Nebraska notes and town reports run together in scattered items
A long page lists numerous Nebraska items from Chadron to Lincoln. Highlights include Vincomp Medical College graduates at Chadron. DeWitt Telephone Co capital boost to 20000. security state bank of Washington filing incorporation with 10000 capital. a comedy at Columbus North Opera House by Company K First Nebraska National Guard. Nor sot asylum administration building foundation and State Architect supervision. ordinances enforcing chicken control in Vermont. drill manual officer school postponed. North Platte Electric Light and Power Co expanding from Denver. multiple land auctions in Holt Hayes Brown Hitchcock Cherry Sheridan Dawes. Omaha Petroleum Co proposed with 60000 capital. Omaha tax and water-right litigation. irrigation water-use surveys by Melvin Williams USGS. Lincoln merchants form wholesale trade association. state oil inspection profit for March. and officers’ officers school of instruction planned in Lincoln early May.
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Security
State” Bank
Washington
State Banking Board
Ith
Secretary of State
North Opera House
Columbus
K-First
Nebraska
National Guard
H.C. Porter
Aansas City
Norsot Asylum
Tyler
Vremont
National Board
North Platte Electric Light and Power Company of
Colorado
Sccretary of State
Denver
Platte River
Rushville
Dawes County
Chadron
Sioux County
Harrison
Omahs
Petroleum ‘Company
Lincoln
Commercial Club
State Department of Oil Inspection
Church
Culver
Lincolm
Schoo
Daggett
World’s Fair in St Louis Showcases Philippines Africa and Japan
The article extols the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair with grand descriptions of the Philippine exhibit and replicas, Patagonian giants, African pygmies, and Japan’s Ainu displays. It notes government investment, the floral clock, vast machinery power, the Pike thoroughfare, and Germany France and Brazil among featured nations. It highlights extensive gardens, architecture, and the scale of attractions inviting weeklong to seven month visits.
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St. Louis
Philippine Commission
Patagonian
Africa
Japan
United States
Uncle Sam
Sravel
Germany
Cascades
Charlottenburg
Palace of Machinery
Altentown Lady Returns From New York Experience
A young woman from Altentown describes her first trip to New York. She attended a matinee described as a brilliant production and later visited the opera in the evening. She recounts the dazzling impressions to friends, prompting one to ask if she has attended a matinee at night.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Why Co operative Colonies Fail
A lecturer linked Zoar's collapse to social equality causing low energy and thrift. He cited equal division of property and earnings, petty jealousies, and the leader's death as factors that led the colony to disintegrate.
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Zoar
Canadian Route Shaves 680 Miles Between Europe and East
At a Halifax meeting of the Royal Transportation Commission reports and maps show the Canadian route from Europe to the East is 680 miles shorter than paths from United States ports. Surveys for a Baltic Black Sea ship canal in Russia indicate a distance of 1468 miles with an estimated cost of £180,000,000.
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Royal Transportation Commission
Halifax
Europe
East
United States
Russia
Baltic
Black Seas
Girl’s Question That Paralyzed a Gunnery Officer
A young girl visiting a battleship asks how the crew enters the torpedo tube. The gunnery lieutenant, eager to teach, explains the gear then is stunned by her single, blunt question. The anecdote reflects a curious layperson’s view of naval warfare aboard a first warship visit.
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H. M
London
California Builds Fruit Pavilion For World Fair
California erects a pavilion inside the agricultural building at the world fair. Its exterior is covered with dried fruit and displays four tons of apricots peaches and prunes to attract universal attention.
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California
Mosquito Exhibit Shows Ninety Eight Varieties in Louisiana
At the state world fair an exhibit displays ninety eight varieties of mosquitoes in cases. They are guaranteed not to bite or sting and are presented for public viewing.
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Louisiana
Greeley Emerges as Lamb Center Besides Potatoes
Greeley Colorado is becoming known for lamb production almost as much as its potato industry. Lamb shipments to Eastern and other markets reach up to 100 carloads weekly. Winter feeding experiments using beet pulp have proven successful in northern Colorado with tens of thousands of sheep fed in Greeley Ft. Collins Loveland and nearby areas.
