Citizens State Bank of Jefferson County Profile and Leader
A historical profile of Citizens State Bank, led by President A. A. Colman, detailing capitalization, surplus, assets, and its mission to aid youth and support the elderly and businesses. The piece chronicles Colman’s pioneer-era freight work, leadership style, and the bank’s safety through state guaranty funds, with notes on the upcoming Omaha Alfest festival schedule and local development in Jefferson County.
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Jefferson ‘County
A. A. Colman
Citizens State Bank
Thos. P. Price
Arthur E. Price
Guaranty Fund
Nebraska
A. H. Colman
Colman
Great Plains
Wena
Cass County
Jefferson County
Mr. Colman
Advertising Rates and War Era Reflections in 1915
The notice lists advertising rates at five cents per line for locals, notes the date Friday September 17 1915, and includes various wartime statistics and opinions such as U S coin composition, per person debt comparisons, the Star Spangled Banner, army provisions, and imagined debates between W J Bryan and Theodore Roosevelt on war preparation.
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An Exchange Ventures
Chautauqua
W. J. Bryan
Theodore Roosevelt
Rat Control Tip Backed by Old Farmer Friends
A reader shares a method to deter rats using thin chips or shingles covered with molasses and sprinkled with dry lye placed in rat holes. The note suggests this will drive rats away as they seek other pastures.
Get Rid of Your Grouch Say’s Hiawatha World
A short exhortation warns that a grouch wrecks disposition, harms health and relationships, ruins ambition, and turns life into fog and festering misery. It declares the grouch as perverse and dangerous, urging readers to discard it immediately.
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Hell
Hiawatha World
Our Shrinking Sun Its Diameter Diminishes Each Century
The Philadelphia Press notes that sun contraction provides the main heat source as the sun cools. It states the diameter could drop four miles per century, and in millions of years the sun might match Earth's density. It cites elemental clues from spectroscopy and immense energy output relative to Earth.
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Philadelphia Press
Curious Letter Endings From The Old Lettering Style
The piece notes historic letter closings such as the Duke of Shrewsbury writing in 1713 to Sir Thomas Hanmer, promising faithful service, and bellicose 1594 subscriptions by the Earls of Huntly and Errol threatening consequences unless released prisoners were granted liberty.
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Duke of Shrewsbury
Thomas Hanmer
Shrewsbury
Huntly
Errol
Aberdeen
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Hearchly
Wewest
Omaha
Howard
Jones
Citizens State Bank Building
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Diller Record
Frank T. Pearce
Diller Nebr
United States
Australia
Army
Navy
America
Colorad
Wyoming
Big Horn Basin
North Platte Valley
Powell
Wyo
Colorado
Mandel
Burlington
S. B. Howard
Farnam Street
Omaha, Neb
Jefferson County Abstract Office
J. Monroe Davis
First National Bank
Fairbury, Neb
DR. MH. Bauguess
Diller, Nebr
S.B. Viers
Diller, Neb
Claude Ellis
Dipfler
Odell
W. A. Raymond
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