Local notes and notices from Fairbury and nearby towns
Light anew fell Saturday. Estrayed red heifer sought near Diller. Funeral for Mrs Diehl draws Lincoln visitors Eleanor Diehl and Oliver Diehl attend state university. M W A meets on 2nd and 4th Thursdays. Mayborn travels to Omaha for cattle deals. Jack Hill receives apples from West Unity Ohio via daughter Mrs Mendrille Mann. Distinct local names include Dr G H Newton eye ear nose throat Fairbury. L A Sherrett from Wray. F A Moon & Son monuments Fairbury.
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Eimprecht
Lincoln
Eleanor
Oliver Diehl
State University At
Dr. Diehl
Jack Hill
West Unity
Ohio
Mendrille Mann
Reverend McCallister Attends Beatrice District Conference
Rev. McCallister drove to Tecumseh early Tuesday to attend the Beatrice District Conference held there on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
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McCallister
Tecumseh
Beatrice
For Sale Purebred Rhode Island Red Cockerels and Pigs
For sale purebred Rhode Island Red cockerels at attractive prices for immediate pickup. Prize winning stock from a $15.00 rooster. Also a few Duroc Jersey male pigs offered at farm prices. Ben Henrichs. tf Sometimes subscribers argue over expiration dates. One paper proposes billing on birth day to know due dates. Another wants all dates dated from January 1 1926 with credits from that date.
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Rhode Island
Jersey
Ben Henrichs
Melba Honors Her Father in Melodies and Memories
Nellie Melba salutes her father in Melodies and Memories describing him as the man she admired most and sought to imitate. She writes of an eternal debt owed to him and the desire to repay that debt through the book’s early pages.
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Mother
Dad
Nellie Melba
Divorce proceedings filed by Clara Niemann in Nebraska
Clara Niemann of Lanham Nebraska filed divorce proceedings against Albert Niemann claiming cruelty and infidelity. Caroline Scheele named as co respondent. Albert Niemann held in federal custody awaiting Mann Act trial after alleged travels with Mies Scheele. The couple married in 1917 and have four children ages seven to 18 months. Alimony and child care allowance requested.
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Clara Niemann
Lanham
Nebr
Albert Niemann
Caroline Scheele
Niemann
Kansas
Nebraska
Mies Scheele
The ideal committee and the single visionary
Emerson said a great institution is the shadow of a single man. A man creates, organization builds. Bok cites a quote that the ideal committee consists of three with two inactive members, illustrating the power of decisive leadership.
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Emerson
Edward W. Bok
Scribner’s Magazine
Capitol Building Progress Exposes New Lincoln Piers
Excavation for the central portion of the Nebraska state capitol at Lincoln is finished. Workers are erecting large piers to support the main tower. By early summer the skeleton of at least three wings should be completed, followed by the tower and west wing. Heating plans and covers will protect pours in cold weather. A canvas will shield workers while cement cures.
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State Capitol
Lincoln
Youth's Companion Birthday Issue Plans and Price
The Youth's Companion celebrates a hundredth birthday with a 1926 subscription year at $2. The 1927 edition will feature new cover designs, more pages, nine serials, tales of adventure, Make-It and Do-It pages, radio, games, puzzles, special articles, and a Children's Page. Subscriptions include 52 issues in 1926 and issues from 1925. Boston, Mass. subscription department.
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The
Boston
Mass
Forests From Blue Rapids Attend Clark Guests
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Clark host this week Mr. and Mrs. Fred Forest of Blue Rapids Kansas. The Forests were married at Waterville Kansas on Tuesday and Mrs. Forest is a sister of Mrs. Clark.
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Everett Clark
Fred Forest
Blue Rapids
Kan
From Elmer Loock to a Minnesota Shingle Store
Editor recalls Elmer Loock son of John Loock now with Cellulose Co in traveling sales and visiting Diller. A tale notes a Rejunication craze in Diller and a Swedenberg Minn monkey escape after a magician incident. E. F. H.
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Pearce
Ernest
Elmer Loock
John Loock
Cellulose Co
Elmer
Peoria
Minnesota
Chicago
Swedenberg
Minn
Sweedenberg
Swedenberger
Burns V Detective Agency
Sweden
Name Winnipeg Street for 3 Heroes in Black
Winnipeg honors three Victoria Cross recipients from World War I by renaming a street to Valor Road and unveiling a memorial lamp at the intersection. Lieut Robert Shankland survived, while F. W. Hall and Leo Clark died for Canada, all residents once living on the same block.
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Winnipeg
Valor Road
Lieut
Robert Shankland
F. W. Hall
Leo Clark
Budapest Couple Executed After Final Five Minute Farewell
Mitzi Lederer and her husband Gustav, a former lieutenant, were executed in a Budapest suburb after a court granted them a five minute final meeting to bid farewell before their death. They had been convicted of murdering and dismembering Frank Kudelka, owner of a sausage factory, who had visited them. The judge timed the farewell as the couple embraced and then the execution followed.
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Budapest
Hungary
Mitzi Lederer
Gustav
Frank Kudelka
Modern science and the Shannon dam redefine travel and taxes
Beatrice Express comments on damming the River Shannon and regional progress as a symbol of modern science. It argues taxes on automobile licenses and motor fuel are fair funding for road building, notes real estate taxes should share in road benefits, and warns Nebraska lags behind states with advanced road systems.
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Shannon
Mandalay
Nottingham Forest
Jordan River
Palestine
Mandaly
Mahree
Mother
Erin
Annie Laurie
Gov’nor
Bonnie
Rose
Nellie Gray
Board of Health
Swanee
California
Swanee Shore
River Shannon
Nebraska
Beatrice Express
Nebraska Good Roads push for higher gas and license taxes
The Nebraska Good Roads association conducts agitation to boost the gasoline tax to 3 cents per gallon and restore the automobile license tax to former levels. Supporters argue better roads will benefit the state and communities by enabling more spending on highways.
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Nebraska Good Roads Association
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Diller State Bank
Record Office
Chunk
C. W. Hiatt
G. H. Newton
Fairbury, Nebr
Mrs. L. A. Sherrett
Wray, Cab
Riley Tucker
F. A Moon & Son
Fairbury
Diller
W. P. Fiala
Odell
A. Mayborn
Omaha
Hollenberg
Steele City
Will Fry
Emma Fry
Philadelphia
Capitol Building
Winnipeg Street
Majestic Theatre
Divan Drug CO
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Fort Myer’s
New Orleans
St. Petersburg
Burlington
ST. Louis
Kansas City
W. I. Filley
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