Nebraska News and Notes May Day 1908
Local items and notices from Diller Nebraska discuss subscription terms, postmark status, advertising rates, and a Friday May 1 1908 issue. Highlights include a sea serpent find in Kansas, sulfur in sausage samples, and calls to prosecute preservatives. There is news on railway block signaling between Lincoln and Omaha, and the Nebraska State Fair planning a 4500 seat auditorium for bands and concerts.
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Burlington
Lincoln
Omaha
Board of Managers
Liberati
Don’t Blame Providence. The Neat Mother and Her Boys
A columnist contrasts two mothers in a small town. One rules with strict cleanliness and scolds returning boys, while another welcomes mud and mischief. The piece argues the first is not divinely right and notes the boys’ choices reflect environment more than fate.
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Blair Democrat
Hall of Fame snippets show long-liveds and notable figures
Dr. H Wheeler Bond denies grip as a medical disease. The king of Siam promotes a European tour book. William R Smith curates Burns editions. Maine judge Farmington born 1866 at 26. H P Bradbury 82 in Springfield keeps his first suit and war keepsake. Wilbur Fiske Chase aged 58 in Maine gives up dancing. Peter Keck, 99, still self-sufficient. Captain Stephen C Morrison linked to Revolution. Moses Morrison enlisted in Pownalboro. Bristol Conn endurance test report. Senator William J Bryan, Florida, remembered for oratory at UVA and Washington and Lee lineage.
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H. Wheeler Bond
St. Louis
Siam
H. P. Bradbury
Springfield
Wilbur Fiske Chase
Limerick
Peter Keck
Berwick
Brunswick
Stephen C. Morrison
Moses Morrison
Pownalboro
Captain Morrison
Bristol Conn
Frank Griffith
J F. Upson
Griffith
Upson
William James Bryan
Florida
New Sclon
Washington and Lee University
University of Virginia
Bryan
Theatre News: Warwick Joins Nazimova Co and More Cast Moves
Robert Warwick joins Mine Nazimova's company for her new play by Rachel Brothers titled Myself Bettina. Miss Maxine Elliott expands her company for the production complemented by Puccini finishing a musical version of Belasco's Girl of the Golden West titled La Fanciulla de West. Avita Sanchez, Spanish beauty from Panama, to play in The Rogers Brothers to Panama. Donald Brian appears as Pierre in The Two Orphans in The Merry Widow company led by Ethel Jackson.
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Robert Warwick
Mine Nazimova
Rachel Brothers
Bettina
Maxine Elliott
Puccini
Belasco
Avita Sanchez
Panama
Rogers Brothers
Donald Brian
Prince Canilo
Ethel Jackson
Sonia
Pierre
Two Orphans
Miss Jackson
German Gleanings Show Germany’s Sports Popularity Rising
The report notes in Prussia only 6,497 of 100,000 suicide attempts succeeded. Dentists may not call themselves American in Germany. The first German pencils began in Nurnberg where 30 factories now produce about 800 million pencils annually. Germany gains as a nation of sportsmen with 470,000 registered club members across denominations this year.
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Prussia
Germany
Europe
Nurnberg
Animal Life and Sizeable Nibbling Beliefs
An eagle can live twenty eight days without food. One ounce of eggs yields thirty nine thousand silkworms consuming mulberry leaves and producing silk worth eight pounds yearly. A disproved belief claims pythons in London Zoo avoid live food, now they eagerly eat dead rabbits pigeons fowls and goats.
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London Zoological Garden
English Etchings and Oddities from a London Library
A London library dedicates a room for literary talks. A South Shields buyer finds three five pound notes in an old Bible bought for six pence. A London cereger blames the absence of five guards for 1600 child deaths last year. Gilded youths in London use ballroom pedometers to track dance distances.
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London
South Shields
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Diller
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Chicago
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Redfern
Johnson
Aldrich
David City
Hinshaw
Nebraska
Nebraska Railway Commission
the Hall OF Fame
William R. Smith
National Botanical Garden
Washington
Robert Burns
Farmington Clais
Maine
A. Y. Locke
Hart Schaffner & Marx
Ahley & Diller, “Square Dealing Clothiers
Fairbury, Nebraska
J. G. Neely
Neely
Diller, Nebraska
New Restaurant, Co. E. Shower, Prop
Cail
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Prop
East Side
Main St
D.ner, Nebr
Fairbury Steam
Dr. H. Bauguess
Animal Life
Samuel J. Clark
Real Estate and Insurance
Diller, Webr
L. P. Raymond
Edison
Henry
Dr. Shoop
DR. O. C. Diehl
Diller, Nebr
California
Colorado
Rocky Mountains
Wyoming
Black Hills
Yellowstone Park
Big Horn Basin
Oregon Basin
Wiley Ditch
Cody
Garland
Wyo
D. Clem Deaver
Landseekers’ Information Bureau
Landseekers
A. T. Watson
L. W. Wakeley
Omaba
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