Dream of Morrill museum nears realization at Nebraska
Morrill Hall and Morrill Mall form the planned campus center as work begins on a new $300000 museum building at 14th and U streets facing the Memorial Mall. The project, named for Charles Morrill, will house fossil collections, the Vine Arts department, and art galleries, with future expansion including a men’s gym and expanded library space.
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Bessey
Memorial Stadium
Tancroft School
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Morrill Hall
Morrill Mall
Board of Regents
Barbour
Department of Vine Arts
Art Association
Morrill Hall plans featured in Nebraska museum drive
Detailed proposals describe Morrill Hall as a modern, lighted science wing linked to Bessey Hall with a 200 by 50 foot Hall of Mammoths. The plan prioritizes north light for laboratories, a 20 foot corridor with fossil exhibits, and a $10,000 gift for display cases and murals. A Buffalo Bill Memorial Museum may come to Omaha, with a Pioneer Museum of the West to preserve pioneer artifacts. Nebraska is noted as the fifteenth state in area.
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Buffalo Bill
Omaha
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Chicago Trust Company
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New Student Activities Hall slated for College of Agriculture
The College of Agriculture celebrates a new student activities hall to open in September. Construction began mid March with the main concrete floor poured before May and steel roof trusses from Lincoln city. the building sits east of the Athletic Field facing the Animal Pathology Hall. It measures 149 by 75 feet, uses Kebe massed brick and Wedford stone trim, and will cost about 125000. The main auditorium seats about 1500 with galleries for 700 and includes a moving picture booth and a kitchen for banquets. The facility will house health clinic, showers, lockers, handball courts, and offices for physical education instructors, expanding social and athletic opportunities for students.
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College of Agriculture
Lincoln City
Animal Pathology Hall
Wedford
Peaks Long Defied Mountain Climbers
The article recounts early attempts on Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, noting Humboldt’s expedition 124 years earlier reaching 18,576 feet before retreat. It cites Boussingault and Blanl in 1831, Whymper finally summiting in 188{, and corrects South America’s highest peak to Aconcagua at 23,007 feet in Chile. It also mentions peaks in Peru and Bolivia taller than Chimborazo.
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Ecuador
South America
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Blall
Edward Whymper
Aconcagua
Chile
Husacan
Peru
Bolivia
Mount McKinley
Alaska
North America
Chicago Journal
Evil eye beliefs shape immigrant childbirth care
Immigrant mothers fear the evil eye and use charms to protect babies, hindering acceptance of medical attention. A male physician is often avoided in childbirth, with reliance on traditional midwives guided by grandmothers, contributing to high maternal and infant mortality.
At a Village Eatery Robbins Seeks Lunch
Robbins, two hours late from a railway delay, enters the only village eatery. The waitress offers beef or pork and coffee or milk. He asks for a bill of fare, but there is none. She lists the limited options, noting pork is gone and milk is sour.
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Robbins
Young German brothers grow strong on daily dozen
Henry Paul Zeiss eleven and his brother Anton twelve of Bremervoerde Germany weighed 297 and 275 pounds respectively, born frail but strengthened by doctors prescribed exercise. They now walk six miles to school daily and work on their father's farm, while their three sisters develop normally.
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Paul Zeiss
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Bremervoerde
Germany
Paul Weigts
Cuticura Ad Promotes Pimply Skin Relief
An advertisement touts Cuticura products for clear skin. It claims Cuticura Ointment removes pimples and blackheads, with Cuticura Soap and hot water for washing in five minutes, and recommends daily use to maintain clear skin, also mentioning Cuticura Talerm.
Prodigy Henry Rogers Astonishes Hillsborough with Quick Facts
In Hillsborough North East, Henry Rogers, a young man, demonstrates remarkable recall by correctly naming license numbers for over 500 local automobiles and calculating the batting averages of every major league player. His feats draw wide attention from residents and merchants alike.
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Henry Rogers
Take Your Choice in a Distant Dune of Opinion
A fragment hints at a literary debate about endings and choice in a new novel. The text weaves phrases about opinion, denials, and inevitability, with stray words like end happily and matter of opinion suggesting a discussion on storytelling outcomes.
Bayer Aspirin and Packaged Doses Tie to Pain Relief
An old catalog note describes Bayer Aspirin as effective for colds neuritis lumbago toothache rheumatism and neuralgia. It notes Bayer packages contain proven directions and that boxes of twelve tablets cost a few cents. Drug gists also sell bottles of 24 and 100.
Nuns in Prague and Bratislava Face Voting Rules
The report notes that all Czech oslovakia citizens must vote or face penalties including fines and possible jail time. It mentions 1854 voters in Bratislava fined about $1 each. Barnabite nuns in Prague were required to vote despite vows of enclosure and veiled faces.
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Czechoslovakia
Bratislava
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Chicaro Daily News
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