24 Oct 1913
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Newspaper
The Potter Review
Location
Potter, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1913
Page
1
Fred Nelson, Potter postmaster, was reappointed for another term. He said in spring he will add a west side expansion to his store building with modern equipment and keep the lobby open to give people access to the post office boxes.
Omaha hosts the State Teachers Association on November 5 6 and 7 inviting Nebraska school boards to send teachers on full pay and even cover railroad fares. Attendees will hear eleven nationally known speakers while Nebraska Farm Journal subscriptions are offered free for six months upon renewal or new sign ups. The Review opines on politics, tariffs, and the cost of living, arguing for balanced capital and labor and noting the President’s reforms may aid both sides.
A reader attacks the Weekly Press for running an ad for the Continental Motor Cycle and Boat Co of Trenton Michigan calling it a fraud. The letter condemns the railroads for misleading advertising and predicts a financial windfall from a land rush and resting the trains and workers.
A long reader letter criticizes a local editor’s take on how women dress and the male gaze. The exchange reflects early 20th century tensions on fashion, propriety, and gender roles, with the writer defending women’s public freedom to wear modern styles despite editorials critiquing Parisian extremes.
Nebraska hosts the Woodmen of the World, the largest fraternal order, with a reserve fund of 18.6 million to protect members from rate hikes. It attracts more new members than three other orders combined, and policies pay one tenth annually after age 70. A $2,000 policy costs 1.85 monthly at 32, with profitable long term returns. District managers Gowin and McMillen invite enrollment.
Country correspondents lack updates as students study hard and some locals, including Irene Lawrence, take on dressmaking. Peter Hansen drove Del Johnson, Frances Wickhorst, George Gowin, and Joe Keoush to Sidney, with rumors of courthouse business and possible divorce filings. H Petersen & Sons offers grate purchases.
Notes from Pleasant View recount a busy week with farmers securing high yields, including Herman Shubarth averaging 57 bushels per acre and defeating Jim Hadley by 996 bushels from 20 acres. Spud digging, hog trading, and land drawing activity are reported, with George Hicks and wife visiting family and several crews threshing flax and plowing for Reitz and Dykeman.
A wary defence of whistling at work as a happiness valve contrasts with critics, urging coworkers to accept noise as harmless. The piece surveys Rubens in Spain, Velazquez, the Prado’s collections, and notable works, then shifts to a Norman gauge of scientific management, youth labor, and public amusements, concluding with a jab at Punch and Judy for children.
The Paris tango gown is described as three layers of transparency, two more than the silhouette gown. The item prompts fashion notes as readers see minute stylistic differences.
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