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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1911
Page
7
A longtime factory announces a new phase reflecting modernization efforts. Management says upgrades will boost production and create skilled jobs locally, with plans to invest in equipment and workforce training over the coming year.
Mrs Melissa Hodgdon, aged seventy five, works four looms in York Manufacturing Co at Saco, Maine, and asserts she is the United States' oldest weaver. She began her weaving career in the middle of last month, continuing a long, steady pace of work.
A Bowles column recounts incidents of Southern justice toward northern players. It centers on a Mobile pitcher Reagan jailed after disputing an umpire during Gulfport game and a nemesis-like argument with umpire Totten. It also mentions Klem and Evers, and a Dougherty confrontation with Tim Hurst, illustrating volatile umpire-player tensions.
Miss Sarah Fisk led sixty hunters in a Brandywine Hundred fox hunt described as the biggest ever held in the region. The 26 year old Philadelphia native rode in triumph over fences and barriers, guiding the quarry to cover before the pack moved on toward Delaware.
A treasury official calls it an honor to circulate a portrait on national currency while Senator Sorg humorously asks who ever studies a dollar bill to know whose image it bears, as quoted by the Washington Star.
A witty exchange asks if acute indigestion could be caused by being forced to eat one’s own words. The remark plays on spoken missteps and self-correction as a humorous thought experiment.
A draft notes rising land values from Iowa to Canada. It cites one Iowa farm selling at 325 per acre after three years at 250 and similar gains in Illinois Indiana Wisconsin and Minnesota. Canadian lands climb due to virgin soil yields and a growing farming population seeking farms.
A father explains to his son why people say a woman “sets her bonnet for him.” The dialogue contrasts blame and fear, noting social expectations around marriage and respectability. The fragment touches on stock market chatter, advertising plugs, and old proverbs.
The report lists 21,904 deaths caused by wild beasts and snakes in 1908 India. Tigers killed 900 people, leopards 302, wolves 269, other wild animals 686, and snakes 19,738. Additionally 17,926 wild animals and 70,494 snakes were destroyed.
The excerpt blends dialogue from Smart Set style humor with lines about misfortune and a Garfield Tea claim. It references sore throat remedies and Ham Lin Wisard Oil while noting patience, pride, and ignorance with antique epigrams from Euripides and Musset.
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