Nebraska items mix fires floods and trials across towns
Nebraska news: Hard-cut banks along the Missouri in Peru and Brownville. a Dorchester fire destroys eight buildings. widespread irrigation and alfalfa plantings near Ceresco and Banner county stock-raising growth. a suicide near Omaha and embezzlement trial of ex city treasurer Henry Boxy. courthouse bond vote passes in Boone county. rail regulation meeting in Washington. depot project advancing in Plattsmouth. multiple court and crime notes across counties.
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Missouri
Peru
Brownville
Woopwakp
Ceresco
J. O. Lesser
Meadow Grove
Dorchester
Warter
Burwell
Eva Hockey
Omaha
Henry Boxy
Acorn Crib
Red Cloud
Wance
Christian Endeavor
P. S. George
Stromsburg
Banner County
Plattsmouth
Nebraska State Homeopathic Medical Society
Farrell
Farrell & Co
Rupert Taylor
Abbott
Columbus
Scheerer
Barnes
Roy ConNor
Charles Gonnor
Kearney
James
Joan Caasty
Falls City
Supreme Court
Tur Antelope Tribune
Gates College
Neligh
Greeley County
Holcomb
Ne Nuckelleé County Teachers’ Institute
Superior
Dusenberry
West Riding
Moline Plow Co
Nebraska
Neb
Goehner
Rex F. Cowpeny
State Bank
Chadron
Chadron Banking Company
Kimbell County
Grorce Switzer
Ek, Hubner
Nehawka
William Bell
Thayer County
Charles E. Hall
Gage
Plymouth County
Iowa
Tun Stake Bank of
Bethany
State Banking Board
District Court
Boone County
Secretary of State
Railroad Commissioners
Washington
Perkins
Holdrege
Valley County
Ord
North Loup
Arkansas
Nebraska Republicans Choose Delegates At Large In Omaha
Nebraska Republicans at the Omaha convention elected John L. Webster Thomas P. Kennard and Peter Jansen as delegates at large to the St Louis national convention by acclamation. George H Thummel won the fourth delegate at large after a close vote, with O G Smith judged as alternate.
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Nebraska
John L. Webster
Douglas
Thomas P. Kennard
Lancaster
Peter Jansen
Jefferson
Georgek H. Thummel
Hall
O. G. Smith
Buffalo
C. BR. Dempstre
Gage L. . Judd
Boone
A. Wright
Lass
Omaha
St Louis
Geo. H. Thummel
Matt Daugherty
Ogalalla
John T. Mallalieu
Republican State Committee
Sedgwick
York
Republican State Central Committee
Mallalieu
William P. McCreary
Hastings
Thurston
G. M. Lambertson
Cadet Taylor
W. H. Needham
Thomas Wolfe
John J. Lamborn
Henry Gibbons
J. L. McPheely
Minden
McCreary
Thomas P. Kenpard
Crounse
St. Louis
W. H. Harrison
Hall County
George B. Thummel
Webster County
Stanton County
Thummel
Sullivan
Custer County
Matthew Daugherty
Sheridan County
Banner County
Buffalo County
Valley County
Daugherty
Boone County
A. C. Wright
Cass County
Judd
Mr. Dempster
Wright
Nebraska Republicans Endorse McKinley and Trans Miss Exposition
The Nebraska state convention adopts a platform opposing free coinage repeal, endorses McKinley for president, and backs the Trans Mississippian Exposition in Omaha 1898. Delegates call for national backing and instruct their four delegates to secure McKinley’s nomination. The party also endorses a strong American policy including Monroe Doctrine enforcement and protection of labor and industries.
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Thurston
Nebraska
William McKinley
United States
Republican Party
Cuba
W. J. Connell
Omaha
Connell
Corbin
Johnson County
John B. Wright
Lancaster County
Congress
Colliseum
Trans-Mississippi
M’kinley
Douglas County
McKinley
Manderson
Irank Collins
Republican Party of
Ohio
Los
St.Louis
Thurston praised as defender of constituents in Nebraska convention
The Nebraska convention backed Senator John N. Thurston with a vote of thanks to Chairman McCreary and adjourned after declaring the substitute roll call carried. The resolution lauds Thurston for courage to vote with the sovereign people against organized opposition.
