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Newspaper
The Jansen News
Location
Jansen, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1924
Page
8
The American Bankers Association Protective Committee reports a rising crime wave against banks with more burglars and hold ups in six months. It cautions don’t cash checks for strangers and highlights statewide yeggman rounds in Montana and Oklahoma leading to arrests and trials. Non members suffer higher losses per bank than members.
Granville state bank buys purebred sires for customers dairy herds and hires a man to lock up animals and ship them to Granville. Mississippi bankers employ a dairy expert to develop dairying, arranging loans, shelter, feed, rations, crops, and related guidance, financed by deposits.
Aunt Emmy guides Jane on bonds focusing on public utility bonds as those issued by essential service companies. She warns to assess management, seek bank advice, and monitor dividends and financial health before investing the $1,000 wedding gift, noting bonds pay interest before dividends and should be reviewed periodically.
Walter W. Head President American Bankers Association argues that maintaining a surplus for export is vital to stabilize national prices. He warns that eliminating foreign markets would force a costly reorganization of U S commerce and industry and proposes steps to restore a normal foreign market.
A pair of wooden gates once placed before the palace of beauty at the British Empire exhibition are said to copy sacred Teheran mosque gates. Crafted by a poor Persian wood carver who copied visions from memory, he was murdered after completion as suspicion rose and the gates later changed hands through Persian dealers.
The article recounts how Uncle Sam began as a real Troy New York citizen Samuel Wilson and Elbert Anderson letters E A and U S on Army provisions led to the nickname. It notes cartoonists later used Uncle Sam as the United States figure in flag attire. It ends with an ad for H D Bartlett Farm Lighting and Radio services in Fairbury Nebraska offering radio sets and repairs.
The Washington Star notes a prominent citizen persuades Senator Sorghum to speak at the event. The senator worries about an energetic audience turning the evening into a disruption, though he accepts the honor.
In Boston the first flying feat in the country was made by John Childs, an Englishman, from the yard of Old North church. A crude glider suspended by a harness flew about 700 feet to the delight of many spectators. The tablet, dated Sept 13 1757, commemorates his ascent and was placed by the Massachusetts So- in 1923 the year of the first continuous flight across the continent.
A fragmented rail schedule lists passenger trains including No. 38 Omaha No. 806 St. Joe Lift No. 6 Omaha No. 6 Thru Train and No. 305 St. Joe Lin No. 5 Omaha Lin. It notes stops for Denver and connections with Freight Lines No. 88 St. Joe and No. 86 Omaha along with various through trains to St. Joe and Omaha.
Pro Tar claims to rid mites and lice. Eggs from pens 2 and 3 with five strain White Leghorns. Two acres of land with a hut and three yards. Grapevines noted. Contact Rudolphe Jansen for details. Fresh hay, good milk. H.
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