Nebraska Notes Reflect Local Courts and Civic Deals
Local items include Thurman Gibbons 16 sentenced to reform school in a burglary case. Auction plans for Second Methodist church in Auburn on the Avenue hotel lot with an $8,000 build start in spring. Bankruptcy filings target Geneva Commission House and Abraham C Freshman firm claims. Nebraska City traveler Benjamin Martin seeks relief in federal court with $1,850 debts. Silver Creek bank cashier M J Rossiter sells to P H Bell and relocates to Los Angeles. Judge Harrington voids a long-ago marriage Moore Taylor case. custody awarded to Moore. Osceola United Workmen elect officers. Grand Island court settles Irwin v Mankin damages for $100 costs. Nebraska City guide Lew Wiscemeyer reports turtle spearing haul. Holdrege honey sales and peach crop notes. Beatrice General Colby reports loss of Vienard horse. Timm couple marks 40th anniversary with Civil War veterans. Platte river surveys near Fremont detail fascine plans and river shifts since 1858. Howells land sale at $62 25 per acre. United Workmen lodge elections.
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Thurman Gibbons
Engineer Caldwell
Folk
Kearney
Second Methodist
Auburn
Avenue Hotel
Abraham
C. Freshman
Jake. Golden
Commission
Geneva
Geneva Commission House
Benjamin
Martin
Nebraska City
M. J. Rossiter
State Bank
Silver Creek
P. H. Bell
Douglas
Wyo
Los Angeles
Rossiter
Mr. Bell
Munger
Federal Court
Harrington
District Court
S. Herbert Moore
Clara Taylor
Long Pine
Will H. ‘Taylor
Roseville
Ill
Lew Wiscemeyer
Charles J. Nelson
Platte River
Holdrege
Nelson
General Colby
Beatrice
Vienard
Timm
Plattsmouth
Gospel Ridge
Eleventh
Michigan Infantry
Fremont
J. H. Wragge
Geo. H Nagengast
Howells
Public Lands Left The Future Homestead Demand Rise
The item asserts future demand for homesteads will increase and that public lands will be taken up in a few years. It frames a broad outlook on land policy and settlement trends. The piece reflects concerns about available acreage and accelerated settlement.
Oltfield Sets New Automobile Records at Agricultural Park
Barney Oltfield lowers all automobile distance records from two to nine miles at Agricultural Park track Los Angeles California. New marks include one mile 1 46, three miles 2 39 4 5, four miles 3 25, five miles 4 29, six miles 6 22 2 3, eight miles 7 09 1 5, nine miles 9 04.
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Barney Oltfield
Agricultural Park Track
Los Angeles
Cal
Trish giant Connery sent to New York almshouse
William Connery known as the Trish giant, who has toured major U S and European cities for over forty years, was sent to the New York city almshouse. He stands seven feet one inch tall.
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United States
Europe
William Connery
Trish
New York
Connery
Farrett to be Installed Bishop in Montana Diocese
Farrett of Dubuque Louisiana will be installed as bishop of the Helena Montana diocese on January 27.
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Farrett
Dubuque, la
Helena, Mont
Rhodes Scholarship Qualifying Exams Set for January 1905
The next Rhodes Scholarship exam for U S candidates will be held January 17 and 18, 1905 at the State University in Lincoln Nebraska. One scholar will be chosen for each state and territory, with eligibility limited to unmarried U S citizens aged nineteen to twenty five.
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United States
State University
Lincoln
Neb
Oxford
Arange
Rhodes
Massachusetts
Committee of Selection
Grass Seed Prices and Seed Per Acre Guidance
Farmers statewide seek seed prices for alfalfa brome and meadow fescue with central and western counties showing demand. Alfalfa costs about $9.00 per bushel and $3 per acre. brome costs vary with one to one and a half bushels per acre. Meadow fescue sells around $1 to $1.50 per bushel. timothy and red clover prices rise in the east due to demand. Kentucky bluegrass $1.25 to $3 per bushel. red top similar to bluegrass. seed costs and sowing rates noted for best field results.
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Kentucky
Reed
Nebraska
Town Silver Mine
Harvard Educator Elliott Elected to French Academy
American educator for France President Elliott of Harvard is unanimously elected corresponding foreign associate of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, a section of the Institute of France, strengthening ties between the two nations.
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France
Elliott
Harvard
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
The
Institute of France
Mediation Talk in London Over Far Eastern War
A German diplomat and a British official discuss possible mediation in the Far Eastern war. They say official circles do not believe either belligerent is prepared for peace.
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Ltsis
London
Kansas banks raise capital to meet 1903 law goals
Kansas banks state and private, forced to raise minimum capital to 10 000 under the 1903 act. By January 1903 164 banks had capital under the threshold. 82 increased, 10 liquidated, 72 unchanged, with 450 850 dollars in new capital invested. The list shows numerous banks increasing from 5 000 or 6 000 to 10 000 to 16 000, with locations from Abbyville to Chapman and beyond.
