Local notes cover towns from Pierce to Sutherland
Debraska notes report a passer passing a counterfeit ten dollar bill on a Pierce store purchase. Madison and Nebraska Telephone companies expand lines into Stanton and west from Pickrell. Exeter school board picks Prof. F. R. Galbraith as high school principal. Wisner votes on nine thousand dollar bond for lighting plant. Keith and Lincoln Counties Irrigation transfers to district. Howells considers a lighting plant after installing a water system with four hundred lights. Clarkson area real estate values surge. West Point forms Mount Hope Cemetery association with 35000 dollars capital. Sutherland village petition for enabling act granted with named trustees. Oakland Lutheran calls Rev. Albert Lindquist to pastor and to install improvements. John Smith drives 300 dozen eggs in a single day for a Hastings prize. Plattsmouth grants eight saloon licenses and three drug-store permits. one remonstrance read. Florence improvement club extends streetcar to Forest Lawn cemetery and seeks five-cent fare to Omaha. Lincoln and Blakely farmers grade Scott street road free for two miles west of Beatrice. Nebraska evening dailies form exchange network with Kearney Hub Grand Island Independent Beatrice Express Hastings Norfolk News and Fremont Tribune.
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Lincoln
Blakely
Scott Street
Beatrice
John Rhodes
Nebraska Evening Dailies
Kearney
Grand Island Independent
Beatrice Express
Hastings
Norfolk News
Fremont Tribune
Nebraska Railroad Valuation Sparks State Board Hearings
The first session of the Nebraska State Board of Assessment is in progress at Lincoln to value railroads. Rumors say Union Pacific may have its Nebraska valuation raised while Burlington could be reduced. Burlington alone reported Nebraska earnings and expenses, not their per line credits. The Union Pacific furnished a nationwide financial statement but omitted Nebraska specifics.
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State Board
Lincoln
Union Pacific
Burlington
Nebraska
Bellevue College President Asked to Resign by Trustees
Bellevue college executive committee asks President R Harlow Lam pen to resign at year end. Lam pen, called from Philadelphia, faced criticism for lack of financial support and catalog errors. June trustees meeting may pivot control away from current majority amid ongoing tension.
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Board of Trustees
Bellevue. College
R.harlow Lampen
Lampen
Philadelphia
Kerr
Presbyterian
Grand jury actions in Omaha beef trust probes
United States District Attorney I F Baxter left for Chicago on office business to consult with District Attorney Morrison about beef trust investigations before the grand jury there. Baxter remains associated with Morrison in the prosecution of South Omaha and Omaha ends cases. Subpoenas list a number of South Omaha cattle and hog buyers summoned to appear before the Omaha grand jury on May 8. Names of those summoned are kept secret at the U S marshal and district attorney offices.
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United States
I. F. Baxter
Chicago
Morrison
Beef Trust
Baxter
South Omaha
Omaha
United States Marshal
Not Guilty in Wertz Sprecher Libel Prosecution
County Attorney Wertz of Schuyler saw his libel case against John C. Sprecher, editor of the Free Lance, end with a not guilty verdict. The dispute arose from Sprecher’s charge that Wertz acted for the county and D Dunkel in a county claim matter and related alleged payments. The long-running feud included a post office confrontation and a sustained newspaper battle over more than eighteen months.
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Wertz
Austrian man survives five days in a refrigerator car
Emil Schwartz, twenty two, an Austrian bound from California to New York, spent five days locked in a refrigerator car without food. A switchman Johnson heard a gunshot and freed him at the Union Pacific yard. Weak but alive, Schwartz received care, ate soup, and reported to police.
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Emil Schwartz
Omaha
Union Pacific
Johnson
Schwartz
California
New York
Kearney Boy Harris Hurt In Train Accident
Sixteen year old James Harris son of J H Harris of F H Gilchrist Lumber Co suffered a serious injury after attempting to catch a moving Union Pacific train car at Kearney tracks. He grabbed a ladder rail fell to the ground and was struck by wheels. He was badly injured with probable head trauma.
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Kearney
James Harris
J. H. Harris
F. H. Gilchrist Lumber Co
Union Pacific
Harris
Mikado's Nerves Shown After Mock Earthquake
The Emperor of Japan remained calm during a sham quake staged by seismologist Prof Milne at Tokio University. Explosives under model buildings created a blast, but Mutsuhito did not flinch, departing with a single word, Really.
