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Newspaper
Plattsmouth Journal
Location
Plattsmouth, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1925
Page
5
Local residents report weddings and visits across Lincoln Havelock and Ashland. Plants, church work, school trips, church events, and health updates fill a busy week with neighbors visiting, painting, and gardening underway.
Plattsmouth high school ball team played at the park on Thursday evening against a strong central county lineup. The home team battled and emerged with 11 runs to the visitors' tally, securing the win.
Mr and Mrs C I Long raise a flock of thirty Rhode Island Red hens with one odd black sheep red hen that did not lay in March and April. The flock produced more than twenty eggs per hen for fourteen trap nested birds and one record setter yielded over fifty eggs in sixty one days.
Henry Amgwert a nature lover who enjoys bees and birds has purchased a Graflex camera from the latest camera line. The outdoors oriented model offers a wide range of exposure from one tenth to one ten thousandth of a second with 84 adjustments to capture precise natural scenes.
Four room house with three lots offered for sale in Murdock Nebraska by Fred Lau. Call or see for price and terms. Local ad notes the Alice Lan home is for sale.
Readable fragments show church services at Lewin and Braglieh with morning and late morning sessions. Notable times referenced include 9:30 a.m. at Lewin and 11:00 to 11:38 a.m. in Braglieh with end times around 11:39 to 12:00.
Omaha attorney and democratic leader Arthur Mullen says he will take his fight to federal court to compel issuance of medical whiskey prescription permits for Nebraska doctors. He met in Washington with federal lawyers who backed Nebraska prohibition director Elmer E. Thomas, who refused permits.
Frank Janda Sr was among visitors to the metropolis today boarding the Burlington early. Hana Heinrich and wife traveled to Lincoln this morning to spend the weekend with relatives and friends.
New York May 7. A photographic negative placed in a Honolulu imaging device was transformed into a complete positive in New York 5 816 miles away. Seven tests produced seven pictures from Hawaiian army and navy operations, marking the first transpacific radio photo transmission. Major General Summerall called the test important for military mapping and secure transmission.
Omaha reports that Nebraska bank burglaries and holdups have totaled $11,372.65 in the first four months of 1925, compared with $14,019.50 for all of 1924, per the Nebraska Bankers Association. Details list losses from multiple banks and note anticipated reductions from new guaranty fund provisions.
James Higley and his wife left this morning for Omaha to visit Violet Matson, Higley’s daughter, who has been seriously ill for some time.
Missouri Pacific reports April on time performance at 98.6 percent from 11,556 passenger trains across sixteen divisions and three terminals. Freight carloads reach 127,832, up 8.5 percent. local loading rises 14.2 percent to 92,023 cars. President Baldwin highlights gains January–April totals up 11.5 percent.
John Logan of Overton Nebraska, missing since April 23, reappeared in Grand Island May 7 claiming he was slugged after picking up a stranger near Overton and woke in Denver in different clothes. He traveled back via Pueblo Hastings and Grand Island, meeting friends in Hastings, reporting no serious injuries aside from stiffness.
The state of Mississippi filed suit against Ford Motor alleging criminal conspiracy to violate anti-trust laws and seeking 12 million dollars in penalties. All Ford dealers in the state and related banks are co-defendants, with requests to attach Ford funds to guarantee payment if upheld. The complaint cites contracts between Ford and its dealers as the basis.
May Washington plans for the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth to be held in the city he founded under a congressional commission led by ex officio chairman President Coolidge. The commission includes senators Fess and Spencer and representatives Hawley Tilson Garner Lyons, with appointees from diverse public and private sectors.
Chicago May 7 business conditions are healthy and vigorous and there is reason to expect they will continue to improve in the opinion of E H Gary chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation He said taxes and building costs are still too high but will adjust He added on the whole everything looks bright and I may say I remain a conservative optimist
In Lincoln Nebraska the public welfare department backed by the school board and the municipal court suspended fines for Russians detained for their families working in Wisconsin beet fields. The board upheld compulsory education laws while noting Nebraskans may move if they choose. One detainee declared he had left his home and became destitute after planning to relocate for work.
Geneva May 8 British proposals to exclude warships from international control met opposition from French and Scandinavian delegates in a secret conference session. The Americans offered no views while a vote on the warships and the supervision list was expected tomorrow. Scandinavians and French argued warships should be under the same control as other arms.
Memorial services were held in New York to mark ten years since the Lusitania disaster. Admiral Fiske praised the passengers and crew for their conduct during the eighteen minutes the liner stayed afloat after torpedoing by a German submarine.
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