Belmont wager drives Belmont franchise plot
In Belmont Kerr plots to push a city franchise through council within sixty days to seize property, while reporter Winthrow hints at yard rumors and Gloria Kerr returns from a world tour. Kerr and Gilbert maneuver social entrances with Gloria as the center of a political and personal web.
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Kerr
Hayes
Gilbert
Gloria
James Winthrow
Belmont ‘Banner
Winthrow
Run
Belmont
Machine
Jerry Winthrow
Mr. Kerr
Jim
The
Banner
Gloria Kerr
Locust Lawn
Amos
Framing a Land Move in Maple Avenue Corridor
Kerr Gil bert scheme plans a franchise push and stock-yard rail link from Maple avenue to the vacant Benton Park tract. Sam Hayes, tied to Belmont connections, is brought in for credibility as the group seeks to option the land before developing factory sites and railroad connections.
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Kerr
Gilbert
Dr. Hayes
Sam Hayes
Ring
Belmont
Maple Avenue
Sam
Benton Park
Belden
Queen Mary Sets Strict Court Standard On Morals
The London scene reports Queen Mary enforces stricter court behavior. She demands purity and modesty, bans those with scandals or divorce court prominence, and seeks harsher divorce-law restraint. Her influence allegedly pressures government inaction regarding the divorce commission findings.
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Mary
New York Herald
London
Mystery of J Pierpont Morgan Draws Old Lady’s Inquiry
A New York Morgan family member receives a request from a 90 year old New England woman asking for details about J Pierpont Morgan. She recalls Junius Morgan and seeks if J Pierpont ever married, noting a Hartford paper lacks coverage and calls it a mystery.
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Morgan
New York
New England
J. Pierpont Morgan
Junius Morgan
Hartford
Training the Modern Girl Reveals Advice from East of the Shadows
A quote from Mrs. Hubert Barlay quotes in East of the Shadows offering gendered guidance for daughters. It contrasts beauty with wit and patience and suggests women should maximize appearance or charm depending on circumstance.
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Hubert Barclay
State plans high school inspections under Shumway act
State Superintendent Delzell and a team including A. A. Reed H. E. Bradford P. B. Barker and Dean Burnett outlined inspections under the Shumway act. Nineteen schools will share a $15,000 fund with allocations tied to program effort. Four year agricultural courses begin at Alliance Alma Aurora Beatrice Blair Crete Fairfield Gothenburg Hastings Holdrege Kimball county high school ONeill Pawnee City Red Cloud South Omaha St Paul Stromsburg Tecumseh Wahoo York.
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Shumway
Delzell
A. A. Reed
H. E. Bradford
State Agricultural School
P. B. Barker
Agronomy Department
Burnett
The
Agricultural College
Alliance
Alma
Aurora
Beatrice
Blair
Crete
Fairfield
Gothenburg
Hastings
Holdrege
Kimball ‘County High School
O’neill
Pawnee City
Red Cloud
South Omaha
St. Paul
Stromsburg
Tecumseh
Wahoo
York
BE. M. Whitten
Nebraska City
Wauneta
Chase County
Nemaha River
Johnson County
Nebraska
W. L. Hulbert
University Place
Lincoln
Eastern Nebraska Fruit Growers’ Association
A. M. Shubert
O! Alliance
George Helms
Ansley
James E. White
al. W. White
Paul Revere
Fred Kuhlman
School Board of
Rockford
C. A. Pruner
Superior
Ponca
Blue River
Wilber
Stanley Tacholovsky
P. Martin & Co
Grand Island
D. B. Houtz
Shubert
Houtz
A. White
Fairbury
Johnson
Nemaha
John Rys
George Dimer
Havelock
George Colwell
Fremont
Kearney Water Power Permit Falls Short of Request
State board of irrigation approved a diversion of 140 cubic feet per second for power and 22 for irrigation for the Kearney Water and Electric Power Co. The company requested 400 cfs for power and 35 cfs for irrigation, claiming needs align with those figures. It plans to appeal the board's decision as inadequate.
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Kearney Water & Electric Power Company
Platte River
State Board of Irrigation
Price
Kearney Company
Tax Commissioners Set Regular Meeting Dates
The state tax commission fixed the first and third Fridays of each month for regular meetings. Special sessions will occur as called by the chairman or by unanimous member demand. September 19 will hear insurance representatives on proposed tax law changes. Bank taxation and county assessors issues will be discussed at January state gatherings.
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State Tax Commission
Nebraska state fair to pay all expenses this year
Secretary Mellor of the state agricultural board says the Nebraska state fair will pay out after reviewing receipts and expenses. Despite unchanged total costs, he credits strong attendance and support from Omaha and South Omaha for a profitable year. Miss Minnie Murphy is recommended for matron of the state penitentiary. the rule against employing more than one relative prompts Mrs. Fenton’s resignation as matron.
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Belmont
Gloria
Wright
Belmont News
Europe
Locust Lawn
Paris
Annabel Hitchcock
Annabel
Rhine
London
Liverpool
Kerr
Hitchcock
America
Bayath
Sar
Sachi
Ke Doe
Nebraska
Minnie Murphy
Humboldt
Fenton
State Penitentiary
Board of Control
Supreme Tribe of Ben Hur seeks injunction on Nebraska insurance law
The group filed in federal court asking a permanent injunction against Senate File 264 and its provisions. It targets governor John H. Morehead attorney general Grant G. Martin auditor William B. Howard and Lawson G. Brian from enforcing the law or duties of the state insurance board created by it.
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Supreme Tribe of Ben Hur
John H. Morehead
Nebraska
Grant G. Martin
William B. Howard
Lawson G. Brian
Senate
Board of Insurance Commissioners
Dry weather threatens state funds and farm yields
Henry Gerdees of the board of control warns the state faces significant costs from drought. He cites 265 boys at the Kearney industrial school for boys with no corn on the school land, corn being stored in a silo, and 150 head of cattle at the institution needing disposal or low-priced feed to avoid further expense.
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Henry Gerdees
Board of Control
Kearney
State officials barred from hiring relatives by law
Attorney General Martin issues opinion to the board of control: the law prohibiting a state institution superintendent from employing his relatives also applies to those linked by blood or by marriage to the official heads. The ruling extends nepotism prohibitions to marital and in-law ties within state agencies.
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State Legal Department
Martin
Board of Control
City Babies Outscore Country in Better Babies Contest
Lincoln Neb state fair results show city infants scoring higher than rural peers in better babies contest. Orville Hanning Walton 98.8 percent and Frank Willard Jackson Lincoln 99 percent lead city and state charts with many city winners above 98 percent. rural scores trend slightly lower across age and gender groups.
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Lincoln
Neb
Orville Hanguing
Walton
Frank Willard Jackson
State Board of Health
Hanning
Jackson
Agricultural Board
Dekbert A. Reid
Donald Alfred Petersen
Omaha
Francis James McCullough
Melin Farnbaugh
Carl S. Bingham
Donald Leroy Glasson
Walter Mason Bridges
Genevieve Chapman
Ceresco
Edith Wilson
Madison
Ruth Elizabeth Currier
University Place
Augusta Emma Anderson
Janet Caroline Cain
Prince of Monaco Invites Buffalo Bill to Rockies Hunt
The Monaco prince aboard the yacht Hfron delle wires Buffalo Bill Cody asking him to join a hunting expedition in the Rockies. The message, sent to Cody in Cody Wyoming, targets a September 17 rendezvous for the possible trip.
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Rockies
Denver
Colo
Prince of Monaco
Monte Carlo
United States
New York
Buffalo Bill
F. Cody
Cody
Wyo
Depye
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