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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1921
Page
4
Fragment text references a notice from Steele City Press about a year and a half rate, with dates in 1870s style. It mentions 26, 1008 and a location in Steele City Nebraska under orders of March 1, 187V. The legibility is poor.
Church notes recount visit by Dr W H Kearns Synodical Secretary of Home Missions and a message on the need of a vision. The congregation organized a Society of Christian Endeavor with twelve active members. Next Sunday features sermons on The Promised King and Jesus the Light of the World and canvassing for the annual budget commences with ten two-person teams.
A fragmented excerpt discusses a 1647 Connecticut statute limiting tobacco use to solitary smoking. It claims no more than one person could smoke at a time and imposes witness verification for violations, cited from Ye or Bine Laws.
School notes cover lower grade crafts and rhymes for Christmas while primary pupils make gifts during Art. Third and fourth graders read Bird’s Christmas Caro and celebrate Courtesy Week with badges. Two grammar pupils receive progress pins and the civics class discusses contracts. The science class explores musical instruments and construction geometry continues with Book II circle studies.
Vachel Lindsay writes in the Dial about Mus covy and Peter the Great as a mixed figure. The passage blends mythic images with exaggerated traits and fantastical scenes of saints bones incense and a sun grabbing hand. Cossacks ride through imagined landscapes as part of a surreal meditation on Russia.
An employer informs a boy to report at six every morning signaling a chance for advancement. The exchange centers on a stable routine and a future rise in opportunity.
City officials and hundreds of admirers gathered at the station house as the five fire horses made a ceremonial retirement run. Engines 4 and 7 led the parade with Dave and Dan, Wink, Hank guiding the team as spectators watched the horses' last spectacular pulls.
Archaeologists unearthed fifteen skeletons at Wellington Hill near Eastbourne along a road widening project. An iron dagger was found with the remains, which are thought to be Hastings era warriors buried after the 1066 battle near Pevensey Bay.
The typhoid fever outbreak in Salem Ohio cost about 460000 dollars, according to the American Public Health Association. The report notes transmission through a tile pipe and iron piping contributing to spread.
The Dawgone Rooster rouses neighbors at sunrise with loud crowing and then eats green sprouts from nearby gardens. It tramples plants with strong feet, provoking widespread neighborly outrage and swearing.
A hen shown in Altoona Pennsylvania allegedly laid 360 eggs in a year. Another claim from Mrs Stover's hen reports five eggs in one day on multiple occasions with five hard shelled eggs and a soft shell among the collection.
A ten year old climbs a tack fence via an open gate after a neighbor boy bets him to try. The mistress asks why he chose the fence and he explains the dare from the other boy.
Frank Brenne shipped in a cattle car from Omaha along Hollenberg Route 1. Mr and Mrs Gov Henderson shopped in Washington Monday. Mrs Sands returned to Hanover after a week with her son Henry and family. Ed Haverty is making a seven test for W C Muller of Hanover. The Silver Cliff School closed due to a scarlet fever epidemic. Mr and Mrs John Meyer and son visited the Wolf home near Hanover. Mr and Mrs Warren Listenberger and baby from Enterprise Kansas came for a visit with R Simmons and Robt Listenberger families. Earl Thompson and family spent Sunday with his sister G E Bratten. Mr Fielder of Fairbury spent several days last week with his son Ernest. The Jolly Owl Club met Thursday with Mrs R Simmons.
Mrs. Malachy reported Monday the twin son of Mr. and Mrs. C Ashpaugh died in a Gage Oklahoma hospital from typhoid fever. Mr Ashpaugh and five other children are very sick with the fever at this writing. Anson Smith is building a garage. Now look out for the new Ford.
A Sunday morning party of 13 San Francisco Sunday school tourists in an Overland car arrived in Reno. They stayed at the Hyland hotel and toured the city hall area escorted by a reception committee. The report humorously recalls a mock chase with bears and masked Highwaymen, ends with the tourists winning a buffalo prize in Salt Lake City.
Mortgage sale set for January 5 1922 to satisfy a loan of 830 dollars by George and Golda Schmitt. Auction of a Waterloo Bay tractor with plows at the implement house of F V Lowe at two in the afternoon. Cash terms. F V Lowe E J Bennett Attorney.
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