Whittington mother leaves baby behind in flight with cousin
Eva Whittington seventeen fled Council Bluffs with her cousin Myrl Bloom to Kimball Nebraska leaving 3 month old Billie in the Storm home. Mrs Storm says Eva left a note saying she could not stay and would not return, while witnesses report Eva may have eloped after a past marriage break. Cited reports say Eva arrived in Kimball claiming to visit uncle Harry Bloom and the letter urged her to come.
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Kimball
Eva Whittington
J. N. Storm
Council Bluffs
Billie
the World-Herald
John
Eva
Harry Bloom
Observer
Eva Whit
Ezra Meeker Near Death in Seattle at Dr Templeton Home
Ezra Meeker aged 93, a pioneer and Oregon Trail booster, lies near death at the Seattle home of his physician Dr. C. L. Templeton. He has long campaigned to honor pioneer service, promote monuments along the trail, and urge Congress to improve the highway.
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Ezra Meeker
Seattle
Wash
C. L. Templeton
Meeker
Congress
Stand Still and Think Amid Hog Market Panic
A veteran hog grower recalls his father's advice to stand still and think when others run. He notes farmers are panicking, shipping pigs and thin brood sows, while he holds hogs and cash, observing how dollar corn and expected large hog supply affect winter hog prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal-Stockman
Beans and sheep markets and road life echo in Prairie notes
A Pine Bluffs Post item reports farmer Chris Kraugh threshing twenty five acres of beans at five cents per pound yielding about 244 dollars per acre before a July 50 percent loss. Frank Bickel buys 500 ewes to graze southeast of Pine Bluffs, with last year’s 150 head profiting. The Lions club tests brick clay for University of Nebraska and Harrisburg brick work ties to local clay.
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Chris Kraugh
Grover Elevator
Chris
Burns Herald
Pine Bluffs
Frank Bickel
Lions Club of
Nebraska University
Judge Shafto
Harrisburg
Rights Cancelled Over Neglect On Pumpkin Creek
Notices warn private water rights along Pumpkin creek in Banner county face cancellation due to neglect and nonuse. Local reports say ditches are rotting as rights require active use under law.
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Pumpkin Creek
Banner County
Great Western Sugar Expects $18 A Share Earnings
Dow Jones reports to Otis and Co that Great Western Sugar will earn $18 per common share after paying $1,050,000 in preferred dividends. Net earnings are estimated near $12,000,000.
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Great Western Sugar Company
Otis & Co
Dow, Jones & Co
Wall Street Journal
American State Bank Opens in Bushnell
The Bushnell bank, previously owned by RE Holmes and others and recently seized by the state banking board, was purchased last Friday by W S Rodman W M Rodman and Frank M Farr of Kimball. It will be the American State Bank Bushnell with W M Rodman as president and cashier Frank M Parr.
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Bushnell
RE. Holmes
The
State Banking Board
W. S. Rodman
W. M. Rodman
Frank M. Farr
Kimball
American State Bank
Bushnell State Bank
Earl Richardson Returns to Kimball and Is Released
Earl Richardson, jailed in Sidney for mental condition, was brought back to Kimball last Thursday. By Monday his condition improved enough to permit a home return Monday evening. Tom Gearon was released Wednesday. Richardson has not fully recovered but is improving and expected to regain normal mentality soon.
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Earl Richardson
Sidney
Kimball
Tom Gearon
Richardson
Change in Personnel at Chappell Bank
Due to his California ventures, H. R. Isenberger sells his interest in the Deuel County Bank at Chappel to R. E B. Murphy of Omaha and J. W. Weiland of Newman Grove Neb. E. C. Wolf remains president with R. M. Robbins as cashier. B. R. Anderson divests and returns home to Big Springs.
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California
H. R. Isenberger
Deuel County Bank
Chappel
R. M. Robbins
B. R. Anderson
Big Springs
Smooth Corn Tops All Varieties In State Tests
In last year’s state tests 58 corn varieties were evaluated and the smooth corn type yielded 7.5 bushels per acre more than the rough type. Local varieties also showed wide yield differences. Over the next two weeks test plots in Butler Cass Clay Custer Dakota Dawson Dodge Douglas Fillmore Furnas Gage Hamilton Nance Otoe Richardson Saunders Seward Thayer Valley Webster will be husked and weighed. County field meetings will explain results and figures will be released by the agricultural college Extension Service. Watch for your county dates.
