Christmas Shop News From Sidney and Nearby
Pat Keenan did Christmas shopping in Sidney on Tuesday. Many neighbors and relatives visited around town and at the Eckert and McNulty homes. Several farm families traded hogs, cattle, and pelts, with fur purchases for February deliveries and wolves and coyotes increasingly frequent due to heavy snow.
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Osborn
Council Bluffs
Iowa
al Morrow
A. J. Davison
Jim Davison
Pat Keenan
Saskatchewan and
Hudson Bay Fur Co
Potter Social News Sweeps Cheyenne and Nearby towns
Mrs BE Biggs and Nora Hansen visit in Cheyenne while D H Shultz travels to Osceola on business. Quarantines for chickenpox affect families J Seyfang and J Johnson. Dr Ames treats a pleurisy case. Mrs Gundreson recovers. First snow arrives as visits occur to Sidney and Thanksgiving events echo through Potter. Installation of Rev H H Wanson as pastor, praise for sermons and music, and guild gatherings mark a busy week. Mrs Ivey starts a hilltop bakery and electrical treatments by Dr Ames draw interest.
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Lutheran Church
Fred Peterson
Hans Christensen
Stevens
J. Kerr
Luther League
R. Babcock
Nebraska
Foreman Atter
Ames
N. H. Hanson
Sextorp
Potter
Co. W. Johnson
Denver
Omaha
J. A. Graham
N. H. Troek
Grand Island
BE. H. Biggs
Cheyenne
D. H. Shultz
Osceola
Nora Hansen
P. Hanen
Meyers
Kaune
E. C. Banta
J. Seyfang
J. Johnson
Dorothy
Banta
Louis Lehman
Edward
Prof. Bracken
Hastings
Phillip Goering
Idaho
D. F. Shultz
Philip Goering
Albert Peterson
van Zandt
Wumick
Griffin
Susie
H. H Wanson
Harman
North Platte
Trygstad
Sidney
Ivey
Guild of the Lutheran Church
Hanson
Herman Johnson
Johnson
B. F. Thornburg
Snow falls in Bronson boosts wheat prospects
Snow blankets Bronson offering potential benefits to the wheat crop if accumulations continue. Local farming notes report J C Higgens sale attracting a large crowd, various hog butchering days, multiple visits by residents to Sidney, and several purchases including a Ford car and an organ. Social events include dances at Herdon and a barn gathering with good turnout despite poor weather. The Farmers Co operative Union met at Bunker Hill school, with many farmers joining.
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J. C Higgens
John Walsh
P. J. Beyer
A P Siebenaler
Henry Shmke
Sidney
A. P. Siebenaler
Herdon
I Stine
Frank Bernick
Mr. Higgins
Chas. Higgins
Jake Morfeld
Chambers
George Hicks
Nora Brown
Fred
Frank Beyer
Farmers Co-operative Union
Bunker Hill School House
Bronson School teacher hosts entertainment and pie social
Miss Sallach and her pupils at Bronson school held a Wednesday evening event on November 26 featuring old fairy tale plays and recitations. Miss Hart provided music at intermission while pies sold by Mr A F Anthony raised funds, with prices from twenty five cents to two dollars.
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Miss Sallach
Bronson School
Miss Hart
Grandma
A. F. Anthony
Mrs L Jessen Visits Brother in Cheyenne After Operation
Mrs L Jessen traveled to Cheyenne and stayed from Saturday to Sunday with her brother Hugh Moore who was recovering from an operation at their sister Mrs Barnuhart s home.
War Revenue Tax of 105 Million Hits Beer Heavy
Congress levies a war tax of 105 million to offset import losses from European disturbances with beer earmarked for about 50 million. A stamp tax on negotiable instruments yields 31 million, capital stock tax on banks 4.3 million, and tobacco and theatre taxes add the rest. The piece lauds the dollar bearing war burdens and urges unity for national credit. It cites luxuries like liquor, tobacco, sugar, silks, diamonds, millinery, furs, and autos as major revenue sources, noting total annual internal and customs revenue about 665 million with 450 million from luxuries. The war tax is rapidly enacted as industries march under the flag. It ends by stressing the value of home pride and agricultural labor.
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Congress
Milady
Hfe
Uncle Sam
Improved facilities for distribution urged nationally
The statement calls on citizens to address the need for better distribution infrastructure across the country, emphasizing practical measures to enhance logistics, efficiency, and access. Authorities and industries are urged to collaborate on modernization efforts to support economic growth and equitable service delivery.
Farmers Face Ruin From Overproduction and Mortgages
Over-production and crop mortgage force farmers into ruinous competition with each other. The remedy lies in organization and in cooperation in marketing.
Entry Tags Ready for Contest at State Club Event
Entry tags are now available for the annual state contest of Boys and Girls Clubs at the Agricultural Extension Service University Farm Lincoln during Organized Agriculture week. Entries may be made January 1 to 12. The event features sewing, cooking, corn, potato, and gardening club samples, reports, and stories.
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Agricultural Extension Service
University Farm
Lincoln
Corn Club
Potato Club
Vaccination Demonstrations Draw Large Nebraska Gatherings
Hog cholera vaccination demonstrations are popular at Nebraska farmers institutes with daily letters requesting demonstrations at institutes short courses and numerous gatherings. Respondents provide all available manpower and report hundreds of dollars saved in areas where hog cholera has been prevalent.
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Nebraska Farmers’ Institutes
Agricultural Extension Service
University Farm
Dry Land Exhibit Highlights Sorghum Trials at Lincoln Corn Show
During Organized Agriculture week at Lincoln January 18 to 23 the state experiment station and college of agriculture present grain sorghum types as promising central and western Nebraska crops. Featured varieties include dwarf milo feterita and dwarf kaolilang for grain production, showing success in western Kansas Oklahoma and Texas where grown more extensively than corn.
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College of Agriculture
Lincoln
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
County seeks agricultural agent for farmers group
Box Butte County plans a farmers association and expects to hire a county agricultural agent or demonstrator around the first of the year to assist local growers and organize demonstrations.
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Box Butte County
The Cradle and the Cross Reflections on Christmas Significance
The Christian Intelligencer argues the Christmas lesson is incomplete unless thoughts extend beyond Bethlehem to the crucifixion. It emphasizes the relation of Christ's humiliation and suffering to humanity's redemption and urges mindful reflection on both birth and death.
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Calvary
Bethlehem
Christian Intelligencer
In demoriam Tennyson muse on dawn birth of light
Fragmentary verse references a dawn during Christmas or hopeful birth, invoking Father and east. The lines appear to mirror Tennyson like cadence, celebrating a cheerful morn and the coming light.
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Tennyson
Tender Tale of Old Poem Recited as Christmas Vision
A reflective poem attributed to Jean Ingelow retells the Nativity in a modern urban frame. The speaker pleads for God to illuminate his word anew and to bring the ancient message to contemporary hearts. The piece links Bethlehem's ancient night to today, urging renewal of sacred meaning.
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Jean Ingelow
Paraphrase of a poet line echoes in humorist style
A humorist reworks the famous line about drinking with others or alone, quoting the essence that drinking together binds people while abstaining leads to isolation. The fragment suggests a clever turn on the poet’s adage.
Late shopping crowds and stock worries warned
A persuasive push notes that shopping late drives crowds down as you delay. It argues delaying leads to less choice, smaller stocks, and a quieter experience, though not fully solo, as others still shop later than peak hours.
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