Depositors to receive 20 percent dividend from Snyder State bank
The Snyder State bank in Snyder, closed since March 1925, pays a 20 percent dividend to its depositors as a Christmas present, per receiver R. O. Brownell of Schuyler. Other local items note a hospital fall injury, naval academy appointment, new fishery, a major fire, Boy Scout rural program plans, church anniversary, and various civic updates.
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Snyder State Bank of
Snyder
R. O. Brownell
Schuyler
John Rutledge
York
Utica
Frederick R. Abbott
Blair
United States Naval Academy
R. B. Howell
George Kline
Sidney
Hartranft Motor Company
Alliance
Cheyenne-Deuel County
McCook
Republican Rover
Lincoln State Hospital
Omaha
Steward J. R. Helms
Annie Reisch Investment Company
Richland
Schuyler Fire Department
Chickamauga
Grand Island
Company M
Stolly State Park
Miss Dora
Barney Kolbeck
H. F. Wenning
Chattanooga
Newman Grove
North Platte Reality Company of
North Platte
Secretary of State
Keith Nevill
Alex Beck
Waldo Cress
Trenton
Waldo
Omaha to Get Union Station
Omaha plans a new Union Station with a minimum cost of 2.5 million dollars. The terminal will serve nine railroads, with consent from the last tenant line. Burlington and Union Pacific previously agreed, and Northwestern Milwaukee Rock Island Great Western Wabash Missouri Pacific Illinois Central will also enter.
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Omaha
Union Station
Burlington
Union Pacific
Northwestern
Milwaukee
Rock Island
Great Western
Wabash
Missouri Pacific
Illinois Central
Lincoln Life Insurance Investments in Nebraska Report
Nebraska bound and real estate holdings of life insurers total 197.1 million dollars with domestic firms at 25.36 million and foreign firms at 170.73 million. Nebraska bonds, real estate, and farm and other property loans compose the asset mix. total admitted assets for domestic and foreign life firms reach 13.281 billion dollars.
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Lincoln—Life Insurance
Nebraska
State Insurance Bureau
Farm conference draws over a thousand at Fremont
More than 1,000 farmers attended the Fremont opening of the annual conference under the agricultural college. P H Stewart opened with Maintaining Soil Fertility, followed by talks on Dairy Possibilities by Howard Engle and Corn Production by Gilbert Johnson. Frank D. Tomson of Lincoln spoke at the banquet on Relationship of Farmer and Business Man.
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Fremont
Agricultural College
P. H. Stewart
University Extension Department
Nebraska
Howard Engle
Gilbert Johnson
Frank D. Tomson
Lincoln
Seed Potatoes Export Plans From Western Nebraska
Western Nebraska seed potato growers forecast shipping over 100 carloads to Louisiana as planting begins late this month. A car of certified seed potatoes will head to Bermuda, with about three tons destined for Porto Rico. High storage volumes amid price drops prompt calls for extensive tree planting voiced by C. W. Watson at the Western Nebraska Organized Agriculture meeting.
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Louisiana
Nebraska
Bermuda Islands
Porto Rico
West Nebraska
C. W. Watson
Nebraska Extension Forester
Western
Nebraska Organized Agriculture Association
Remarkable Capitol Building Praised by Roscoe Pound
Harvard law dean Roscoe Pound visiting Lincoln calls the Nebraska State Capitol one of the world’s most remarkable buildings. Pound, born in Lincoln 58 years ago, was Nebraska Law College dean in 1905 while visiting relatives.
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Lincolna
Nebraska State Capitol
Roscoe Pound
Harvard Law School
Lincoln
Nebraska Law College
New Burlington Depot Dedication at Bayard
The Burlington railway opened a new Bayard passenger depot with company officials present. A fine program followed, including a banquet served by the Bayard Woman's Club in the evening and a dance after.
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Burlington
Bayard
The
Burlington Railway
Chadron Sinks Test Well in Quest for City Water
Engineers sink a test well on a Chadron area farm to explore new water supply for the city. The present underground source nine miles south often fails in dry seasons. City council members expect a well fed system could serve consumers or temporarily replace the underground supply during driest periods. Development on the well is pending.
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Chadron Chadron
Chadron
Dairy Growth Encouraged by High Butterfat Prices
Bayard and region see expansion in the dairy industry as prices for butterfat rise. Cream buyers pay 46 cents per pound for butterfat while North Platte Valley Co-Operative Cheese Co. pays 55 cents per pound in whole milk. Cattle have been shipped from eastern Nebraska Wisconsin and Colorado to meet demand.
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Bayard
North Platte Valley
North Platte
Hoover Leads Smith by Over Six Million in 1928 Vote
National totals show Hoover 21,429,100 to Smith 15,005,497 with 386,798,669 total votes. Minor parties drew Norman Thomas 267,835 and others. Hoover carried 40 states while Coolidge carried 37 in 1924.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Alfred E. Smith
Associated Press
Hoover
Smith
United States
Norman Thomas
Foster
Workers’ Party
Reynolds
Socialist-Labor
Varney
Gote
West
Farmer-Labor
Mr. Hoover
Coolidge
Ecommerce
Louisiana
Mr. Davis
Mr. Coolidge
Rhode Island
President Coolidge
Massachusetts
New Mexico
Tennessee
Texas
Illinois
California
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York State
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Mississippi
South Carolina
Virginia
North Carolina
Senator LaFollette
Winter Wheat Acreage Shows Marked Decrease
Washington government crop report shows total winter wheat acreage at 43,228,000 for 1928, down 4,052,000 from 47,280,000 in 1927, with rye at 8,298,000, 602,000 below last year. Conditions for both crops run lower than a year ago and the ten year average. abandonment reaches 23.5 percent for winter wheat, up from 18 percent in 1927.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Former Indiana Governor Durbin Dies at 81 in Anderson
Anderson Indiana life marked by service as Indiana governor from TN01 to 1904. Durbin a veteran of the Civil War and Spanish American War. He died at home of bronchial pneumonia.
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Anderson
Ind
Winfield Durbin
Indiana
Fifteen year old pleads guilty to teacher murder
In Stanton Michigan Jimmie Deacons fifteen admits guilt in the slaying of his former teacher Miss Flossie Carter twenty seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanton
Mich
Jimmie Deacons
Flossie Carter
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