Nebraska Notes Highlights From Local News Items
G W Huen to locate a lumber yard at Howells and Callaway raises quarantine. Tecumseh resident Barbara Miller dies at 74. Osceola district court convenes with Judge B F Good. John Fuget near Broken Bow loses 37 cattle to cornstalk disease. Major Moore named statehouse fireman. Lincoln Health Officer Rhode reports smallpox cases gone. Crawford finds two policeless men stealing rifle. Blair Methodist church dedicates new 890 organ January 23. Drs Greene and Shields to run Lincoln hospital for the insane from February 1. Bradshaw reports a smallpox case in Marylon Colby. Callaway resident shoots blue racer under hay stack. Freemont petitions to submit saloon license question at spring election. Plattsmouth man burns home while intoxicated. others help prevent fire. Beatrice Mayor Jackson declines re-election. Minden boy Paul Chomias injures right arm. doctor sets fracture. Omaha woman mugged. colored stranger steals $3.49. Ashes of George S Smith cremated and shipped to Plattsmouth Masons. Nels Christianson home accident injures a six year old with an air gun blast to the face.
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Georges. Smith
San Jose
Cal
Plattsmouth
Lodge of Masons
Nels Christianson
English Negro Police Leave Posts Amid Venezuelan Turmoil
A Caracas report says 150 English Negro police workers fled when insurgents fired, leaving only 25 Americans to protect property and families. US Minister Loomis will wire Washington as threats of expulsions and censored dispatches rise, while broader unrest targets Ciudad Bolivar and Trinidad-bound vessels.
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Spain
Caracas
Piteh Lake
Jles
United States Legation
Loomis
Washington
Olcott
Qrinoco
Trinidad
Luthet
Ciudad Bolivar
Bolivar
Orinoco
United States
Reflections of a Bachelor
Wry, dated satire on marriage and women with quips about wit, truth, and social mores. It suggests women control perception as men maneuver for affection while noting the aging and social pitfall of deception.
Absent-minded man swipes neighbor's umbrella
In the Philadelphia Record an absent minded man says he always saves for a rainy day and borrows his neighbor's umbrella on a whim.
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Philadelphia Record
Crown Prince Frederick William Receives Garter Honor
The crown prince of Germany Frederick William was invested with the order of the Garter on January 28 at Cowes Isle of Wight by King Edward VII in Osborne House Council Chamber. The ceremony drew high officers, imperial entourage, and a Hohenzollern party.
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William
Germany
Great Britain
New Diplomatic Credentials Issued for Choate and Paincefort
Mr Choate is to be accredited as United States Ambassador to the court of Edward VII. Lord Paincefort is expected to receive new credentials as ambassador to the United States with a commission signed by the queen.
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Choate
United States
Edward VII
Lord Paincefort
Man Injured in Barn Roof Fall at Fremont
Isaac Breitendall was seriously injured at Fremont after a fall from a barn roof while making repairs. He fell to the floor below after leaving through a roof door and landed on cobs, wrenched his back and suffered bruises. Recovery will take weeks.
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Isaac Breitendall
Fremont
Lumber bids opened in Seattle for Manila project
Bids totaling 3 090 000 feet of lumber were opened at Seattle and will be forwarded to Washington. The timber contract is designated for Manila.
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Seattle
Wash
Washington
Manila
Connie Sullivan Dies in New York Former Bantam Champion
The former bantamweight queen Connie Sullivan is dead in New York. The mine workers' convention refused to raise salaries of national officers. General Bethune tasked with driving the Boers from the Cape Colony. Governor Sayers reports Galveston relief exceeds 1.988 million dollars. Fruit jar makers in Muncie US sign wage scale, putting 1500 idle men to work. Polish provinces report secret societies seeking revolution. many arrests. Kansas temperance union plans to subscribe over 100 dollars for a Carrie Nation gold medal. Nation will refuse the medal and donate funds to anti saloon work.
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Bethune
Cape, Colony
Sayers
Texas
Galveston
Muncie
Ind
Russia
Kansas State Temperance Union
Carrie. Nation
Nation
Arizona Hopes for Statehood Passage
Governor Murphy of the Arizona territory urges admission as a state soon. He warns that delay would reflect the indifference of fortunes built in the territory who seek to influence a territorial body more than a state legislature.
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Arizona
Murphy
Bard brothers plan Ventura hospital memorial
Senator Thomas R. Bard and Dr. C. L. Bard of Ventura announce plans to erect a hospital in Ventura as a memorial to their mother, the facility to be presented to the city.
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Thomas R. Bard
California
C. L. Bard
Ventura
Cal
Yakima Indians end seven day medicine dance near Toppenish
The Yakima Indians closed a seven day medicine dance near Toppenish. Participants inflicted self torture with knives stones and sharpened sticks as part of a deeply rooted religious practice. A 30 year old buck endured longest and was named head medicine man for three years.
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Tacoma
Wash
Col
Chicago
Toppenish
A NURSE'S STORY
A lakeside nurse Miss Lillian Dreese praises Dodd's Kidney Pills for diabetes and kidney trouble. She testifies from twelve years of nursing experience that the pills restore harmony to the body and improve health, endorsing their use to patients and doctors alike.
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Lakeside Hospital
Lake Geneva
Lillian Dreese
Dreese
Independent Order
Templars
Rebeccas
Peshtigo
Dodd
Genatora
Belgium Institution Drops Richet Cure for TB
A Belgian facility tested the Richet raw meat diet as a tuberculosis cure. After several months the trial ended without efficacy, and the experiment was abandoned.
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Belgium
Richet
Cash rule caps worth of many would be as high as a million
The line notes that many and man could be valued at a million but the cash limit set at 100 percent restricts the amount. The remark highlights a rigid constraint on cash allowances affecting valuation.
Foot Ease Promises Relief for Feet Ailments
An old advertisement touts Allen’s Foot-Ease powder as a cure for burning feet sweat and bunions. Claims relief from foot discomfort with a simple powder product sold at stores for 26 cents.
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Allen's
Denvier
Loo, N.Y
Reverend Youtsy Ordered to Pay Tax Penalty for Views
The Rev D A Youtsy, a Christian minister, must pay a sizable sum to a revenue officer after selling stereopticon views at Fullerton. The action reflects tax compliance steps tied to public screenings conducted by the clergyman in the locale.
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D. A. Youtsy
Fullerton
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Diller
Nebraska
G. W. Huen
Howells
Callaway
Barbara Miller
Tecumseh
Osceola
B. F. Good
Omaha
John Fuget
Broken Bow
Board of Public Lands and Buildings
Major Moore
State House
Htealth
Rhode of
Lincoln
Crawford
Blair Methodist Church
Greene
Shields
Lincoln Hospital
Bradshaw
Marylon Colby
la House
G .W. Bar‘ard
August Hesse
Jackson
Beatrice
Paul
Prof
A. Chomias
Minden
C. J. Mackus
Cuming Street
Venezuela
Rown
Edward
Connie” Sullivan
New York
Mine Workers’ Convention
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