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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1915
Page
3
The fragment presents a terse exchange where a widow urges a bashful youth to swallow sand as a medicinal or functional remedy. The line suggests a peculiar, perhaps symbolic, coping gesture within a constrained social scene.
An advertisement urges 83 year old readers to treat pimples rashes ringworm and eczema with Resinol ointment and Resinol soap. It claims quick clear healthy skin at a trifling cost and notes physicians have prescribed them for twenty years. It also touts sunburn relief and urges purchase from the nearest druggist.
Blind from birth Ole H Flow of Pierce has passed the state bar examination before the supreme court. A native of South Dakota Flow memorized Blackstone by readings with his sister and wrote answers with a typewriter as questions were read by a court stenographer.
A Buffalo Express excerpt notes a town reception for a declared sane killer from a past murder, while a Boston Transcript line mocks travel messes and a clumsy fiancé. The text closes with a social jab about comparing salaries and value to a boss.
An advertisement recounts a family coffee habit and heart trouble linked to coffee. It promotes Postum Cereal and Instant Postum as safer beverages from Postum Co Battle Creek, with prices 15c 25c and 20c 60c per tin and urging readers there is a reason for Postum.
Nebraska news ranges from Beatrice rainfall 29.01 inches and Havelock picnic at Electric Park on August 17 to a Lincoln hospital fatality from a month-old auto crash. Notes include U S marshal appointment, free legal aid policy, Eagle’s Hall fire loss, Desert the trotting ostrich act at the state fair, Beaver Crossing planning a community center, and Grandm a Graves injured. Also reports minors tobacco law, infant nose injury, new Nebraska Food and Dairy Journal, Lincoln high school rural pupil influx, gas prices rising at Diller, typhoid death, extensive skin grafts for Emma Kerpel, Platte Center drowning, sugar beet land options near Bridgeport, Beatrice movie-house tampering, Fremont school closure for state fair, and the G A R rise.
The Nebraska Railway Commission, by a unanimous vote of H. T. Clarke T. L. Hall and H. G. Taylor, rejects Attorney General Willis B. Reed’s opinion and adopts Judge Hastings’s view that the legislature may impose duties on the commission to enforce the grain warehouse law. The panel plans to proceed without other state officers, unless needed. Nebraska’s 1915 assessment roll shows a net $10.1 million rise from 1914, with total property valuation at $480.8 million one fifth actual value, eight four counties up and nine down. Banks and trust companies pay $1.5 million more. Grain stocks on farms are larger, boosting valuations.
Nebraska's state board of assessment reduced the state levy by one mill due to a near ten million dollar rise in assessed property value. The total state levy drops from 7.8 to 6.8 mills, with the general fund down from 5 to 4.1 mills and the state aid bridge levy from .2 to .1 mill. There's no change for the University levy of one mill, the university's three quarters of a mill, the building fund, or the state normal schools levy at .85 mill.
State Morals warns the food commission may close if State Treasurer Hall does not relent on bill payments based on a non existent appropriation. The alternative is to fight in supreme court or use collected fees to cover expenses. A 1911 farm name registration law remains underused by owners. Nebraska factory output last year totaled 200 million dollars with 150 million spent on raw materials and 50 million fueling labor and local costs.
The four main front line dairy breeds in the country are Holstein Jersey Ayrshire and Guernsey. Choose a sire from one breed and keep within it. Look for stamina bodily vigor and large milk veins with well spaced teats on the underline. Favor ancestral dam performance and multiple strong sires in the same breed for rapid sustained improvement across generations.
A line notes that many men reach a life phase when most of their money goes to supporting a race horse. The claim reflects common social humor about racing debts and priorities among bettors and owners.
An advertisement touts Cuticura soap and ointment as superior skin cleansers and healers. It claims a one night treatment improves red rough and chapped hands and offers free samples by mail. Also notes 72 men enlisted from a French family for the European war.
A Kansas City Journal item quotes a senator advising against government service, saying it ruins a young man and noting he has promised the position to his son. The remark emphasizes personal career considerations over public service.
An expert is defined as a fellow who tells others how to do the things he can't do himself. The speaker notes it is better to quarrel over trifles than over something of real importance. The text references Sweden and mentions kerosene and gasoline.
An historical advertorial fragment promotes Castoria as a health remedy for infants and children. It attributes safer outcomes and reduced mortality to Castoria, citing a signature by Chas. H. Fletcher and claims of blood circulation and fever reduction, typical of 19th century patent medicine language.
A dentist Dr. Bradbury suggests a cheap horn substitute made from wheat flour and sodium silicate. The mixture forms a hard hornlike substance after three weeks and can be dyed to imitate various horn materials. It can be molded before setting and machined like brass after curing.
The guide explains laying gutters with a slight fall, 4 to 6 inches deep and 15 to 18 inches wide, and spacing from gutter to stall about 4 ft 6 in for ordinary cows. Large cows need 4 ft 10 in or 6 ft, small beifers 4 ft. floors slope to gutters from both sides. Passage behind cows at least 8 ft wide. finish with a wooden trowel to avoid slippery surfaces when wet. Drains must be installed before the floor.
Farmers in San Joaquin County California organize to test dairy cows and cull unprofitable animals. Warm Adviser Lyons leads the effort saying 20 to 26 percent of cows in average herds may not pay for their keep and should be sold for beef to save costs.
Milkers advised to rub a small amount of vaseline on hands to aid milking when dry. The note argues the practice is not filthy since it wets the teats only lightly and has a beneficial effect on milking efficiency.
The note asserts that no single dairy breed dominates the best cows as many breed associations have developed strong stock across varieties. It emphasizes that all dairy breeds now offer excellent cattle.
Comical exchanges compare mates to birds while women at the Philadelphia arsenal seek a 25 percent pay raise. The speaker jokes that a woman's pleasures bring heartaches and that many so called wise sayings are shallow.
Consul Frank Deedmeyer reports extensive mussel mud deposits around Prince Edward Island that form a rich fertilizer when dredged from bays. The mud layers, five to twenty five feet deep, include shells and provide phosphates and alkalites, improving even exhausted soils.
In Carmargo Oklahoma a dog owned by Mr Storey a Sup ply section foreman travels on two legs after losing two legs in a train accident months ago. The dog walks and runs on two legs all on one side and navigates as well as a four legged dog.
An Australian cattleman controls 38 800 000 acres of ranch land about the size of Pennsylvania and draws comparisons to a captain of industry or land baron as a fitting title for his immense domain.
Before placing soil in window boxes whitewash the interior to prevent rot and deter insects. This simple prep preserves the wood and keeps boxes lasting longer.
The drive to form a separate international union for bartenders was voted down at the convention in San Francisco.
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