Hastings endowment fund pledge and local developments
The Hastings college endowment goal of 50000 dollars is expected to be completed in weeks. Omaha real estate interests form Taxpayers Protection to buy lands at tax sales. Auburn depot expansion and a Beatrice eagle sighting highlight a busy regional notices page.
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Hastings College
Farmers’ State Bank of
Pickerell
Missouri Pacific Railroad Company
Auburn
Taxpayers’ Protection Company of Omaha
Omaha
Wesleyan University
Board of Trusttes
Columbus
Fowler Bill Repossession Law Aims to Improve Currency
House Banking Committee releases report urging passage of the Fowler bill to loosen restrictions on national bank deposits and currency issuance. It repeals the three million dollar monthly bank note retirement limit and the 100 million dollar cap on subsidiary silver coins, arguing this will restore elasticity to the currency and relieve small bill shortages.
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House Committee On Banking and Currency
Congress
Fowler
Shaw
Treasury
Quick-witted daughter saves mother from gas stove fire
A 9 year old girl Gertrude Ward of Lincoln Nebraska douses flames with a bucket of water and covers her mother Mrs O S Ward with a blanket after her dress catches fire from a lighted gasoline stove. Mrs Ward suffers burns to her hands but escapes serious injury.
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O. S. Ward
Lincoln
Ward
Farmers’ Grocery
Gertrude
Robbery Report at Union Pacific Office in Yutan Neb
Lincoln police received information that the Union Pacific office at Yutan Nebraska was entered and the cafe blown open. No details on the amount taken or the robbers identified. More than 25 000 people visited the world’s fair grounds before Sunday closure.
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Lincoln
The
Union Pacific
Yutan
Neb
Missouri Pacific Seeks Federal Court Ruling On Ramsey Bill
Missouri Pacific filed a petition in the Missouri Supreme Court arguing Nebraska corporation rules apply and state courts lack power in the dispute with the Co Operative Shipping Association of Virginia. The railroad seeks transfer to federal district court for settlement. The Virginia group first tests the Ramsey bill with Representative Ramsey of Virginia, a stockholder. The railroad rebuilt a Virginia elevator after a fire and refused a sidetrack request, forcing local farmers to haul grain to the track. An application for a writ of mandamus to compel track construction was filed weeks ago.
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Patrick . Murray
Columbus
Union Pacific Railroad Co
William Fox
Daniel Hines
Murray Ih
Platte County
Messrs. Fowler, Schneider, Nye
Fried
Nye-Schneider-Fowler
Missouri Pacific Railres
Supreme Court
Read
Nebraska Corporation
Co-Operative Shipping Association of Virginia
Federal District Court
Virginia Association
Ramsey
Bill
Virginia
Billy Isé
Farmers-Who
Co-Operative
Postal ruling ends second class status for periodicals
The Supreme Court holds books published periodically are not entitled to second class mail treatment. Justice Brown writes for three cases against the Postmaster General by Houghton Mifflin Smith Bates and Gi. The decision ends a long dispute dating back sixteen years with prior postmasters general.
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United States Supreme Court
Brown
Houghton, Mifin & Co
Smith
Bates and
Htstive Hae- Jen
Wages of School Teachers in State Districts
Superintendent Fowler presents a six year table of average salaries for men and women teachers. The data show the state district salaries rising while the number of male teachers declines due to low pay. The lowest average for men exceeds the highest average for women by 11 19 dollars.
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Fowler
Colorado Militia Held in Contempt by District Court
Judge Stevens of Ouray Colorado held Adjutant General Sherman M Bell and Captain Bulkeley Wells in contempt for not obeying a habeas corpus writ. They were to produce Charles H Moyer president of the Western Federation of Miners, detained in Pueblo. The judge criticized Governor Peabody and military authorities as insubordinate to the court.
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Colorado
Stevens
Ouray
Colo
Sherman M. Bell
Bulkeley Wells
James H. Peabody
Beavers Habeas Corpus Refused by Supreme Court
The United States Supreme Court denied the habeas corpus appeal of Geo. W. Beavers, late chief of the salary and allowance division of the Post Office Department. The case came from the Southern District of New York where a writ was refused.
