M. W. A. Meeting Notes and Local Visits
The article records the M. W. A. meeting cadence on the second Thursday each month and notes from Mrs Frances Starkey visiting Wymore with a niece. It mentions a $50,000,000 post office deficit worrying business men and possible rate increases. It also lists Mrs Ethel Woods and children visiting Kansas City and Mrs Christie Seaman visiting Davenport relatives.
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Frances, Starkey
Wymore
St. Paul
Post Office
Ethel Woods
Kansas
Cire
J. A. Pickard
Diller Schools Vacate For Freelance County Fair Day
The Diller schools took a vacation yesterday to allow teachers and scholars to attend the county fair at Fairbury. The event was designated a freelance day for all schools in the county to participate.
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Diller
Fairbury
Bible Versions and Differences Between Catholic and Protestant Bibles
The Catholic Bible uses the Douay translation from the Latin Vulgate and includes apocryphal books such as Tobias Judith Wisdom Ecclesiasticus Baruch and Maccabees not found in Protestant editions. Protestant Bibles vary among themselves due to sources from Hebrew Greek and Latin traditions.
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Tobias
Judith
Isdom
Quiet Household Authority Questioned
Dialogue shows Mr. Meeks hesitant about speaking on domestic control as a friend asks who runs things at home. He refrains citing retarding influences and tension in the household dynamic.
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Mr. Meeks
New Dishes to Try at Miss Ballard’s
Dr. G H Newton of Fairbury Nebr treats eye ear nose and throat. A fried chicken supper is planned at the M E church basement on Wednesday September 30.
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Miss Ballard
G. H. Newton
Fairbury, Nebr
Pears for Sale and Rain Benefits Wheat Seeding
Kiefer pears offered at $2.25 per bushel by Mrs. C. L. Geer. A rainfall of eighty eight hundredths of an inch fell Monday and Tuesday, improving soil moisture for upcoming wheat planting.
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Kiefer
C. L. Geer
Endicott Farm House Burns In Nebr Weekend Blaze
Local report notes the Wellington farm residence two miles east of Endicott burned to the ground Saturday night with total loss of building and contents. Insurance possible. Other items mention sprayed apples, visits by Elmer Pearce, and local social happenings in Nebraska communities.
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Wellington
Endicott
Claude ‘Cafferty
Fried chicken sale at M E Church basement
An item notes a fried chicken sale held in the M E Church basement on a Wednesday in September with a late genuine cut gauge. It mentions a water set and Mississippi reference and adds astrologists advise subscribers paying their subscription now will be favored.
Weekend visits and travel notes from Bea and Fairbury
Local residents report weekend visits from Bea to Fairbury and Holdrege. Family gatherings include the Stulls, Bryant, and Taylor households hosting relatives from Fairbury and South Dakota. Lyle Bryant travels to Lincoln for classes while Henry moves to Omaha, with Mr and Mrs Carpenter hosting at Holdrege.
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V.T
Bea
Morris Pete
Fairbury
S. F. Stull
Stull
C. A. Roulston
Sok
Roy Way
Ce City
Wor DC
Repent UrCleremont
Sreuine Calif
J. N. Carpenter
Holdrege
Pe Wa. Lee
Hugh Greenwood
Radio Bug Is Right The Topeka Pink Bag Clip
A humorous clipping from the Pink Bag of Topeka recalls a reluctant buyer drawn by radio salesman tactics. He describes resistance to radio purchases that escalated as families and flats overflowed with radios and accessories, ending with a reluctant, final reckoning.
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Topeka
Caesar
Casius
Delise
Peter
Radio ties cities as neighbors over back yard fences
A fragmented note suggests radio will make distant cities feel like next door neighbors, shrinking distances between New Orleans Topeka and Chicago. It predicts closer contact and less appetite for conflict as people form informal, cross city connections.
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New Orleans
Topeka
Chicago
Orres
St Louis Opens Fool-Proof Federal Reserve Bank
The Eighth District’s new Federal Reserve Bank in St Louis opens with an 800 ton steel vault and automatic safety signals. The pyramid style building sits amid Bedford stone blocks bearing the bank seal and seals of Arkansas southern Illinois southern Indiana eastern Missouri western Kentucky western Tennessee and northern Mississippi.
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St. Louis
Federal Reserve Bank
Eighth Federal Reserve District
United States
Arkansas
Illinois
Indiana
Missouri
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Machinery to Cut $500,000,000 Coal Cost Promised
Mining leaders expect a large decrease in U S coal expenses as new mining machines advance. Edward J. O'Toole, general superintendent of the Coal and Coke Company, signals a future drop in the coal bill by hundreds of millions due to mechanization.
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Cincinnati
United States
Edward J. O'Toole
Coal and Coke Company
Mining breakthrough by O'Toole machine in coal fields
In West Virginia and Kentucky, O'Toole touts a new coal mining process claiming 115000 tons mined so far. He states the machine uses steel teeth to undercut coal, eliminates explosives, self-loads, and could cut mining costs by half reducing expenses by about $1 per ton, saving roughly $500 million.
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Virginia
Kentucky
O'Toole
Ball’s Catarrh Medicine Promises Relief for Catarrh and Deafness
A vintage advertisement claims Ball’s Catarrh Medicine cures catarrh and deafness by using an ointment and tonic that purify the blood and restore mucous membranes. It notes 40 years of pharmacist distribution by F. J. Cheney Co. Toledo Ohio.
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Ball
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
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Diller State Bank
Eriva
Christie Seaman
Davenport
Harry
Sam Thompson
Colorado
Cornbelt Lumber Co
M. E. Churh
Orchard
Starry & Kerns
Brownville, Neb
Elmer Pearce
Ceresco
Nebr
Jake Lottman
Oake Lottman
C. E. Aden
Holstein
E. F. Oaks
W. J. Bryan
Lincoln Sunday Journal
Atwater
Kent
Eee
H.m.holle
M. E
St. Joseph
Joong-dp
Sebel
Rete
W. I. Filley
Gage County Fair
Beatrice, Nebraska
Rural Children’s
Chris Luck
Bihaide Lhot
Rami Ps
K. C. Koons
Joseph Hi. A
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