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Kansas
W. 8
Albright
Startling Discoveries In Foreign Lands Unearth Ancient Irrigation System
Professor Poempelly of the Carnegie Institute in foreign lands reports major archaeological finds in the trans Caspian district. He unearthed a vast irrigation system and a large store of ancient arms, drawing Russian government support and a commission to assist in classifications and further excavations near Askabad Kopet Daga.
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Poempelly
Carnegie Institute of Pittsburg
Trans- Caspian
Potempelly
Imperial Russian Archaeological Commission
Kopet Daga
Askabad
Oil Producers Discuss Shutdowns as Price Cuts Hit Kansas Wells
Coffeyville Kansas oil operators consider closing wells and halting rigs due to crude price cuts. They anticipate a rise when the Whiting pipeline completes, but Standard Oil aims to curb production to store oil, potentially keeping oil idle until prices recover to about 1.38 dollars per barrel.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Hayvé
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Suit Seeks Deed To Emporia Farm From Son
T P Hall sues son James Hall claiming an 20 year old agreement required the father to be given a deed to a farm and residence. The son allegedly sold the farm last summer and used proceeds to buy two Emporia lots in his name. The case cites inheritance style terms and a lifetime occupancy clause. The father currently seeks enforcement of the deed.
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T. P. Hall
James Hall
Emporia
Indiana
Em‘poria
Drought Strains Water Supply Across Pennsylvania and East
A three month drought cripples water supply in Pennsylvania and the East. Authorities fear serious consequences if relief fails. Coke ovens coal mines and railroads curtail operations and mills risk shutdowns. Wilmerding and Wilkinsburg schools near Pittsburgh are dismissed due to water shortages.
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Pennsylvania
East
Wilmerding
Wilkinsburg
Pittsburg
Meridian judge sentences nephew to twenty five years
Judge Cochran of Meridian Mississippi, described as white haired and pallid, sentences his nephew Daniel Moore to twenty five years in prison after a manslaughter conviction from a quarrel over a girl.
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Judge Cochran
Meridian
Miss
Daniel Moore
Moore
Old man with large checks sought cash at Topeka bank
A colored man entered the First National Bank in Topeka Kansas presenting checks totaling 1 029 210 dollars in the name of Doctor Smith and signed by multiple endorsers. The issuer, described as an escaped lunatic from Osawatomie asylum, was identified as H and B C Vanderbilt.
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Darkey
Natonal Bank
Topeka
Kan
Don’t It Seem Funny Brenner Declared Insane in Court
August Brenner a German born farmer was ruled insane in the Emporia probate court over religious delusions. During trial he knelt most of the time praying from a German prayer book. After the proceedings he remained on his knees for about a half hour until officers carried him from the room. Brenner has lived in Emporia 25 years and is 68 years old.
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August Brenner
Emporia
Brenner
Germany
Gassaway Davis backs Toledo boy for Princeton course
Henry Tt Pays to Be Bright reports that Gassaway Davis, a defeated vice presidential candidate, will fund Charles Lyons of Toledo Ohio for a Princeton course after Lyons impressed him during a West Virginia visit.
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Henry
Gassaway Davis
Charles Lyons
Toledo
Ohio
Princeton
Davis
Lyons
West Virginia
Big blaze destroys property in Col Ohio business district
A fire in Col Ohio gutted $225,000 worth of property in the business district. An explosion during the blaze injured five firemen as crews battled the flames.
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Col Ohio
Luxurious Jewels Displayed by Women in Modern Age
The London Mail notes women in a luxurious age indulge in extravagant jewel displays. Descriptions include tiaras, pearl necklaces, stomachers, dog collars, and numerous gem ornaments. Individual pieces reach high values, with pearls at £90,000 and tiaras up to £25,000.
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London Mail
Baby in the carriage cry shocks crowded shop district
A New York Press note recalls a restless infant in a busy shopping district car in glares of women passengers. A mother struggled to hush the crying child while two well dressed women offered coins, one dropping a fifty cent piece to soothe the baby which promptly swallowed it.
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New York Press
It Isn't the Music It Is Blessing Friends
A poem by William J. Lampton extols true gratitude as not in outward things but in the acts of kindness and fellowship that brighten lives It emphasizes that praise for mankind comes from cheerful deeds and shared joy rather than mere thoughts or hidden roses
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Ctos
Farth
Fireproof Cloth from Titanium Oxide Claims
United States Consul Frank W. Mahin transmits from Nottingham England a report supplement on a new fireproofing material. A Manchester meeting of a dyers society cites titanic acid oxide of titanium showing fireproofing effect on flannelette, with a lit match failing to ignite treated fabric.
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United States
Frank W. Mahin
Nottingham
England
Society of Dyers
Manchester
Lovable Japanese Women in Japan's Heartland
Eleanor Franklin describes widowed Japanese women who wear bobbed hair and side partings, visit temples with prayer slips, and devote their days to family and home while valued by their families.
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Japan
Eleanor Franklin
Leslie's Weekly
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