Nebraska Notes roundup shows towns plans and events
Auburn houses five saloons while Wymore eyes a fall street fair and Ravenna builds a half mile race track. Sidney closes saloons on Sundays. Beatrice license taxes total 1200 dollars. City notes appoint Hamer Aurora city attorney and Sterling Chadron police chief. Chautauqua in David City June 27 to July 4. oil prospecting near Hamer. artesian wells near Plainview. Beaver City mobilizes park and street improvements. Belden Catholics raise funds for a new church. Lighthouse: Hitchcock County teachers’ institute at Trenton June 10. Beels fish near Stanton. Lyons completes telephone exchange. Lyons to gain brick hotel funding. Omaha Indians to receive 100000 dollars June 1 for lands sold in 1883. Oaklan d youths prepare festival grounds. Union revival in Lyons. Spearman named under secretary to state irrigation board. Clay county commissioners refuse county fair funding. Deaths include William Collen at Grand Island soldiers home. Henry Biester fined for road scraper quarrel. Ned C Abbot named Filipino tutor. coyote killed near Hubbell. Wakefield becomes a dry town amid residency dispute.
China Accepts Indemnity Proposal for 15 Million Taels Yearly
China states it can pay 15 million taels annually for thirty years to satisfy all claims, acknowledging potential government strain but arguing funds may cost its economy. Berlin approves the general idea of ending the campaign, while the thirty-year plan receives cautious support. Rockhill reports the reply and aims to seek reductions, though little hope remains.
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China
Berlin
Germany
Rockhill
Pekin
McKinley in San Francisco Trip As Mrs McKinley Improves
President McKinley returns to the Scott residence in San Francisco after a San Jose visit. If Mrs McKinley’s condition holds better he plans a curtailed program including Stanford University stops and brief visits at San Mateo Burlingame and Palo Alto.
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San_Jose
McKinley
Scott
San Francisco
Stanford University
San Mateo
Burlingame
Palo Alto
Newark Bank Cashier Pleads Guilty and Sentenced
Charles R. Westervelt, defaulting cashier of Dime Savings Bank in Newark New Jersey, pleaded guilty before Justice Skinner. He received two years for the initial charge and seven years on related forgery indictments. The sentences run consecutively, requiring separate terms served.
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Newark
N. J
Charles R. Westervelt
Dime Savings Bank of
Skinner
Weather of the Week Reported Cold Dry with Limited Sunshine
The past week brought cold dry conditions with below normal sunshine. Eastern counties saw mean temperatures about 5 degrees below normal while western areas were near or above. Frosts occurred on several days and rainfall stayed well below average. Wheat and grass thrived with moisture in eastern regions, oats grew fairly well though stands are uneven, and corn planting progressed slowly in eastern counties with cold wet soil and light frosts causing limited germination. Gardens suffered some damage but fruit remained largely uninjured.
Soldiers Ordered Home to Manila Deployment
By direction of the secretary of war General MacArthur is to send from Manila to San Francisco at his earliest convenience regiments and batteries including the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty third infantry, Fourth cavalry, coast artillery companies Twenty-ninth, Thirtieth and Thirty-third, field artillery batteries First, Eighth, Tenth, Twelfth and Fourteenth. Transfers apply to those with over one year to serve who wish to remain, and others with three months or less to serve not re-enlisting. Movement expected to begin soon after July 1.
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Secretary of War
MacArthur
San Francisco
General MacArthur
Philippines
Riots Continue as Albany Streetcar Strike Persists
Darkness ends riotous clashes as thousands of strikers and supporters guard city lines. Police deputies and Pinkertons aided by local officers have failed to stop non union cars. two daylight moves ended in bloodshed prompting vigilant patrols through night.
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Albany
N. Y
United Traction
Pinkerton
Buffalo Savings and Loan Appoints Receiver in Dissolution
Justice Childs of Buffalo New York named Tracy C Becker as receiver for the Buffalo savings and loan association with a 25000 bond. The move follows a dissolution petition by the attorney general based on a superintendent of banking report alleging the institution is unsafe and unwise to continue as it is being absorbed by the Industrial tax fuel and loan association of New York.
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Justice Childs
Buffalo
N. Y
Tracy C. Becker
Buffalo Savings and Loan Association
Attorney General's Office
Superintendent of Banking
Industrial Tax Fuel and Loan Association of New York
Paris Duel Ends In Tragedy At Calais
Two Paris men agreed to fight a duel in Calais for bravado and coffee money. One intended to kill himself, causing the other to faint and withdraw. The distraught duelist later drowned himself after failing to provoke a quarrel with his second.
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Paris
Calais
Philadelphia Times Names New Editor
With Colonel Mc Clure retired from the Philadelphia Times Dr Alfred C Lambdin becomes editor. Darwin G Fennse continues as managing editor after years in the post.
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Philadelphia Times
Colonel McClure
Alfred C. Lambdin
Darwin G. Fennse
Sleep as Key to Baby Health and Growth
The article argues babies should sleep a lot to grow strong. It warns that both undernourished and well fed infants can become weak or sickly without sufficient rest.
First Submarine Cable and Cure Promises
The first submarine cable was laid across the English Channel about fifty years ago. The advertisement links this milestone to the introduction of Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and urges readers to try the remedy for indigestion flatulency constipation nervousness and insomnia to strengthen the system and promote sleep.
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English Channel
Hostetter
Durability of Wood in Dry Airs Noted in Antiquities
In very dry atmospheres wood shows remarkable durability with wooden caskets and articles recovered from Egyptian catacombs dating 2060 or 300 years before the Christian era.
New York Plans Record Apartment Development Worth 16 Million
A major housing project proposed in New York City seeks 16.022 million dollars, the largest residential total in city history. The plan cites a large-scale apartment and residence development amid a wave of new construction and urban growth.
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New York
New York City
Society worships success but seldom forgives a failure
A reflective line notes social obsession with achievement and the stigma attached to shortfalls, suggesting public judgment outpaces mercy for mistakes. The sentiment contrasts fame with leniency, implying cultural pressure to perform.
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Auburn
Wymore
Ravenna
Sidney
B.C. Keeler
Alliance
David City
E. J. Hamer
Aurora
Beatrice
Miss Rose Hudspeth
Newport
Stuart Ledger
L.W. Sterling
Chadron
Hamer
Plainview
Saline County
John Daggett
Lyons
York
Beaver City
Belden
Hitchcock County Teachers’ Institute
Trenton
Stanton
Wausa
Oakland
Presbyterian
Charles 8. Spearman
Crawford
State Board of Irrigation
Clay County
William Collen
Grand Island
Ned C. Abbot
Humboldt
Link Shell
Hubbell
Wakefield
Henry Biester
Geneva
Henry II
Nebraskan Company
Ac Reteier Ot
Guiverton
P. A. Stohl
Goerner
Isfy
M’kinley Better
Abie
San Jose
Nebras
Phillippines
RB. B
Lee
Eahs
Bkc
Hall
Ruckel
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