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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1919
Page
4
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Alonzo J. Coons, resident of Steele City since 1904, died at his son Harry Coons home aged 76 years 2 months 19 days. Born in Marion County Ohio in 1843 he served in the Civil War with the 154th Illinois Infantry. He married Malissa Snyder and had two children one dying in infancy with Harry living. He leaves one brother M H Coons of Steele City. Funeral at his son's home conducted by Rev T C Priestly with music by local quartet and interment in Steele City cemetery.
Charley Weiss and family spent Sunday at the Frank Price home. Mr and Mrs Charley Compton visited Mr and Mrs Will Kelley on Sunday in Rocky Hollow.
A hard rain hit last Wednesday night followed by heavy snowfall Thursday and Friday. Minnie and Rosa Malady visited Mrs. Orville Belding Saturday afternoon. Cap Fairchilds family visited Mr. and Mrs. Russel Shoebotham Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Belding and family spent Sunday at John Malady’s. Rural mailman John Allen missed routes Thursday to Saturday. Eiva Anderson stayed with Mrs. Orville Belding the past week. Mrs. Will Compton made a business trip to Beatrice Wednesday.
Mr. Gassar lost a cow Saturday. Carl Ames and family were Washington callers Thursday. A trained nurse from Omaha came Friday to care for Mr. Cassell. Ray Cassell and family and Mrs. Frank Rathbun have been sick with flu. Misses Mary Decker and Neilie Birdsley visited Bernice Haverty Thursday afternoon. About 30 gathered at Joe Alexa’s home Tuesday evening for birthday celebration with music dancing and refreshments. Mr. Geo. Mowry is on the sick list. A daughter was born Feb 16 to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Lemon. Miss Arlie Howland is visiting her sister Ida at Hanover. Loyal Eles, Joe Alexa, and Merle Fielder are all ill with fever.
Families near Washington sent Ray Cassell homeward after nursing him through influenza as Mrs. Bert James and her brother Carl Kling traveled back to their home following a brief visit with the A. B. James family.
Enville France on Christmas Day 1918 describes a large turkey dinner for twenty billets, gifts totaling 40 francs, and treats for locals. The writer recalls arriving in Liverpool and Southampton, then routes through La Harve Eu and Can troxiville hospital with malaria fever, later joining a unit in Alsace Lorraine and advancing to the Argonne Forest. The letter ends with rough combat recollections and weary terrain.
Pvt LeRoy Haverty recalls serving with Co G 35th Division in World War I. He describes trench duties at Verdun, a No Man's Land patrol, a heel wound, and brief eight day front action before moving toward Metz. He notes the armistice celebration and postwar billets in France before hoping to return to the United States.
In this excerpt the Hebrides residents endure no wind and rain with fire, live under "black houses" built from moor stones and seas timber. These structures, though seen as primitive, reveal a long laborious system of farming on stony, peat and clay soils.
A claim surfaces that Mrs Capron, wife of a British lieutenant, conceived movable tanks long before official records show. With Capt Paterson’s aid she details dates and steps, meeting officials and war office debates, and is said to have drawn plans and prototypes. Lloyd George reportedly examining the claim.
The German press discusses Collulon a wood pulp fiber claimed as a substitute for jute and cotton with reports noting it is not spun from long paper strips but produced directly from wood pulp. The British consul general at Zurich reports authorities describe a process resembling artificial alk manufacture using pressing and squeezing methods.
A brief ad notes that a cold costs a man time and money, recommends Chamberlains Cough Remedy to shorten a cold in about ten days with proper care, and touts a bottle from Taylor's Pharmacy as a good winter purchase.
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