Mormon Pioneers Blaze Trail Across Nebraska to Zion
The 1847 pioneer company led by Brigham Young set out from Winter Quarters across Nebraska to reach Salt Lake City. The voyage involved 143 men women and children, many wagons and oxen, buffalo hunts, hostile and friendly encounters with Indians, and the early Mormon post offices and distance-tracking devices. The trek shaped subsequent emigration routes and left Florence as a major outfitting stop before the handcart expeditions.
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Nebraska
Far West
Brigham Young
Young
Stephen Markham
John Pack
Shadrack Roundy
William Clayton
Pioneer Company
Elkhorn
Platte
Loup Rivers
Pawnee
Grand Island
Oregon
Northwest
California
Union Pacific Railroad
Fidel Clayton
Clayton
Fort Laramie
Mississippi
Illinois
Pueblo
Jim Bridger
Salt Lake City
Zion
Pioneer
John
P. P. Pratt
Elkhorn River
Great Salt Lake
Winter Quarters
Missouri
Salt Lake Valley
Kanesville
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Plains
New Zion
Keokuk
Kansas
Big Blue River
Florence
A. J. Mitchell
A. J. Smith
Kahesville
Old Winter Quarters
Mormon Church
Europe
Missouri River
Platte Valley
Wood River
Deseret
St. Louis
Henry James Hudson
Genoa
Alton
Platte County
Joseph E. Johnson
Washington County
Valley of the Platte
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Joseph Smith
Satin Crepe Fashion Trends For Autumn Lace
Fashion notes by Julia Bottomley urge self expression through silk and satin crepe for fall wear. Beaded and metal laces, lace tunics over satin slips, and shirred or plaited silhouettes highlight versatile daytime to evening looks for autumn and winter.
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Julia Bottomley
Western Newspaper Union
Successful Poultrymen Cull Flocks for Profit
Nebraska agricultural extension reports that top farm flock operators cull nonproductive hens from June to November to maintain high egg yields. Records show monthly egg output and feed use, guiding improvements under Lincoln college supervision. The five year project, now in year four, yields high averages with 200 eggs per hen in 1924, far above the typical 60. Alumni survey notes top earners of up to 15,000 dollars, average income around 5,021 dollars, ages 20 to 62, with two physicians earning most.
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Agricultural Extension Service of
Nebraska
Agricultural College At
Lincoln
University of Nebraska
Frock and Hat for a Little Girl in Violet Organdie
A three or four year old will look charming in a frock of delicate violet organdie with many tiny ruffles on the skirt. A matching organdie hat completes the ensemble.
Capes for Girls Delight Seaside Style
Fashion note recommends a plaited cape of crepe de chine for young girls at the seashore or mountain resort. The suggestion emphasizes chic, light layering suitable for vacation wear and easy styling.
Stockings Described With Colorful Details
The description notes white hosiery for sports wear featuring colored clocks of color and silk stockings with a blue band below the knee. Centered within the band are small doll's heads edged with lace frills.
The Right Finish in Scarves Tops Women's Costumes
Nine of ten women have adopted scarves as part of their costumes. Plain silks as well as the figured ones are in vogue.
Two Letters Show Pe-ru-na Curing Catarrh Sufferer
June 2 1904 account recalls twenty three years of chronic catarrh with head burning throat mucus and cough ending in a cure after five bottles of Pe-ru-na. June 30 1924 testimonial notes nearing seventy nine and ongoing use. The piece touts Pe-ru-Na record of helping catarrhal disorders and invites ordering the book from the Columbus Ohio company.
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Peruna
Evidently They Were Coming in Quantities
A Los Angeles Times fragment recalls the Randall Babbitt family near Hollenbeck park proud of twins. Mrs. Babbitt places one baby in a carriage and asks a passing boy to watch it. She returns with the second twin and the boy, astonished, asks where all the babies are coming from.
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Randall Babbitts
Hollenbeck Park
Los Angeles Times
Standards bureau seeks to standardize underwear sizes
The Bureau of Standards aims to create uniform underwear sizing as current sizes vary by manufacturer and suits of the same size from different brands often do not fit consumers.
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Bureau of Standards New
No Fixed Price Men Bid Against Highest Bidder
A brief note describes men who reject fixed pricing and sell to the highest bidder, illustrating a practice of auctioning or bargaining where value is determined by competition rather than set terms.
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West
By Clark H. Galloway
Liverpool
Iowa City
Capes
Say “Bayer Aspirin
Bayer
Green
Peterson
Big
Peterson Ointment Co
Buffalo
Parker’s
Drosgists
Hiscox Chemical
Patchogue
J. W. Brown
St. Louis St
Springfeld
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