Forty Years Ago in the Past from the Racer
Memories from the past recount farm life and local events. Notes include potato crops rotting from excess moisture, oats fields burned from rust, Miss Bert Ballard joining Hardy Herald as compositor in 1896, peaches sold near Wymore, a pneumonia death in the Harmes family, Henry Henrichs returning from Missouri to Diller, Frank Allison dying in Denver, a long prayer meeting column, threshing wheat yielding 44 bushels per acre, and editor’s political comments toward Democrats two days.
Agricultural News on Grasshoppers and Beetles in 4-H Camp Plans
Farmers battle grasshoppers with bran bait and arsenic in Nebraska fields. Tests show no poultry poisoning from properly spread bait or dead grasshoppers. Beetle control advised with sodium fluosilicate and hydrated lime. 4-H Club Camp in Seward set for late July with $215 total cost and July 28 deadline.
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Victor M. Rediger
H. Swenk
University of Nebraska College of Agriculture
Oklahoma
Swenk
Jefferson County
Fairbury
Navy News Highlights Wars Study and Navy Visit to Honolulu
Harvard professors compare 902 major wars since 500 B C with World War, finding it vastly larger. Seventy three Navy entrants pass the Naval Academy entrance exam this year. Ships Pennsylvania Texas Tennessee Idaho New Mexico Colorado Maryland Arizona and destroyer divisions 4 6 and 19 will visit Honolulu July 15 to August 17. A Navy diver carries a 327 pound burden including suit helmet belt and shoes with tools for underwater work. The Navy explains that engine troubles caused the withdrawal of battleships New Mexico and Mississippi from Panama maneuvers, not a collision as some reports claimed.
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B. C
Harvard
Naval Academy
Honolulu
Hawaii
Pennsylvania
Texas
Tennessee
Idaho
New Mexico
Colorado
Maryland
Arizona
Navy Department
Mississippi
Panama
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Froken
Bert Ballard
Alph Hill
The
Hardy Herald
Russell Co
Wymore
R. H.’ Harmes
Henry Henrichs
Missouri
Diller
Henry
Wichita
Kansas
Frank Allison
Sig
G. T. Eick
Denver
Esq. Kelley
Sam Green
J. B. Wright
Agricultural News
Ugil
Seward
Alc
Biscuit Co
Kellogg’s
Kellogg’s Wheat
Hershey’s
Clark’s Store
Diller, Nebr
Navy News
Long’s Store
Diller, Nebraska
Green Room Cafe
Dean Barber
Alka Seltzer
Dr.o.q. Diehl
Calla
Frank A. Houston
Bonded Abstracter
Fairbury, Nebr
Bonham Theatre
Fairbury, Nebraska
Joe E. Brown
Joan Blondell
Sons
O’ Guns
Frances Dee
Brian
Denlevy
Comedy News
Fury
Sylvia Sidney
Spencer Tracy Comedy News
Guy Kibbee
Warren Hull
Brien-Polly Ann
Yourg
Majestic Theatre
Garcia
Wallace Berry
John Boles
Barbara Stanwyck
Bologna
Rinso
Allen's Gash Market
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