Oil boom hints rise in Nebraska amid test wells
Nebraska oil interest expands across southwestern counties as big companies plan $1.5 million in tests and land rentals over 18 months. Cambridge shows boom town potential with full hotels and active work as geologists probe basins from Kansas toward Banner County.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
George E. Gendra
University of Nebraska
Kansas
Condra
Banner County
Bassett
Humboldt
Nehawka
Beaver City
Cambridge
Haigler
Colorado
Imperial
Crawford
Golden Wedding Poem and Highway Marker Order Reported
Uncle Walt Mason writes a commemorative poem for Mr and Mrs Hammond on their fiftieth wedding anniversary. State Purchasing Agent Yoder orders more highway markers from Adams Co of St Louis at a cost of 4907 dollars. Hastings reports two beach fires causing total damage estimated 40000 to 50000 dollars with multiple business losses and insured repairs to begin.
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Lincoln
Nebraska
Henry A. Brainerd
Nebraska State Press Association
J. L. Butterbaugh
Gothenberg
T. V. Norval
Omaha
Walt
Hammond Fremont
Walt Mason
la Jolla
California
Ross Hammond
Fremont Tribune
Yoder
8. G. Adams Co
St. Louis
United States Shield
Hastings
George B. Fergus
Frank A. Bloom Cigar Company
Yager
Farmers Grain and Supply Company
Burlington
Hundredth Birthday for Mrs Wademan In Blue Hill
Mrs. Caroline Wademan of Blue Hill marked her hundredth birthday with the help of nearly all town residents. Reports note wide celebrations and community participation in honoring the milestone.
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Caroline Wademan
Blue Hill
Ten Foreign Offices to Boost Marketing of U.S. Farm Exports
A federal farm board proposal urges creating ten agricultural attache offices at American embassies to broaden the world market for U.S. agricultural products. The plan aims to extend marketing and outlook services across key territories. Senate confirms eight federal farm board members amid debate over Legge McKelvie Williams and farm relief policies.
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Washington
Arthur M. Slyde
Secretary of Agriculture
Federal Farm Board
Departments of Agriculture and Commerce
Senate
Hoover
Alexander Legge
Chicago
Samuel R. McKelvie
Carl Williams
Legge
McKelvie
Williams
Senator Blease
Charles C. Teague
William N. Schilling
CG. B. Denman
Charles §. Wilson
James C. Stone
Blaine
Brookhart
la Follette
Norris
Black
Blease
Connally
Walsh
Mont
Wheeler
Borah
la Tollette
Alt- Master
Lease
Dill
George
Harris
Heflin
King
McKellar
Shephard
Simmons
Smith
Tydings
Committee On Agriculture
Mr. Legge
International Harvester Company
Blue and Gray Dedicate Memorial to War Heroes
Veterans of the Blue and Gray joined in paying tribute to Illinois Civil War dead at the dedication of the Illinois memorial. The memorial rests among graves marking 2000 Illinois soldiers who fell beneath the Chickasaw bluffs in the National cemetery on the battle fields.
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Memphis
Tenn
the Blue and Gray
Illinois
Chickasaw
National Cemetery
Famine in North China Drives Grain Prices Upward
North China famine worsens with hundreds of daily fatalities reported. Grain prices rise to $12 to $15 per bushel amid shortages and hardship.
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Shanghai
China
Howley to Pilot Reds Next Year
Cincinnati Reds announce Dan Howley will manage the club next season. Harry Heilmann, long with Detroit, has been signed to join the Reds.
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Cincinnati
Dan Howley
St. Louis
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Tom Majors
Peru
Belleview
Municipal Light and Power Company
Rosedale
Greeley
North Platte Valley
Department of Agriculture
York
Deshler
Thayer County
Hebron
Chester
Falls City
Box Butte
Alliance
College of Agriculture
West Nebraska
Nebraska Panhandle
United States
Clare Noragon
Fairmont
W. D. Roth Grocery and Whitney Drug Stores
Bank of Fairmont
Vital Statistics Division
State Health Bureau
Esther Stern
Federal
Department of Agricultural Statistics
New York
San Francisco
New Yor
Brisco
Finney
Tadsole
Snoop
Felix
Awese
Howley
Reds
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