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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1926
Page
3
A Kentucky clubwoman recounts aiming to speak in Lexington. She missed the last train, paid a boy to tell the conductor to hold for the President. The conductor, embarrassed, learns she is the clubwoman who was to speak.
The readable lines hint at a discussion of Ford resolutions and editorial notes in Cincinnati. Specific names, dates, or events are not clearly identifiable in the damaged fragment.
Parts of the state cut for busier Norfolk street lighting. The Y M C A convention set for Fremont on April 28 29. Knox county division to voters next election. 1926 state golf at Omaha Field Club August 22. Wymore crowns youngest mayor elect Norris 24. Swedish consul Edquist dies in Omaha. Bridgeport club leases fair grounds for 25 years to build a golf course. Nebraska highway spendings last year 2 000 000 versus 3 500 000 for pen roads. Cream trade at Bridgeport 40 000 pounds yearly. Northwestern depot burned at Houston fire. Bayard to host six week summer school. North Platte high school wins western district debate. Gresham girls state basketball champions. Planting fruit trees not too late. Arbor Day April 22 observance planned. Nebraska geologists meet at UNL June 14. Excerpt on Interstate Commerce Commission brief. Cattle tested March 53 734 in 4 001 herds. 2 000 000 trees planned for National forest reserve at Halsey. Partridge propagation trial planned. Two bandits rob Hinky Iinky store in Omaha. Waco man injured in farm accident. Brune Valley press association formed at Ulysses. Rough fish removed from lakes. Nebraska gasoline tax about 5 50 per car last year. State total 2 198 902. Merwins observe wedding anniversary in Beatrice.
Two letters from Mrs Shoup of May View Illinois and Mrs Storms of Lane Street Paterson New Jersey praise Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. They describe improved strength and happiness after using the medicine and note it helped them regain energy for household duties.
In a Philadelphia Inquirer reminiscence, a dog covered with Continental dollars led a parade through Chestnut Street as the city marked currency history. Five days later Robert Morris proposed a permanent bank to replace the Pennsylvania Bank while the Continental era included funded rations for Washington’s troops and rum purchases.
Washington hearings reveal Gen Lin Day Andrews denies seeking Volstead change while endorsing beer with limits to aid enforcement. Senators Sheppard and Bruce press on enforcement gaps as 172,000 stills cited and moonshine scale questioned.
In a 45 to 41 roll call the Iowa Senate unseated Wildman Hrock Hart and declared Capt. Dan F Steck the senator from Iowa. Steck, a World War veteran and Democrat, was sworn in five minutes after the vote, becoming the 61st Democrat to hold the seat since the Civil War.
An elderly woodsman, back from a fishing trip, laments diminishing wild places in the North woods. He warns that without traffic cops at trail intersections he will avoid dangerous, wild spots, noting only geese berries and a felter’s pipe stem seen during his absence.
A distressed exchange reveals Mr Lislé suffering a split ting headache as Mrs Lisse resists visitors. She quips that she cannot show them out but invites him to “show yourself at the piano.”
An advertisement touts Diamond Dyes as a 15 cent kit to tint or dye fabrics including wool silk linen cotton and blends. It instructs readers to tell their druggist material type and promises permanent color for garments draperies and accessories.
The House passed a bill authorizing a federal road aid appropriation of 83.5 million dollars to states for the 1928 program.
Mrs Luther Burbank of Santa Rosa California has been named to the Superior court as special executrix of the estate of her husband the noted horticulturist. The estate is valued at about $200000 and was willed to the widow.
George Solomon, seventy three, was given life imprisonment for the murder of his wife in Slaws City Iowa.
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