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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1926
Page
3
A fragment from a humorous item features a shopper asking for sealing wax and is told the store only has floor wax, attributed to Kutgers or a similar speaker in a playful, antiquated tone.
Across Nebraska a bustling summary notes Indianola election results 200 to 825, Tecumseh bond defeat, county fair plans in Johnson county, and new university staff moves. It reports inmate counts, courthouse annex plans, and a string of agricultural fairs and road projects. Provisions include rail tours, hospital and college milestones, and population shifts in Lincoln.
Nebraska schools will hold county contests to pick two top eighth grade spellers from each book for a final at the state fair. Winners receive 15 dollars, with additional prizes of 7.5, 3.5, and 2.5 dollars, plus special awards for grand winners.
President Coolidge told Pan American journalists the United States will stay out of the World Court unless reservations are accepted. He argued adherence safeguards American rights and strengthens an independent international tribunal, not subservient to the League of Nations.
The general claims commission of the United States and Mexico ruled that obligations entered into by the so called Huerta government bind the present Mexican government. It found Huerta an usurper whose power was illegal yet his acts, even under an illegal administration, bind the nation. Recognition by the United States or citizen complaints against Huerta do not affect American rights. The panel also overruled a motion to dismiss the Montezuma Central’s suit seeking $1,807,551 on locomotives sold to the National Railways of Mexico.
Ex governor Jonathan M. Davis was acquitted by a district court jury of accepting 1200 from forger Fred Vollman in a pardon case and was freed last fall on a conspiracy charge with Carl Peterson to obtain a loan from Walter Grundy. He declined to commit on seeking office again but had indicated a gubernatorial run in the fall election.
Three people died when an automobile was struck by a Grand Trunk train in Detroit. Victims were Joseph Saure his wife Rose and four year old Stella. Joseph Dubies and his wife were injured in the crash.
Conrad Pelton, twenty one, from Oshkosh Wisconsin, after an unsuccessful holdup attempt on an attendant at ailing station near Watertown, hanged Rinwell to the Watertown city jail.
In Lanao province a constabulary force killed ten Moro outlaws and wounded a number of others. Ten constabulary soldiers were wounded, though not seriously.
An extended devotional essay on Moses and the power of using what is in hand. It urges action now, faith in small talents, and humility before God, framing the rod as symbol and tool for responsible service despite self doubt. It emphasizes immediate effort over imagined resources.
A newspaper feature extols middle aged women pursuing books, plays, family time, and civic activity when health allows. It cites Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as boosting energy and appetite, sharing testimonials from Mrs. Hansver Tucker of Shelbyville Indiana and Mrs. Jen Wig Borixaman of West Hoboken New Jersey, plus a humorous cartoon dialogue about marriage and meekness.
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