Western Canada Leads In Opening Prairie Settlement
A historic piece extols Western Canada as a vast frontier of settlers and wealth. It highlights growing wheat potential, rising immigration from the United States, and the lure of fertile lands and capital. It notes vast mineral and forest wealth yet to be explored and praises pioneering conditions today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
United States
Prairies
Europe
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
William Percy
Pape's Diapepsin Promises Quick Stomach Relief
A vendor touts Pape's Diapepsin as a harmless stomach remedy in a large fifty cent case that supposedly yields a hundred dollars' worth of satisfaction. The ad urges keeping it at home for day or night upset stomachs, calling it the quickest and surest stomach doctor in the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pape
Poor Fellow Lydia Finds Father in the Library
Lydia discovers her father reading when she asks about a call from Robert. The old man recalls that Robert spoke of marriage and needing support, so he sent him home to write it out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Johnson
Washington
Jennings
Johnson
Popular
Lydia
Pather
Robert
Lippincott’s
When Shimmerpate Feels The Music In His Evening
The piece notes Shimmerpate returning home late from a concert hall where the music affected him. His partner quips about blaming the music while a product pitch for Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets appears, describing a digestive aid as candy coated granules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shimmerpate
Nebraska Seeds and Live Stock Findings in 1912 State Notices
Nebraska reports show a rising newspaper count beyond Lincoln and Omaha with about 600 publications. The state boards analyze seeds for purity, regulate sale of agricultural seed, and note penalties and fees. a boy protected as live stock in a shipment reveals enforcement gaps. five towns offer concrete bids for a state reformatory. guard strength reaches 1388. school land leases rise in several counties. Vanell K. Greer named registrar of the state university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Newspaper Union News Service
Nebraska
Lincoln
Omaha
State Board of Agriculture
State Board
Fia Matement
Harada
Food Commission
Clarence KE. Harman
Nebraska Food, Drug, Dairy and Oil Commission
Nebr
Dawson County
Lincoln County
Nebraska notices reflect towns and trades across state
The Tecumseh Commercial club forms a farmers society of equity in Western. Weeping Water plans street paving. Jefferson county farmers prep for next year’s institute. River injured by a falling tree near Ravenna. many local church and school happenings note Measles closures in Lush ton. Grand Army encampment dates at Grand Island. Snyder Mills stock venture. Measles threaten Kearney. Florence burns risk for Mrs Adams. Ute Iowa shotgun accident injures Mrs Knapp. mourning in Benson for Judge Stenberg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tecumseh Commercial Club
Farmers” Society of Equity
Western
Jefferson County
L. G. River
Ravenna
Old Commercial Club
Nebraska Fire Prevention Association
Albion
Fremont Musical Art Society
Presbyterian Church
Seasion
Belvidere
Farmers’ Society of Equity
Leo Brocktrop
David City
Lushton
York County
Arch Cothapp
Nebraska Peace Society
American Peace Society
Omaha
Snyder Mills
Nebraska Federation of Retailers
Lincoln
Nebraska Mercantile Show
Central Nebraska Agricultural Association
Stella
Hastines
Orvillé
Moritz
Salem
Brazil
Henry Moritz
Nebraska
The
DARK
Fairbury
Emerson
Siowhan
Harrison
Episcopal Church
Crawford
Kearney
Margaret Adams
Arthur D. Adams
Florence
Merchants
Manufacturers’ Association of
Milwaukee
George. Knapp
T. H. Tibbles
Ute
Monona County
Towa
Ed Adams
Edgar Electric Light Plant
E. M. Stenberg
Doings in Congress Reflect Deliberations on Key Measures
A condensed report from Washington outlines Senate and House actions. Highlights include Swanson reading Washington's farewell address, talks on the Mexican situation, radium pricing, Panama canal needs, pending arithmetic and tax measures, and arbitration treaties. Local results note a murder verdict in Fremont and Willard Butler's life-imprisonment recommendation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shively
Foreign Relations Committee
White House
Wilson Oon
Holmes
Federal Bureau of Mines
House
Goethals
Garrison
Appropriatens
Panama Canal
Washington
Ways and Means
Watch Carefully the Child’s Diet
An old health column urges careful attention to a child’s diet and warns against harsh laxatives. It promotes Dr Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin as a mild remedy for constipation, noting its safety, pleasant taste, and broad family use. A free sample offer is extended from Dr. W B Caldwell in Monticello Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caldwell
America
M. B. Patten
Valley Junction
Iowa
Patten
Ralph
W. B. Caldwell
Waah- Washington St
Monticello
Old Uncle Cal’s Christmas Turkey Tale from Tuskegee
In a Tuskegee Christmas tale Uncle Calhoun Clay hosts a parishioner for a grand feast with sweat potatoes celery cranberries mince pie and a turkey so tender the parson asks where it came from. The punchline: the parson’s question is answered with a warning that the preacher’s sermon was the source, a trivial matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mooker
Washington
Tuskegee
Uncle Cal
Cascarets advertise laxative benefits for liver and bowels
An old advertisement promotes Cascarets as a gentle overnight cleanse for the stomach liver and bowels. It claims to remove sour fermenting food reduce bile and purge wastes with no griping and costs ten cents per box. It also notes many users avoid headaches biliousness and indigestion.
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Samuel Tier
Eynbee
Gota
Bears
Gastoria
Pure Food Commission
Bertrand
Neb
Burke
State Reformatory
Board of Control
Table Rock
Holdrege
Superior
Crete
Nebraska National Guard
Vanell K. Greer
the State University
B. M. Rutledge
Western Newspaper
Union News Service
Senate
Swanson
General Washington
Oliver
Trade Commission
Alaska
William Benton
Juarez
Senator Fall
Bureau of Mines
House -Rural Credits Committee
National Grange
DHT
Commerce, Territories Committee
Hawai
John Coulter
Banking Committee
Knowland
California
Jewls
Maryland
Metcalfe
Bryan
Richard L. Metcalfe
Panama.canal Zone
New York
Boston
Huerta
Mexico City
Han
Willian Benton
Juares
Villa
Benton
Fremont, Neb
Willard Butler
Butler
James Butler
Ralph M, Patten
Fen
Ercacen
Dical CO
Agietn
OMG
Cal Clay
Ain
Fone
Tyes
Alfalpa Fares CO
Orren
Agra
Tara
Palm Beach
Chamber of Commerce
Lake Worth
England
Oman
W. V. Bennett Bee Building
Omaha, Neb
Omeetian
W.N. U
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical
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