of Nebraska
Central City
Campbell
Franklin County
John Kasn
Wilbur
Josie Kasner
Nebraska Synod of the United Lutheran Church
Columbus
Martin Luther Seminary
Lincoln
Nebraska
Kansas City
Bushnell
Vicinity
Union Pacific
Plate
Blue Valley
Ak-Sar-Ben
Wolf River
Gould
J. T. Imlay
Round Valley
Ikter
W. H. Cope
Methodist
Clay Center
C. J. Gaddis
National Association
Sidney
United States
Maude Robbins
Stanton
Bess Dickinson
Seward
Alfred Daniels
Bancroft
Lee King
Gaylord Hatton
Edgar
Clyde Walker
Waverly
Frank Wilkinson
Weston, Mo
University
Nebraska Agricultural’ College
Peoria
Til
Thoroughly Pleasing Bungalow With Thoughtful Layout
A detailed package on a frame bungalow by William A Radford outlining an ideal home. Features include two 12 by 11 bedrooms with closets, a 15 by 12 living room with fireplace, a 12 by 12 kitchen, and a rear 11 by 6 porch. Emphasizes subdued interior tones and practical furnishings to complement exterior design.
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Ecru
U S Hunters Pay High Rent for Scotch Homes
London reports Scotland’s moors and grand estates leased to wealthy Americans and Britishers for the grouse shooting season. Notables like Bernard Baruch and C H Mackay rent castles with staffs and furnishings, paying five figure sums. even King George is noted for stays at Thurso Castle, with rents of up to ten thousand dollars for the season.
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London
George
Bernard Baruch
C. H. Mackay
New York
Fetteresso
Kincardine
Mackay
Castle Grant
Scotland
Thurso Castle
King George
Thurso
Deer Killed by Train Near Sunbury
A full grown buck deer was killed by a passenger train near Sunbury Pennsylvania as it jumped in front of the locomotive. The crew said the animal appeared to head toward the Susquehanna River and the carcass was dressed and sent to Mary M. Packer Hospital in Sunbury.
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Sunbury
Susquehanna River
Mary M. Packer
Canary and Mouse Duel Ends in Fatal Fight
In Logansport Indiana a canary and a mouse fought a battle to the death. Mrs. O D Hunter set the canary in a box on the floor then found the bird dead and the mouse fatally injured from the clash.
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Logansport
Ind
O. D. Hunter
Topographic Survey of Texas Under Federal Joint Plan
Maj. C. E. Cooke leads a federal state collaboration to begin the Texas topographic survey. A $500,000 legislative appropriation funds the effort, with 65 federal engineers to join Texas in a historic single-state project at the state capitol.
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Austin
Tex
Maj
C. E. Cooke
Texas
State Board of Water Engineers
Major Cooke
Board of Water Engineers
State Capitol
Huge manganese belt found at Hekpoort in South Africa
A massive manganese ore belt about 20 feet wide and four miles long was discovered at Hekpoort near the West Rand in South Africa, revealing a significant mineral find for the region.
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Africa
London
Hekpoort
West Rand
South Africa
Artist and Solicitor at Marylebone
An exchange notes a solicitor husband in Marylebone and an artist who paints the spots on rocking horses. The quip frames domestic life with a light, witty tone typical of London Tit-Bits.
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Marylebone
London
Generally One or the Other in Spending Satisfaction
The Boston Transcript notes a preference for satisfaction in spending as it increases with continued expenditure, suggesting a behavioral insight into consumer habits and fulfillment over time.
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Boston Transcript
Tricks of Indian Magicians Incredibly Clever and Mysterious
A description of Indian wonder workers and their usual accomplice a young boy. Their props fit in two baskets and tricks include the disappearing egg fire from the mouth and a mango tree illusion that grows from a seed underground to bearing fruit.
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India
Mark Twain’s sharp reply to a poem over firearm trust
The anecdote recounts Twain receiving a poetic effusion titled I Wonder If He’ll Miss Me. He mailed back the note: it worries he does, he ought never to be trusted with firearms again. The tale illustrates Twain’s humor in handling odd submissions.
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Mark Twain
Mark
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Grand Lodge
York
Order
Odd Fellows the Rebekah Assembly
Patriarchs
State Teachers’ Association
Beatrice
James H. Cochran
Holdrege
Phelps County
James Baker
Bloomfield
Robert Pease
J. S. McCann
Peter Parker
Hooper
Homer D. Williams
Gould Deitz
Red Cross
Columbus Woman’s Relief Corps
Milford
Burkett
Danish Brotherhood of America
A. H. Engles
Nemaha County Bank
Engles
Nemaha County
United States Department of Commerce
South Omaha
Albert Erickson
Uehling
State University
Kiwanis Clubs
Iowa
Chadron
Fremont
Gordon
Grand Island
Hastings
Holdredge
Kearney
Lexington
North Platte
Superior
Wayne
Wymore
Cedar Rapids
Centerville
Fort Dodge Grinnell
Harlan
Ida Grove
Iowa City
Marshalltown
Mason City
Missouri Valley
Newton
Oskaloosa
Ottumwa
Sac City
Sioux City
Storm Lake
Waterloo
Webster City
Bryan
B. S. Peterson
State Osteopathic Association
Arbor Lodge
Nebraska City
M. Bowers
F. H. Fields
Eighty-eighth Division
Eighty- Eighth Division
Weigel
Mildred Simons
Albion
Boone County
J. G. French
Elmwood Park
R. Dennithorne
Melbourne
Australia
H. C. Melaning
Worcester
Union of South Africa
W. T. Mooney
Nanaimo
British Columbia
William A. Radford
William A. Edford
Prairie Avenue
Cha Go
Harding
Philadelphia
Mr. Harding
U. S
America
Isle of Wight
Port Washington
Liccuts
Rutledge Irvine
David Rittenhouse
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