Buick With Buck Ague Nearly Hits Train At Crossing
A stranger driving a Buick nearly collided with Union Pacific Train No. 25 at the Main street crossing Tuesday afternoon. Flagman F. M. Carpenter signaled him to stop and then to back away but the car moved forward into the rails as the engine passed. The man struggled to back out after the train cleared, likely due to inexperience or fright, according to the Shelton Clipper.
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Union Pacific
Main Street
F. M. Carpenter
Shelton Clipper
Will Not Leave House Mrs Ferris Plans Move by Roller
Mrs George Ferris a Merrick county pioneer has decided to relocate her home to Central City without leaving the farm. The house will be rolled to new lots on Seventeenth avenue while she resides in it during the move to join her daughter and family.
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George Ferris
Merrick County
Central City
One Half of One Per Cent
A reader visited the Observer office and demanded the editor appear before Judge Bellows after discovering a bottle of private grape wine. He warned it would analyze more than a half of one percent, prompting a cheerful contribution to the judge. The writer notes the man’s lack of knowledge about Mrs. Cargill and observes a busy week among the staff.
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Observer
Judge Bellows
Gray wolves not extinct in state report
Dick Smith, a farmer near Liberty, tracked a large gray wolf with his two hounds and killed it. Six young wolves were captured and slain, seven pelts were sold in town for a twenty one dollar bounty. Lew Wunn zeker, east of here, killed a coyote and seven young, earning twenty four dollars in bounty. State Journal.
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Dick Smith
Liberty
Lew Wunnzeker
Here
State Journal
Burglar Tries Potter Home As Family Heads To Church
Mrs. Fred GC Johnson heard a noise in the basement and saw a man leaving the house after they returned from church. Marshall Fricke arrived to find the basement empty and the intruder had escaped through a basement window. No items reported missing. Potter Review.
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Fred GC. Johnson
Marshall Fricke
Potter Review
Broken Bow Man Injured In Car Crash Investigates Feed
Harvey Whitman of this city suffered a crushed hip six broken ribs and internal injuries when his Ford overturned into a ditch pinning him against the bank. He had traveled from Broken Bow to McKinley eighteen miles away to check cattle and, after finding them low on feed, turned toward Callaway to restock. A faulty steering gear caused the crash. Whitman crawled from the wreckage to a bridge and was helped by two passing boys to Joseph Harfele’s home, then returned to his own residence.
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Harvey. Whitman
Whitman
McKinley
Broken Bow
Whiteman
Joseph Harfele
State Journal
K K K Visit Grave at Hinkley Funeral
Four hooded members of the K K K appeared at Kearney cemetery Sunday after Policeman John Hinkley was laid to rest. Burial rites followed brief church services led by Masons. Hinkley died suddenly of heart failure at his Niceary home Thursday night while seated.
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Kearney Cemetery
John Hinkley
Masons
Officer Hinkley
Nicearney
Shelton Clipper
Escape from Death as Farm House Burns
Earl Whitehead a farmer from Bookwalter and his ten year old son barely escaped a house fire that consumed their home after midnight. Waking to a roof collapse they fled through a window with a blanket as flames overtook the room. The house and all contents were destroyed.
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Earl Whitehead
Bookwalter
Lincolin Journal
Petrified skull found by government worker near Bridgeport
R L Carrier of Bridgeport while blasting in solid rock twelve miles north of Bridgeport uncovered the petrified skull of a man. Carrier is a government employee based in Bridgeport.
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R. L. Carrier
Bridgeport
Mr. Carrier
State Journal
Kimball Boys Band Clears Over 200 Dollars
The Kimball high school auditorium hosted first concerts by both senior and junior bands on Monday and Tuesday. Audiences from Dix, Potter, Bushnell, Sidney and Pine Bluffs contributed to a crowd that praised the junior group in uniform. The program combined sacred, patriotic and popular numbers with readings and solos. More than 225 dollars were raised, and organizers expect a net of about 200 dollars.
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Dix
Potter
Bushnell
Sidney
Pine Bluffs
Johnson
Bonham
Kimball Observer
A New Way of Settling a County Court Case
Arthur Bouller sued J H Louthan for balance on an account after Louthan hired Bouller to do breaking at two dollars per acre. Louthan paid fifty dollars by check with no paid in full marking, witnesses testified it wasn’t on the check when cashed, and Bouller was awarded eighty seven dollars by the court.
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Arthur Bouller
J. H. Louthan
Louthan
Bouller
Boulier
Fremont Man Seriously Hurt After Car Collision
Rolland Ginn of Fremont and former resident of the city was seriously injured early yesterday when struck by a car and run over. Doctors fear a fractured skull. Mrs. Ginn left for Laramie after visiting sister Mrs. Berthe and was met by Mrs. Berthe on arrival, then accompanied to Fremont. North Platte Tribune.
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Rolland Ginn
Fremont
Funeral for Mrs Marvel in Aurora Draws Large Crowd
Sunday afternoon's funeral for Mrs W P Marvel of Aurora honored a well known resident who died from injuries after a taxi collision as she and her husband returned from church last Thursday evening. The service drew about a hundred attendees, one of the largest in Aurora.
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W. P. Marvel
Aurora
Canyon of Fun carnival set for May 3 to 5
The local post will stage The Canyon of Fun a wild west carnival from May 3 through May 5. Warrington plans inviting the state region convention to be held here in 1924.
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Warrington
Getting His Goat
A. Y. Sutton of Custer County Chief appeals to authorities about six months of children and dogs occupying their doorway and yard. The padlocked building has been entered and its contents disturbed. Sutton asks if any law can protect their home and stop the trespass.
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A. Y. Sutton
Custer County
Western Nebraska gain via Senator Bob Simmons address
Congressman Bob Simmons of Scotts Bluff spoke at Lincoln Lodge No. 19 banquet describing Western Nebraska’s soil and climate as ideal for crops such as wheat hay sugar beets potatoes and livestock. He cited Newport Stuart Dawes Cherry and other counties leading in hay cattle wheat and sugar beet production and noted dairying poultry irrigation and scenic sights as growth drivers.
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Nebraska
Bob Simmons
Scottsbluff
Lincoln Lodge No. 19
Temple
Newport and
Stuart
Dawes County
United States
Cheyenne County
Cherry County
Simmons
Cherry
Trolt
Lincoln Star
Disk Runaway Kills 19 Year Old on Nekuda Farm
Charles Pokorney aged nineteen was killed when his four horses pulling a disk ran away and dragged him beneath the implement on the Nekuda farm three miles northwest of Sargent. The accident occurred in foul weather and details of the chain of events are unconfirmed.
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Charles Pokorney
Nekuda
Sargent
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Kimball Boys
Mrs. Marvel
Hudson
Bentley Auto Company
Sidney, Nebraska
Grand Island
Wooldridge’s
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