Thanksgiving reminiscences and local social notes from Beatrice area
Twenty five years ago editor Pearce recalled mild GaliFornia weather and cement work done in his yard. Mr and Mrs Cedric Fanders and Mrs S B Viers planned Thanksgiving visits to Guide Rock and Red Cloud. A Beatrice license issued for Creda Wright and Frank Roy Hagerman marriage. E E McCune visited near Carthage Mo and planned Pawnee City stop. Diller alumni returned for Thanksgiving from Lincoln. Mr and Mrs Frank Pospil returned from Prague Nebraska to be with family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearce
Galifornia
Cedric Fanders
S. B. Viers
Guide Rock
Red Cloud
Beatrice
Creda Wright
Col
J. B. Wright
Diller
Frank Roy Hagerman
Orell
E. E McCune
Carthage
Pawnee City
Nebraska
Frank Pospil
Prague
Forty Years Ago in Fairbury Diller Football and Accidents
Forty years ago Mrs Ettaire McClay of Fairbury visited her parents in Diller with relatives. John Bixby s team crashed, throwing occupants from the buggy injuring Mrs Bixby and breaking a bone in John s wrist. Farmers near here neared husking completion as pleasant Italian weather persisted. John Henrichs journeyed to Denver for cattle, Hebron and Fairbury football teams played in Fairbury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ettaire McClay
Fairbury
Alex. Ballard
Diller
John Bixby
John Henrichs
Denver
Hebron
Fifty Years Ago Market Prices and Weather Delays
Fifty years ago good oats sold for Nic per bushel and prairie hay brought $4 per ton. A husking match was postponed due to extreme cold. Mr Pearce noted large corn receipts with a price of 16c per bushel, saying the market could not support more.
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Pearce
Doings South Of Town Sunday Visitors Noted
Sunday and Friday gatherings filled with neighbors from Steele City and nearby farms. Families including Wenz, Weers, DeBoer, Wiemers, Ramish, Armstrong, Barnett, Baumfolk, Sasse, Henrichs and DeBoer are listed among attendees.
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Louie Wenz
John Weers
Bill DeBoer
Lou Wenz
Steele City
Impenetrable Panamanian Jungles Harbor Diverse Wildlife
In Panama’s mountains thick jungles shelter a wide range of animals and birds including tapirs armadillos jaguars sloths deer monkeys iguanas macaws parrots toucans flamingos and wild turkeys. Heavy trees rise tall with vines and giant ferns forming a dense sunless curtain.
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Panama
Chitiqui
Great Wall of China Visible From Mars Claim
Astronomers claim the Great Wall of China the longest defense structure on earth is visible from Mars. The description covers its length from Shanhaikwan to Kia Yu Kwan details fortifications height and construction history.
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China
Mongolia
Earth
Mars
Shanhaikwan
Kia Yu Kwan
Great North River
Tibet
Chin
Great Wall
Chihli
Shans
Peiping
Lanchow
Man's Scientific Studies Offer Strange Contrasts
A discussion notes that civilization's progress brings lethal weapons while disease defenses advance. It reports sulfanilamide combined with coconut oil showing in vitro and in guinea pig tests against tuberculosis and leprosy, with researchers warning results in humans are not yet conclusive.
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M. L. Crossley
E.H. Northey
M. E. Hultquist
American Chemical Society
Man
Lost surveyors survive 39 days on scraps and rabbits
A band of 15 surveyors in Cana da endured 39 days with only 14 rabbits and improvised soup from newspapers. In extreme hunger, explorers historically resort to desperate foods and odd sources, including Magellan’s voyage near the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Magellan
Tropics
Ground conditions influence lightning strikes says Soviet scientist
Ground and rock radioactivity affect air resistance and the path of lightning, according to L N Bogdaviensky in a letter to Nature. He argues the ground’s composition and radiation levels help determine whether a strike will occur by offering the path of least resistance.
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Science Service
L. N. Bogdaviensky
Nature
Also Mentioned on This Page
Henry Fouts
Edwin Reinhardt
Earl Snyder
State University At
Lincoln
Doings
Bill Wiemers
John Ramish
Frank Wiemers
Jack Armstrong
Mr. and
Mr. Stephens
Clair Barnett
Wm. Baumfolk
Albert Sasse
Alfred
Henry Saathoff
Marie Schmid
Henry Henrichs
Gerd Henrichs Sr
Emil DeBoer
Beatrice Power Company
Odell
Viers
Geisler
the Diller Cafe
Bonham Theatre
Fairbury, Nebraska
Bette Davis
Errol Fivon
Elizabeth
Essex
Artuen
Loretta Young
David Niven
Hugh Herbert
Eternally
Pictorial and News
Dee 1
Henry Fonda
Claudette Colbert
Parmount News
Dee
Lynn Overman
William Boyd
Ampus
Plus
S. C. Hutchinson
Diller, Nebraska
Edw
B. Ackermean Optometrist
General Hospital
C.E. Rice, M.D
Pysician
Odell, Nebraska
Dr.o.q. Diehl
Allen
Great Northern
Thompson
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