Mae Murray describes bull fight experience for Fascination film
Mae Murray recounts attending a San Sebastian bull fight during production of Fascination at U S A Theatre. She describes the visual pageantry and danger, noting she left when the second bull neared death and that the bull dance in the film echoes these sensations. Tiffany production Fascination was written by Edmund Goulding and directed by Robert 4 Leonard.
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Mae Murray
San Sebastian
Spain
Metro
Robert 4. Leonard
Tiffany
Edmund Goulding
Talk and Listen in Telephone Use by Lawyers and Officials
A group of lawyers and court officials were asked what they do besides talking on the telephone. One writes names, another embellishes numbers, others draw pyramids, squares, angles, circles, and the letter N followed by O. One man recalls the figure 5 to remind him of minutes. The reactions show varied psychological quirks and a touch of humor about habit and mind.
State Industrial Notes From A Prairie Telegraph Era
Thirty five years ago a Chicago contractor praised the telephone enabling new business models and tall buildings with electric elevators. The note mentions bond votes to bring 24 hour electric service to Unadilla and Palinra via Nebraska City central station, and recalls there were only one telephone in the world 46 years earlier owned by Professor Bull. It notes 19,000,000 telephone conversations last year, election of J. E. Davidson as third vice president of the National Electric Light Association in Atlantic City, and outlines public works plans including a $400,000 steel and concrete bridge over the Platte at Oranpolis, a $55,900 highway survey Alliance to Hemingford, a 50,000 gallon reservoir at Grant, Wakefield street paving for $40,000, and a $40,000 modern school at Bradshaw.
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Chicago
Unadilla
Palingra
Nebraska City Central
Professor Bull
J. E. Davidson
Omaha
National Electric Light Association
Atlantic City
Burlington Railroad
Platte River
Orenpolis
Theobald Blarkey Killed After Horse Accident
Theodor Blarkey was thrown from a horse on Wednesday evening while riding a four horse harness. The mule broke loose and the horse bucked, tossing him into a wire fence and injuring his back. He was taken to Holdredge for aid but died Friday at 2:40 AM due to spinal injuries, according to Farnam Echo.
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Theodor Blarkey
Holdredge
Farnam
Exercise Spare Tire and the Need for Monthly Use
The Farm Life piece likens a pneumatic tire to a human body with bones and skin and cautions that spare tires age poorly if left unused. It notes that regular use for a day each month promotes molecular movement in rubber, helping preserve wear resistance and mileage.
Arizona Boys Win Prizes in Pocket Gopher Contest
A March Maricopa county contest funded by the Biological Survey and the University of Arizona with local business support led 1135 boys to trap and kill over 36 000 pocket gophers. Total cost 178 dollars, about half a cent per gopher, saving an estimated 10 000 dollars yearly in crop and orchard protection compared with the old bounty system.
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Maricopa County
Arizona
Biological Survey
United States Department of Agriculture
University of Arizona
What Not to do When on a Game Preserve
A May 4 directive under the Biological Survey forbids entering game reserves without permission carrying firearms without permission letting dogs run at large making fires cutting damaging or removing timber allowing domestic animals to enter without permission and injuring or destroying signs fences or other United States property.
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Biatogical Survey
Secretary of Agriculture
United States
Invitations Issued for World Dairy Congress in 1923
The United States has sent invitations to about 50 foreign governments for the World Dairy Congress to be held in fall 1923. The USDA cooperates with the World Dairy Congress Association in preparations. A general program committee led by L A Rogers will select speakers and topics across four divisions: research and education, industry and economics, regulation and control, and national health.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Dairy Congress Association
L. A. Rogers
Department of Agriculture
C. H. Eckles
University of Minnesota
O. F. Hunziker
Blue Valley Creamery Co
Chicago
Fred Rasmussen
Pennsylvania
H. C. Sherman
Columbia University
Wallace
Association
C. W. Larsen
N. H. Rawl
Advertising as Public Service in Gas Electric Slogan
Robert M. Searle president of Consolidated Gas and Electric argues newspaper advertising cuts costs and serves the public. He claims ads are the shortest route to maximum business and the lowest costs for customers, insisting advertising is a public service.
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Robert M. Searle
Consolidated Gas & Electric Corporation
Veterinarian Dr B F Tumbleson Killed by Horse in Genoa
Dr B F Tumbleson seventy seven (67) of Genoa longtime local veterinarian was fatally kicked by a horse he was treating last week. He leaves a widow.
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B. F. Tumbleson
Genoa
State Journal
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Bull
Mae
Livoni & Son
Insurers
Magerises
Leo Osborn
Sidney
The
Variety Store
Oberfelder & Co
Farmers Union
Cheyenne Co. Trading Co
Sidney Shoe Hospital
Furor Grocery
A. R. LeSueur
Sidney Mercantile Co
U.S. Spillman
Republican
Nebraska University Law School
Dreds
Sidney Artificial Ice and Cold Storage Company
Nebraska
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