Nebraska News Strip Highlights Local Milestones
Curtis celebrates N R Dickersons fifty eighth wedding anniversary. McCook opens a new $200000 school building with ceremonies. Hebron to host a 33000 egg capacity chicken hatchery on seventeen acres. Indianola drubs Minden for fourteenth straight win, 21 to 15. Federation of Nebraska Retailers to hold Omaha convention February 19 to 21. First district Federated Women’s clubs meet in Tecumseh April 2 to 4. Columbine incident as Harold La Fleur injured by car wheel. Counterfeit $10 notes surface in Nebraska. Lawmakers consider Nebraska made product trademark bill by Rep Bock. Holmesville bank vault attempt halted by alarm. University of Nebraska holds first public funeral for Jack Best. Maupin family noted for Nebraska roots and large brood. Cap the Elmwood dray horse praised for seventeen years of service. Regents elect Webster as president and Judson as vice president. Eagle weighing 60 pounds killed in Riverview Park after attack on elk. Gustav Beschorner returns from relief work in Russia. William Maha injured after a fall during a somnambulistic ramble. H M Wheeler urges Nebraska tree planting to prevent future lumber shortage.
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Federation of Nebraska
Omaha
Federated Women’s Clubs of
Nebraska
Tecumseh
Harold la Fleur
Harry la Fleur
Callaway
Federal Reserve
Secret Service
Bock
Butler County
Holmesville State Bank
Beatrice
R. E. Sherman
The
State University
Jack Best
Will M. Maupin
Gering
Midwest
Maupin
Cap
Fred Prentice
Elmwood
L. B. Cunningham
Board of Regents of
the State University
John R. Webster
Frank W. Judson
Riveview Park
Gustav Beschorner
Lincoln
National Lutheran Council
Russia
Volga
William Maha
Table Rock
H. M. Wheeler
U. S. Forestry Service
Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Nebraska Forestry Association
Phosphorescent Pearls Shine In Pearl Dance Scene
In a theatre show a prima donna and ten ballet girls wear pearl bedecked gowns for a climactic pearl song. The costumes glow under greenish light in darkness, then reveal nothing odd when lights return. Behind scenes 250000 pearls in a padded trunk insured for 100000 are illuminated for twenty minutes before the performance.
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Atendant
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Factors Influencing Wheat Winterkill and Yields
The Weather Bureau and USDA note winterkill in wheat depends on many factors. Fall conditions shape rooting and winter hardiness, while March to June weather largely determines final yields. Main injuries include heaving smothering cold and drought with different causes in soil drainage and snow cover.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Counties Surveyed in Fight Against Barberry Eradication Drive
The fifth year of the campaign against barberry ends with 197 counties surveyed by the US Department of Agriculture, including 15 Minnesota and one Iowa county funded by states. 209,397 bushes found on 5018 properties. 133,305 escapes on 830 farms. 729,721 bushes removed from 6408 properties. Area spans 13 wheat states, each enacting removal laws. Montana, Colorado, Wyoming completed original surveys. other states cover about 422 counties with 304 remaining. Studies show barberry bushes drive vast wheat losses, underscoring need to remove the last bush.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Minnesota
Iowa
Montana
Colorado
Wyoming
Improved Wheat Varieties In The Bureau Of Plant Industry
The Office of Cereal Investigations reports new wheat varieties Forward and Honor from Cornell cooperation now grown commercially with seed for sale in New York. Nota, a bearded hard red spring, shows stem rust resistance near that of strong durum types after trials. Kota seed stock rose to about 6000 bushels in 1921 with most sown in 1922 and other department varieties continue to perform well commercially.
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Office of Cereal Investigations
Bureau of Plant Industry
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Agricultural Experiment Station
Cornell University
New York State
Kota
Hubam The Universal Seed Clovers For Bee Pastures And Manure
Giant annual white sweet clover adapted to lime soils promises in one season what biennial types yield in two. Discovered 1919 by Prof. Hughes at Iowa State College, it grows 4 to 60 feet in four months in dry summers. Seed offers at 18.00 per bushel or 10.00 per half bushel, cleaned and scarified, 99.08% purity. Written orders to J O Maley Proctor Colorado or W N Maley Sidney Nebraska.
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Hughes
Iowa State College
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News OF Nebraska
N. R. Dickerson
Curtis
McCook
Dubois
Hebron
Indianola
Minden
Spillman
of Pierce
Hubam
J. O. Maley
Proctor
W. N. Maley
West Sth Street
Sidney
Ady
Sidney, Nebraska
Phene
Francis J. Herbert
Idelwild
Section
Osborn
Ranch
Huber
Sol. A. A. Sharp
American Bank
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