Nebraska Notes Highlights Local Growth and Deals
Beatrice markets strong wheat with top dealer price at 73 cents. Beatrice based bank incorporations include Beaver Crossing with $15,000 and Foster State with $6,000. Cedar County telephones expand to 52 farms. Hartington hosts a new teleph one firm with $5,000 stock. Land in Cuming County reaches $325 per acre in Monterey Township. Brown County Potato Growers formed in Ainsworth to market this fall. Estina town site near Saunders County eyed by Great Northern. Norcross Brothers plan to expand Beatrice grain elevator. West Point farmland values rise. Demster Assurance reports $1,700 income. Clarkston's Farmers State Bank forms with $25,000 capital. Ashland church at $11,000 nearing completion. Lang Canning plant in Beatrice to run through harvest. Exeter church remodeling costs about $4,000 with basement kitchen dining. Cartmill and Morgan arreste d in Grand Island on suspected government-money order fraud. Hastings land sale to Burlington rail rejected. condemnation yields Boston $2,150. litigation to follow.
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Beatrice
Beaver Crossing State Bank
W. J. Organ
H. Gake
The
Great Northern
Estina
Saunders County
Norcross Brothers
W. L. Spellman
Nebraska
Nebraska State Assessment Sets 305 Million Valuation
The state’s total assessed valuation is 304 419 340 62 and a 7 mill levy will raise 2 130 935 33 in revenue for general educational university and Sheldon funds. Governor Mickey lauds the assessment as equitable and the best in state history.
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General Fund
Educational Fund
University Fund
Sheldon Fund
Mickey
Governor awards $3000 silver service for Nebraska battleship
Governor Mickey selects Reichenberg & Smith of Omaha for a $3,000 hand engraved silver service for the battleship Nebraska. The 23 piece set includes a center piece, punch bowl, platter, ladle and cups with Nebraska and state designs and Union Pacific buffalo motifs, to be finished as the ship is completed.
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Mickey
Nebraska
Reichenberg & Smith of
Omaha
San Francisco
Netaska
Union Pacific
Kilpatrick Bros Move On To Casper for Wyoming Track
The Kilpatrick Brothers grading outfit with fifty men and 120 horses, plus equipment to fill six cars, passed Beatrice on the Union Pacific en route to Casper Wyoming where they contract with Northwestern to build 110 miles of track.
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Elkhorn
Kilpatrick Bros
Beatrice
Union Pacific
Casper
Wyo
Northwestern
Wyoming
Grain Trust Injunction Seeks Free Market for Nebraska Farmers
Attorney General Brown wins a supreme court injunction against grain trust officers to end monopolistic control of 1200 elevators handling 200 million dollars in grain yearly. The suit, claimed as the state’s broadest ever, targets rebates, boycotts of independent elevators, and price manipulation. The writ returns September 8, with Brown promising permanent injunction if violated.
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Brown
J. B. Barnes
Supreme Court
Grain Trust
Grain Dealers’ Association
Legal Department
Nebraska
Young Spens Named Freight Agent for Burlington Lines
Conrad E. Spens assistant general freight agent of the Burlington in Chicago is appointed freight agent for the Q lines west of the Missouri River with Omaha as his headquarters. At nearly 30 he is described as the youngest general freight agent on a major railroad system.
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Conrad E. Spens
Burlington Railroad
Chicago
Missouri River
Omaha
Spens
E. R. Puffer
Thomas Miller
Crosby
Burlington
Omaha Valuation Raised 15 Percent by State Board
The state board of equalization boosted Douglas county merchandise values by 15 percent after a two day hearing. Omaha merchants offered little defense as assessors admitted undervaluation of large stocks. Evidence suggested 50 percent increases in many cases, with hints of possible higher final action, including a 25 percent suggested by Lincoln merchants and calls from officials for stronger increases.
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State Board of Equalization
Douglas County
Douglas
Omaha
Tibbets
John E. Miller
Lincoln
Mickey
Reed
Secretary of State
Galusha
Million Life Claims Paid by U S Insurance Firms in 1904
Special returns cited by the Insurance Press show life insurance claim payments in the United States and Canada totaling 277 million 757 thousand 850 dollars for the year 1904. New York led with nearly 59 million, followed by Pennsylvania about 18.5 million and Illinois Ohio and New Jersey above 10 million each.
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United States
Canada
New York
Alaska
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ohio
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Missouri
Texas
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
St. Louis
Ownership mixup as Rathmore trips through Riviera carriage
Lord Rathmore formerly David Plunkett travels to the Riviera after elevation. A French railway clerk finds his reserved compartment and demands his name. He panics recalling his past but only remembers the title Rathmore, forgetting his new peerage title.
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Lord Rathmore
David Plunkett
Riviera
Bluejacket Turned Mule Under Gibraltar Tale
Admiral Dickins recalls a British sailor at Gibraltar who carried hay and joked he had become a commissary mule. The anecdote contrasts a hay laden mariner with a mule during a mock bombardment at Fort Monroe and reflects on service and identity.
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Admiral Dickins
Fort Monroe
Gibraltar
New York Times
Woman's runabout hits buggy after curbside sighting
A woman driving a small gasoline car at slow speed struck a standing buggy. The buggy suffered no damage but the car's steering was slightly broken. She told her husband the tale that evening, noting a striking woman in a new polo turban passed on the sidewalk.
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Kansas City Times
Speaking Not His Forte
A venerable clergyman recalls a meeting where a man rose to announce his intent to speak He said his wife had kept him from public talk but since she had died he would speak freely The speaker proceeded and soon the audience mourned the wife as a personal friend with the congregation moved by the tale
Rinderpest Strikes Rotterdam Zoo Killing Animals
The rinderpest has attacked the Rotterdam zoological gardens and threatens the extinction of cattle deer antelope sheep and goats. Among the dead are a pair of dwarf oxen from Celebes valued at 5000 dollars.
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Zoological Gardens
Rotterdam
Celebes
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Nebraska Notes
Rouse
State Banking Department
Foster State Bank
Cuming County
Cedar County
Charles Meister
Monterey Township
Casper Guenther
Ainsworth
Brown County Potato Growers’ Association
West Point
Henry Netwig
Adolph Pospisil
Demster Assurance Company
Treasury
Farmers’ State Bank of
Clarkson
J. D. Wolf
W. J. Oklebourn
T. T. Peter
Ashland
Lang Canning and Preserving Company
Methodist Episcopal Church
Exeter
Cartmill
Morgan
Grand Island
Rawlins
City of
Hastings
Gilbert H. Boston
Nebraska News
Bennett
State Board of Equaliza
Tion
Valu
New Burlington
Takoma Biscuit
Cracker and Candy, Co
Kaneass City
Secraziancus
Wellville
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