Nebraska News in Condensed Form from Polk and Nearby Areas
Polk forms branch of State Auto Association and celebrates sixteenth anniversary of Polk. Democratic state convention set for Omaha August 18 and prohibition meeting at Lincoln August 15. Modern Woodmen Encampment in Fremont August 7 to 10. Crete to receive free mail delivery twice daily in residences and four times in business. Western rail lines cut service due to strikes. Beatrice organizes local Nebraska Automobile association charter. Ambulatory births and deaths noted including a fifteenth Warrick child at Blair. Farm bureaus report harvest progress. wheat yields near Aurora at fifty bushels. Bloomfield rest room closed for lack of support. Moorefield church cross damaged in storm. North Nebraska grain delays from heavy rains. YMC A secretary named for Fremont. Thefts and accidents reported in Glenover Lincoln Mil ford Bennet and Colorado Springs. Special rail rates promised for harvest. Mil ford accident injures Adolph Lebsack. Lutheran Missouri Synod to meet in Omaha August 16 to 22. Golden wedding preparations end with Goerne’s death. Ehlers leads in voting in Otoe County for sixty consecutive years. Wymore chautauqua fund raised to be free. Lincoln suit against meat firm over steer incident. Additional game wardens deployed. duck and chicken counts up. Soldier Blood injured by explosion at Capital Beach.
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Polk
State Auto Association
Omaha
Lincoln
Fremont
Afton
Henry Fuller
David City
Jansen
Crete
Northwestern
Wabash Ines
Nebraska
Beatrice
Nebraska Automobile Association
Name Warrick
Blair
Polk Commercial Club
EF. E. McConaughey
Aurora
Cass County Farm Bureau
Bloomfield
Moorefield
Charles Atkinson
Janesville
Wis
Fremont Y. M. C. A
J. W. Coonley
Glenover
George Stephenson
Custer County
Frank Welch
L. O. Welchi
Bennet
Santa Fe
Colorado Springs
Great Northern Road
Northwest
Adolph Lebsack
Blue River
Milford
Miscouri Synod
The
Lutheran Church
Fred Goerne
South Omaha
William Ehlers
Avoca
Otoe County
Wymore
Jessie L.‘ Bozarth
George Koster
Koster
Pi Blood
Nebraska National Guard
Theatre scenery vs acting in American stage
Robert Allerton Parker argues in Arts and Decoration that lavish scenery should not overpower drama. He warns directors and critics that sets can dominate the theatre, and great drama rests on inner spiritual energy, not trappings, with examples from Duse Guilbert and Isadora Duncan.
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Duse Yvette Guilbert
Isidora Duncan
Broadway
Robert Allerton Parker
Club Boy’s Potato Enterprise Inspires Nevada Farmers
In Lyons county Nevada farmers faced a weevil threat to alfalfa and a local quarantine. Five agricultural club boys reportedly grew potatoes using extension service methods, yielding 9 to 13 tons per acre. Impressed, a farmer leased land, planted potatoes, and others joined, reaching 300 acres of potato growing by 1921.
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Fernley
Lyons County
Nevada
Agricultural Club
Extension Service
Dancer of Shamakha Seen Through A Georgia Bath Visit
An excerpt from The Dancer of Shamakha by Armen Ohanian recounts a trip to Tiflis for a second opera performance. Aunt guides the narrator to near boiling mineral baths and a jeweler’s shop where ear drops and gold ornaments trigger reflections on beauty, artistry, and the dancer as a dream beyond mere woman.
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Tiflis
Russia
Vosky
Shamakha
Georgia
Egypt
Armen Ohanian
Asia Magazine
Gasoline Tax Urged to Aid Road Building
Thomas H. MacDonald of the Bureau of Public Roads urges a one cent per gallon gasoline tax to fund road building and maintenance. He notes many states have adopted or are considering such a tax, with four states already pre 1921 and several others changing revenue sources toward road users.
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Thomas H. MacDonald
Hair
Bureau of Public Roads
United States Department of Agriculture
Mr. MacDonald
Arizona
Arkansas
Colorado
Connecticut
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Montana
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
South Dakota
Washington
The Shady Interval and the Loss of a Boy
Henry Ford warned that the dangerous age follows school leaving and before practical life, when no hand holds the boy. Society fails to provide guidance or purpose, turning study into abhorrence and work into horror, creating lifelong obstacles unless freedom is balanced with discipline.
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Henry Ford
Texaco Oils and Greases for Every Purpose
Texaco products advertised by M. W. Osborn Motor Co. offering oils and greases for wide automotive and industrial uses.
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Texaco
M. W. Osborn Motor Co
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Livoni & Son “Insurers
Crowley
Dray & Bus Line
Nature
Uncle Sam
Western
America
Europe
Burlington
Eirlee
Glacier
Yellowstone
Rocky Mountain
M. A. Shipman
Butlindy
Hania
Nolan’s Tire
Habler’s Garage
Hornaday Cafe
Fisk
Pat
Clinchfr Tire
Fok
Kellogg’s
W. K. Kellogg
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