Nebraska Happenings and Developments in Town and Country
Local notes report new houses under construction by Max Jensen and others for rental in Nebraska towns. Mima Doyle sails Omaha to Salt Lake City for a thrill flight on the transcontinental air line. Fire destroys five acres of Otto Meyers wheat near Seward, linked to a dropped cigarette from a passing airplane. Jules Sandoz advances fruit crops in Sheridan County with Swiss horticulture knowledge. A new cheese factory to open at Gibbon with milk from 400 cows. site chosen and machinery ordered. Monument marker placed at the first timber claim grant site near Edgar. Weather and crops forecast show drought stress with mid day heat, though moisture remains. A rattlesnake bite hospitalizes William Bonnell Jr. near Sidney but recovery expected. Graveled road maintenance costs projected to rise in Nebraska City and counties with per mile expenses cited.
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Etta Paul
Max Jensen
Salt Lake “City
Mies Doyle
Otto Meyers
Seward
Luther Burbanck
Nebraska
Jules ‘S. Sandox
Ellsworth
Switzerland
Sandoz
Sheridan County
Gibbon
A. Froehilick
Kearney
David D. Jones
Chester A. Arthur
Edgar
Old State Capitol
Lincoln
Will Brookley
A. E. Anderson
Anderson
William Bonnell
Sidney
Bonnell
Nebraska City
Utoe County
Nebraska Bridge Bond Plan Moves Ahead Across Missouri
Lincoln reports plan for a 500 000 structure linking Nebraska and South Dakota at Niobrara with federal aid to fund a toll bridge then free. Bonds of 125 000 by each state proposed, federal 20 000, tolls retire debt, bridge becomes free. Mississippi River region project aligns with recent toll bridge act.
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Lincoln
George Williams
Af “Albion
Frank Pieper
N*obrara
South Biekota
South Dakota
Island Revenge Looms as Rebels Free Slave Camp
A narrator aboard a rebel-ruled island watches the enslaved people rise in a planned attack on overseers and leaders. The gathering mob debates strategy while the hero plans a midnight escape to warn and aid Helen and prepare a counterstrike. The tense scene ends with an agreement to move toward the riverbank and the island’s fate hangs in the balance.
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Code
Caesar
Atinek Surety
Helen
Herriers
Shively
Frans
Thad
Aithouh Quarky
Avengers Chapter XII Endangered Island Return
The narrator and companions awaken late and hasten to regain the island. Quashy signals urgency and secrecy as they depart, meeting a tense scene at the stables and racing toward a pivotal, unsettled plan.
Information Classified Leads to Quiet Artist Adventure
Classified under Information recounts Moody, an artist seeking perfect quiet and scenery, camping in a remote Northwest area. She encounters a motorcar on a corduroy road, riding toward a swampy forest, then meets a passing car and learns it is an automobile.
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Dies Moody
Great Northwest
Bern
Lancashire man's rise shows value of education
A Lancashire native built business success with little schooling. He advised students to value education while praising geography and practical knowledge, noting that study and self improvement drive achievement beyond mere degrees.
Navy to Assume Control of Naval Oil Reserves Leases
Arrangement completed transferring administration of naval oil reserves and leases to the Navy. The Interior Department will oversee three nonproducing California leases and pending agreements while the Navy assumes management of all producing wells and future operations under executive order from President Coolidge.
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Washington
Ube
Navy Department
California
Coolidge
Navy
Pepaia
Paris Wielet
Alee
United ‘States
Alex
Wade
Trio Hanged for Murder of Deputy Warden Klein
Joliet reporters recount three men convicted of murdering Deputy Warden Peter Klein at Joliet Penitentiary. They were executed in the Will County jail yard after failed pleas for stays. Authorities describe their final walk to the gallows as resolute.
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Trio
Klein
Joliet
Peter M. Krieta
Joliet Penitentiary
Wil County
Robert Torres
Wiese
Walter Fied Onbeg
Charles “Diwwechowski
Mulcady
Buckeye Coal Operators Reject Union Proposal
In Columbus Ohio the executive committee of the Ohio Coal Operators association voted to decline a proposal from the Ohio miners union for a second joint conference of central competitive representatives to discuss a wage dispute. They sent a telegram to Oral Dwyerdy signifying willingness to meet and discuss wage issues affecting the district.
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Columbus
Ohio
Aesociation
Ohio Miners’ Union
Minerty’ Union
Oral Dmwugherty
Scale Commiitee
Railroads Seek $40 Million More to Carry U S Mail
Railroads ask the Interstate Commerce Commission examiner for a $40,000,000 increase in mail handling payments. At Atlantic City hearings railroad reps said last year they received about $100,000,000 from the government for hauling mail, which cost them around $137,000,000 to run.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Iowa
State Department
Nebraska State Railway Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Kamas
North Dakota
Oklahoma
South Dakota
Minnesota
Kansas
State Railway Commission
U. S. Mail
Atlantic City
N. J
F. A. Mullen
United States
Legionnaires Reserve Steamer Seats for Paris Convention
National officers of the American Legion report more than 12 300 Legionnaires have made steamer reservations to attend the national convention in Paris in September.
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Paris
New York
The
American Legion
Basque Wood Chopper Defeats Harry Wills in Fourth Round
Basque wood chopper Fassise Useydun knocked out Harry Wills the Black Panther in the fourth round of a scheduled fifteen round boxing bout.
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Harry Wills
Peeniva H
Fassise Useydun
Black Panther
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Omaha—Army Engineers
Omaha
Greater Omaha Association
Harry A. Spieh
Seventh Corps
Co-Op Geet
Oshkosh
North Platte Valley
Great Western Sugar Company
Syracuse
Henry Rickers
Rickers
Merrit County
Ridgeport
Morrill County
Sursery
Carib
Ofice
Mcallister
McAliser
Kerry
Lef
Richard Lindsay
Jersey Shore
Francis Barclay
Wirsef
Olyte
Harracka
Eversthi
Filtis
Shivery
the Avengers
Bemel
Information
Kansas City Star
Buckeye Coal
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