Salvaged Letter From Burned U.S. Mail Plane
Mrs. J. L. Nicely received a letter salvaged from the U S mail plane wrecked and burned at Rock Springs Wyoming on May 7. Pilot Walter Bunting was killed and the body charred. The letter from Rev J B Brown Arlington California shows scorched edges and a notice on the envelope about salvaged mail from a partially destroyed sack.
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J. L. Nicely
U. S
Rock Springs
Wyo
Walter Bunting
Nicely
Rev
J. B. Brown
Arlington
California
Julesburg
No Free Admittance Law Sparks Vienna Clash
A Vienna proposal to supply apartment dwellers with front door keys and relieve concierges faces broad opposition. Citizens newspapers and insurers fear higher burglary risk if concierge access is removed. Merchants protest while concierges push for the law amid debate over large locks and gatehouse control.
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Insurance Companies
Merchants Association
Concierges’ Association
Austria
State Journal
Sheriff Narrowly Escapes In Ditch While Avoiding Rider
Sheriff O E Forsling faced a near fatal accident when his car swerved into a roadside ditch to miss a horse rider just thrown from a horse near the Pedrett school house on the way to Dix. He avoided the rider's fatal impact and regained the road, striking only the rider's legs.
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O. E. Forsling
Pedrett School House
Sheriff Forsling
Dix
Wm. Talbert
Kimball
BE. A. Houtaling
Egbert Warner
Talbert
Close Call As Sheriff Averts Major Crash On Road
A rider went headlong toward a car but escaped serious harm after Sheriff Talbert acted quickly. The rider was examined, found uninjured, and taken for further checks in town. The sheriff swerved into a ditch to avoid a collision with a pedestrian, narrowly avoiding a worse crash near Dix.
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Dix
Kimball
Mrs. Ed Roth Burns While Tending Trash Pile Near Town
Mrs. Ed Roth living northeast of town suffered severe burns on the right side when her clothing caught fire while tending a burning trash pile. Relatives doused flames by placing her in a water tank. Dr. Ptaay attended and reported she is recovering nicely.
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Ed Roth
Ptaay
Chappell Register
Instant Death Claims Farmer in Kenesaw Valley Ride
Ernest Lovelace aged 35 a farmer living about nineteen miles southwest of Peetz in the Kenesaw valley section was kicked in the head by a horse on Monday morning and died almost instantly Bud Ward and William Hay witnessed the accident but Lovelace expired before aid could reach him He left a wife and small daughter Interment was held Thursday at Sedgwick Colorado his former home Peetz Gazette
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Ernest Lovelace
Peetz
Kenesaw Valley
Bud” Ward
William Hay
Mammoth Tooth Found Near Grand Island by Sand Company
A large fossil tooth was recovered last Wednesday from a sand bed near Grand Island by a local sand company. Retrieved from a depth of 25 feet, the mammothlike tooth weighs about six pounds and shattered the screening device during extraction.
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Grand Island
Robbers Bind Family at Riverton Area Home
Masked armed robbers bound August Hundt his wife and daughter at their home six miles north of Riverton and escaped with $100 in cash. Bloodhounds followed the scent but crowds at the Stundt home halted the trail. Officials have clues and arrests are expected soon.
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August Hundt
Riverton
Stundt
Local ads promote home goods and lumber in Sidney
An electric lamp for every room to the house. Phone 201. We deliver. Ammon's Electric Shop. Do you want a good home in the best town on earth See us. Sidney Lumber Co.
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Ammon
Sidney Lumber CO
Sidney Lumber
Rhyme Parade in Midwestern Newsrooms
A playful verse from multiple papers mocks verse as filler in columns and public notices. The snippets joke about length and habit, noting how easy it is to pad paragraphs, with a final quip about a writer who crafts bad rhymes deserving a month in jail.
Gering Town Oddities Prompt Candid Quip
In Gering the Fairbury News notes notable quirks as Will Maupin makes his home there and a tailless calf is born, a sign that oddities abound in the Nebraska town. The column dismisses sensationalism, calling attention to commonplace foolishness and the brash nature of some locals.
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Will Maupin
Gering
Fairbury News
Famous Writers Auctioned by Pseudonyms and Plants Ad
A quirky notice cites authors Bacon Shakespeare Twain Defoe Bunyan Carter and Lardner Poe with a spoof claim of writers’ identities. It also promotes Dr Crusen specialist ads and a North Platte Floral Co plant and garden promotion with Morgan Floral Co seedling ad encouraging geraniums and vines for hanging baskets and porch boxes.
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Bacon
Shakespeare
Mark Twain
Defoe
John Bunyan
Nick Carter
Ring Lardiner
Poe
George Ade
Homer
Bill Nye
Pope
North Platte Floral Co
Morgan Floral Co
Sidney Lumber Co Advertising Notice
For your Eléctric Supplies get the Electric Shop one block east of the American Bank Colon and Keetun Sesig Building Pansy plants in bloom 60¢ per dozen postpaid North Platte Floral Co.
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American Bank
G. H. Crusen
Colon
Keetun
Sesig Building
Bloem
North Platte Floral Co
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Madison Sentinel
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Newark
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Midwest
Fisig
Hornaday Cafe
the Farmers’ Union
Co-Operative Assa
the Farmers’ Union Co-Opera
Tive Association
Co. O. Hade
Sidney, Nebraska
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