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Newspaper
The Jansen News
Location
Jansen, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1924
Page
1
The Lutheran Church hosts a school picnic Monday June 9 after morning services. Rev W puts on a program with a ball game between Zion and the Ken congregation. A tire exhibit contest offers a tube prize for guesses near the tire count.
A Nebraska farm report outlines a temporary shade structure to protect pigs from heat and parasite eggs. The design uses simple materials and sits away from hog lots to reduce parasite exposure while allowing air flow for cooling during summer.
The Jansen Woman's Club produced A Southern Cinderella at Community Hall on Thursday night to a packed audience with standing room. The crowd enthusiasm matched the ensemble's strong acting and the musical numbers. Proceeds will help pay off a piano bought when the club formed, with a portion of receipts toward the pianoforte debt.
W Brundige defends newspaper advertising as vital and powerful while condemning false accusations against press freedom. He argues newspapers cannot be bought for money alone and must serve readers. Nebraska farms electric light and connection topics appear briefly. The Forty Second Annual Camp NE is noted with dates June 13 to 22, 1924 in Lake Park Lincoln.
A long running Utah water rights dispute centers on a failing irrigation stream and an underground water tunnel. The case involves precipitation records from the Weather Bureau and questions whether the tunnel diverted flow from the natural stream. Miners claim ownership based on the altered water supply and drought effects while parties including a Salt Lake City firm the state and federal agencies weigh precedent and liability.
The German government promotes a radio control system to stop aircraft engines as a polite measure. It notes complaints that French chartered ships are flying over German territory without permission.
Organized music class offering piano instruction by Mrs. Frank Nider and Mrs. Ohias Coffer in Jansen. Prospective students may contact Nee 2513 for details and enrollment information.
Local items report Miss Isabelle Steer visiting in Lincoln and Miss Naomi from Iwohn staying with friends. Families and neighbors share dinners, hospital recoveries, births, and travel to conventions and other towns. Movements include pastors changing churches, band activities, and forthcoming weddings in Reedley California.
Mrs. F C Achtemeier slipped on a basement concrete floor Monday noon and fractured the bone of her left arm above the wrist. Dr. Murray reduced the fracture and she was taken to Fairbury for X rays. He expected painful healing but no complications.
Finish surplus poultry on farm with a 10 day to 2 week feeding period using ground corn and bran in equal parts with white shorts or ground oats, fed with sour milk or buttermilk. Confine birds in crates and market as milk fed to dealers on quality. Extension Circular 1414 available from County Extension Agent.
The barber shop here formerly run by Rev. Rogers and his son Roscoe has been bought by Harry Roundsley, a young man from St Linesla who previously worked in Beatrice. He is described as of good appearance and should maintain the existing patronage. See his ad in this issue of the Jansen News.
Three violators were arraigned in Merrick county Nebraska for hunting migratory birds without a license in March. One offender was fined 325.60 dollars while the other two were fined 52.60 dollars each. Two men caught with 24 birds were arraigned in Ocavens county Nebraska and pled guilty receiving fines of 304.70 and 305 dollars totaling 609.70 dollars.
National Electric Light convention cites public utility information bureaus boosting newspaper advertising. Bureaus cover 35 of 48 states to prepare and disseminate utility facts. Directors are former journalists promoting ongoing ad campaigns to explain utility problems and community interdependence.
A fragment mentions a Czech superstition that if a traveler is stuck, you place a rod and cookies with them, believing they will surely return. The text is garbled and lacks clear dates or names.
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