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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1929
Page
3
A collection of pithy aphorisms on luck, love, manners, and social behavior. It jokes about hearing versus seeing, long distance air links, and the value of will power, ending with a quip about a New York editor and Lindbergh.
A mosaic of aphorisms and data items touches on American car exports to Greece, a wary view of quiet men, ignorance wearing wisdom, and power of influence. It notes Czechoslovakia's auto output, English rail bridges painted green, and Shanghai telephones to be installed. It also mentions a Kansas City stereotype and an eastern warning about lobster red sunburn.
A federal appeals court holds publicly owned utilities must pay taxes as privately owned ones. Aristide Briand is again French premier. A joking critique notes the city courthouse is hard to reach, and a Bremen liner is said to have a desk bar. The piece also jests about bankers, spinach for police, and diplomacy via golf.
The Christian Science Monitor reports Aristide Briand quietly pushes a union of nine European nations toward a United States of Europe as a response to tariff legislation in the United States. Briand says the plan is economic cooperation not hostility, and it will be a major League of Nations topic next September.
The piece argues for smaller sized currency to be cleaner and easier to handle. It cites savings in paper, ink, and storage, and notes the government would replace about 857 million old bills weighing around 3 million pounds. It questions why only banks should issue clean money and suggests the nation could afford such reform.
Two Cleveland newspaper editors were jailed for contempt after criticizing a Federal judge for denying an injunction to stop gambling at a race track. The piece argues the editors’ criticism was fair and truthful and condemns the judge’s stance on state law.
The article warns that hot dry weather and close mowing can kill grass. It advises raising the mower to leave at least an inch of growth, using mulch or shade to protect roots, and notes that wet periods produce top growth without corresponding root development.
A San Francisco judge ruled that a husband must return his wife’s artificial teeth after she testified he had taken them to silence her. The toothless wife said she cannot eat or talk, and the court ordered the teeth restored to her.
The passage discusses Mrs. Genn's social policy as presented in the Ladies' Home Journal. It emphasizes loyalty to the flag devotion to the government and defense of the Constitution with the vice president as a symbol. The text notes a reporter's life with ups and downs and public reaction.
The State of Nebraska Cass County in County Court notifies creditors of the Frances Bartek estate to present claims at the County Court Room in Plattsmouth on August 16 and November 18 1929 at 10 a m. Claims must be filed within three months from August 16 1929 and debts paid within one year from that date. Witness dated July 12 1929 with the county seal.
Notice for claims against the estate of John C Urban to be received August 23 1928 and November 25 1929 with deadlines for filing and paying debts set. Also a Cass County sheriff sale of Lot 120 in SE quarter of NE quarter Section 19 Township 12 North Range 14 East at 10 o clock September 7 1929 to satisfy a judgment against Mata Shafter Clifford H Shafer B Golding and Byron Golding.
Multiple Cass County Nebraska notices include a county court probate for Mary J. Sullivan estate with hearing August 30 and December 2 1929 and three month claims limit, a district court sale by referee of Plattsmouth real estate August 24 1929, and a lengthy quiet title suit and will probate hearing scheduled for August 16 1929 with publication in Plattsmouth Journal.
The Cass County Nebraska County Court sets a hearing for August 23 1925 at 10:00 am on a supplemental petition by Rosetta Axmaker for a determination of heirship of John L Axmaker who died intestate in Cass County Nebraska around April 21 1908. The petition asks the court to determine time of death kinship degree and right of descent of the described real estate in Section 16 Town 11 North Range 9 East 6th P M and other property. Heirs listed include Rosetta Axmaker widow Myra Ethel Kyles and Margaret Hazel Axmaker daughters. Dated Plattsmouth Nebraska July 17 1929.
Samuel G. Blythe notes unhappy times for rich Americans who fear collectors arriving weekly for installments, suggesting the burden of debt amid a consumer age.
In the District Court of the United States for the District of Nebraska Lincoln Division Anton J. Trilety is adjudicated bankrupt in Case No. 1786. Creditors of Plattsmouth in Cass County are notified the first meeting will be August 9 1929 at 10 o clock in the forenoon in Lincoln Nebraska Federal Court Room post office building. Creditors may attend prove claims examine the bankrupt appoint a trustee and consider asset sale. Dated July 26 1929. Daniel McClenahan Referee in Bankruptcy.
State of Nebraska Cass County 388 by order of sale issued by clerk Golda Noble Beal I will on August 31 1929 at ten oclock take the south one fourth of Lot5 and the north half of Lot6 in Block 21 Village of Elmwood Cass County Nebraska as property of Hadsell L Hart minor over fourteen years of age et al defendants to satisfy a judgment of Elmwood State Bank Plattsmouth Nebraska July 27 1923 jy2S iw
A limited supply of Cass county maps remains at the Journal office. Price is 50 cents each.
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