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Greeley
Colo
Colorado
Ft. Collins
Loveland
Elderly Bride Dies After Split From Fourth Husband
A 74 year old widow who wed a 72 year old man last December at West Ham died a week after the marriage. Her dying words were My heart is broken. A coroner's jury ruled valvular heart disease caused the death, per the Philadelphia Ledger.
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West Ham
Philadelphia Ledger
Scientist Dr Maximilian Nitze Still Living in Berlin
Dr Maximilian Nitze the inventor of a luminous apparatus for viewing the stomach and internal organs remains alive in Berlin where he serves as a university instructor.
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Maximilian Nitze
Berlin
University
Telephone Opportunities Across U S Reach Regional Totals
In the United States over 20 million families and at least 5 million businesses create about 25.9 million opportunities to place telephones. Approximately one eighth of these are currently equipped, highlighting the scale of early telephone reach.
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United States
Peril of Exvylores and Lewis and Clark Voyage Tales
Narrative describes Lewis and Clark expedition feats on the Missouri with canoes and pirogues, threats from steep banks, and Lewis saving Windsor from a precipice, plus notes on a rare loon sighting near Jackson Lake and minor domestic anecdotes.
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Missouri
A. M. Laut
Lewis and Clark
Lewis
Rockies
la Verendrve
Windsor
Ind
Physical culture figures cited on cheap living
A house keeper denounces cheap living claims by physical culture writers. She notes readers mock the New York advocate who boasted living on fifteen days at seventy cents, detailing inflated grocery prices and urging skepticism of savings figures.
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New York
Quiet valley life vs wealth and fame in a Hilton R. Greer note
A fragmentary excerpt from National Magazine contrasts one man’s riches with the emptiness of fortune. It recalls brook songs and birdsong, peace in a lowly valley, and a life spent away from strife as another seeks fame yet finds his cup incomplete.
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Hilton R. Greer
National
Aerial Dinners Trend in Paris Created by Santos-Dumont
Paris hosts a sky high dining trend as M Santos-Dumont stages a dinner where tables and chairs hang from wires while waiters walk on stilts. Guests access seats via step ladders and plates rise on lifts for a floating meal experience.
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Paris
M. Santos-Dumont
Church Members in United States Reach 29 Million
The Church Economist reports 29,000,000 church members in the United States, or 36 percent of the population, up 29 percent since 1800.
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United States
Heart Remedies and Inventions Mixed in Scribbled Tale
A jumble of items mentions heart disease and Dodd's Kidney Pills as a supposed cure, followed by notes on patents for an automatic roller bearing and assorted quotes on charity and trade. The piece blends medical anecdote with technical invention and casual dialogue in a dated, fragmentary style.
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I. A. Gedge
Principal credits Grape-Nuts for health revival
A high school principal in a flourishing city recounts years of indigestion and rheumatic pain until an old friend prescribed a diet of Grape-Nuts milk and fruit. Within two months he felt greatly improved and has since relied on Grape-Nuts, praising Postum Co. and urging doctors to learn about the product.
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Methuselah
Postum. Co
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Attie
Wellville
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DiLler Record
FF. T. Pearce
Diller
Vincom Medical College
Oliver Theatre
Pletrd
Neb
Mickey
Dewitt, Telephone Company
incredi@ Ita capital
DeWitt Exchange
Lv Jooks
Omaha
District Court
Dovelas County
Secretary of the State Board of Litigation
Melvin
Williams
Geological Survey
North Platte Valley
Wyoming
Newebraska
Hank ‘Monk
Horace Greeley
Placerville
Mark Twain
Artemus Ward
Hank-Monk
Cascade
Mikado
Itvare
Santos Dumont
Government
Mido
Jackson Lake
South America
Andes
Jackson Jake
Hercules
Tories
Matt
Folsom
H.D.- Hyde
Dodd
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