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William McKinley
Collin
C. E. Holland
Seward County
John N. Thurston
Seth Mobley
Grand Island
McCreary
Notable Rejections and Odd Facts from a Century Ago
The piece lists brief notes: E. C. Stedman dismissed from Yale after refusing a professor’s chair. Henry Arthur Ones denies dropping the Jones name. Frederick Remington once a clerk in an express office. Capt. Alfred Sanford of St. Louis aged 73 sent to the poorhouse. Timoteo Panduro a Mexican Indian clay modeler at Atlanta winning medals. Appellate judges vote twelve to six not to wear gowns. Rev. Myron Reed’s 75 mile journey to lecture. Rabbi I M Wise notes 10 000 Jewish weddings officiated in forty years with few divorces.
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E. C. Stedman
Yale
Henry Arthur Ones
Jones
Henry Arthur
Frederick Remington
Expres
Capt
Alfred Sanford
St. Louis
Ulysses S. Grant
Timoteo Panduro
Atlanta
Appellate Division
New York Supreme Court
Myron Reed
Denver
Hall City
Kaw
Colby
I. M. Wise
Cincinnati
Governess to King of Spain to Earn 3750 Annual
Short notes list diverse facts including a salary for the English governess to the Spanish king, Amherst College eclipse expedition led by Prof David P Todd to observe 1896 eclipse from Gozo Japan, crime rates by marital status, Ohio oil wells, Kirkridge output, London height limits, Bismarck birthday cards.
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Spain
Amherst College
David P. Todd
Gozo
Japan
Ohio
London
New York
Vienna
Prince Bismarck
Hints of fashion and social quirks travel through time
A collection of playful lifestyle tips and social etiquette notes. It mentions lime chloride to banish rats, bronze buttons on velvety bodices, hand painted knife handles, almond stuffed dates for matinee girls, zither fashion, a restaurateur's view on sweets, bridal wear combos in satin and sable, a single white rose boutonniere, mixed commentary on hair color trends, camel gait and ostrich home run analogies, cautions about blue lamp shades, and family surprises amid assumed malice.
Notable Women in History and Modern Society Highlighted
The piece recalls the Abyssinian king Menelek and his mother once beggar at the palace gates. It also profiles Mrs. John F. Forepaugh, a Philadelphia theater manager admired for businesslike methods, and Mrs. Besant, a theosophist and divorced novelist’s sister with varied religious experiences, including nunhood and study with Huxley.
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Huxley
Humorous Quips and Jests Across Classical Papers
A collage of one liner humor and quick retorts from 19th century papers. Jests cover doctors and specialists, sermons and long talks, portraits and self image, aging whisky, self control, manners and jostling manners among social circles. Included are cartoons of lodging house nerves, a lawyer’s discipline and a Sunday school anecdote.
Know Thyself and Medical Advances Help the Suffering
Bradford era notes reform in medical science and praises Dr Williams Pink Pills through Mrs Rowend of 276 East Main Street who reports long standing female trouble and heart weariness improved after using nine boxes. Pills sold by druggists or mailed from Schenectady at 50 cents a box or six for 2.50.
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Bradford
George Rowend
East Main Street
Rowend
Two Choice Volumes and a Wry Library Joke
A Washington Star quip notes a foreign gentleman stating a man’s library has only two books. When asked what they are, the pair reveal they are the bank book and the check book, implying financial literacy over scholarly reading.
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Washington Star
Half Fare Excursions on the Wabash to St Louis and East
The Wabash offers round trip for one fare with $2 added to destinations south with departures June 16 for the National Republican Convention in St Louis July 9 for the Christian Endeavor Convention in Washington and July dad for the National People and Silver Convention in St Louis. Read details at 1415 Farnam or Paxton Hotel block. Call George N. Clayton Omaha Neb.
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Wabash
St. Louis
AP Rotnts
National Republican
St. Uis
National Educational Association
Buffalo
Christian Endeavor
Washin
National People and Silver Convestion
Farnam
Paxton
Clatton
N. W
Omabha
Neb
Energy of Gemini Avalanche Estimated by French Engineer
A French engineer calculated the waste energy of the September Gemini avalanche in the Alps at about 1 400 million metric tons. He says the event’s fall lasting one minute equaled roughly a million horsepower and, if converted to electricity, could have powered 90,000 incandescent lamps for five hours daily over a year. Chicago Record reports.
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Alps
Chicago Record
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