Semi-Centennial State Celebration Sets Lincoln Race Week
The Capital City hosts a state and nation celebration on June 12 to 15 marking a fifty six anniversary. Lincoln aims to attract thousands with automobile races and a parade, inviting premier drivers from Detroit St Louis and St Paul with entry closes on June 1 and promotion across Nebraska.
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Commonwealth
St. Louis
Kings
Detroit
Lincoln
Mound City
Historic Curies Wanted For Nebraska exhibit display
The Nebraska Semi Centennial celebration in Lincoln June 12 18 and 14 seeks historic Nebraska aborigines and early white settler life artifacts. Private collections from many counties will be shown with full credit and transport and return costs covered by the committee.owners may visit Lincoln to help install exhibits and county relations will coordinate preservation efforts.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Nebraska State Historical Society
A. B. Gheldon
The
State Historical Society
Speeders at Semi-Centennial Lincoln Auto Races
Lincoln hosts major auto races as a celebration of the semi centennial. Prominent drivers from big cities are set to compete in speed events highlighting American driving prowess.
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America
Lincoln
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Queen in Her Own Right
The passage extols the American girl as a vital, healthy, beautiful figure with adaptability and engaging conversation. It describes a tall slender form, poised carriage, varied heritage, and chiseled features as a distinctive beauty.
Australian picnics rival movies as common amusements
Australians embrace picnics as a dominant indoor outdoor pastime alongside movies. Families clubs churches and lodges frequent picnics on afternoons Sundays and holidays. Picnickers travel by foot horse wagon motor streetcar train or boat to beaches woods rivers gardens and zoos across cities.
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United States
Australia
National Geographic Magasine
Schwab's Simple Formula for Success at NY School
Charlies M Schwab told 185 graduates of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of New York to live with integrity tell the truth be polite and spread sunshine. He cited Eugene R Grace Bethlehem Steel as the highest paid man and urged every boy to follow the same path.
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General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of
New York
Charlies M. Schwab
Mr. Schwab
Kaiser Gets the Gate New York Yacht Club Strikes German Royals
At a special NYYC meeting, Emper or William of Germany and Prince Henry of Prussia were removed from honorary membership. Three hundred members attended as Commodore George F. Baker Jr. presided and the unanimous resolution cited the US declaration of war on Germany.
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New York Yacht Club
William
Germany
Prince Henry
Prussia
George F. Baker, Jr
Congress of
United States
New York
Baffling London Beggar Confounds Donor With Change Trick
A London scene shows a beggar who always returns the change, never keeping more than a penny. An onlooker tests him by dropping a sovereign into the hat, and the beggar inspects the coin before reacting, leaving observers curious about his method.
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London
Heirs Hear His Wife Preach at Branston Church
In Chicago the Branston Christian pastor Rev. O Fairlee Jordan faces a unique scenario as his wife delivers sermons from the pulpit while he rests from overwork. The congregation responds with cautious acceptance and renewed interest in weekly services.
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Chicago
O. Fairlee Jordan
Branston
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John Jobman
Diller
E.O. Cassell
Steele City, Nebraska
Waggoner Bros
Jefferson County
Abstract Office
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Davis &Son
First National Bank
Fairbury, Neb
O.C. Diehl
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Colorado
Indeper
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Farnam Street
Omaha
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