May Limit Court Stories and Coal Legislation Debate
Lincoln Nebraska Attorney General Pilgrim authors a bill to let cities sell coal gasoline and kerosene to curb monopolies and high prices at filling stations. Laughlin seeks limits on printed court trials while Cooper battles bounties and officials investing public funds.
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Ole Buck Lincoln
Neb
Bpiliman
Griswold, Cooper
McGowan
Laughlin
Benator Cooper
Falls City
State Fair Board
Capitol
Lindell Hotel
Nebraska
McMullen
Clark Perkins
Humphrey
Senate
Board of Control
House Judiciary Committee
Walter R. Johnson
Cooper
Egger
Woman presides over Nebraska house for first time
Representative Sarah Muir of Lancaster County becomes the first woman to preside over the Nebraska house. She serves as chairman of the committee of the whole, directing decorum and rulings while the body sits. Some members tested how to address the chair with phrases like Madam Chairman and Miss Chairman.
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Nebraska
House of Representatives
Sarah Muir
Lancaster County
Miss Muir
Dodge Car Recovered At Sidney Wednesday
Harold Dickenson Clifford Robinson and Bus Lewis started west to seek work at Golden Gate. They left Monday night in a borrowed Dodge, stored it in Sidney, and sent the storage ticket to Emil Schadwinkle who later drove it back to Alliance.
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Harold Dickenson
Clifford Robinson
Bus” Lewis
West
Golden Gate
Dickie
Los Angeles
Bus
Emil Schadwinkle
Sidney
Mr. Schadwinkle
Alliance
Alliancce Times Herald
Wanted to Go Up Together in Logan County
A woman called the sheriff at 11 30 Friday night seeking assistance after her husband, an inmate at Logan County jail, had fallen ill or needed help not long after the officer on duty had retired. The details are incomplete in the available text.
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Logan County
Woman seeks jail visit as world end rumor spreads
A Sterling Advocate report notes a distressed woman wanting to go to jail to be with her husband, denying sleep and offering to stay at the depot until danger passes. The sheriff denies both requests while noting the world did not end Friday night and the husband remains a county boarder.
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Coud
Sterling Advocate
Sheriff Arrested in McPherson County Case
Ray E. Newman sheriff of McPherson County was arrested this week for alleged violation of law with a trial set for February 23. After a car search, authorities found three to four gallons of hootch. The men fined $100 and costs each. car confiscated. One man surrendered horse and saddle when unable to pay. Sheriff sought return of property but learned it was elsewhere.
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House
Farm Bureau
State Hall
Westervelt
McMullen
Board of Control
Gene Westervelt
Scottsbluff Republican
Wiltse
Representative Byers
Grand Island
Milford
Hastings
Vance
State Bank Commission
Warner
Harrington
Griswold
Lincoln
Union
Jeary
Railway Commission
Jones
Keck
Supreme Court
Wingett
Omaha
Douglas County
Pell Barrows
California
Senate
Congress
Ray E. Newman
McPherson County
Tryon
Sheriff Takes Possession In Suit Over Saddle Theft
A sheriff forcibly claimed a horse from a farmer’s son after a dispute over a saddled mount. The son filed suit for personal injuries from being removed from the horse. North Platte context notes Sheriff Newman’s local prominence and public interest in the case. The article then shifts to a pre 1920 overview of farmers co operatives and the rise of regional and state wide bodies in United States agriculture.
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Newman
North Platte
United States Department of Agriculture
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Genator Laughtin
Caee
DODGE
United States
Martin W. Dimery
Cheyenne County
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