06 Dec 1912
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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1912
Page
1
A fragment lists various cold weather items including slippers hats mittens scarves scarves pins and clasps, handkerchiefs, shoes, coats, overshoes, and perfumes. The sequence hints at a catalog or sale notice with no full sentences or clear event context.
C R Bracken lists a new feed grinder ready for use in Steele City. John Hoett reports sighting the postmaster riding a crosscut saw up the hill in the east part of town Saturday. Rev Heylio of Crete will preach at the Congregational church Sunday morning and evening.
W C Lambert of Endicott in town yesterday Art Hamley business visit at Pairbury Tuesday morning Mail sacks for rural routes close at 6 p.m. Mrs PF W Lowe spent Sunday with relatives in Davenport Chester Manney loses a horse C C Andrews trips in corn car Born to Mr and Mrs Geo Pield er of Hollenberg a daughter Friday Dec 1 Preparations for Christmas programs at the Congregational and M E churches Royal Neighbors meet with Diller group M E church Thanksgiving program at Wesleyan University Miss Gertrude Andrews home for Thanksgiving village board meets Ladies Aid oyster supper Dec New Year supper at Wrights hall Christmas programs in progress Ball game planned at Steele City school Saturday afternoon Home Talent Entertainment Company member Miss May Palmer returns to Yankton Volunteers for rural carriers meet in Fairbury electing VP and seeking $300 per day expense pay.
The Odel Boosters club visited the city Tuesday. J B Lewis from Washington came Saturday. Solon Townsend, working at Fairbury, visited Sunday. Sunflower Beauties beat Hanover 21 to 10 on Saturday November 23. Mrs. Cora Martin and Mrs. Duene rode to Hanover Saturday. Paton Dunn and wife of Beatrice visited Sunday. Teachers association and basketball game attended in Hanover Saturday. Mrs. Wm Elliston of Seibert Colorado visiting Mrs. Martin of this place.
The Journal of the American Medical Association notes how imagination often lights paths to discovery in chemistry and medicine. It cites Lavoisier and Harvey as early examples where ideas, once metaphorical, became scientific fact through later advances.
A hotel cleaner discarded a glittering item believed to be glass. A housemaid later found the diamond in the cleaner’s pocket and kept it, while the night manager investigated a lost gem case at a New York hotel.
The passage explores memory as a charm that makes past places and moments feel both intimate and remote. It notes how recalling rooms and landscapes can feel more real than present senses, with glow arising from firelight rain and the soft light at dusk, echoing Tennyson’s lotus land as a land of reminiscence.
General Daniel Sickles narrates a South American war tale about a captain repeatedly claiming sickness to dodge battles. The tale ends with the hospital boy overhearing plans for a major fight and the captain preparing to “walk again.”
Miss Ella Wells of Endicott, a former Steele City teacher, visited Thanksgiving and over Sunday with Miss Comstock and Mr. and Mrs. A T Phelps. Diller voters go to the polls December 23 to decide on issuing $5 000 more bonds to finish the water system.
O R Jones, defeated Republican Progressive nominee for county assessor, files petition in county court seeking a recount after a 1 vote loss to J C Bartel on November 5. Jones alleges fraudulent counting with Hinshaw and Hartigan named to represent Bartel. Case set to proceed in about three weeks.
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