Capitol Bills Seek Roads Refits And Curb On Ads
Many measures push highway system additions and financial reforms. Cone seeks standard bread weights while others press historical monuments funding, cattle tuberculosis testing, Sunday cinema bans, and tighter liquor penalties. Legislature considers workmen compensation, railroad tax, billboard bans, and state printing plant at the penitentiary amid budget cuts and a Connecticut toll and corn sugar debate.
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Osterman
State Railway Commission
la Chappelle
Penitentiary
Reformatory
Kehm
State Federation of Labor
Secretaries of Labor and Trade and Commerce
Lawmakers face flood of bills as 208 on deck
Speaker Rodman warns the house that too many bills threaten thoughtful review. By day 12, 208 measures crowded the calendar, 38 more than the same period two years earlier. H R 52 aims to repeal the ind terminate law, a central bill with police support but prison reformers opposing it. McMaster of Lincoln authored it.
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Congress
Hafferman
Wylie
State Department of Agriculture
Hovis
State Board of Control
Reed
Hamilton County
House
McMaster
Lincoln
Governor requests funds for state institutions in budget message
Governor McMullen proposes allocations for state institutions detailing repairs at Insane Hospitals in Ingleside and Norfolk, major cuts to new buildings and equipment, and adjustments at schools for the deaf and for the blind. Notable grants include Chadron and Wayne normal schools with targeted increases, while several building requests are rejected. The budget also cites a mythic origin for the number thirteen.
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McMullen
Insane Hospital
Ingleside
Kearney
Nebraska City
Insane
Norfolk
Omaha
Chadron State Normal School
Wayne Normal
Kearney Normal
Peru Normal
Chadron
Wayne
Peru
Europe Draws Closer By Inventive Genius And Cheaper Cables
The article tracks how ocean communication shrank distances from sail to steam to cables. It notes nineteen copper strands across the Atlantic and the Western Union’s 2500 letters per minute cable, with five to nine cent rates for New York London and Pacific Coast, respectively. It highlights postwar social use and company guided preset messages.
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London
New York
New World
Atlantic
Western Union
Pacific Coast
Mennonites Decline Nebraska Colony Location
The Mennonite Brethren of America will not locate a colony in Morrill County or the North Platte valley Nebraska, per a report from the society’s headquarters. Officials surveyed the valley months ago and found no suitable site for settlement.
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The
Mennonite Brethren of America
Morrill County
North Platte Valley
Nebraska
Society
Faith Group Purchases Keensburg Building for Colony
An announcement states a faith group has bought a building in Keensburg Colorado to establish a church and form the base for a new colony of their faith. The move signals planned expansion and settlement in the area.
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Ing
Keensburg
Colorado
First Vulcanizing Achieved by Rubber-Sulphur Contact
A historic note records that vulcanizing began when a pot of rubber overturned and touched sulphur. Separately, it states that thirty nine diseases may attack rose bushes, indicating extensive threats to horticulture.
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Ole Buck
Cone
Representative Cone
McGowan
Charlie Warner
Burke
Essam
Frush
Hunter
State Press Association
Gilligpie
Connecticut
Johnson
Furnas County
State Board of Agriculture
Purcell
Rodman
Loki
Europe
U.S.A. Theatre
Sidney Motor Sales Co
Bern
Western Securities Company
Frank Schroeder
Farmers Elevator
Fritz Brauer
Mgr
Sidney High School Chorus
Assis the
U. S. A. Theatre
Blue Ridge Mountains
Virginia
Johnny Hines
C. C. Burr
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