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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1922
Page
3
Advertises a private text book titled Ailments to Women from the E Pinkham Medicine Co Lynn Massachusetts. Mentions melancholia heat and withdrawal as common during this period and invites requests for the free booklet.
A foreign born gentleman in Indianapolis discusses language pitfalls amid a party. A joke about a chicken heist prompts the judge to quiz Rastus on his misdeeds and lucky numbers. The column notes lighter thoughts beyond dollars.
A War Department schedule outlines summer military training under the new U S policy. Camps will run from June 15, covering reserve officers civilian and Plattsburg style training. About 250000 civilians are expected to participate across posts and national guard sites if funds allow. Last year roughly 10000 civilian trainees and 104000 national guard participants attended.
The Association Against the Prohibition Amendment and the Anti-Saloon League clash over Representative Hill's resolution for local option on 2.75 percent beer. Leaders argue constitutionality and urge a public vote while accusing each other of motive.
Washington officials forecast a fiscal year 1923 deficit of more than 350 million dollars. The treasury says no sale of assets is planned, so additional taxation is likely. Some officials estimate the shortfall could reach half a billion dollars.
The weather bureau issued a revised forecast for the Mississippi from Vicksburg to New Orleans predicting the highest water ever recorded in the lower river. Three flood crests are noted with the first rising near Arkansas City about one and a half feet above previous records, the second between Memphis and Helena, and the third remaining above Cairo.
Day’s record river high water breaks levees inundating Jackson Union and Alexander counties. Chicago families to live in tents near the forest preserves this summer to avoid rent, announced by B A Potter manager of the Chicago Tenant's Protective league.
The House Ways and Means Committee votes 13 to 0 to favorably report the Pordney resolution authorizing a $5,000,000 loan to the republic of Liberia from the United States.
Washington reports removal of boating bureau officers from civil service to hire top grade personnel. In Schmectady four million sand bags have been shipped by railway trains to protect points along the Mississippi River.
Twenty one persons die and over a hundred are seriously injured as a wind and tornado outbreak hits Indiana Monday. Railways and roads flood, rural areas suffer most, with high flood stages and widespread property damage as relief efforts move in.
Merton L. Corey, general attorney of the Federal Land Bank of Omaha, told graduates in Lincoln Nebraska that production alone cannot assure farming success. He warned that marketing and finance are the key obstacles and that scientific soil culture alone cannot guarantee profitability without sound financial management.
San Francisco report states Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle's three manslaughter trials over Virginia Rappe's death cost more than $110,000. It notes witnesses came from Chicago and other cities, with defense attorneys not yet paid. Gavin McNab, chief counsel, explained financial terms were to wait until Arbuckle was cleared.
Two men were seriously injured and many buildings damaged when a blast for state road construction hurled hundreds of tons of rock fragments into Helper Utah. The explosion occurred on the west side of the Price river opposite Helper, involving one and a half tons of TNT.
Reports from American relief organizations say several American drivers of relief wagons in Russia were killed by the starving crowd who seized the horses for fodder in the streets, underscoring the dire conditions.
The Department of Commerce reports a rise in value of America’s foreign trade with exports totaling 332 million dollars for the month, the highest since October 1921.
Navy plans to keep the original permanent building at the Great Lakes naval training station. Chairman Kelley says 2,000 men can be trained at the old plant in Washington. Eugene Meyer discusses the farmer’s position after a national economic survey. Jim Fatlinger dies after three years of continuous sleep in Sehnatian county hospital.
At the American Federation of Labor convention delegates rejected the proposal to amalgamate all railway workers into a single entity. The move would have created a nationwide union uniting disparate labor groups under one banner.
Dynamite was used to check a fire threatening the Tomboy Mine, one of the district’s largest. Damage from the blaze is estimated at seven to ten thousand dollars.
An urgent appeal was sent to Washington requesting an emergency appropriation to combat flooding along the Mississippi river area in Arkansas. The request seeks federal funds to address wood waters threats and protect communities along the river.
More than 1,000 unburied Spanish soldiers are reported in the vicinity of Darquebdant after the position was recaptured from Moroccans. The bodies are said to be reaching Melitta, Morocco.
Excerpt from Lovers and Friends by EK. F. Berison argues flirtation is natural and widespread. The speaker notes adoration and attraction arise from personality not beauty alone, suggesting kindness helps but does not guarantee popularity.
In a derisive quotation from Henry Ford’s Dearborn Independent the text mocks a trend described as pep. It frames the movement as brash and aggressive advancing on civilization like an army with banners and collective hubris.
A reflective postcard style remark contrasts biblical pleas to remember deeds with a modern quip about suburban living and a Franklin maxim urging control of business. The sentiment links memory of acts to personal conduct and progress.
The text recalls Pius XI visiting London and Oxford in his early years, praised as a scholar and librarian of the Vatican Library. It notes Pope Leo XIII’s London familiarity, his time in the city, and an anecdote about him sitting in the House of Commons Strangers' Gallery and staying with Lord Palmerston before becoming pope.
A Negro couple faces a probation officer who calls their differing ages a case of May married to December. Eva objects, rephrasing the analogy as Labor Day joined to the Day of Rest, highlighting their age difference and weariness in labor.
The exchange frames a quip about diamonds cutting glass and touching a heart. It contrasts the notion that work saved is work earned with a witty line on reluctance to work when not compelled.
A Baltimore American anecdote describes an evening where a man and his wife notice their watches disagree with the room clock. The man quips the time reads 9 30 though his own is 9 80 blinking. The hostess shares the same time and laughs, making time-telling an awkward joke.
Government authority says vanilla bean production could become a major Mexican revenue source. Mexico allegedly leads in annual output with high growth potential, especially around Tuxpam on the gulf coast where vanilla plants flourish in tropical forests. The climber orchid requires little care beyond harvesting beans.
A lawyer agrees to defend Ras who has no money, offering his mule, chickens, and a hog as payment. The prisoner Rustus states the items he stole. The exchange appears in London’s Tite Bits.
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