Nebraska State News Roundup
Statewide items include a June 1 start for bus service between Falls City and Omaha via Nebraska City by Interstate Transit Lines, a June 2 special election on a storm sewer bond, and Lincoln buying Hawthorne school site for 9000 dollars plus taxes. Other notes cover a new Ong Commercial Club, Legion pilgrimage bookings, Wayne State dorm plans, beet-field labor from Lincoln, and a Fossey Johnson post in new Nemaha County town.
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Falls City
Omaha
Nebraska City
Interstate Transit Lines of
Yremont
Hawthorne
Lincoln
Lincoln Methodist Union
Board of Education
Bloomfield Prepares Nebraska Promotional Tour for Editors
Bloomfield plans to showcase its town to national editors in Norfolk on June 16 with living highlights of its goldenrod heritage. The 1600-population community will display its agricultural base from corn to dairying and features a 30 piece band. Omaha offers prizes up to 100 dollars for best Nebraska trip account by editors outside Nebraska.
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Bloomfield
Nebraska
Norfolk
Sixteen Hundred
Community Club
W. H. Needham
Bloomfield Monitor
Omaha
Fremont
Chadron
Bayard
Mitchell
Scottsbluff
Sidney
North Platte
Cozad
Kearney
Grand Island
Hastings
Lincoln
Harvard Postoffice Opens in New Building By Schuck
Distribution of mail has begun from the newly completed postoffice building raised by Edward Schuck after moving from state guaranty fund commission property. The facility features new style steel boxes and fixtures, replacing old equipment. Fremont park work progresses converting sandpit lake district into fishing and camping ground with camps for workers and bank leveling and seeding planned. Kearney cheese factory begins full operation shipping 3000 pounds of milk daily and aims for 7000 pounds to run 24 hours.
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Harvard
Postoffice
Edward Schuck
State Guaranty Fund Commission
Fremont
Kearney
Beatrice Plans Gravel Street Replacements This Season
Beatrice will surface about three and a half miles of streets with gravel, roughly fifty blocks, this coming season. City Clerk Pethoud announced the plan, chosen by property owners in areas where paving costs are prohibitive.
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Beatrice
Pethoud
Fire destroys Cornish farm home near Meadow district
A blaze of undetermined origin totally destroyed the farm home of Mrs. A. J. Cornish about 25 miles southwest of here. Loss estimated around 12 000 dollars, not insured. Masonic Temple ornate building in Kearney nears completion. Four stories, 75 by 130 feet, light yellow brick with terra cotta trim. Ready for occupancy hoped by October 1. Investment over 200 000 dollars.
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Omaha
A. J. Cornish
Meadow
Here
Masonic Temple
Kearney
Diller Board Plans Purchase of Park Ground
The village board of Diller has decided to buy a quarter block from Mrs IE Raymond for extended park use. The ground comprises three vacant lots.
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Diller
IE. Raymond
Beet Workers Head to Sugar Beet Fields
One hundred seventy six families, averaging seven persons each, left Lincoln on two special trains for the North Platte valley to work in the beet fields of the Great Western Sugar company. They will return in the fall.
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Ong
Ong Commercial Club
Louis Nelson
O. H. Olson
Nebraska Legionnaires
Paris
American Legion
Nels I. Johnson
France
Department of Nebraska
Wayne State Teachers College
J. Ifuntemer
Nemaha County
Nebraska
Maude
H. Cowell
Auburn
Snow
Cochran
Nebraska Construction Co
Lincoln
Carl Rulla
Vesta
Johnson County Red Cross
Johnson Fruit Company
McCook
J. A. Cameron
Cameron
South America
Oxford
Norfolk Chamber of Commerce
National Editorial Association
Norfolk
Black Hills
Nuckolls County Fair Grounds
Fine Arts
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Omaha
Colorado
Minatare Dam
Alliance
Morrill County Fair
George E. Condra
North Platte Valley
Great Western Sugar Company
What's the Answer series debuts in paper feature
A new department titled Whats the Answer will present twenty questions on history science geography literature arithmetic religion sports economics famous sayings natural history and more. Readers are invited to answer now and compare with the answers in the next issue, a monthslong educational feature designed to inform and entertain.
Questions on history and science from a quiz page
A list of thirteen questions covering discovery of the Pacific Ocean and earliest U S towns, Earth’s surface area and age, human eyesight range, St. Louis pennants, Renaissance meaning in art, drainage lands, first Greek letter fraternity, Lincoln quote, trade barometer industry, myopia and slavery history, Yale founding, early auto speed, notable actors, coast line, French lyric poet, Torpedoes quote, and America’s undeveloped resource potential.
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St. Louis
United States
Yale College
Accidents that Made Big Industries
A cheese misfire at lunch improved copper disk plating for wax phonograph records. Casein from cheese boosted quality, worth thousands. Salt over flux welded nickel iron ribbon around copper cable core, speeding submarine cables sixfold. A lab slip produced liquid oxygen after drops entered a glass tube. Floyd W. Parsons notes accidents spark new industries and safer explosives.
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France
Floyd W. Parsons
Saturday Evening Post
Prophecy Fulfilled About Lake Chrissie In Transvaal
An old Kaffir medicine man predicted that Lake Chrissie near Ermelo in the eastern Transvaal would dry up and signify Boers losing independence. The forecast appeared fulfilled when the Boers were subjugated by the British, linking a distant prophecy to colonial conquest.
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Chrissie
Ermelo
Transvaal
Cape
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