Eastman Kodak for Xmas and local notes
H. K. Shutt offers Eastman Kodak gifts priced 1.50 to 5.00. Mrs. Fnima Fry is improving after illness. A. W. Kock from Odell visits on business. Omaha bakers foresee bread price cuts around January. Frank Hubka reports snow in Colorado. Dist 86 social December 15 near Diller. Nebraska legislators debate Blue Sky repeal and losses from worthless securities. RAT-SNAP guarantees to kill rats and mice with three sizes sold by H. K. Shutt and Waggoner Bros. New York City water comes via Catskill reservoirs, supplying 500 million gallons daily to more people than Iowa and Nebraska combined.
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New York City
Catskill “Mountains
Iowa
Nebraska
Dance venue and local notices in Fairbury and Diller
A Fairbury community column notes Saturday dances at Moose Hall and a Tuesday afternoon appendectomy for Mrs. Ray Barber. It also lists local sales ads for a Corn Sheller, a station assignment for A T Watson, a novelty about cow bells in jazz, and RAT-SNAP rat control ads with prices.
State Superintendent to Hear Objections on District Boundaries
State Superintendent John M. Matzen will meet the redistricting committee Monday December 20 to hear protests and appeals about proposed consolidated districts. Hearings include districts No 11 at 10 am No 16 at 11 am No 8 at 1 pm and No 1 at 1 pm with signatures from Chas Turner Edwin Hoppe Peter Gill Chas Germer and others. Eva B Schuman Co Supt.
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John M. Matzen
Chas. M. Turner
R. F.fairbury
Edwin Hoppe
Fairbury
Peter. Gill
Jansen
Plymouth
Eva B. Schuman
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Claims Internal Cure
Catarrh cannot be cured by local applications and Hall's Catarrh Medicine is promoted as an internal remedy. The text describes the medicine as a tonic purifier combination said to affect mucous surfaces and claim widespread results in catarrhal conditions. It is attributed to W J Cheney & Co of Toledo.
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Condit All
Hall
W. J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toleda
Minnie Boxwell Visits Beatrice After Christmas
The note mentions Mrs Minnie Boxwell visiting Beatrice to see relatives after Christmas. It also reports a coal famine being relieved at Diller by dealers receiving car loads of coal. Warnings urge residents not to dump ashes or trash in streets or gutters and to have waste hauled from the back of their lots.
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Minnie Boxwell
Beatrice
Diller
RAT-SNAP advertised by York firm and utility rate hikes
A Yonkers dairy firm promotes RAT-SNAP rat poison in its cellar claiming strong rat control. Separate items note Lincoln railway commission hearings seeking new monthly rents for The Lincoln Telephone Co across Fairbury Steele City Endicott. and Odell resident Mrs. Jacob Bowers, 65, deemed fit for Lincoln asylum after insanity board review.
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Lincoln Telephone Company
State Railway Commission
Fairbury
Steele City
Endicott
Steele City Press
N. Pickett
Odell
Jacob Bowers
State ‘Asylum
Lincoln
County Insanity Board
Motorcyclist at Fairbury Dies in Street Chain Accident
George Knight 20, of Fairbury, died after his motorcycle struck a wire stretched across a street into the city park. The chain had been placed to bar park traffic when mud blocked roads. Knight, who worked at Young's garage, died an hour after the 9 p.m. Friday crash. He lived with his sister, Mrs. Bert Barker.
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Fairbury
George Knight
Young
Bert Barker
Liquor Makers in Jail Near Daykin
Frank Culligan and Convin Cunningham from the Daykin area are jailed in Fairbury. Culligan faces charges for possession and manufacture of liquor while Cunningham was arrested with him Sunday night by Sheriff Tippin and O D Hedge. Officers found parts of two stills one gallon of corn whiskey mash barrels jars a brass kettle cards revolvers rifles shotguns and ammunition on a daykin area property. Culligan previously bootlegging convict in 1918 with a $200 fine and sixty days in Lincoln penitentiary.
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Fairbury
Frank Culligan
Convin Cunningham
Daykin
Culligan
Cunningham
Tippin
O D
Lincoln
Noted Dog Trainer Endorses RAT-SNAP Extermination
Joe Armstrong praises RAT-SNAP after rats appeared near kennels. He reports in three weeks all rats disappeared and dogs avoided the bait. The ad notes RAT-SNAP comes in cake form in three sizes 35c 15c and 1 25 and is sold by H K Shutt and Waggoner Bros.
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Joe Armstrong
H.K. Shutt and
Waggoner Bros
Also Mentioned on This Page
Diller State Bank
Eastman Kodak
H. K. Shutt
Xeneae Ht
K. Shutt
Fnima Fry
A. W.kock
Odell Land and Insurance
Omaha Bakers
E. F. Habicht
Washington
Frank Hubka
Colorado
Dist
Minnnie Edgington
H. K. Shutt and
Waggoner Bro’s
Dressen
Harness and Shoe Shop
Diller, Nebr
Moose Hall
Kearce
Ray Barber
A. Marsalles
J. N. Novotny
Odell Phone
A. T. Watson
Burlington
Hoag
New York
Fred White
Mr. White
Fifth Street
Calkins Bros
Beatrice, Nebr
H. K. Ee
Vroone & Co
Gene Kasene
Wymore
Stewart's Orchestra
Willard Batteries
The
Diller Auto Co
E. G
Limprecht Proprietors
VY. .B. Bell
Clarinda
Herkimer Supply CO
H. M. Holle, Mer
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