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Beaver
United States Supreme Court
New York
Geo. W. Beavers
Post Office Department
Circuit Court
Nebraska Peach Crop Safe Despite Cold Spell
The Nebraska peach crop shows no damage from recent severe cold and sleet. Advices from peach growing sections indicate no injury expected for several weeks as fruit development has not yet begun. The report notes that marrying money is easier than acquiring cash.
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Nebraska
State Bureau of Crop and Industrial Etatistica
Congress Poised to Adjourn As Disputes Settle
Conference committees and reports on pension army and other appropriations near completion. Senate acts on agricultural fortification naval district Indian sundry civil and military academy bills with brief expected debates and impending House reporting on deficiency funds.
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Congress
House
Senate
Naval
District
Senate Committee On
Kansas Supreme Court Allows Bible Reading in Public Schools
The Kansas Supreme Court affirms that reading the Bible and Psalms in morning exercises does not constitute religious worship or indoctrination. A Topeka pupil was suspended for missing morning exercises. the court ruling upholds the district’s decision not to readmit him.
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Kansas Supreme Court
Kansas
J. B. Billard
Topeka
City Board of Education
Pewmanthie
Phillip
District Court
Wife desertion arrest in Nebraska lumber yard case
James Frides, pursued by Sheriff Wyatt of Wayne County, was arrested at the Omaha Hardwood Lumber Company yards for wife desertion. He wed about a year and a half ago, then disappeared. After divorce papers were sent to Sheriff Wyatt, Frides was found in Qomahe and taken into custody following service on Mrs Frides.
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Woodward & Burgess
Boyd Theater
Omaha
Platte County
Nick Fehringer
Tarnow
Lincoln Custom House
Washington, D C
Russia
Japan
The
United Mutual
Hail Insurance Rt Urd Reskehee Ala
Ho-So
Lincoln
Neb
Beatrice
Claud Craig
Charles “Dockhorn
James
Cady
James Frides
Wyatt
Kearney County
Frides
Minden
West
Fire destroys Walter farm house near Tecumseh Nebraska
Fire on RR C Walter’s farm west of Tecumseh destroys a two story frame house. Occupied by Henry Iuff and family, goods on the ground floor saved while second floor belongings burn. Losses estimated at $300 for household goods and $1,200 for the house with no insurance.
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RR. C. Walter
Tecumseh
Neb
Henry’ Luff and
Sudden Death of Exeter Man Mike Johns Found Dead North of Exeter
The dead body of Mike Johns was found about two miles north of Exeter Neb in the road. He had ridden partway to his father in law J B Husmanns and had only a short distance left to walk. Johns was healthy and his death shocks many friends.
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Mike Johns
Mr. Johns
Exeter
J.B. Husmann
Fortieth Kansas Evangelical Conference Appointments
The fortieth annual Kansas conference session, led by Bishop William Horn at Berne, closed with about seventy ministers and roughly ten thousand dollars set aside for missionary work. Appointments list district and pastors across Holton, Kansas City, Newton, Abilene, and other locales, naming presiding elders and ministers such as C. F. Erffmeyer, M. C. Platz, D. Swart, and Nuffer among many.
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Kansas Conference of the Evangelical Association
Berne
Kan
William Horn
Kansas
Dairyman Aldrich Survives Severe Bull Attack Near Beaver City
Prominent Furnas County dairy man Burt Jerome Aldrich was seriously injured when a bull attacked him two miles east of Beaver City Nebraska. He suffered seven broken ribs and severe bruising to the head face and hand. A pitchfork buried in the struggle indicated the ferocity of the beast. Doctors report no internal injuries and expect recovery. Aldrich has been a key figure in regional dairy development and formerly represented Beatrice Creamery.
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Burt Jerome Aldrich
Beaver City
Neb
Aldrich
Beatrice Creamery Company
Nebraska
Body found of Corinne Jarmin in Platte River near Fremont
Two men Carl Vollsted and Luther Hormal recovered the drowned Miss Corinne Jarmin from the Platte River near Fremont. She had been missing since New Year’s Day. The body was found with the head and hands buried in sand and the torso floating in three feet of water.
