23 Dec 1910
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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1910
Page
1
Santa Claus Headquarters offers a large stock of general merchandise with many items suitable for holiday gifts at affordable prices. C. I. Clark invites customers to visit before buying gifts elsewhere.
Market notes list prices for butter apple jam and general groceries with brief quantities and figures. A mix of product listings and price references including wheat corn and other staples.
Local items note Christmas wishes and school vacation. farm activity includes E Hamley barn completion and Art Hamley shipping porkers to St Joe. Visits and travel feature Geo Vinton, Ed Hicks, Crink Law, J P Reynolds, Roderick family, Myrtle Kelley sending Press to Ethel Miller, and memorial service attendance.
A mix of local items from Steele City notes includes a light hearted snow poem, farm land prices at 40 per acre, and various village updates. Ernest Ellermeier quits school to join Steele City schooling after holidays. Land details list 160 acres 24 miles out with 100 acres cultivated and rest pastured. Christmas programs at three churches are announced with Ferris wheel and trees.
A clipped note mentions overshoes with fragmented text repeating the phrase a mip indes eA she aE a.
A holiday promotions note encourages early Christmas shopping with a wide range of high quality gifts. It features a 25 year silverware collection including knives forks spoons butter knives soup and cream sets berry spoons and child’s sets. The ad urges readers to view the stock before it sells out.
A catalog style list includes pocket knives razors watches clocks shears knife and forks carving sets nail clippers hair clippers butcher knives coffee percolators lad irons tea kettles meat choppers kitchen saws rifles shotguns revolvers footballs baseballs base ball bats steel ranges heating stoves oil heaters hammers saws axes levels planes braces sewing machines 1 minute washers wringers wash boilers
The week brings illness of a child to the Brackens, visits from the Quinns, and relatives traveling to Wichita for Christmas. Public sales, church visits, and social gatherings mark the area, with Roberss' sale near the first of January and a Wrights Hall party for young men and ladies. Local commerce notes praise for modernized shops, a mink trapping note, and Christmas trade reports. a newborn in Hollenberg. and Rhode Island Red roosters for sale.
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