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Newspaper
The Jansen News
Location
Jansen, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1925
Page
4
Advertising rates listed for per column inch space appear in a damaged notice. The text mentions Insplay Advertising and column measurements while noting the work is entered as second class matter at the Jansen Nebraska post office.
In 1925 Jansen residents observed a special clean-up period with much rubbish hauled from town. The quiet Good Friday saw many businesses closed and fine weather drew people outside. Church services were held across the Jansen vicinity.
The Postoffice Department states that post offices do not supply wrapping paper or twine for mailing. Senders must present properly prepared packages. Registered or insured mail should be brought to the post office well before the train departure to allow proper recording.
The Jansen Fairbury highway shows ongoing gravel packing turning the center close to paving. Improved weather boosts auto travel and sidewalk buckle use. The village ordinance prohibits buckling on sidewalks due to pedestrian hazards, especially to children.
In Jansen and two miles west on the highway, multiple automobile repair shops show strong business. A former livery stable with horse use now struggles as motor vehicles boost vehicle maintenance needs for three shops.
A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs J P Fast on Tuesday March 3. Peter Fasts held an auction sale with good prices. The Fast family moved to Henderson Nebraska in a Dodge car. Numerous visits, rain boosts crops, and health notes including Hulda Wall's pneumonia and a funeral church program. Family movements and gatherings fill the Paxgon area with several trips to North Platte and nearby farms.
The Rock Island Railroad Management appeals to Superintendents and Master Mechanics in the Middle West to coordinate with civic groups for a program tied to Child Health Day on May 1, under the American Child Health Association led by President Herbert Hoover. It stresses health as a local and national issue and railway cooperation to protect the rising generation. There is a rise in parcel post mail at Jansen post office, and packages should be wrapped and addressed clearly for prompt, safe delivery.
Principal John C. Snyder will keep his post at Jansen School for another year with a ten dollar per month salary increase. The school board lauded his two year performance as satisfactory and acted in the district's interest to re elect him for the next term.
Bertha Fast, longtime assistant at Jansen post office, leaves on vacation en route to California to visit Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Janzen near Shafter. A substitute notes increased office workload due to parcels post and stable pay for Fourth Class postmasters. Locals discuss proposed gaseline tax funding road building in Nebraska. Isaac family members travel from Meade, Kansas to attend Mrs. Isaac funeral.
A playful exchange questions whether a doctor can alter another doctor as a doctor would wish. The dialogue riffs on who performs the doctoring and who benefits, all framed as a word puzzle.
Sir Robert Kindersley notes bankers often handle dirty notes yet recounts a case of an elderly woman who deposited bundles of immaculate looking money. She explains she spent all night cleaning and ironing them, prompting a cashier joke about their appearance.
The article recalls the ancient practice of selling by candle in England. At Warton grazing rights on the roadside are let annually by candle, and at Alder Maston the church acre meadow is let every three years similarly. A candle is lit, a pin marks one inch below the flame, bidding starts, and the winner is the bidder as the pin falls, with slow bids until the critical moment sparks excitement.
The Vienna display claims the world’s biggest book, a parchment leaf ledger from a Dominican cloister founded in 1226. Each leaf is four feet high and three feet wide, mounted in a case with biographical notes and death notices marking early entries from 1410, making the work historically significant.
The author asserts nature as the constant, universal storehouse benefiting health, intellect, and joy. For scientists, painters, poets, and moralists, nature provides facts, pictures, images, parables, and inspiration, sustaining the heart and imagination.
Viola Murray received her progress pin while Laura Ackman earned her Students final certificate in penmanship this week. The item notes the start of the last six weeks of the school term and the expectation that this period will not be weaker before it ends.
Beatrice residents and relatives shared visits and Easter gatherings. Families including Fanders, Kroetsching, Hoch, Thomas, and Wrigley joined at homes in Beatrice and Fairbury. Individuals returned from travel, illness improved, and a miscellaneous shower honored Verna Murray with a mock wedding and music.
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