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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1913
Page
5
In a late afternoon at the Hopefield estate, Hezekiah directs a plan to manage rival suitors and a romantic rival, while Cecilia secretly records events in a silver notebook. The plot culminates with family intrigue, a house party, and a shift in who controls the mansion.
Colonel Al Dorrington, former Chadron resident and head of prisons in the Philippines, visited Mayor Dahlman in Omaha and discussed prison reforms. He oversees about 10 000 prisoners who are taught trades to earn honest livelihoods. He will leave for Washington after a Lincoln visit.
This morning at the home of Mr and Mrs Henry Baughman on the Dovey section a fine new daughter arrived at an early hour. The child weighs regulation weight and both parents express joy over the birth of their baby girl.
Richard Linthicum in the New York World argues for a poet with Miltonic vigor to pierce medieval myths and celebrate a living ruler, denouncing timidity and time serving praise. He calls for fierce, fearless diction to herald a newer morning for mankind.
Retired Pittsburgh police sergeant Thomas J. Morley, likened to former president Taft, will lecture on the dangers of alcohol. He plans to address railroad workers for the safety first campaign, recounting his decades wrestling with drunks and shaping a temperance message for the railroad. Morley, over fifty, has a deep voice and strong delivery to persuade through the Groveton Ohio railway event.
The department of agriculture explains how its monthly crop reports are compiled by 130000 volunteers and staff. Farmers, township and county correspondents, field agents, and state statisticians contribute data used to estimate state and national crop yields with safeguards against leakage.
County Clerk J. E. Snook uncovered long forgotten papers in a Greeley closet. The lot includes land patents to Jeremiah Williams a War of 1812 corporal, Elizabeth Cochran, James Russell, Samuel Roberts and others. Some patents date to Andrew Jackson and Chester A. Arthur administrations.
A well preserved deck of playing cards, buried eighty one years ago between sandstone blocks serving as pillars at the entrance of the old Missouri state capitol, was found in a hole made to hold the stones. No name or inscription was on the cards.
The strenuous suffragists will carry their war to summer resorts in the mountains and by the seashore. Several hundred equal suffrage orators will stump pleasure resorts from Bar Harbor to the Pacific coast during the summer months. Next fall the suffragists will gather in Washington for a renewed push on the capital.
Cleveland school officials urge children to swat the fly and also collect ants for use as playground apparatus. Ants will be caged in playgrounds for observation to teach natural history and habits of industry. Dr EB Paterson, inspector, and a team of teachers organized the trapping effort.
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