Nebraska News Highlights From September Events
Numerous Nebraska items: funding on a DuBois water plant, an old settlers picnic at Lodgepole on September 7, and festivals in Dalton and Oxford. Also notes on blossomings in Omaha, a Willey pioneer’s death, and a Newark dairy tour. Several conventions, parades, and missing details mark the state’s September scene.
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Lodgepole
Henry C. Larson
Omaha
Edward B. Taylor
Willey
Mitchell
O'Neill
Irwing
Nebraska State Oatsopathic Association
Dalton
Izaak Walton League Association of Nebaska
Norfolk
Nebraska Association of the Deaf
Frank Ohmacht
Nebraska City
Chimney Rock
Nebraska
Oregon Trail
Minnie Clausen
John Clausen
Tecumeh
Lima
Peru
South America
Mark H. Knight
Mc‘Cook Daily Gaztte
W. H. Miner
Norfolk Country Club
Hebron
National Farm Loan Association
D. P. Hogan
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
American Legion
Wisconsin
Indianapolis
Ind
Nebraska Dairy Development Society
Otto Liebers
Washington County
Platte River
Falls City
Forrest Haney
Beatrice
State Institute For
Oxford
Week's News From Nebraska Roundup Falls City Event
Falls City to host a roundup with stars including Mabel Strickland and Hugh Strickland, Barker Ben Butler. event billed second only to Cheyenne Frontier Days on September 10 11 12. Other items cover Ford refinements lower chassis and bodies, 10000 bushels wheat from 400 acres near Chadron, centipede hatching at University of Nebraska, and record Nebraska state fair livestock entries.
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Falls City
Mabel Strickland
Hugh Strickland
Montana Slim
Ruth Roach
Luther Priest
Bulldogger
Pinkie Gist
Scout Mais Fast
Chick Hannon
Grady Wilson
Charlie Johnson
Ben Butler
Nebraska
Kansas
Omaha
Ford
Chadron
Marcus Cain
Mr. Cain
Fair Lincoln
Fair Coliseum
Miller family welcomes second set of twins to grow to eleven
The Miller household gains a new twin set, a girl pair weighing 0 and 7% pounds, joining older twins David and Bessie who were five in January. Mr and Mrs A Miller now have eleven children.
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Falls City
A. Miller
David
Bessie
Miller
Fatal Bicycle Fall Claims Life of Child Chas Spadt
A fall from a bicycle caused the death of Charles Bustel Spadt aged nine, son of Mr and Mrs Spadt. Doctors say the death was due to concussion of the brain.
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Charles, Nine
Bustel Spadt
Columbus Trapshooters Aim for Omaha Shoot
Columbus trapshooters plan to send a delegation of a dozen or more crack shots to the Omaha shoot on September 6.
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Columbus
Omaha
Scottsbluff Holds First Flower Show with Free Barbecue
Scottsbluff hosted the first annual North Platte valley flower show drawing 4000 attendees to a free barbecue dinner. The event was the valley’s most successful ever with broad town participation. A. H. Carstens of Fremont was elected Nebraska Gideons president, and Norfolk will host the 1926 convention.
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Scottsbluff
North Platte Valley
Cattle Die After Feeding On Mowed Pig Weeds
Archie Morrow of Plymouth reports ten cows died after grazing on mowed pig weeds. The cattle drank from a pond and seven died immediately with three more succumbing later.
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Plymouth
Archie Morrow
Fatality at Lincoln Fair Grounds
George Beaney a 31 year old Lincoln laborer was killed at the state fair grounds when caught between switching cars. He had been employed by the Nebraska state fair board filling in at the fair grounds.
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Lincoln
George Beaney
Beaney
Nebraska State Fair Board
Commander Michie Fliers and Lawyer Michie Jr. Biography
Thomas Johnson Michie Jr, commander of the Virginia department of the American Legion, was born June 7 1806 in Northport New York to a Virginian father and Pennsylvanian mother. He attended Charlottesville public schools Jefferson School for Boys the University of Virginia and Cornell air service school. He served as a second lieutenant in 1918 and held law degrees at UVa earning MA in 1920 and LLB in 1921. He practiced law in Charlottesville and taught at UVa Law School. He was a charter member and leader of Charlottesville Albermarle Post 74 and was elected commander of the Department of Virginia for the current year.
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Thomas Johnson Michie, Jr
Virginia Department of the American Legion
Northport
Long Island
N. Y
Charlottesville
University of Virginia
Fort Meyer
Air Service
Cornell Air Service
Faggin
Italy
Tours
France
Phi Beta Kappa
Theta Delta Chi
Allen, Walsh & Michie
University of Virginia Law School
Albermarle
The
Legion
Michie
Department of Virginia
Warning About Loans on the World War Adjusted Certificates
American Legion officials warn veterans nationwide about money lenders preying on World War adjusted compensation certificates. Treasury secret service reports 235 certificates were used in an unlawful San Antonio loan. The act allows loans after two years with promissory notes secured by the certificate, but negotiates or loans in violation are void to protect veterans.
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American Legion Service
Washington
Secret Service Division
Treasury Department
Secret Service
San Antonio
Tex
National Bank
District of Columbia
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DuBois
Stars
John A. Cameron
University of Nebraska
Cameron
OUR Comic
APT
Mickie
EZ Croop
Hes
Janie
Harshim GY
LF Seedie
H. BE. McLaughlin
Sven
The.erican Wa Legion
American Legion News Service
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