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    SUNDAY MOVIES BARRED

    (Special to The Star.) - Hastings, Neb.. Aug, 21 —

    Advocates of the Sunday movies were defeated last night in the council by a vote of six to two, thus continuing in force an ordinance of twenty years standing forbidding Sunday work.

     

    Sunday "movie" advocates came to the council meeting with six councilmen pledged to act

    over the mayor's veto but four of them refused when confronted with the names of 700 in remonstrance.

    The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917

     

    Five Year Old Boy Hit By Auto

     

    (Special to the Star) - Hastings, Neb., Aug 29. --

     

    Run over by A. H. Jones auto on the main business street today the five year old son of Mr.

    and Mrs. R. O. Graham is believed to have been fatally injured.

     

    The family lives above Mr. Graham's furniture store in fron of which the accident occurred.

     

    The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917

 

    Drank Loaded Cider—Fined $10

     

    (Special to The Star.)  - Hastings, Neb.. Aug. 29.—

     

    Intoxicated on hard cider purchased at Inland which he declared he didn't know was "loaded". Charles Cornell paid a fine of $10 and costs for drunkenness.

     

    He was arrested at the Burlington station, after alighting fiom a train from Inland. Cornell said he bought the cider at Inland.

     

    The Lincoln Daily Star - August 29, 1917

     

     

     

    A Hunter Hurt

     

    Roseland, Neb., March 5 - special

     

    Mike Wieanda, son of a prominent farmer living near this place, met with a serious accident

    while hunting yesterday.  His gun burst, blowing away the greater part of the flesh from his left arm.

     

    Morning World Herald - March 6, 1891

 

 

 

 

 

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