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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1909
Page
8
The New York Tribune and Chicago Journal weigh Cuban debt limits and the legality of lottery revenues. They advise Cuba to limit expenditures to income and urge suffrage efforts target women rather than public affairs. News reflects debates on finance and social reforms of the era.
The article argues women require practical guidance beyond suffrage. It cites Mrs Eilen Henrotin urging ordinary housewives and wageworker wives to curb waste, manage food, and pursue tenement cooking classes as essential social progress. It rejects the idea that voting alone equals progress and calls for practical empowerment.
Brooklyn Life asks soberly whether revival waves like Boston’s are good for religion and seek statistics on their lasting impact. It questions if converts are lasting, notes Boston’s purge claim, and asks for data on revival outcomes for Brooklyn’s anticipated future revival.
A New York Press warning describes immeasurable danger if lock failures occur on the Panama Canal system. It warns that a collapse at Catia or other locks could unleash unstoppable floodwaters, erasing the Isthmus and reshaping the oceans, a calamity rivaling ancient floods.
A thin young man confides to a cigar dealer about attempting to quit smoking. He describes reducing his daily cigars after meals and once at supper, then easing off further, while facing peers’ questions and social pressure. The dealer commends the effort and notes progress.
A terse remark compares habits and self control, noting frustration with argument and excess. The line signals a snappy editorial tone about restraint and social behavior without specific events or names.
The excerpt surveys butterfly breeding in England and France, counts medical school enrollments in France, notes the completion of the first transcontinental railroad near Ogden, Utah, and reports on Mongolian mineral wealth and a proposed Chinese joint stock mining venture. It mentions a shift in meningitis cases in France, the potential of early antimeningococcal serum treatment, observations of earth shine on the moon with photographs from Juvisy, and Brittany folklore about korrigans in sacred circles.
A long excerpt describes diverse egg uses from health remedies to kitchen tips. It covers albumen water, treating burns with egg white, cough relief, bowel coating, tips for taking raw eggs, jelly covers, pie crust glazing, and preparing eggs for invalids, plus a Bayonne recorder anecdote.
A collage of asides covers demographics and history from Rhode Island’s name origin to wartime suffrage, Manchuria products, Priceless portraits, and a Swiss water maker’s tabloid watch. It mentions Mrs. McCosh’s ninety second birthday, Mrs. Chapman Catt predicting suffrage, and exploration of the Athabasca Mackenzie region with musk ox and bison.
A Wall Street office posted a sign asking not to whistle but messenger boys asked when the concert would start and how much for a ticket. The sign was removed after two days and replaced with a terse notice reading Don’t whistle.
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