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Butler
Cass
Clay
Custer
Dakota
Dawson
Dodge
Douglas
Fillmore
Furnas
Gage
Hamilton
Nance
Otoe
Richardson
Saunders
Seward
Thayer
Valley
Webster
Agricultural College Extension Service
Wyoming Desperado Escapes From Jail
An unknown intruder appeared at the R. F. Mosher farm near the old Toohey bed dump Friday evening and tried to seize the property with weapons. Mrs. Mosher refused to bind her husband. a neighbor arrived, and the man fled. Authorities identify him as Jack Johnson alias Dick Smith, a jail escapee from Douglas on October 17, possibly heading toward Omaha.
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R. F. Mosher
Toohey
Douglas
Mosher
Omaha
State Reformatory Crowded to the Limit
Notice from Superintendent A. W. Miler of the Lincoln State Reformatory says the institution is crowded to the limit for prisoners aged eighteen to twenty one and that inmates will be held in county jails until space is available. The reform school exists to keep first and unhardened offenders from entrenched criminals.
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A. W. Miler
State Reformatory
Lincoln
Reformatory
Woman Viciously Destroys Self With Fire In Scottsbluff
Mrs Ella Shepherd about sixty years old killed herself by pouring kerosene over her head and setting fire Saturday at the home of Mrs Mary Kinney in Scottsbluff. She lay in agony until Sunday noon when she died. Neighbors smothered flames and tried to save her.
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Ella Shepherd
Scottshbluff
Mary Kinney
Auto Thieves Break Jail In Ogallala
City Marshall Braman arrested two young men in Ogallala on suspicion of stealing a Studebaker touring car. A Columbus sheriff offered a reward for the car’s return. The suspects admitted from Boston that they drove a stolen Ford from Rochester to Columbus and stole the Studebaker, then escaped by prying bars from the jail window into Thursday morning.
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Marshall Braman
Ogallala
Studebaker
Columbus
Boston
Rochester
N. Y
52000 Acres Opened to Ex-Service Men in West
The Interior Department announced the opening of about 52000 acres of public land in California Nevada and Utah to former service men. Filings dates will be published by local land offices for the Kern county tract near Ricaro California 18000 acres Washoe county Nevada near Garlach 14000 acres and Wayne county Utah near Hanksville 20000 acres.
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California
Nevada
Utah
Interion Department
Washington
Kern County
Ricaro
Washoe County
Garlach
Wayne County
Hanksville
Kimball Seeks Lower Potatoes Rate to Houston
The Kimball Lions agricultural committee asks the state railway commission to equalize potato shipping rates to Houston with Alliance and Henningford on the Burlington and Crawford and Gordon on the Northwestern. Kimball pays $1.20 via Union Pacific, while 97 cents is charged for shipments from closer towns. All towns receive 81.4 cents to Kansas City, and Kimball seeks parity.
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The
Lions Club
Kimball
State Railway Commission
Houston
Texas
Alliance and
Heningford
Burlington
Crawford
Gordon
Northwestern
Union Pacific
Kansas City
Nebraska poultry industry grows with high farm usage
Ninety three percent of Nebraska farms raise poultry as part of regular farming. The poultry sector on farms is valued at 35 million dollars annually. In 1922 eggs produced on Nebraska farms exceeded Colorado gold output by 20 million dollars and poultry sales reached 15 million. Over 60 million dozen eggs were produced and 1.46 car loads shipped from Nebraska, with half sold out of state. The past decade shows a 28 percent poultry increase as farmers value quick cash from eggs and poultry. Nebraska ranked tenth in poultry population in 1922, exceeding the combined poultry population of New England, New Jersey, and Delaware.
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Nebraska
Colorado
New England
New Jersey
Delaware
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Mother
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Forsts Magazine
Fivekgenoy
Forbes
Pytaecs
Ediser
Fifth Ave
New York
the American Bank
Sidney, Nesraska
Z Bank
Peafitel
Ashok
Samuel Walter
Dan J. Riley
State Bankers’ Association
Nye
Chappell Bank
Wyoming
Desperado
Ibe
Teleer
Scottsbluff
Oxford
Pat’s
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