High School Sees Lantern Slide Exchange and New Facilities
Semester exams finished and second semester work begins with plans to exchange lantern slides with Sterling and Julesburg and offer stereopticon entertainments free at the school. New playground equipment includes a nine foot swings frame for girls and two basketball goals for boys.
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Sterling
Julesburg
Colorado
Lou J. Beauchamp
Union Pacific Telegraph Office
Lodgepole
Sidney
Old Favorites. An Ember Picture Recalls the Dead
A fragment from James Russell Lowell reflects on embers reviving old faces and memories. The speaker sees a departed beloved image in the coals and recalls a night of rain and gravel, a timeless glow that never ages or fades.
Root O Gorman Fight Opens Over Panama Canal Free Passage
In Washington Senator Root and Senator O Gorman spar over repealing the free passage provision of the Panama canal act. O Gorman argues against surrender of domestic policy to foreign dictation and attacks arbitration. Newlands Martine and others oppose the repeal, predicting a bitter Senate fight that could restructure the canal law.
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New York
Washington
O’gorman
Root
Senate
Great Britain
Panama Canal
United States
Senator O'Gorman
Senator Root
Panama
O'Gorman
Newlands
Martine
House
Ottomans Accept Peace Terms From European Powers
The grand council of the Ottoman empire voted to accept the European proposal to end the war. About eighty delegates attended the session in Constantinople on January 23. The note of January 17 warned the porte that resistance could prolong the war and threaten the capital and possibly extend hostilities to Asiatic provinces.
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Constantinople
Grand Council
Ottoman Empire
Porte
Constantinue
350 Pilgrims Die in Mecca Caravan Tragedy
A caravan of 350 Mohammaden pilgrims from India to Mecca was overwhelmed by an avalanche and flood at a camp between Medina and Yembo. Only about 50 of the 400 pilgrims survived to reach Yembo. In a second item, Rosette Utah postmaster James M. Morris was shot by mail carrier William M Cobia after a land dispute.
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Mecca
Suakim
Egypt
India
Medina
Arabia
Yembo
Red Sea
Brigham City
Ulan
James M. Morris
Rosette
Utah
William M Cobia
Cobia
Moarvis
PurifyingAir With Lavender And Early Spring Notes
From our exchanges purifying air in offices and sick rooms with lavender scented paper and hot lavender water. Also discusses a proposed county school board system in Nebraska and a misfortune involving P B Scott whose forged checks led to a bank notice in Torrington.
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Scientific American
Irony of Fate Shapes Murray’s Path to Congress
Congressman William F. Murray of Boston recalls his early dream to attend West Point after serving in the Signal Corps in the Spanish American War. His father urged college instead, predicting Murray would appoint others to West Point, a prophecy that came true as Murray sits in Congress with military academy appointments to make.
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William F. Murray
Boston
West Point
Signal Corps
Murray
Congress
Harvard
Fit His Case Exactly
Miss Margaret Campbell of Ft Smith Ark recalls her father’s illness six years ago he bought Chamberlains Tablets after seeing an advertisement that fit his case exactly he has not been sick since her sister also benefited from them for sale by all dealers.
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Chamberlain
Margaret Campbell
Ft. Smith, Ark
Helen Gould Weds Finley J Shepard at Lyndhurst in Restrained Ceremony
Miss Helen Gould and Finley J Shepard wed in the Lyndhurst drawing room with only family and a few friends present. The ceremony was led by Rev Daniel Russell, followed by a gift rich reception and a charity meal for 1,000 homeless men served at the Bowery Mission.
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Bowery Mission
Tarrytown
Helen Gould
Finley J Shepard
Lyndhurst
East Side
Army
Navy
George Gould
Frank Gould
Edwin Gould
Howard Gould
Paris
New York
Rebels Seek Peace in Chihuahua Negotiations
Consul Leteh at Chihuahua reports rebels in the state seek peace and will meet with peace commissioners sent by special train from the federal government. The surrender would cover all rebel chieftains in Chihuahua. The War Department relieves Companies C and G, Twelfth Infantry, from the Lower California frontier duties and orders their return to the Presidio. About 500 Mexican federal troops are on the western frontier. The gunboat Wheeling sails from Tampa to Vera Cruz to protect Americans amid disorder and potential outbreaks.
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Washington
Letehzat
Chihuahua
Mex
War Department
Twelfth Infantry
California
Presidio
Wheeling
Navy
Tampa
Fla
Vera Cruz
Three Girls Jump From Burning Factory Window
In Columbus on June 23 three girls leaped from the fifth floor of the Bur dell Sweat Pad plant into the Seloto river. They swam to shore as firemen policemen and onlookers rushed to aid. The river was at flood height due to heavy rains.
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Columbus, O
Burdell Sweat Pad Company
Seloto
Woodmen Officers Yield on New Rates
The executive council of the Modern Woodmen of America decided not to enforce the new rate schedule and will defer to the head camp meeting in 1914. The injunction blocking the increase remains under court review as it heads to the Illinois Supreme Court.
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Rock Island, IL
Modern
Woodmen of America
Chicago
Lyon
Iiinois Supreme Court
Government talks stall on Union Pacific Southern Pacific merger
Attorney General Wickersham says no definite progress has been made in dissolving the merger between Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. The current plan reportedly considers separating Central Pacific from Southern Pacific and transferring it to Union Pacific, extending from Ogden to the Pacific coast.
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Washington
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Wickersham
Central Pacific
Ogden
Pacific Coast
Nebraska pair wed at sea near Los Angeles
Miss Clarissa Bell of Hastings and Walter G Smith of Carlton Nebraska chartered a Jaunutl and married at sea near Los Angeles after a brief courtship.
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Los Angeles
Clarissa Bell
Hastings
Neb
Walter G Smith
Carlton
Here
Efforts to Brake Balkans War Resumption Debated
London reports ambassadors meet to curb a renewed Balkan war. Balkan plenipotentiaries delay action until Turkey studies the ambassadors notes presented this week. Nechad Pasha says European powers backed the Allies, hindering Turkish concessions.
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Eeee
London
Duiely
Balkans
Nechad Pasha
Editor W. N. Huse Is Dead
Norfolk Nebraska January 14 W N Truse publisher of the Norfolk Daily News died after weeks of illness He helped establish the News in 1908 and built it into a leading Nebraska paper He aided the Nebraska Press association and supported state uplift His son N A Huse will carry on the newspaper work his father started
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Norfolk
Neb
W. N. Truse
Norfolk Daily News
Truse
Nebraska
News
Elise
Nebraska Press Association
N. A. Huse
Doan's Kidney Pills End Back Aches In Sidney
A local testimonial endorses Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney and bladder trouble. A Sidney woman reports relief from back and hip pain after one box, claiming her kidneys returned to normal and symptoms did not recur. Sold by all dealers at 50 cents. Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY as sale agents.
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Sidney
Dean
Doan
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Doan’s
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Kearney
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Neo
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Roach
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Torrington
Cheyenne Tribune
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Executive Council
Rock Island
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Market Phare
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Rose Street
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