24 Jul 1924
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Newspaper
The Jansen News
Location
Jansen, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1924
Page
1
The U S Census notes utilities including electricity telephone gas and water spurring city growth. Public services extended outward enabling streetcars and better land for development, with utilities financing housing expansion and attracting contractors to large land tracts.
About 15 700 lives were lost in motor vehicle accidents in 1923 in the United States. Grade crossing fatalities push total deaths to over 10 000. The National Safety Committee estimates come from 135 cities. The message urges careful driving to avoid costly insurance claims for heirs and emphasizes that no policy can prevent death or injury.
Figures cited by authorities place annual public payroll near four thousand dollars per worker, with about 3.5 million in total payroll. The piece argues job holders form the backbone of political influence and that payroll reflects taxpayer funds supporting active and retired officials in San Francisco.
The Agricultural College of Lincoln explains jelly failures and fixes. Excess sugar or late addition causes crystals and loss of shape. overcooking yields stiffness. slow simmering produces stickiness. Ideal jelly is clear, tender, with firm angles and sparkling faces, per Goldthwaite.
Heavy rainfall in West Lave swells Little Blue River to about seven feet, halting train service as the Pacific Railroad reports water on tracks near Mulusti and Powell. Despite the flooding, several daily trains continue under orders while crews work to clear water and resume normal operations.
Fairbury records show 1924 schedules from County Assessor O R Jones with a total Jefferson County rise in property values of 945000 dollars. Fairbury city real estate up 440000, villages outside Fairbury up 7000, rural districts up 98000.
Reynolds July 18. Most farmers here are members of the Grain Growers Association. The first car of wheat was loaded out this week and sent to the Kansas City warehouse for holding. Farmers were paid three fourths of the market on delivery with the balance due when the wheat is removed from storage and sold.
Miss Sophia Heidelk of Beatrice visited home folks Sunday. Mrs. Maggie Friesen of Fairbury visited relatives here Sunday. Miss Evelyn Runyon of Fairbury visited with Alvera Eckels. Charles Nider of Wichita, Kans. visits relatives. Mrs. George Enns of Garden City, Kans. visits friends in Jansen vicinity and will visit Nelson. A baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Thiessen of Endicott July 15. Waldo Thiessen leaves for Hillsboro and Reedley Calif. LeRoy Muller of Omaha visits, returns with Mrs. Zook.
The Beatrice Mennonite hospital case notes Mrs Brandt's gradual recovery after a trial of a new treatment used by Dr Lynch of Fairbury. Initial decline followed by steady improvement in recent weeks allows her to be about town again. The report highlights encouraging results from the treatment.
The Department of Agriculture states the U S population can reach 300 million without increasing outside food needs beyond current levels. A century after Silent Night was written in Oberndorf near Salzburg a monument will be erected there in commemoration.
A temporary ruling by C. Westerdahl chief stamp clerk in Omaha requiring only three cents extra postage for airmail letters to New York or San Francisco addressed to foreign countries has been sustained by a Washington postoffice department ruling.
Fairbury city council grants license to Wieselmeyer of Deshler for an eighteen-table pool and billiard room in the Golden Rule basement. Opponents led by J C McLucas plan petitions for a referendum on basements vs upstairs operation. License expires April 1, 1925.
Three farm water supply systems installed under cooperative extension guidance show varied costs from under 100 dollars for a simple kitchen pump to about 180 dollars for a farm dwelling setup. One gravity system draws from a spring 1,200 feet away with a 100 foot head. A fourth note mentions a device for humane electrocution of flies using baited traps.
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