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Ihe
Japan
Mutsuhito
Milne
Far East
Tokio University
Mikado
American minister to Korea Dr Horace N Allen a leading figure
Horace N Allen born 1858 in Delaware graduated Ohio Wesleyan University. A Presbyterian missionary he became Korea's first Protestant missionary and later royal hospital chief and court physician after saving the emperor’s life. In 1890 he was named secretary of the US legation in Seoul.
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Korea
Horace N. Allen
Corea
Delaware
Ohio Wesleyan University
China
United States
Foote
Legation
Seoul
Royal ‘Hospital
Dr. Allen
Allen
Bank Account for Babies in Greenfield Plan
George W. Davenport of Greenfield Massachusetts proposes a baby aid scheme giving every newborn in Greenfield a fifty cent savings account funded by him. He aims to hold an annual baby show in May to raise funds for boys club work and hopes President Roosevelt will attend and appear on souvenir badges for Franklin County babies.
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George W. Davenport
Greenfield
Mass
Davenport
Roosevelt
Mr. Davenport
Franklin County
Newlyweds Plan Weekly Finances for Home
In a domestic scene the couple discusses essential supplies as they begin housekeeping. The husband suggests a regular weekly allowance to cover expenses while the wife negotiates practical needs such as limewater or limejuice from a drug store.
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Mr. Newlywed
Fatherly man probes author on book earnings
The fatherly man asks the young author how much money his book earned. The author says he paid 750 dollars for a thousand copies and sold one to his landlady, estimating profit as 748 dollars. The exchange highlights a simple arithmetic reply.
Fashionable party sparks clash over Miss Psyche
Mrs Highstyle ridicules Miss Psyche as vulgar and declares she will marry for love. Mrs JFnestyle claims ignorance but concedes the pairing is unorthodox and notable at the event.
Discovery claim on Diabetes cure in Clayton Texas
Special report from Clayton Texas May 1 cites J H Bailey who endorses Dodd's Kidney Pills as the only remedy that would cure Diabetes in his view. He says seven boxes helped him and he believes strict diet would not have altered his outcome. The ad promotes the pills as curing diabetes and related kidney diseases from backache to Brights Disease.
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Clayton, Tex
J. H. Bailey
Dodd
Bright
Mies Flirt and Cash Couple Portrait in Ad Copy
An odd mix of ads and quips appears including a claim that a husband attempted a kiss, notes about guaranteed semi annual interest on tropical plantation investments, solicitations for agents, a witty saying on financiers, and a beauty product claim for Defiance Starch with a money back guarantee.
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Rhode Island
E. Moore
Odd Fellows
St.Louis
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Debraska
Pierce
Madison Telephone Company
Stanton County
Madison
Creston
Nebraska’ Telephone Company
Pickrell
Exeter School Board
F. R. Galbraith
Beemer
Neb
Wisner
Isaue
Keith and
Lincoln Counties Irrigation Company
Sutherland
Howells
Clarkson
Colfax” County
the Herald
West
Point
Mount
H. B. Worrell
W. C Blackmore
E. C. Brown
C.A. Burklund
E.A. Crosby
Lutheran Church of Oakland
Albert W. Lindquist
Kansas City
John Smith
Hall County
Plattsmouth
Florence
Forest Lawn Cemetery
Nebraska News
State Board of Assessment
Bellevue ‘College
State Normal Board
Mortensen
McBrien
Fowler
Tawney
Ma Jjors
Detzell
Gregg
Ludden
Tony
New Normal School
Beatty
Peru
Clark
Grand Jury
Dary
Sprecher
Schuyler
Alzen
Massachusetts
Nancy Carnegie
Pittsburg
James Hever
Andrew Carnegie
Mies
Cash
Conea
Grete
Henry Spahn
DE Laval
Popey
Dairy m Investments
de Laval Separator Co
Randolph & Canal Sts
Cortlandt Street
Ser A. J. Tower CO
Etigneftis In
Boston
U.S. A
Tower Canadian Co
Toronto
Canada
Beatrice. Mer
Kanata City
Sioux Falls
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