Pair Separated 40 Years Marry in Denver Union
Lincoln Nebraska social note tells of Eva Thompson sister of David Thompson marrying Edwin A. Brown in Denver after a forty year delay. Both sixty eight, Brown once poor, became a millionaire and later a touring tramp author. Thompson to assist in Brown’s poverty relief crusade.
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Lincoln
Neb
Eva Thompson
David Eugene Thompson
Mexico
Brazil
Denver
Edwin A. Brown
Mrs. Brown
Kansas Woman Turns Farm Debt Free With Livestock
A Kansas widow, Mrs. J. E. Ford, 400 acres near Hutchinson, repurposed a failed wheat strategy into hogs, cattle, chickens, and dairy. She paid off a $6,000 mortgage, rents 240 acres, runs 160 acres, and aims for more beef cattle and poultry income. She prefers farming to teaching.
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Hutchinson, Kun
Kansas
J. E. Ford
Sanford
Ford
Nebraska News In Densest Form
A long list of Nebraskas happenings from Tecumseh to Omaha. Topics include a teachers institute in Tecumseh, a 7 cent streetcar fare order, horse and cattle shipments, windstorms and floods, new bridges, oil drilling, and notable local events across towns such as Auburn Yutan Red Cloud and Broken Bow.
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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
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
United States Department of Commerce
South Omaha
Albert Erickson
Uehling
State University
Kiwanis Clubs
Iowa
Chadron
Fremont
Gordon
Grand Island
Hastings
Holdredge
Kearney
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
Thoroughly Pleasing and High-Grade Bungalow Design
A detailed description of an ideal two bedroom frame bungalow by William A. Radford. He outlines layout features from living room to dining room and kitchen, stressing simplicity, neutral tones, and well-chosen furnishings to achieve a neat, clean, comfortable home.
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Ecru
U. S. Hunters Pay High Rent for Scotch Homes
London reports that wealthy Americans and Britishers have rented vast Scottish estates for the grouse shooting season. Bernard Baruch has taken Fetteresso in Kincardine. C. H. Mackay occupies Castle Grant with 19,000 acres. Rents average five figures, with smaller shootings from $500 monthly. King George often stayed at Thurso Castle, a famed shooting venue.
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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 struck and killed by a passenger train near Sunbury Pennsylvania. The crew reported the animal jumped in front of the locomotive in an apparent bid to reach the Susquehanna River nearby. The deer was dressed and sent to Mary M. Packer hospital in Sunbury.
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Sunbury
Susquehanna River
Mary M. Packer
Canary and mouse battle ends in fatal injuries at home
In Logansport Indiana Mrs O D Hunter set a caja with her canary on the floor. Upon return she found the canary dead and the mouse mortally injured from the battle.
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Logansport
Ind
O. D. Hunter
Topographic Survey of Texas Planned by Federal State Partnership
Major C E Cooke heads preparations for a large state federal topographic survey in Texas. A $500000 legislative appropriation funds the effort. A 65 member federal engineer team will be deployed, creating the largest group of experts to work on a single Texas project.
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Austin
Tex
Maj
C. E. Cooke
Texas
State Board of Water Engineers
Major Cooke
Board of Water Engineers
State Capitol
Major Manganese Find in South Africa Belt
A large manganese ore deposit about 20 feet wide and four miles long has been discovered at Hekpoort near the West Rand in South Africa, signaling a major mineral find for Africa and London markets.
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Africa
London
Hekpoort
West Rand
South Africa
An Artist. Solicitor at Marylebone
A playful London Tit-Bits quip notes a man described as a husband may be called such, while he is said to paint the spots on rocking horses, implying a whimsical craftsman in Marylebone.
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Marylebone
London
Generally One or the Other Spent Satisfaction Note
A Boston Transcript quotation remarks that spending brings more satisfaction as it progresses, suggesting a preference for continuous expenditure over stopping early. The fragment highlights consumer behavior reasoning and economic attitudes.
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Boston Transcript
Tricks of Indian Magicians
A feature describes Indian wandering magicians and their acts. Each show includes a boy claimed as son and compact props. They perform tricks like the disappearing egg and mango tree illusion culminating in a fully grown fruiting plant.
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India
Mark Twain Replies To Poem With Witty Note
The anecdote recalls Mark Twain in his newspaper days overwhelmed by verse submissions. He mailed back a poem titled I Wonder If He’ll Miss Me with a pink ribbon and a sharp remark: If he does, he ought never to be trusted with firearms again.
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Mark Twain
Mark
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