Vast Nebraska News Tidbits From Lincoln To Fremont
A series of incidents across Nebraska includes injuries from falls and burns, a hospital dedication in Grand Island, a Lincoln industrial show dates, a fire department hose cart request, a political carnival in Exeter, and local crime and pest events. Notable names include Clark Lamber Co, Fred Denson, Donald Stevens, Bishop Tiben, Dr. W A Black, and W W Day. Dated items cover November events and December courthouses with Hamilton society tests.
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Lincoln
Ofice
Clark Lamber Company
Fred Denson
Plattemouth
Donald Stevens
Beatrice High School
Beatrice Hastings
Wymore Volunteer Fire Department
St Francis Hospital
Grand Island
Tiben
Exeter
College View
Io Seward
John Lanphere
City
Fremont
Lanphere
Jackson
Aurora
Hamilton
Farmers’ Institute
W. W. Day
Bankers Life
W. A. Black
Harriigton
Henry Stenbauer
Burlington
Father Nolan
North Bend
J. O. Acton
Talk With Shakespeare On Stage And Skyscrapers
A collage of theater quips and notes on Tokyo s seven story skyscraper begun in 1910 and near completion. It highlights Ophelia songs in a show and a Mermaid tavern scene while printing Punch snippets and product ads alongside public notices and literary quips.
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Shakespeare
Bill
The
Tokyo
Far East
Women Should Be Protected From Female Trouble
In Sikeston Missouri and Murrayville Illinois two women describe long battles with severe menstrual and health issues. They credit Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring strength, enabling housework garden chores and social activity, and avoiding surgery as advised by doctors.
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Sikeston
Lydia E. Pinkham
Murrayville
Charles Moone
R No
Murrayville, IL
Gossip From State Capital on Nebraska Swine and Med School
Nebraska leads in hog numbers and value, with January 1912 figures showing double the swine of the eleven western states and more pork than Canada or Great Britain per capita. Creighton Medical College in Omaha reportedly joins New York’s blacklist requiring state exams for its graduates.
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Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
Idaho
Utah
Washington
Oregon
California
Nevada
New Mexico
Arizona
Canada
Great Britain
United Kingdom
State Board of Health
Creighton Medical College of
Omaha
New York
Lincoln
Nebraskan Apple Land and State Pardon Board Notes
southeastern Nebraska apple region markets and farm profits highlight a feature on Mis souri river orchard yields and price points amid land boom talk. The piece also covers a naval reserve plan, a campus tobacco rumor, and a three day state pardon board session reviewing pardons and paroles at the penitentiary. Winter wheat conditions are reported as favorable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Pardon Board
Drunken fathers cited in humane plea for child safety
A Chicago Record-Herald report highlights child abuse risks as 2 500 babies die from drunken fathers. A city missionary witnesses a boy clinging to a warm suit despite poverty, explaining he still sleeps in it, illustrating hardship and resilience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Record-Herald
Skin eruption cured by Cuticura treatment in Atchison
A 1911 Atchison resident describes severe facial pimples and a burning rash. She used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for months, applying ointment nightly and washing with soap, leading to clear skin and continued use of the products. The ad promotes Cuticura soaps and ointments sold worldwide with a free sample offer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atchison, Kan
Misa Elsie Nielson
Cuticura
Dept
Boston
Children Deliver Night Message Stirs Reverent Silence
A woman pauses the tense night as children prepare to speak their good night message. A shrill whisper breaks the moment with the line Mamma Willy found a bug in his bed, revealing a small domestic moment.
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Wong
Sian
Mamma
Willy
Fragmentary Vintage Ad and Banter Snippet
A garbled early 20th century slip includes quips about a double play in a baseball game, a mother soothing teething gums, and jokes about a character Jaggs. It also advertises Mrs Winstow's Soothing Syrup and Cole's Carbolic for piles with dubious marketing lines.
Vintage Hardware Makers and Lots of Longstanding Firms
A compendium notes numerous long running hardware firms and manufacturers. Names include Eagie Lock Co Pid Lacke and Cabinet Locks Pullman Mfg Co Richards Wilcox Co Erwin Mfg Co Bethy Spring Hinge Co Pliver Lake and Vddystone Kash Cord Baeder Adamson Co Carpet Bweeper Co Bissell Carpet Sweepers Melerei washing machines and Toot Stamping Co all with decades of operation cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagie Lock Co
Vuelcanics Reefing Co
Bae Teon
Pullman Mfg. Co
Pullman Bashc
Richards Wilcox Co
Erwin Mie. Co
Bhethy Spring Hinge Co
Pliver Lake & Vddystone Kash Cord
Weed
Baeder, Adamson & Co
Peper
Carpet Bweeper Co
Melerei
Toot Stamping Co
Gabe
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Bae
Lum
Wort
Bdeoch
Euparios
Alberta
W. V. Bennett
Neo
Omara Bom
Wai Gaia
Lincoln Sanitarium
Fletcher
Saas Eeeee
Cole
Noscar
Gand Séc
Adv
Massinger
STATE
Nebraska College
Apple Land
Pacific
South Atlantic
Missouri River
Peter Youngers
Fillmore County
Shipping & Catioad
Appice
Blue Hill
Naval Reserve For
Middle Western
Lincoln Re
Bureau of Navigation of
Navy Department
Greweome
Gray
Lewes
Jaggs
Permet Ay Oye
W.l.douglas
W. J. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
Brockton
Mass
Douglas
T- Dove
Wright & Wilhelmy Co
Wright, & Wilhelmy Co
de Ey
Metha
Woes & Wineuer Cohens Cosmet
TOOLS
Nicholson Pile Co
Nicholson
Bisford Wtp
Rixford
Stanley Role & Level Co
Star Mfe. Co
Uties 'Wop Forge Co
Quetity J'llere
Tet Co
Mitra
Con End
American Work & Moe Co
Cooley Mie
Thetr Jackson
Ames Sheavel & Tol Co
Waren Bhavett O
Bhavels
Cevetena Tome Ca
Jwading
Crotone
Gilbert & Jewnett
Mie
Quakers
Dexter Mfg
Robeson Mig
Dever Mfg. Co
Enterprise Manufacturing Co
Leadvere Tn
Enterprise Meat Cultere
Cc. T Mem Co
Otter Rand ‘Wringere
Quailty Ce
Freesers
Konants Gerer Oa
Steven Wane
Boter & Om
Etree
Witesh
Seer
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