New Year Wishes From Jansen News Editor
The Jansen News editor expresses a heartfelt wish for readers to enjoy health prosperity and contentment as the New Year begins.
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Newspaper
The Jansen News
Location
Jansen, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1925
Page
4
The Jansen News editor expresses a heartfelt wish for readers to enjoy health prosperity and contentment as the New Year begins.
Jansen Lumber Co increases cream separators sales with a car load delivered to their implement house and a new full time sales agent starting January first to push the machinery.
The cold spell has moved farther south than usual with reports from southern states and California. In the citrus belt around Los Angeles farmers used smudge pots to ward off frost damage.
The article notes trains run late in the cold, mail delivery is irregular, and rural patrons miss daily papers. Some improvement is seen in trains recently, with hope rail workers will adapt and restore normal service soon.
The Jansen post office continued heavy Christmas mail handling until December 6 and by Saturday noon the operation was back to normal. Poor wrapping and tying led to disappointed recipients as some packages arrived broken with contents scattered and useless. Carriers faced heavy loads on Friday with severe weather and poor road conditions delaying routes.
Instructions outline farmers duties in the Agricultural Census now under way across the county in southeastern Nebraska. Read by those not yet contacted by the enumerator, as all questions in the schedule must be answered.
The article advises farmers to complete the census sample schedules mailed to all farmers as the best way to prepare for questions from the census enumerator.
Paxton Nebraska reports a well attended Christmas Day program with a choir and children recitations despite bad roads and cold weather. locals mention visits, travel, and farm news including calf loss and mail delays amid a prolonged deep freeze.
A peacock boasts of beauty while a turkey condemns vanity. A farmer overhears and takes the turkey to market, noting the saying that fine feathers do not guarantee fine birds. The tale ends with the cook’s practical reminder about Thanksgiving.
A married couple in Indianapolis sparred during a public lecture with witty exchanges. He tried politeness as she delivered cutting remarks, culminating in a jab about overlooking his faults both in public and private.
The article explains the furrier term silver fox for dark phases of the red fox. It notes color ranges from red to black in the Northeastern states and colder regions, with four gradations named tea crons or patch, silver, and black.
Geo Arnold installed an Atwater Kent radio at Roy Diller’s home last week. Mrs Henry Walters and daughter Clare visited Mr and Mrs Arthur Unger in Plymouth. Edna Grose visited Herman Sixel. Walter Arnold and sisters Avon and Dorothy spent Christmas with home folks. Christmas services were held at east town churches. Hermen Sixel and John Wrigley delivered hogs to town Tuesday.
A commanding officer reviews a charge sheet and is told Private King faces mutiny. The corporal confesses the charge was meant as insubordination but admits he could not spell it and wrote nuting instead. The scene blends formal military discipline with comic error.
Prof Leonard Hill told the London Ecological Society that radiant heat helps combat tuberculosis in animals and humans. He contrasted radiant heat with hot water pipes and central heating, noting Sweden Russia and the United States show TB prevalence in plum heating areas.
The danger to ships lies not in the visible ice peaks above but in the massive portion that remains submerged. About seven eighths of an iceberg sits below the surface, unseen and still menacing to navigation.
The Kish excavation by Field Museum and Oxford uncovers hairpins jewels engraved seals glazed pottery and lapis inlay. Cousin J J Thiessen reports funeral of N H Wiebe on December 22 and notes Elias Cressman died that night. Weather is mild with rains and cold snaps delay trains beyond winter adjustments.
An early 20th century advertisement warns of constipation and digestive trouble and touts Hollister's Rocky Mountain Tea as a remedy. It cites Jansen Drug Co. as the distributor and urges readers to try the product before issues escalate.
A local printer advertises full service job printing with competitive prices and ready equipment, inviting customers to inquire about workloads and turnaround times.
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