Red Cross Takes Charge Of Pueblo Relief Effort
The American Red Cross Disaster Relief administration now directs Pueblo rebuilding after the flood. Missing list tops 180 as 296 square miles lose crops. controversial odors and disease fears lead Colonel Hammrock to restrict access while long term rehabilitation begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pueblo
Colo
American Red Cross Disaster Relief Administration
American Red Cross
Congress
Red Cross
James L. Fieser
Patrick J. Hammrock
Tulsa Officials Tie Riots to Negro Aggitation
Police leaders say Negro radicals have influenced recent unrest. Chief Gunlafson and the commissioner warned of responsibility resting on Negroes for potential trouble and noted agitation in the Negro section. A civic committee plans restoration of Negro homes with proposals aimed at creating a superior segregated district as an example for others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Forecast Bigger Wheat Yield for 1921 in U S
The department of agriculture predicts the 1921 total wheat crop at 829 million bushels, up from 787 million in 1920. Winter wheat totals 578 million, spring wheat 251 million, with winter acreage at 8.721 million acres and spring load at an average 18.023 million. Winter crop condition is 77.9 percent on June 16, vs 78.2 a week earlier. spring condition 93.4 percent, up from 89.1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Department of Agriculture
Nebraska Population by Race and Nativity in 1920
The census bureau reports Nebraska total population 1,296,372 with Whites 1,279,219. Negroes 13,242. Indians 2,888. Chinese 189. Japanese 804. and small numbers of Filipinos Hindus and Koreans. Foreign born whites were 11.5 percent, down from 14.8 percent in 1910. Wyoming figures show Whites 190,146? and Negroes 1,875 with White electors at 13 percent of total, down from 16.6 percent in 1910.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Washington, D. C
Wyoming
Floods Again Hit Pueblo and Denver Area
Floods along the Arkansas and Fountain rivers disrupt Pueblo and Denver regions. The rivers, both sourced in Colorado, have caused prior high water events, with August 1904 mentioned amid damaged tracks and widespread overflow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Colo
Pueblo
Arkansas
Fountain Rivers
Meetin Pueblo
Ceblo
Renewed Petitions Push Wage Cuts Across Boards
The document shows several roads seeking a flat twenty percent wage reduction for all employees while other bases for last year’s increases vanished. J W. Hignot demands that last year’s increases be wiped out as part of the push.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J W. Hignott
Sounds Strike Warning In Chicago Labor Dispute
Chicago reports warn that wage cut acceptance rests with employees as railroad brotherhood chiefs distance themselves from responsibility for a traffic stoppage. LB Sheppard proposes strike as conductors head in labor board discussions. Railroads and the labor board’s wage reduction order labeled as causes if train and engine service men vote to strike on July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ill
Railroad Brotherhood
LB Sheppard
Railroad Labor Board
Labor Board
Charges of price collusion by West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc
Washington D C Charges of price collusion and restriction of production to maintain prices were made against the West Coast Lumbermen's association by federal trade commissions in a special report to congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charge Lumber Combine
Washington,d. C
West Coast Lumbermen’s Association
Federal Trade Commissions
Congress
Army to be kept at 150000 in coming fiscal year
Washington D C The army will be kept on a minimum strength of 150 000 during the fiscal year starting July 1 under the army appropriation bill just passed by the Senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Senate
Poles Must Go Back Under Immigration Quota
About 600 Poles in a group of 2,600 reaching the United States face removal to Poland under the current immigration law as their quota allotment is exceeded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Poland
Couple Held in Murder Case Near O Neill Nebraska
O Neill Nebraska authorities hold Rolla Dehart and his wife Della of Platte County after their confession to the murder of John Mize of Platte. Mize was killed along the Niobrara River on the night of May and his body was dumped from the Parshall bridge three miles south of Butte into the river where it was later found markedly decomposed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O'Neill
Neb
Rolla Dehart
Della
Platte
John Mize
Mize
Niobrara River
Parshall Bridge
Butte
Legislation Backed for $50 Million Loan to Cattle Raisers
Washington. D C The law would authorize Secretary Mellon to place funds at the disposal of the War Finance Commission with a $50 000 000 loan to cattle raisers recommended by the Federal Reserve Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Mellon
War Finance Commission
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Adams Named RNC Chairman After Hays Resigns
John T. Adams of Dubuque Iowa was chosen to lead the Republican National Committee succeeding Postmaster General Hays who resigned as chairman in Washington DC.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lowan
Haye
Washington, D. C
John T. Adams
Dubuque
Republican National Committee
Hays
Nebraska in Brief A Masonic lodge report and rural notes
Nebraska items include Omaha Masonic lodge annual communication with former deputy grand master and a committee to report on a Nebraska Masonic hospital plan for the 1921 session. Rural notes report a venomous serpent killed near Auburn after a banana shipment, rising rattlesnake sightings along the Missouri bottoms, and tuberculosis testing showing 90 accredited herds from 18,004 animals since January with 4 percent reactors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.F
A. M
Omaha
Nebraska
Mixsouri
Federal Bureaus of Animal Industry
Valentine Sparks
Valentine
Cherry-Keya Paha
Kearney
Wymore
Bileair
Olson
Washington County
William Buchholz
West Point
Cass County
Box
Butte County
Pilkington
American Legion of ‘North Platte
Scottsbluff
Lake Minatarey
Saunders County
Parm
Wahoo
McCook
Also Mentioned on This Page
Relief Organization
Hie
Reisner
Platte County
Evangelical Luthera
Missouri
Ohio
Pia'atti’s
McKelvie
Davis
John J. Pershing
Capitol Square
Lincoln
First State Bank
Gothenburg
Butcher
Brown County Dis
North Platte City
Papillion
Grand Island
Municipal Seniesa
Eee Si Dilsberry
The
Evangelical Synod of North America
Reguats
the .University.of N
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!