Nebraska Notes on Growth and Events Across the State
Creighton builds electric light plant and a manual training school is planned for Nebraska City. Beatrice gains elected officers at German National Bank meeting. Leigh, Colfax county issues $8000 water works bonds. Arlington sees active tile laying and early plowing for corn. The Elk Horn valley wetlands receive tile expansion, while lowland remains wet. Beatrice banks expand. Ashes start a fire in a Grant barn with no insurance. Henderson registers $5000 water works bonds with 6 percent interest and twenty year terms. St. James seeks a National Bank charter. Oakdale and Meads price poultry shipments. Roca opens Union Lumber plant. Auburn church dedicates with debt cleared. Fremont beet sugar contracts for 1906. duck and fish seasons noted. Norfolk approves $40,000 sewer bonds. Osage precinct bridge injury suit filed. Maryland Casualty verdict affirmed in Murdock vault theft case.
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Nebraska
Norfolk
James H. Johnson
Otoe County
Osage
Demand for Steel Mail Cars Grows in Rail Service
Since 1900 a rising toll of postal clerks and workers killed or injured on duty underscores push for heavier steel mail cars. Railroads test all steel units, with Erie and New Haven among early adopters, while Texas wrecks show mixed safety results. Government specs since 1904 favor 60 foot, heavier designs to protect lives and property.
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Railway Post Office
Erie
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Pennsylvania Road
Santa Fe Company
Texas
Superstitions About Trains And A Frightful Locomotive
The article notes a belief that Fridays and the thirteenth bring bad luck for ships and locomotives alike. It cites a South Florida railway tale of a locomotive nicknamed The Hearse that killed many, yet remained unharmed, leading to drivers quitting rather than continue.
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South Florida
Gas Well Fire Ends With Local Rescue Joke
A Kansas small-town passenger learns of a gas well fire from a station native. After failed efforts, they dumped Bill Flaxham into the horse trough and the mouth of the well, claiming he extinguished the blaze, a local boast framed as humor during the train’s passage.
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Kansas Town
Kansas
Bill Flaxham
Hoss
Bil Flaxham
Rise of the Ananias: Grape Nuts and Postum Debate
A dramatic denunciation targets labor editors and critics of Grape Nuts and Postum. The author defends purity, invites investigations, declares readiness to sue liars, and invites visitors to inspect Plant facilities. The piece brands certain editors as locoed and vows to pursue legal action over alleged fabrications.
First Pasture Cooking School Teachers Put on Trial
A Sanitarian sanctioned program hires lecturers to praise Grape-Nuts and Postum while denying their products. Critics accuse the doctor at the Sanitarium of hypocrisy and manipulation in seminars and a magazine column. A New York woman faced harassment. $10 was sent as support for her bravery.
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Ananias
Michigan
America
London
Newark
New York
Second Pasture in Trade Papers Sparks Advertising Tension
Editors of grocers trade papers complain about advertising pressure and accuse some members of launching slander campaigns against Postum and Crape-Nuts. The piece questions response options, suggesting legal action or branding to manage objectionable rivals while keeping them in line in the marketplace.
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The
Diller Record
Diller
F. T. Pearce
Nebraska Notes
Gibbon
Creighton
Nebraska City
Citizens’ State Bank of Creighton
German National’ Bank of Beatrice
Leigh
Colfax County
Cuming
Guaranty Title and Trust Company of
Nelight
Beatrice
Elkhorn Valley
Arlington
Elkins Bros, of
Peace
Edad
H. H. Grant
Henwerson
Cuming County
John Ellers
Elkhorn Township
St. James
First National Bank
C. M. Stoll
Oakland
Union Lumber & Mercantile Company
Roca
Avenue M. E. Church of
Auburn
John L. Davis
Palmer
Standard Beet Sugar Company of
Fremont
Supreme Court
District Court
Maryland Casualty. Company
Bank of Murdock
Labor Trust
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