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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1908
Page
8
An editorial extract from London urges women to rest adequately and avoid late hours. It advises maintaining calmness after delays, avoiding frantic nerves, and sustaining beauty and health. The piece contrasts with Chicago poverty, noting a family’s wealth abroad while Chicago faces hunger.
Police discovered a man dead from exposure and starvation in Desplaines Street after being picked up by officers. Nearby a family was found in a hay stack along the canal bank half-clad and without food, the father unconscious and delirious, as lawyers read a letter from Lord Curzon in Judge Eberhardt's court detailing estate overpayments and fiscal concerns involving the English nobleman and American charity.
The excerpt reflects on two gold en days in a week when worry is banned yesterday and tomorrow. It cherishes memories of the past while entrusting its events to God and focusing on present peace through faith and acceptance.
The Boston Courier argues the Panama canal will yield profits or, at least, immense value as a world travel highway. It cites Suez receipts of over 24 million dollars last year, with more than three-fifths as profit, and asserts the canal will become a major revenue source for the government.
The statistical year book shows Germany's population at 63,017,000 with an annual increase near a million. Many have migrated to Austria, South America, and the United States, easing internal pressures and shaping impressions of German character abroad. Modern emigration prevents wars more than diplomacy, per the New York Times.
An Illinois inventor unveils a compact pliable leather pocket savings bank. Unlike older metal models, this version uses leather with a small metal coin slit, making it lightweight and easily carried in a pocket. The invention aims to overcome bulk and weight issues of earlier coin banks.
The text describes an inverted pan shaped cooking apparatus with a two part iron holder, a perforated top, hinged door, and a vacuum insulated cooker that rests on a steel rim. It also covers a folding duck decoy system with a float keel that collapses into three hinged sections for compact transport.
A fragment notes a new economical apparatus for gas stove use and cooking in a keg. It claims wireless telegraphy remains partly wired and fireless cookery is not fully achieved. The latter system uses little initial fire to begin cooking on coal or gas stoves, then continues in a fireless form.
A farmer remarks he would rather drive twenty five miles than write a letter while a nurse explains the infant’s missing leg is doubled under him. The exchange appears in Puck magazine with a wry tone about storks.
The article describes a two stage betrothal process where lovers meet at fairs and families hire a marriage broker or holy man to assess social position and organize the match. The broker is honored at both households and is paid with a dowry commission plus a pair of top boots and a top hat after the January first Thursday ceremony.
The text discusses ouster actions against public and private officers, interstate commerce rebates, and a Desha Levee District hog destruction law. It cites Re Le Bosquet v Myers, United States v Delaware, Lackawanna and Western, and Rosa v Desha Levee Board, noting police power and emergency justifications. It ends with a proverb on appearances.
A collection of verse and prose fragments from anonymous and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It includes a reflective poem on love and wealth contrasting Mrs Lofty with a humble beloved, and an embedded dramatic scene about an enslaved boy in the Dismal Swamp with vivid imagery of danger and longing for liberty.
A Liverpool Mercury writer recalls visiting an asylum linked party. He notes a man with a hunted look at the dance, then falls for a handsome host while the host interrupts with a sharp line about having no time to spare. The Houston Post underlines a joke about laziness posing as hardship.
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