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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1908
Page
7
City council proceedings recount approvals of minutes and treasurer balances, plus health updates with a smallpox case. Fire and water committee notes, chimney repairs, department officer elections, and ward funding outlined amid routine claims and contracts.
Anton Salsbury reports his father in Breckenridge Missouri has been very sick with a congestive chill and threatened pneumonia but is improving. He began to improve last Saturday and is now not yet able to leave the house, with many friends hoping for a rapid recovery.
Sidney Miner, hospitalized in Omaha for several weeks, is improving and doctors expect his return home Friday or Saturday. The news reassures his family and many friends who have followed his condition with concern.
Official market reports prepared for Journal readers by Cass County Commission company A. H. Smith Coates block. Provides daily market data and prices from local merchants and trades, reflecting regional commerce and price movements.
Mrs William Morrow received word from Glenwood that her father Joseph Shaw, an elderly gentleman, is very ill. She departed at once to his bedside to provide what care she can.
The Omaha World Herald reports 1,500 Democrats gathered at Lincoln auditorium for a Bryan endorsed banquet. Speakers included William Jennings Bryan, Governors Haskell and Broward, ex Senator Patterson, and others. The event underscored support for tariff reform, trust regulation, direct senate election, bank deposit guarantees, and Bryanism.
Word arrives of the death of Joseph Worrel at the Lincoln hospital for the insane after a month there from the Masonic Home. An old Burlington shops machinist, he had long been in frail health with asthma rheumatism and paralysis. Local residents A F Finkle and others noted his passing as Cedar Creek area poultry deliveries moved through Plattsmouth.
An old ad promotes Tuiner’s American Elixir of Bitter Wine as stomach insurance, claiming it improves digestion, gastric juice secretion, and stomach muscle strength. It lists Jos. Tuiner in Chicago and claims purity with U. S. Ser. No. 346 and notes availability at drug stores. Also mentions poultry buyers and local notices of residents traveling or working.
Cass county Nebraska officials in regular session approve bonds for county money to banks including First National Bank Weeping Water and Farmers State Bank Wabash and set county depositories. They appoint deputy assessors and fix road work pay rates while noting a dispute over 1904 1905 marriage ceremony fees and adjourn to February 4 1908.
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