A Memorable Watch Meeting in a Lodiana Church
A revival night at a Lodiana church twenty five years after its founding drew heavy crowd and unruly disruption. Deacons Wiley and Mills exposed as they restored order with firm discipline and prayer guiding several youths to kneel for repentance. The revival blossomed into a moving scene as more townspeople joined in prayer, marking an unprecedented turning point in the church’s history.
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Lodiana
Wiley Vod Mills
al “Ada
Rey
den Wiley
Breth
Eber Barkewy
Wiley
Diddy
Mills
Wessure
Ebenezertsher
Pipal- Ir
Mey
Iona
Sister Mills
al Ene
Ebenezer Unser
Christmas in the Foster Ranch Community
Local families gather for Christmas events with church services, a Lutheran program, tree decorations and gift sacks for students. Measles affect plans, with several children home and some numbers cut from the program. Neighbors visit, celebrate, and share meals as the season continues.
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Barbara Collart
Ralph Reinmuth
Yeske
Ehmke's
Explosion at Little Hulton mine kills and traps workers
An explosion followed by fire at the Little Hulton colliery in Boston England claims many lives. Seven men and a boy were rescued. twenty bodies were recovered as rescuers fought heavy falls and coal slack amid dangerous conditions.
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Boston
England
Little Hulton
Scue
Temple Iron Co Enjoined as Illegal Combination
United States circuit court in Philadelphia issued a decree permanently enjoining the Temple Iron Co from doing business, ruling it an illegal combination in restraint of trade. The ruling stops railroad companies owning its stock from controlling Temple Iron, while other government contentions were dismissed without prejudice. It remains unclear if the government can reopen other alleged combinations in its bill of complaint.
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Philadelphia
Temple Iron Company
Reading
United States Circuit Court
Editor Fires At Two Men In Rock Lake Whisky Dispute
In Rock Lake North Dakota on December 22 editor Treadwell of the Rock Lake Ripples shot at George Diggins and Charles Bills after a whisky theft dispute. Diggins was wounded in the lung and Bills in the neck. both are expected to recover. Treadwell is jailed at Cando.
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Rock Lake
N. D
George Diggins
Charles Bills
Treadwell
Diggins
Bills
Turnbull Faces Cross Fire In Baldwin Will Case
Los Angeles witnesses say Mrs Lillian Ailey Turnbull, key heir in the Lucky Baldwin estate suit seeking 2,510,000 for her daughter, faced a wary cross examination with many letters from the past surfaced to challenge her claims.
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Los Angeles
Lillian Ailey Turnbull
Baldwin
Creek woman surrenders after shooting full blood Creek man
Tulsa reports that Mary, a Creek Indian woman from near Sand Springs, gave herself up after shooting John Goodman, a rare full blood Creek, who allegedly forced an entrance into her home.
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Tulsa
Okla
Big Mary
Sand Springs
John Goodman
Goodman
Big Family Christmas Dinner at Winston
Clarence Curtis and wife hosted about forty eight guests for Christmas Day dinner at Winston. The Curtis family shared the meal with relatives including the Ribbles Colbys Lockwoods Pearsons and others tied to the Curtis clan. Most homesteaders east of the railroad are related and enjoy such gatherings.
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Winston
Clarence Curtis
Curtis
Ribbles
Colby's
Lockwoods
Pearsons
Robbins Takes Daughter to Ear Specialist for Persistent Illness
E G Robbins, a Peetz homesteader, left for Omaha Tuesday with his young daughter who suffers from measles pneumonia and severe earache. He hopes a specialist can protect her hearing and ease her pain.
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E. G. Robbins
Peetz
Omaha
The Wrong Kind
Midnight passes with a tedious bore and a witty exchange about music. A bargain appears for two-story property on the North side with implied arms available and a home land company note.
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Lota and Agorthier Tasprics
Home Land Company
Former Indiana Banker Released From Prison
Justus L. Broderick, once a banker in Indianapolis, was released from federal prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, after serving a ten year sentence for violations of national banking laws. He will spend Christmas at home.
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Leavenworth, Kan
Justus L. Broderick
Indianapolis
Threat to use shotgun during Nebraska court action
James Koesch a Bohemian threatened to enforce his rights in court with a shotgun in Judge Kennedy's district court during the trial of Kvesek v Swift Co. The judge found Kvesek in contempt and promised to file a formal contempt charge after the case. Lincoln reports that the Rome hotel auditorium will host sessions of the Nebraska Lumber Dealers association meeting in Omaha on January 19 and 20 with about 350 attendees expected from 400 members.
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Omaha
James Koesch
Kennedy
District Court
Kvesek
Swift & Co
Lincoln
Rome Hotel
Nebraska Lumber Dealers’ Association
Widow Jemima Hobson Dies at Enid. Pioneer of Six States
A telegram from Lyons Nebraska reports Mrs. Jemima D Hobson aged ninety one died in Enid Oklahoma. She was a pioneer known in Indiana Missouri Iowa Nebraska Colorado and California.
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Lyons, Neb
Jemima D. Hobson
Enid
Okla
Indiana
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
Colorado
California
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Sidney, Neb
THE
First National Bank
Sheffer
Havings
Sidney, Nebraska
C. J. Hellwig
North Side Blacksmith Shop
Pioneer
Rom No
Superior Service
E. R. Yaegle
Harper & Wright
C. M. Wright
Sidney
B. E. Robinson
W. E. Swatzlandeh
Fred Korsmeyer
Foster Ranch
Mrs. Halston
N. Perkins
John Byers
Buschs and
Thiemannn’s
Ed Mayers
Halston
Henry Horst
Sam Davis
N. W. Foster
Daiton
Temple Iron CO
Warpath
Mrs. Turnbull
Jemima Hobson
Becker
New York Sun
DR. King’s
M. North
Robinson
H. T. Dean
the North-Robinson-Dean Co. Incorporated
Alden Station
Bridgeport
Neb
Alliance
H.T. Dean
Grand Island
Cairo
New Orpheum Theatre
Yaegle & Guire
Schlitz Beer
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