Local notes from the Draw and surrounding area
The report lists visits and movements of residents including D. W. Lewis and wife at Ed Nelson and J. M. Nelson at Glassburn ranch in their new Overland car. It notes school enrollments, cattle sales, homestead claims, sick lists, and upcoming threshing amid various local movements and visits around Sidney and the Draw.
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Telegraph
D. W. Lewis
Ed Nelson
J. M. Nelson
Glassburn Ranch
Conscience and truth urged as guide to action
Compiled quotes critique blind zeal and strict loyalty to a cause. Dr Frank Crane defends truth as the soul’s nourishment and calls for decisive action when conscience instructs. Keble urges resolve, avoiding hesitation in moral duty.
Rottman Recovers from Fort Crook Wreck Injuries
Fred W. Rottman cashier of Otoe County National Bank recovers after the Missouri Pacific wreck at Fort Crook where his wife daughter and father in law were killed. The State Bar Association will meet in Lincoln December 28 and 29 to consider revisions to the criminal and civil codes.
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Fred W. Rottman
Oteo County National Bank
Missouri Pacific
Fort Crook
State Bar Association
Gm Lincoln
The
Bar Association
The Past and the Immutable Door by Emerson
A reflective verse fragment contemplates time and fate as debts paid and pasts sealed. The speaker asserts that no fortune, guard, or false agent can alter the immutable truth fixed behind an adamantine door. Despair yields to permanence as even death loses its sting against fixed history.
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Emerson
American aristocracy and the melting pot of birth
The poem critiques hereditary privilege and declares that American identity blends people from many nations. It argues birth cannot guarantee status in a democracy and ridicules snobbery, suggesting lineage may be outweighed by work or by a brighter “plebeian vocation.” It closes with a jab at social pretensions.
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John G. Saxe
Valor Memoir of Ernest Weekly Honored by Chicago Jury
A coroner's jury in Chicago lauded Ernest Weekly for saving Miss Celeste Urculli's life at great personal risk. The verdict labeled his death accidental and praised his valor after he leapt into danger to shield her as a locomotive struck. Weekly’s body was sent to his mother in Valley, Nebraska.
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Chicago
Ernest Weeekly
Celeste Urculli
Valley, Neb
Wilson Sees Need for Legal Remedies to Money Trusts
Governor Woodrow Wilson argues that a concentrated money power threatens national economic health and demands lawful reforms. He cites Mr Untermyer’s Paris interview noting finance interests block profitable ventures worth millions if they conflict with banking firms. Wilson insists targeted reforms must apply across the financial system without wrecking private wealth.
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Untermyer
Paris
New York
Money Trust
Stomach and Liver Tablets Promote Gentle Relief
If you have young children you have perhaps noticed that disorders of the stomach are their most common ailment. To correct this you will find Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets excellent. They are easy and pleasant to take and mild in effect. For sale by all dealers.
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Chamberlain
Gary proposes nationalized big business with strong regulatory body
Elbert H. Gary of United States Steel urged the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee to create a corporation or trade commission with absolute power to regulate large firms. He called for clear laws and publicity, lifetime judges, and an eight year president to curb unrest and prevent political influence in business. Gary denied Gary dinners aimed at fixing prices and urged a commission to judge mergers for public good.
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Washington
Elbert H. Gary
United States Steel Corporation
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
United States
Trade Commission
Gary
Four find watery graves on Fabre line steamship Santa Anna
The Fabre line steamship Santa Anna encountered a monstrous sea on November 23 near Naples as it neared New York. Four seamen Durand Sarti Calisti and Quarelli were swept overboard. Quareli later hauled aboard, while Faixa died two days later from a broken spine after serious injuries to Reumien Pazetti the ship's boy.
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Aremendous
Fabre Line
Santa Anna
New York
Naples
Pavey
Durand
Sarti
Calisti
Quarelli
Quarelil
Faixa
Reumien
Pazett
Mrs Patterson Acquitted in Chicago Case
Gertrude Gibson Patterson was found not guilty by a Denver jury of murdering her husband Charles A Patterson of Chicago in Denver on September 25. The defendant showed emotion, regained composure, and shook hands with counsel and jurors as a crowd applauded outside the courtroom.
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Denver
Gertrude Gibson Patterson
Charles A. Patterson
Chicago
Imperial troops fend off revolt at Nanking gates
Nanking reports a concerted attack on the city gates by revolutionaries failed. Imperial commander Lieutenant General Feng Kwo Chang retains full possession of Nanking. General Li Yuen Hang at Wuchang seeks reinforcements as revolutionaries prepare ships and men to respond.
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Nanking
Feng Kwo Chang
Li Yuen Hang
Wuchang
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Sidney
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Carrie Glassburn
Eads
Bentley
Ivey
Ben Barron
Dye
Bolton
Mr. Kirkpatrick
Co. A. Glassburn
Mrs. Brown
Leslie Cunningham
Mrs. Dye
Mr. Howe
John Gillespie
C. G. Lawrence
Mrs. Carnson
George Gladwell
Mr. Hazlett
KE. E. Glassburn
Gladys Nelson
Harry Lockhart
Gore
Frank Crane
Kebie
Harvey
Henry W Longfellow
Praise Weekly
VALOR
Nebraska
Economic Health
X Dra OL
the Bennett Co
Omaha, Neb
the Bennett Go
Harney Sts., Omaha, Neb
Steel Corporation
Senate
Corporation
Sidney Lumber CO
U. P
Rock Springs
Hanna Coal
Sidney Mercantile Co
OUR
American Bank
Sidney, Nebr
Dan
A. Pease & Sons
Sidney, Nebraska
Schlitz Beer
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