School Cost and Enrollments in Five Nebraska Towns
From the superintendent’s Bayard report, Sidney shows school costs per pupil of 75.60 while enrollment reaches 690 pupils in five towns. Gering, Sidney, Bayard, Alliance, and Scottsbluff are compared on expenses, average salaries, and pupil per teacher ratios with Sidney near the top in grade teacher pay and highest in high school payroll among the group.
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Sidney
Nebraska
Bayard
Alliance
Scottsblui
H. S. Gering
Scottsbluff
Gering
City Encourages Community Gardens in Philadelphia
City leaders highlight 23 years of fostering community gardens to aid self sufficiency. The program, echoed by the U S Department of Agriculture, shows health gains and happiness from outdoor activity and nature contact, with garden cultivation boosting personal wealth and national wealth alike.
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Philadelphia
United States Department of Agriculture
Garden Beginners Learn Seed Bed Basics
Beginners in gardening grow enthusiastic in spring while browsing seedy catalogues and dreaming of many vegetables. Specialists of the USDA advise planting 15 to 20 kinds in a home garden and stress the importance of well prepared seed beds. Pulverize soil deeply to avoid coarse lumps and ensure many small air spaces rather than large pockets.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Acre of Bananas in India and Malay Peninsula
A calculation shows that one acre of bananas or plantains in India and the Malay peninsula supports more people than equal areas of other crops. Dried core yields plantain meal with 40 percent from fresh core and an acre of average quality yields over a ton.
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India
Malay Peninsula
Famous Small Bells Here From Churches and Miller Collection
The source explains dinner table bells traceable to old churches where altar bells carry Latin quotations on medallions. Some bells honor famous personages, reflecting the period’s public figures. Others imitate bells from notable chimes like the Miller collection in California.
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Miller
California
Sidney Lumber Co Offers No Good Home in Pest Town
The notice appears to be an ad style query asking if a home in a pest town on earth is desirable, prompting readers to visit Sidney Lumber Co for options or guidance on housing needs.
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Sidney Lumber CO
Columbia Records
Quaint Old World Customs From English Tradition
An article describes enduring English customs in Derbyshire Northampton Carby Birdlip and Cheltenham. Whitsuntide prayer at dawn offers chances for wishes. White Monday tolling males hoisted on poles. Cheese rolling in Birdlip stirs locals with a traditional round cheese chased by many, often winning by a single swift pursuer.
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England
Derbyshire
Northampton
Carby
Birdlip
Cheltenham
Bears Rule as Mightiest Beasts in Lost Muscle Scale
An old comparison ranks bears over lions and tigers in muscular power. A grizzly 1000 pounds can lift 500 pounds uphill, twice a lion’s strength. Gorillas of four and a half feet supposedly match four men, and bears exceed camels and oxen in lifting capacity. The article notes polar and grizzly bears as strongest, with gaur, African buffalo, and Indian gaur among the sizeable wild bovines.
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Ateep
Isinglass Production From Fish Bladders Described
The article explains that isinglass is dried swimming bladders from various fish. Gelatin content ranges from 86 to 93 percent. Preparation involves removing the air bladder by striking, washing, skin removal, and drying. Best quality comes from sun-dried sounds. final steps include moistening, hammering, and rolling between iron rollers.
Clerical Expedient In Bible Lesson Humor
The English preacher Stephen Jenks faced difficulty with a long list of instruments in Daniel chapter three during a Sunday Bible reading. He finally ended with utmost gravity declaring the band played as before, a quip noted by the Boston Transcript.
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Stephen Jenkins
Daniel
Boston Transcript
Tower of the Winds Water Clock in Athens
An octagonal water clock stands in Athens, built in the second year of the first century before Christ. It rises 42 feet high and 26 feet across, with each side bearing wind symbols. A bronze Triton once topped it as a weather vane.
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Athens
Greece
Heredity and a Dentist Father in Bridge Skills
A witty remark connects a clever woman player to her father, a dentist, suggesting genetic talent. The dialogue hints that her father’s dental precision translates to strong bridge play and strategic skill at the card table.
The Unfinished Picture by OTILLIA F. PFEIFFER
Mar vin Truesdale, a failing artist, endures loss and a failing marriage while caring for his young daughter Violet. A roof garden friend, Miss Norine Warren, introduces him to painter Robert Warren’s unfinished canvas and renews his artistic drive. Norine inspires a renewed purpose as love heals his career and life.
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Marvin Truesdale
Lttle Violet
Truesdale
Violet
Gruesdale
Norine Warren
Miss Warren
Robert Warren
Noriie
Norine
Fourteen Rules Guard Songs and Films in Moral Cleanse
The Music Publishers Protective Association urges publishers to reject any suggestive lyrics as chemically pure. E C Mills says better venues may drop such songs if backers lose support. Jess I Lusk bylined lists fourteen production safeguards for future movies to avoid morality concerns.
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Music Publshers’ Protective Association
E. C. Mills
Jess IL
Lusky
Pacific Coast
Deaths of a teen in Nebraska and a surgeon’s death
Over the state Alvin Croft, a seventeen year old pupil from Imperial, Nebraska, ruptured intestines and died shortly before arrival in Omaha after urgent transport. Dr J F Stevens of Lincoln died from poison via a wound suffered during an operation, after four weeks of illness and an arm amputation attempt.
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Alvin Croft
Imperial
Nebraska
Omaha
J. F. Stevens
Lincoln
Recovered Struggles and Court Actions Highlight River News
Eminent specialists and a corps of nurses fought for a patient’s life as he cooperated with care. Fht. Baird of Lincoln backed his car over his daughter, bruising her with the fender but the wheels did not touch her. Three jail breakers at Kearney were recaptured and resentenced to Leavenworth, where the sentence was calculated.
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F. Ht. Baird
Lincoln
Kearney
Leavenworth
Howe Bank Robbery Adds to Year of Thefts
Yeggs at Howe Nebraska struck the local bank and escaped with Liberty Bonds estimated at 5000 to 6000 dollars. The robbers fled before reaching the vault and a clue leads to a suspected yeggman still at large after accomplices were imprisoned last year. This marks the bank’s second robbery in twelve months.
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Yeggs
Howe
Nebraska
Howe Bank
Yeggman
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