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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1916
Page
2
An old advertising piece urges starting each day with a hot water and limestone phosphate drink to wash out waste from the bowels. It claims baths cleanse the body and blood, contrasting skin cleaning with internal sanitation. The text ends with a joke about a skeleton key as a remedy to a deadlock.
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a nightly cleanse for lazy liver and clogged bowels. It claims the product removes sour food and poison, leaving a clear head and sweet stomach by morning. The 10 cent box is marketed as safe and gentle with no griping.
Washington reports the central powers will regard armed merchant ships as warships after March and sink them on sight. The American note requests port officials treat armed merchants as auxiliary cruisers and issue travel warnings for Americans on belligerent ships.
Fragmentary OCR text from a Hull code book page mentions legal or regulatory language. The readable items reference law, rules, or codes without clear names, dates, or places. The item appears as a legal reference fragment lacking coherent events or identities.
Washington reports the Lusitania dispute with Germany is settled. The U S accepts a German declaration offering indemnity in place of a formal disavowal and steps to prevent future incidents. The decision followed a Tuesday conference between President Wilson and Secretary Lansing with cabinet ratification.
Secretary Lansing said he sent a dispatch through Ambassador Penfield to the Austro Hungarian government requesting an investigation and explanation of an Austrian submarine attack on the American tank steamer Petrolite. Affidavits from Petrolite crew and other sources claim the ship was halted near Alexandria in the Mediterranean, the submarine fired, wounding an engine room man, and the commander sought food from the captain.
Washington reports armor plate companies, via Senator Boies Penrose, threaten a $200 per ton price increase if Congress passes armor plate factory legislation. The Senate naval affairs committee approves the Tillman bill to authorize construction of armor with at least 20,000 tons annual capacity.
Western front reports heavy artillery duels and hand to hand fighting as German forces press in Champagne with trench gains near Tahur while French artillery responds near Massigen and Navarin. Army actions unfold amid ongoing bombardments and antiaircraft fire.
Reports say Henry Ford plans a country wide campaign of newspaper and magazine advertising to curb naval and military expenditures. Ford intends to devote millions to an educational campaign against war and preparedness, viewing it as a first step toward actual war. Details are scarce but the plan would reach all people.
United States Reclamation Service reports crop census for North Platte Nebraska Wyoming irrigation. 68 120 acres cropped producing 1 263 616 dollars in crops, average 18 55 per acre. Sugar beets lead with 7 872 acres and 537 641 dollars. 1 095 irrigated farms, up 141.
Lincoln Nebraska Federation of Nebraska Retailers Thursday afternoon passed a four resolution call for the state university to enlarge its school of commerce and establish a chair of marketing. They urge teaching shorthand and pushing rural credit legislation plus low interest rates for merchants and small business. Congressmen from Nebraska urged consideration of equal opportunity and low rates. Nebraskans honored in Washington for Shallenberger Reavis and Patterson. Lindley Garrison declares retirement from politics.
A 1700 B.C. papyrus reveals Egyptian knowledge of arithmetic, including units and fractions, with examples of division, equations, area calculations, and attempts at squaring the circle. Notes on shallow thinking and quotes on joy and memory close the piece.
An old advertisement touts a pimples cure urging tight application then hot bathing with named names and a five minute hold. A stray colonial era story features a lawyer recounting a divorce request from a far seeing enslaved man offering his many children as bargaining power.
Olver’s reading tastes appear to be improving. Pim jokes about his shift from a five-cent hair raiser to dime novels, declaring it “a hundred per cent improvement.”
Fragmentary exchange appears to show a dialogue about living beyond means with denials and a mention of Kaye. The text lacks clear context, dates, or identifiable persons to form a full article item.
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