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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1912
Page
2
Former Governor Joseph Folk ends active campaign for the Democratic nomination after a telegram from Speaker Champ Clark agreeing to divide Missouri's delegation. Folk will close local headquarters and cease further efforts, promising to support Clark.
President Taft delays final decision on Nagel as Secretary of Commerce and Labor until late in the week. Protests grow at the White House from labor groups over Nagel perceived as lax on immigration law enforcement amid backlash to the Jim Crow decision Taft backed.
Chicago hosts the formal launch of the campaign to nominate Theodore Roosevelt by the national Republican Convention. An organization is formed to carry forward the effort with governors leading the push.
The article outlines President Taft and his cabinet scrutinizing Mexican issues, a proposed wireless telegraphy system for the Philippines, postal handling changes, and various international and domestic political matters. It notes calls to curb troop movements, potential Supreme Court appointments, and other contemporaneous events with broad, condensed summaries.
Ashland Michigan votes against adopting the commission system. Other items note an earthquake feel across Martinique, Name Alaska coal shortage near the Arctic circle, a Siberian road disaster, and the death of German Field Marshal Wilhelm von Hahnke. Bank of England discount cut to 8 percent.
The delayed Senate Journal totals 1 096 pages priced at 1 1 4 per page for a state cost of 1 249 44. The House Journal has 1 0 0 8 pages costing 1 5 6 2 4 0. A mimeograph machine cut costs by about 7 50 worth of work, saving over 5 00. The state inspectorate reports 300 plus hotels in 50 counties inspected since November with most compliant though bed sheet usage reveals misunderstandings of the ninety nine inch bed sheet law.
The office of experiment stations of the department of agriculture endorses draining 25 600 acres of swampy hay land in Holt and Rock counties to create tillable ground for corn wheat and other crops at an estimated cost of 75 685 dollars. Net annual income could reach at least 184 000 dollars if drained, with the first year profit exceeding the cost by 50 percent.
This late era bulletin lists diverse Nebraska items. Revivals in Ansley, Swift & Company ice house at Ashland at capacity. Demise of pioneer Robert B. Graham. editor Donovan funeral in Madison. hog sale in Cuming County. notable legal actions in Lincoln and Wymore. Iowa forged check case. Stanton steam plant referendum planned. Hastings College changes. two suspects in Johnson County depot robbery. Dakota City farmers institute. concerns over stallion and jack exam law. Hastings doctor Swigart case postponed. divorce filing in Beatrice. Grand Island murder found, $200 reward. Utah and Montana officials in Bankers Reserve Life probe. James Pearson files as Democrat-Populist candidate.
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