State Fair in Lincoln Promises Unparalleled Exhibits
Lincoln’s 1908 State Fair, August 31 to September 4, features a new 686-head cattle barn, Liberati Festival Military Band and Grand Opera, multiple local bands, and a grand night show Pain’s at the Mount Vesuvius. The fair adds horticultural, fruit, and educational displays, bee demonstrations, and a Wild West show, with extensive agricultural apparatus displays and county entries.
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Liberati
Pain'e Fire
Lincoln
Nebraska
Gun
Heten
Hebron
Beatrice
Aurora
St. Paul
Denver
Bryan Traveling Men's Club
Fair Grounds
Wall Board
Mount Vesuvius
Venice
Union
James
Frank Odell
Odell
Fair Board
London Trip For Harry Huff
Harry J. Huff of Grinnell college Iowa will go to the Olympic games in London next summer whether he makes the American team or not He will enter the Chicago tryouts with the Chicago Athletic club team If he fails to win a place he has been assured by Fred W Stone of the club that he will join their team
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London
Harry Huff
Harry J. Huff
Grinnell College
Iowa
Hof
Chicago
Chicago Athletic Club
Fred W. Stone
Yate Swimmers Plan Western Easter Tour
Captain Richards announces an extensive western trip for the Yate swimming and water polo teams during the Easter vacation. The squad leaves New Haven on April 12 and will face the New York Athletic Club Chicago Interscholastic team in Chicago and Illinois opponents at Champaign and Chicago.
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Yate
West
Richards
New Haven
Conn
New York Athletic Club Athletic Club
Tinois Athletic Club
Chicago
University of At Champaign
University Chicago
Diller Town Folk Visit Relatives and Attend Chautauqua
A roundup of local visits and movements from Diller Nebraska shows Mr. and Mrs. Kerr visiting relatives in Gilead while Mrs. Briggs comes from Humbolt to see Diller friends. Other residents travel to Fairbury for the Chautauqua and Des Moines to learn of a death.
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J. E. Kerr
Gilead
Nebr
Henrietta Powell
Gage, Okla
Diller
J. Mayborn
Colorado
A Simple Wound Remedy From a Woolen Cloth
A reader extols smoking wounds with a woolen cloth as an infallible cure for inflammation and pain, claiming twenty minutes of smoke will relieve even severe nail or bruise wounds and prevent lockjaw.
Fruit glut in Wymorean prompts cider and hog feed
The Wymorean district reports abundant fruit waste as peaches and apples are fed to hogs or left to rot while some residents convert apples to cider vinegar. Nemaha county expects about half a crop of apples, with fruit shipped to Fremont and other cities where freight costs and lack of buyers at 10 cents a peck affect profits.
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Wymorean
Nemaha County
Fremont
Composer Joe Howard Improvises Melodies On Arrival
Joe Howard, composer of The Flower of the Ranch and several plays, professes no musical literacy yet creates tunes by inspiration. He riffs at the piano with a phonograph recording his melodies, later having a trained person transcribe the tunes for publication.
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Joe Howard
Diller Picnic Draws Large Crowds From Region
Reports across several papers say the Diller picnic drew about five to ten thousand attendees. Diller residents and guests praised the event with record crowds and a well managed program in a fine grove, highlighting entertainment and hospitality.
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Diller
Fairbury
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G. W. Segrist
Sunnyside
Humboldt
F. L. Spear
J. Smith Diller
Harry Shutt
Hastings
Daisy Lamb
Eva Witty
Hello Girl
Indepesdent
Telephone Company
Max Kaden
Burlington
Rawlins County
Kan
Burl Ballard
L. O. Ballard
A. D. Colman
Des Moines
W. W. Kratzer
Deweese, Nebr
Jas. Harris
Howard Jordan
Exter
J. B. Zook
J. T. Carmichael
Jasper Long
Cheyenne County
Mr. Carmichael
T. P. Beall
Nelson, Nebr
Beall
J. O. Blauser
Blauser
Fort Wayne
Ind
Endicott Cor
Fairbury Journal
Beatrice Express
Denton
Dr. H. Bauguess
Diller, Nebraska
J. G. Neely
Neely
East Side
Main St
Dmler
Newe
Fairbury Steam
H. 2. Diller
Dinler Brothers
Tai
New Restaurant
Co. BE
Will Carey
L. P. Raymond
Edison
Phonographe and Records
U. S
Deen
Casnowe
U.5
Patent Office
Washington. D.C
Bulletin
Michigan
Canada
New England
Pacific Coast
Yellowstone Park
Utah
Big Horn Mountains
Black Hills
California
Washington
Oregon
Big Horn River
Wyoming
Missouri River
D. Clem Deaver
Landseekers’ Information Bureau Omaha
A. T. Watson
L. W. Wakeley
C. B
Omaha, Nebr
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