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20 Dec 1912
Page 1
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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
1
Readable fragments show a local notice or brief item from a newspaper page. The text is fragmented but includes names and place references and hints at a community event or listing. Specifics are unclear due to damaged OCR.
Steele City columns recap social calls visits and shop changes. Mr and Mrs P Lows and others attend church events while Grandmother Taylor suffers a serious leg injury. Rube Farhart buys the barber shop again as local trades update and the M E church basement project advances with cement blocks and a new furnace.
Dr. David F. Atwater, Yale Class of 1829, recalls Yale in 1844 29 when field sports were rare and gymnasia primitive. He notes Major Pully as college leader, Debating societies Linonia Brothers in Unity Calliope, and limited amusements. Transportation depended on stagecoach and railways had not yet arrived.
The passage describes Possum Paradise in Loris as a source of opossums for entertaining President Taft and supplying markets in Baltimore for delicacies. It mentions hunting by visitors from North Carolina and references Delmonico and St. Regis as famed destinations, with comparisons to ducks and terrapins and notes on the opossum’s diet of chickens.
Three Sunday classes of the Maxehurch held meetings Friday evening and at the homes of Mrs. S. S. Babeoth Miss Myrtie Reiley and Mrs. G. Re Cunningham. They discussed securing entertainment for the first of the year and held social gatherings. Maude Kendall, a well known resident, may participate.
The R N A lodge met Tuesday evening and elected officers for the coming year. Named were Oracle Willey P O Bessie Rucker V O Mrs Caliender Chancellor Mrs Edith Brown Recorder Rose Taylor Receiver Mrs Bracken O 8 Mrs Pearson Rose Barber Marshsj Mrs A Crinkian Maneper Sire E Wilson Physician J S Ta Installing Officers G Wallace.
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