Tired Business Men
A manager asks if the show aimed to cheer tired business men and notes crowds enjoy it. He admits he wore himself down before landing this hit, saying he was becoming one of the weariest in the business.
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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1917
Page
2
State Wealth Grows In Last Five Years
The report notes total state wealth rising to 523 891 000 with gains in real estate and livestock values. Cattle average value up from 29 70 to 40 40, hog values from 10 15 to 15 80, and automobiles up in gross assessment despite fewer per-vehicle value. Grain stocks and bank valuations also rise while railroads show little change and a relic hand press gains historical interest.
Wheat growers seek state aid to move grain to market
Nebraska farmers protest denied relief from the state railway commission and the state council of defense. They file petitions and appeal for funds and certificates to finance transport and relief work, citing small appropriation limits and wartime needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
State Railway Commission
State Council of Defense
Pirin Nin
N ‘Democracy
State Council of Funds
Sarka B. dArbkova
Woman's Committee
Council of National Defense
Amarie and Health Notices in a 1900s Column
Mixed health ad copy and human interest snippets recount remedies for rheumatic pain and urinary troubles alongside a memory of a girl missing her father. Prominent items include Amarie/Uric relief claims, a Roumanian oil note, and a poignant line about a child’s longing for a father.
Realistic Yet Ridiculed Romance Sparks Debate
In a dialogue about a controversial novel, a mother condemns its trashy content while the father defends it as intensely realistic. He argues the lovers' talk is silly slush and their actions idiotic yet that is precisely his point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mother
Father
Not Loving Christmas Fun in the Merrivale Home
A passage from a Woman's Home Companion piece features Grandfather Merrivale railing against the idea of fun amid a harsh winter. He fixates on the word fun, questioning its value as taxes, wood, coal, and food rise around him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grandfather Merrivale
Nebraska Happenings Reflect Food Hoarding and War Efforts
Nebraska weekly digest notes strict food hoarding penalties from the state food administration with bans on buying more than 69 days supply. It reports a coal strike near Klis in Gage County and mentions bonds, war bonds sales, and postmasters selling certificates. The piece also covers Khaki Camp Dodge events, farm economics, and local political plans in Bushnell and Kimball County, plus a murder case near Benedict and army camp supplies for soldiers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Food Administration
Joseph Sefeve
Bushnell
Kimball Gonntr
Army
Butler County
Dodge
Funston
Ontario
Mid Me West
Crrne
al Pienter
Benedict
Steber
Sheber
Hiss
Tevn
Bender
Blender
Meindler
Nebraska
Newton Taker
Cox
Dineen
Ne- Hewekn
Wray
York
James
County News Roundup Reflects War Efforts And Local Commerce
Nebraska county items note food administration appointees and farm labor, stock cattle shipments to feed winter, and sentiment shifts. Reports hail 10 cent milk in Stella, Lincoln bid for 1918 teachers convention, and a 125 member home guard in Orleans. For Red Cross and YMC A events, stock hog shipments to Hamilton county, and a federal child labor case in Dexhel, with local auctions, skeleton find, and coal shortages warnings.
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Linccoln
Nebraska Teachers’ Association
Orleans
North Plate
Scotiabla County
Hamilton County
Texas
Arkansas
A. C. Stokes
Omaha
Nebraska Base Hospital
France
Fremont
Dan Longwell
Maha
Cecil Sonra
Albion
Carroll. Wiggins
Exeter
Verdon
P ‘Han
The
Cross
Young Men’s Christian Association
Liberty Bonda
Deshter Broom& Co
Dexhler
T. ©. Munger
Lincoln
Nebraska
Uut
Red ‘Cross
Cody
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