Forty Years Ago in Seward Presbytery Visit and Town Echoes
Forty years ago this week local notes recount Wm Woods and Rev Lockhart attending the Seward Presbytery and Henry Stahl described as the rustling implement dealer of Harbine. A three day hot wind damaged corn, Mrs Hick Heiman died of inflammatory rheumatism near town, and youths took a risky hay rack ride to Thos Price's for watermelons with a listed group of riders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Stahl
Harbine
Hick Heiman
Thos Price
Ollie Zook
Elsie Jeffryes
Lillie Osborn
Maude Price
Vivian Rush
Messrs
Weston Hauver
Orlie Hafer
W H Shroyer
Oscer Horton
Fifty Years Ago in Fairbury Local Notes
Fifty years ago Jake Henrichs started his sorghum operation this week. Harry Green was bitten by a rattle snake Wednesday morning and treated by Dr. Miller. Gardinier and Clements livery barn in Ellis burned down destroying contents except horses. Geo Tonnemaker dug a well at J B Diller's reaching 78 feet with 55 feet of water. The Record praised a boy who "gets them." Wm Brandt delivered a 42 inch 15 pound head of cabbage to the Record office. Doc Fairchild brought a bucket of grapes. Dr Kelly left a bill showing 13 potatoes weighing about six pounds. Fairbury citizens opposed KC and ORR trains through to Hanover, threatening bond nonpayment until the division moved from Hanover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Green
Dr. Miller
Geo Tonnemaker
J B Diller
Wm Brandt
Doc Fairchild
DR Kelly
Fairbury
KC & Orr
Hanover
Iostead
Why It Is Adam s Apple
The forepart protuberance of the throat known as the Adam s apple gets its name from a superstition that a fragment of the forbidden fruit got stuck in Adam s throat. The legend is reinforced by the greater prominence of the feature in men than in women.
Three Kinds of Mahogany on the Market
The article identifies three principal kinds of mahogany: West Indian mahogany including Cuban and Santo Domingo varieties, Tropical American mahogany including Mexican Honduran Peruvian and Amazon, and African mahogany from the Gold Coast or Ivory Coast.
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Santo Domingo
Mexican
Honduras
Peruvian
Amazon
Gold Coast
Ivory Coast
Africa
Campo Santo Holy Field Genoa Memorial Sculptures
The Holy Field of Genoa Campo Santo in Genoa Italy is one of the world’s most visited cemeteries famed for memorial sculptures surpassing many major museums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Genoa
Campo Santo
Italy
Elevation and Ocean Depth Facts From Globe
The average land elevation on the globe is 2 750 feet and the average ocean depth is 12 300 feet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Globe
Ocean
Highway Engineering Learns From Rail History
Engineers compare highway and railroad design noting railroads were built for planned movement while roads rely on drivers acting individually. Research focuses on measuring actual driver behavior, traffic counts, and real use of road segments to design safer, more efficient highways. New devices aid counting and measuring traffic to guide planning.
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E. H. Holmes
United States Department of Agriculture
Steamer Travel Regimen Highlighted in 1858 Ticket
A Gothenburg maritime museum display features an 1858 steamship ticket listing weekly rations for passengers. It details seven pounds of ship bread two pounds of salt pork two and a quarter pounds of flour one pound of salt herring plus a daily water can. Passengers must provide butter sugar mustard syrup pepper and vinegar along with bed clothing and tin dishes. The ship master may withhold water until promenade deck is swept and cleaned daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maritime Museum
Gothenburg
Sweden
Demand for Efficient Lighting Transforms Offices
A. G. Alexander of New York notes business leaders want tastefully arranged offices with large windows for better lighting. He says traditional dingy workrooms have vanished, and decoration has become simpler yet more beautiful. Modern offices feature 50 percent larger windows and full-length glass partitions for abundant natural light and spaciousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Alexander
New York
Mr. Alexander
Four Post Office Classes Defined by Receipts
The United States Post Offices are categorized into four classes by annual receipts. Class one includes offices with 40,000 dollars or more, class two covers 8,000 to 40,000, class three spans 1,500 to 8,000, and class four includes less than 1,500. Postmasters of the first three classes were civil service from 1936, under Roosevelt, except during the Wilson era when merit systems applied.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Civil Service
Roosevelt
Bhutan: A Semi Independent Native State Overview
Bhutan is described as a semi independent native state within a broader regional framework. The text notes its unique status and governance as part of South Asian political geography, highlighting its distinct cultural and political positioning.
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Kingdom of
Bhutan
The
Fragmented OCR Describes Himalayan Region and Population
The passage outlines a Himalayan area between British India and Asia with Sikkim to the west. It claims a 1960 mile east west span and 90 miles width at one point, plus 18000 square miles and a 300000 population. It mentions Punakhas fortress and locals including Mongolians and Buddhists. notes on priests culture and principal products are unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Himalayas
Ani On -Tine
How Captain Cook's Cloak Ended Up in Leningrad
A garish tale recounts Captain Cook's cloak and helmet on display at the Lenin- Riad Ethnographic museum in Leningrad. The narrative traces Cook's 1776 voyage across the Bering Strait to Hawaii and Kamchatka, and the exchange with Kamehameha I yielding the plumage cloak and helmet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ceptain Cook
Leningrad
Cook
Lenin- Riad Ethnographic Museum
Bering Strait
Coske
Sand Wich Islands
Lord Sandwich
The
Kamchatka
Russian Empire
Kamchitka
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Mabel’ Kurtz
Sam Kurtz
Steele City
Irene Brauser
Monmouth,Ill
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Keith Miller
W N. Sparks
Chicago
Pearce
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Elmo Hadley
Wm Smith
H H .Greider
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Kansas
Mr. Greider
Mr. Smith
Henry Weers Jr
Diller
W E Mudge
Harry Wells
Thedford
Allen Nelson
Harry Thompson
J A Pickard
Ethel
Jim Kerri
Wm Woods
Rev Lockhart
Seward
Jake Henrichs
Gardinier& Clements
Ellis
L Geer Lumber & Coal
Diller, Nebr
S. C. Hutchinson
Liller
Nebraska
Odell
General Hospital
C. E. Rice, M. C
Odell, Nebraska
O.C. Dienki
Diller, Nebraska
Allen’s Store
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