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Newspaper

The Fairbury News

Location

Fairbury, Nebraska, United States of America

Date

Dec 04, 1908

Page

5

Mrs W C Smith Improves Barns Shingled Painted

Special correspondent reports Mrs W C Smith shingled and painted both barns this week. Roy Riley wrote insurance in the neighborhood. Jim Brawner sawed wood for H Cook Me Hand Mahoney and Wookey baled hay last week. Mrs Smith finished work at Coffman’s and plans a cellar for George Robinson as winter approaches.

Jim Brawner Me ‘Hand Mahoney Wookey I ‘Smith Coffman’ S George Robinson

Zion Church Hosts Protracted Meetings This Week

The Zion church opens protracted meetings led by Rev O B D Wood starting Sunday evening with all invited. A Thanksgiving dinner at the church drew a large crowd and good cheer. Also noted are health updates on Mrs Albert Gross and various local visits and social gatherings in the community.

Zion Church Terp

Beatrice Community Notes Include Lectures and Visitors

Harbine headlines recount local happenings with Mrs Ewing and Mrs Gustive Wildwater visiting Beatrice and St. Joe. Families and neighbors attend Grandma Carpenter’s surprise 77th anniversary dinner. Nebraska’s denatured alcohol plant thrusts Corn Exposition ties, with Dr Sawyer guiding research and glucose and oil products highlighted.

Tzl2 “Ewing Beatrice Gustive- Wildwater Nebraska Government Department of Ariculture EC. Sawyer Cincinnati Wilson West

Death of M W Cook and service record summarized

Death of M W Cook at his home in Qxs ford tutya on October 23 7 aged 70 years noted his prior Civil War service including wounded at Cedar Creek October 1864. He lived in Iowa Nebraska and Ohio teaching school and surveying. Survived by wife and four children, remembered as a scholar and devout citizen who contributed to newspapers and magazines.

M. WS Johnston County Hillsdale Neteane Iowa Oxford de Maine Nellie Sarhpson Fairbury Cook Jefferson County Farmer’ S Institute

Lincoln Journal Promises Plain Truth and Statewide Coverage

Paid advertising extols The Lincoln State Journal as a daily record of Nebraska life. It pledges extensive telegraph correspondence from across the state and accountability on state spending, urging readers to demand transparency and responsibility from government and media.

Lincoln State Nebraska Coats Sstate Lincoln State University Agricultural ‘Scholol

Corn Kernel Oil Promises Wide Industrial Value

The article describes oil pressed from corn kernel as a growing product with potential to raise corn value across vegetable, commercial, and industrial sectors through extensive use of corn-based alcohol.

Tells of Mormon City and Salt Lake observations

Neils Johnson reports from Salt Lake City Utah describing a city of about 55 000 in a valley ringed by mountains. He notes drainage problems and disease prevalence along with a nearby lake eighty by forty miles and a large lakefront resort. The city sits at about 4251 feet above sea level with nearby Latwill and a divide at 10940 feet.

Neils Johnson Salt Lake City Utah Denver Latwill

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