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Corinne Jarmin
Platte River
Fremont
Carl Vollsted
Luther Hormal
Hormal
Handl
Bartlett Named Douglas County District Judge
Appointing Governor Mickey fills the vacancy on the Douglas county district court with BE Bartlett of Omaha after Irving F. Baxter resigns to become United States district attorney for Nebraska. Baxter’s promotion had long been expected, and Bartlett’s selection announced at the governor’s office.
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BE. M. Bartlett
Omaha
Douglas County District Court
Irving F. Baxter
Nebraska
Mickey
Baxter
Bartlett
Soot on Nose Sparks Cautious Love Plot
A playful misreading of a soot speck on the tip of a woman’s nose drives a cautious suitor to test a trick she might uncover. The scene unfolds as he notices multiple soots on her face and body during a tense, flirty moment at a Cincinnati scene.
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Rome
Cincinnati Times-Star
Newest Fashionable Pet Sparks Collector Frenzy
A Cuban poodle led fashion before a hot new craze, then a rare devil fish from Mexico rose in price. The fish dwells at the bowl bottom, requires little water change, and eats small worms. In Brooklyn, a stray fox terrier named Beauty saved a family from gas asphyxiation when a kitchen leak threatened them.
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George Bourtinenon
Brooklyn
Bourtinenon
Beauty
Diamonds by the ton and the trouble of weighing
The article debates global diamond production and the impracticality of weighing diamonds by the ton. It questions which weight system to use, Troy or avoirdupois, long ton or short ton, noting estimates around twenty to twenty five tons of sharhters as a factor in a world valuing diamonds over traditional beads and wampum.
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Troy
Avoirdupois
Men Who Build Nests in Australian Bush
In Australian bushmen we find a primitive people who do not build huts. They gather twigs and grass and create a nest in a thicket or jungle to serve as a home. Nests range in size with family size, and no shelter from rain or storms is attempted.
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Australia
Queen Natalie of Servia and Her Biarritz Villa
Queen Natalie of Servia favors Rose-leaf jam at her table though not for all tastes. Her villa in Biarritz is a large edifice with Eastward decorations where she entertains many friends. She remains famed for beauty and wit, making her a noted contemporary icon.
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Natalie
Servia
Biarritz
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Walker
Pure Food Commission
Norfolk
Wayne
Emerson
Pender
Bancroft
Oakland
Tekamah
Thompson
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Capitol
Marseille
Chicago
W. N. Huse
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Boyd
Tom Sheibley
Ponca
McCarthy
House Committee On Banking
Weeld
Fllmimate
Yyutan
Ramsey Bill
Missouri Pacific
Supreme Court’ of Kansas
Word
Evangelical Association
Holton
A- Brunner
C. E. Platt
Preston
C. Linge
Deer Creek
E. F. Boehringer
Atchison
D. R. Zeliner
Camp Creek
A. Rodewald
Hiawatha
J.S. Miller
Hiawatha Circuit
G. J. Schumaker
P. Schumann
P. Schumann Falls City—M. Manshardt. Bern—G. A. Manshardt. Granada—D. F. Honsett
Vassar
J. R. Nanpinga
Westmoreland
H. S- Bower
Kansas City
C. F. Erffmeyer
Presiding Elder
Highland Avenue
F. Walthausen
Eudora—c. Needer
Leavenworth
J. J. Kliphart
St. Joseph
J. Schmidli
L. Hanne
Oregon Circuit
Breithhaupt
Oregon Mission
H. B. Bower
Glasgow
W. ‘H. Manshardt
Shelby
I. H. Hauptfulbier
Arrensburg
H. B. Hobbs
Winston—C. Underkoffier
Newton
Orlando
William Pittker
Waukomis
H. Steenback
Dover
F. H. ‘Draeger
Southwest
Oklahoma
H. W.hart
J. Haber
Abilene District
D. Swart
Abilene
J.ok
Spencer
Swede Creek
C. F. Swig
Leonardville
C. Brandt
Jewell City
B. Barthe
Canada
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Mexico
Slawson Mall
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