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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1915
Page
3
A reader from St. Dresil Indiana endorses Perena as a wonderful remedy for grip. The letter states the tonic laxative and expectorant qualities make it the easiest remedy, recommending it to others.
A local merchant explains time to his son in a playful exchange that collapses yesterday today and tomorrow. The boy asks if today is tomorrow and the father labels the riddle as yesterday. The child’s question prompts a comical lecture on time, ending with the father sighing in relief.
A cryptic line from a Goon News segment shows a late night communication claiming to raise a real dad to hear it. The fragment hints at a domestic dispute theme and unsettled family tension.
A clipped phrase appears to contrast fate hanging by a hair with a bald prospect. The fragmentary lines hint at a dramatic dilemma or pun, but lack clear context, actors, or events to identify a specific news item or outcome.
Washington DC based board reports experiments on aluminum compounds in nutrition. The unanimous finding states alum baking powders are no more harmful to a person than other baking powders. Signed by Ira Remsen and five university professors from Johns Hopkins Yale Northwestern Penn Harvard.
A snippet shows a father and son discussing travel or conflict with the line over Europe. The mother is suggested as knowledgeable about fighting, implying a family conversation about a distant or uncertain topic.
A prominent landowner and bank president promotes Salter Seed Co offerings noting high alfalfa yields per acre and nitrogen benefits. Advertising copy urges sending twenty cents for two seed catalogs from La Crosse Wisconsin as hundreds of underground silos are being built across the western United States.
A Welch Arkansas resident testifies Swamp Root cured kidney and bladder trouble after using about ten dollars worth. The statement dated 1908 notes prior illness left him unable to work, then regained ability and urges readers to request a sample.
Want Normal Board Abotioned Former State Treasurer W A George ex member of the State normal board and State Superintendent A O Thomas now serving as a member joined in recommending to the house committee on education that the board be abolished and its duties and authority transfered to the regents of the state university. Unification of the states school system duplication removal and freeing schools from political influence were the main points. Railway Commissioner T L Hall drafted a bill to prevent duplicate public utilities in a community unless a certificate of public convenience and necessity is issued, extending to telephone lines street railways electric power water gas and heat.
The Chambers bill proposes a 1 mill levy from 1915 to 1918 to fund a new capitol, with funds overseen by the board of control and no site change. A separate senate bill makes warehousing optional for operators, with set storage rates and bonds. The House vetoes the sterilization bill citing executive displeasure. General elections would run 8 AM to 8 PM under Representative Smith’s plan to unify election hours. John C. Holmes is named special deputy for Game and Fish. The Gates liquor sale bill passes in Senate. Rations for old soldiers at Grand Island cottages receive committee approval. Deputy AG Morrissey becomes supreme court chief justice.
A movement to supply county assessors and the state equalization board with fuller land transfer data received momentum from Fuller of Seward. A bill in the lower house would require registers of deeds and county clerks to forward this information to tax officials when transfers are filed, including tract acreage and average land value.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapersin as a quick harmless remedy for dyspepsia indigestion gas and heartburn. The copy promises rapid relief within minutes and markets a fifty cent case as worth many times its value for stomach regulation and comfort.
A J Drexel writes of British army trench warfare from Switzerland to the sea. He recalls hard labor as soldiers dig long trenches and an incident where a young soldier rests his shovel to light a pipe, answering the sergeant that it is to cool the shovel.
An old home remedy touts Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as restoring natural hair color and gloss. The ad claims the mixture darkens gray hair naturally in one or two applications, helps with dandruff and itchy scalp, and is a common drugstore purchase for about 50 cents.
A proposed bill by Representative Dalby of Gage county would shift automobile registration duties from the secretary of state to the state board of irrigation highways and drainage. Fees include 2 for motorcycles 3 for autos 5 for commercial vehicles and 5 for manufacturers or dealers. Part of the fees would fund county road work with the rest directed to a state road fund. The proposal also mentions a separate interstate oil pipeline project Casper Wyoming to Omaha with a 10 000 000 gallon daily capacity and coordinated state talks for its feasibility. Senator Radford of Douglas county pushes the plan with Governor appointed business leaders from both states to study implementation.
At a New York peace gathering, David Starr Jordan cited a colonial tale about an African king offering all 300 women to a white explorer to illustrate the dangers of overemphasis on arming for war. The passage prompts reflection on ambition and labor as paths to excellence, with quips about a son leaving a small town for a larger field.
A fragment from the Princeton Tiger notes a question on musical temperament and a claim that TP was born in A flat. The passage muses on self perception and how others might view us, calling it a charming collection of pessimist thoughts.
County superintendents and State Superintendent A O Thomas approve a rural education platform, aim to hold meetings in all 7,000 districts, elect delegates for a mass gathering next year to advance rural schools and teacher training statewide. A $200,000 plan to build a convict labor packing plant in Dodge, Stanton or Cuming counties is proposed to replace a reform school project and supply state institutions.
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