Union Pacific Lowers Corn Rate and Tank Car Buttermilk Deal
Lincoln Oct 1 Union Pacific seeks emergency approval to ship corn at a reduced rate to areas hit by a poor crop with June 30, 1914, withdrawal. The railroad also won a reduced buttermilk rate from Omaha to nearby towns for tank car lots. Separate notes cover small town telephony struggles, streetcar fare reductions in Omaha, a stallion registration law joker, and local incidents in Oxford and Aurora as well as a Humboldt lightning strike on a school.
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Omaha
Lincoln
Union Pacific Railroad
Railway Commission
Raiway Commission
Local Social Notes Highlight Farm Sale and Church Events
Country visitors attended Mr. Foster and Rev. Hageman sales while Ladies Aid served lunch. Dan Bick learned of his mother's death and headed to Kansas City. Rev. Montgomery to preach Sunday. Krewer Campbell engine used for separator. Windmill shortages limited water access early week. School children helped clean yard. Miss McFadden visited Sidney. Dr Hedlund and Miss Ethel Kreder wed last Sunday.
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Bob Wallick
Bridgeport
Dan Bick
Kansas City
Rev. Montgomery
Alliance
Presbyterian Church
Jens Englert
Krewer and Campbell
John Willis
Mr. Anderson
Exeter
Dalton
Franzen
Wahoo
Rev. Hageman
New York State
Births signal joy for Brewer Zimmerman Borgquist families
Birth announcements note a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Harry Brewer dated September 28, a daughter for Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Zimm erman dated September 26, and a son for Mr. and Mrs. P. R. Borgquist dated September 27. The piece colors in Paul Brewer’s life as a once free bachelor now entering fatherhood, with warm wishes for the new baby and the family’s future.
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Harry Brewer
Jacob Zimmerman
P. R. Borgquist
Paul
Cupid
Alfalfa rotation and drought effects on Nebraska corn yields
The University of Nebraska reports on alfalfa as a rotation crop shows 51 percent of eastern Nebraska corn on alfalfa sod yielded more, while 46 percent in the west yielded less due to drought. Dry weather aids seed selection for higher future yields and a dairy train draws over 10,000 farm visitors and students to observe dairy stock and exhibits.
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Nebraska
Department of Farm Management
The
University
State Dairy Association
Slit skirt cures blind man in Lima interurban incident
Thomas Kern, a self described blind man, sat begging in Lima Ohio. A woman with a skirt slit ankle to knee entered the station, sunlight shining through her dress. Kern followed the woman after staring. a policeman arrested him for leering. Mayor Shook fined Kern $25 and costs and banished him from the city.
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Thomas Kern
Lima
Ile
Kern
Shook
Wasp Sails Lost Crew Rescued Near Nome
Schooner Wasp and crew including A N Evens commissioner of education for Alaska were stranded days in the Bering Sea and are safely ashore at St. Michaels about 100 miles from Nome after a wreck.
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A N Evens
Alaska
Washp
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Nebraska News
Union Pacific
Siip
Lincoln Telephone and Telegraph Company
Harvard
Lincoln Company
J. A. Davis
Taylor
Douglas County
Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company
Day’s
Bostrom
Lucore
Oxford
District Court of
Harlan County
Dungan
Ridgell
Agricultural Board
Mollor
State Board of Agriculture
Naid
Nebraska State Railway Commission
Central Vermont Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Roberts
Haws
Joseph Roberts
State Agricultural Board
D. W. Haws
Williams
Charles Williams
Hugh Murphy
Italan
Aurora
Neb
Humboldt, Neb
Standard Oil Company
BKA
Furniture
Essig
Sidney
California
Pacific Northwest
Idaho
Montana
Via
Pacific
W. J. Shoemaker
Sidney, Nebraska
Schlitz Beer
Tobin
Perfection
University OF Nebraska Agricultural News Service
Alfalfa
ROW
Devo County
J M Swenson
Cleburne Black
Joseph Oberfelder
United States
Henry E. Gapen
Cheyenne Co
Ilamestead
Government Land Business
Court Honce Sidney, Neb
Gapen Building
Hoagland
W. V. Hoagland
Hoagland & Hoagland
Attorneys AT Law
Norrth Platte
A A. Sharp
Daltom State Bank
P. O
Clara, Neb
D. H. E. Mantor
Stewitts
J. C. Swatzlander
M. D
First National Bank
W. D. Taylor
Sunol
J. D. Willis
N. Tillman Owen
Stowitts Building
Glenn Bliss
Oberfelder Building
L. Andrews
Sidney, Neb
Wasp
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