New Scenic Yellowstone Park Tour From Cody Route
February rate bulletin promotes homeseekers fares with a return limit of June 1st. A new Yellowstone Park tour by the Yellowstone Park Camping & Transporta Co. offers a $50.00 package from Cody via Gov Shoshone Dam and Sylvan Pass, with daily summer departures. Travel writer Aron Holm oversees tours. contact A. T. Watson, G. P. A., Omaha, and WAKELEY, G. P. A., for leaflets and reservations.
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Newly Mine Sone
Gepehroughout
Big Horn Basin
Ylowstone Park
Yellowstone Park
Aron Holm
Price of
Cody
Y. Wyo
Park Cody
Mountain Bandits Led by a Woman Are Defeated in Surprise Raid
Lieutenant Enrique Gonsalez leads fifty Mexican troops against a band of robbers in a mountain pocket. The band is led by Coneia a twenty one or twenty two year old girl who others call Concia. After a standoff she agrees to disband and let her men scatter. Years later the band reemerges and is wiped out in a dawn assault led by Concia, who personally selects three rebels to execute. Gonsalez offers reward but Concia declines to join for pay.
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Enrique Gonsalez
Gonsalez
Coneia
Concia
Gonsale
The Bad Roads Toll Threatens National Wealth
The piece argues that $250,000,000 is wasted annually on poor highways, totaling about a billion dollars with losses from bad roads. It estimates every American bears a $12.50 tax due to road conditions and calls for strong federal action on roads comparable to tariffs, navy, and foreign relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Improvement Montoes and the Case for Good Roads
The text extols the benefits of good roads and the impressive work possible with a split log drag. It argues a community should have the best road possible, as better roads uplift the city, hamlet, and farmer, sharing a common interest and aiding growth and progress. The call is to act now and not delay.
Tennessee Boosters Campaign for a Great Highway
The Chattanooga Times praises booster efforts for a pioneering highway and boulevard linking Harriman, Rockwood, Evanville, Dayton and Chattanooga. It urges unity to build a wide thoroughfare benefiting all midstate towns between the two cities.
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Tennessee Boosters
Chattanooga Times
Harriman
Chattanooga
Rockwood
Evanaville
Dayton
Buddy
Remedies From Cucumbers For Skin Beauty
A home recipe explains making cucumber juice from sliced cucumbers simmered in water then strained. It details chamber essence with alcohol, a cucumber cream with almond oil castile soap benzoin, and a daily skin lotion. An astringent benzoin mix is noted as a bleach and astringent rather than a tissue builder.
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Castile
Esquire Title History and Chivalry Decline
A Pall Mall Gazette note traces the esquire title from medieval shield bearers to lordly rank. It explains origins in chivalry, the shift under Richard II to a patent honor, and the eventual obsolescence of the duties once attached.
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Pall Mall Gazette
The Preparation of Parchment Process
A historical description outlines parchment making from skin to sheet. Sheep skins form common parchment, while thicker varieties for drum heads use ass and calf skins, wolf and goat skins. Steps include lime cleansing, fleshing, fleshing removal, smoothing with whiting, pumice rubbing, and gradual stretching.
English wag pities railway beggar on express ride
A humorous letter to a local editor recounts a beggar with a wooden leg harassing passengers on a fast express. The writer contrasts this with the slow train as a target for the wag humorist. The piece mocks the nuisance of begging on crowded rail services and seeks a curb on such acts.
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Blanktom
Spaceley
Prince Henry the Navigator and the voyage legacy
The Portuguese royal prince Henry son of John I and Queen Philippa led early voyages of discovery. His push for exploration spread navigation ideas that influenced Columbus and the drive to find new lands by sea.
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Prince Henry
Kingdom of
Portugal
John I
Philippa
Navigator
Columbus
Final Settlement Filed in Mathias Estate
County Court in Fairbury orders February 15 1911 hearing on A Mayborn administrator’s petition for final settlement and discharge in the estate of Caroline C Mathias. Notice to interested parties to be published in the Diller Record for three weeks. C C Borre, County Judge.
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State of
Nebraska
Jefferson County
S County
Said County
Fairbury
Caroline C. Mathias
A. Mayborn
Finnal
Diller Record
C. C. Borre
Probate Notice for Estate of Joseph N Musser
State of Nebraska Jefferson County County Court in Fairbury set February 15 1911 for hearing the petition of Maria E Musser administratrix requesting final settlement and discharge from trust. Notice to interested parties by publication prior to hearing in county court room in Fairbury. County Judge 47-C Beyze.
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Ata
Iaid
Fairbury
Joseph N. Musser
Maria E. Musser
Diller Record
C. Beyze
Notice to creditors in Hickman estate
Notice is given to creditors of the deceased Hickman estate to present claims to the county judge of Jefferson County Nebraska at the county court room on July 21 1911 at 1 PM for examination and allowance. Six months to file claims from January 19 1911. Claims not filed by July 21 1911 will be barred. Notice published in the Diller Record for four weeks prior to July 1911. Borie County Judge.
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Hick
Heiman
Jefferson County
Nebraska
Said
Diller Record
Borie
Special Election Notice for Diller Village Water Bonds
Notice to legal voters of Diller Nebraska Jefferson County that a special election is set for February 25 1911 at 8 am to 7 pm at the old store building. The issue asks to authorize Water Bonds of 15000 dollars payable in 20 years, interest up to 6 percent, sold at par, funds to pay for oily property improvements and water taxes.
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Diller
Jefferson County
Nebraska
Senior
Bester
City of
New York
State of New York
Water Bonds Proposal For Village Of Diller Nebraska
Public notice dated February 4 1911 authorizes a ballot measure to issue fifteen thousand dollars in water bonds to establish a water works system. Two thirds of the vote required. Proceeds to a Water Fund kept by the treasurer and spent only by board warrant. Notices to be published in Diller Record and posted publicly and at voting places. J Smith Diller Village Clerk seal.
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Board of Trustees
Diller Record
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A. T. ‘Watson
Ee Wakeley
Omaha
American Press Association
Waggoner Bros
A. L. Tiistman
Claude Ellis
Diller, Nebraska
Odell
John Carrico & Son
J. G. Neely
Packer's Restaurant
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