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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1921
Page
2
A fragment describes a range of conditions affecting women in middle age including spots before the eyes and nervousness. It suggests that such symptoms are common and implies a broader discussion of woman’s life stages and health concerns.
Numerous Nebraska items reflect local politics and incidents: Blair to vote March 3 on a municipal ice plant. Pierce County resident William Roth dies after fifty years of residence. Wood Lake forms a fifty member community club. Hall and Thayer counties report oil leases, farm bureau activity, and smallpox concerns. Morrill school bond approved. fires destroy Thurston building. and various civic efforts from pool halls to electric plants advance.
A boy brings bizarre local gossip about Aleck and a mule at a livery stable. The tale highlights a straw tickling a mule, the woman’s alarm, and a forgotten stable scene. The item blends odd street chatter with a note on Red Cross Ball Soap and a Scots slang origin for gob and gobbie referencing coastguard yarns.
Senate amendment to an appropriation bill would authorize the secretary of the treasury to buy 100.5 million dollars of Farm Loan Bank bonds by June 1922 enabling more farm loans. The move adds strain amid Irish deadlock and broader government troubles. Rail executives discuss wage-cut conferences with unions as a national wage reduction is not favored by the associations.
The Times editorial says an Irish deadlock has become a world problem. It notes Irish in the British dominions present an Irish question for all governments and cites 150000,000 Trikhmen in the United States as shaping American political questions. It questions British policy for rallying Irish worldwide and fueling daily animosity toward Britain.
Washington reporters record a joint session of Congress declaring W G Harding for president and Calvin Coolidge for vice president after formal canvass of electoral votes. The tally matches the public result, 404 for Harding Coolidge and 127 for Cox Speake.
Senate Republicans plan to move the $1 a day cash bonus for home service and $1.25 daily overseas pay before Congress ends March 4. The House approved the measure last session but an authorization only is sought, with options including cash, land settlement, training, or insurance certificates. Senator Penrose will convene the finance committee for a favorable report.
Reports describe a Gardner settlement tornado near Oconee County Georgia that killed two white residents and nearly thirty Black individuals, injuring five whites and many Blacks. The cyclone leveled structures for miles, with hundred of acres devastated and no standing buildings or trees.
May remove the League of Nations seat from Geneva to Paris after Switzer land refusals to permit the Vilna army to traverse Swiss soil were cited as a pretext. The real cause cited by critics is that Geneva is costly and under German influence. Immigration Bill is Favored. Washington favors tighter immigration limits with an emergency measure approved by the Senate immigration committee as a substitute for the House bill. It would take effect April 2 and last until June.
Secretary Baker orders complete cessation of army recruiting following a joint congressional resolution vetoed by President Wilson. New York grand jury indicts 21 corporations and 56 individuals in a mass building materials case under state and trust laws. Ireland relief reports show over 200000 people affected and losses up to 500 million dollars. Southern Republicans press for a southern cabinet member in President-elect Harding’s administration.
The Bwice federal council refuses cross country transit for League of Nations troops to Vilna to keep order during the plebiscite. It asserts no need for international troops to cross Hwitzerland and warns that tensions between Poland and Lithuania could lead to armed conflict, risking Bwies neutrality.
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