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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1916
Page
2
An advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs with full dosing directions for babies children and adults printed on the bottle. The copy emphasizes relief and easy use.
A playful quote features Puck musing on Bella the cat and a boast about her pedigree. The line questions whether her lineage traces to Mak fese or Angoras, adding humorous mix of names.
An old notice discusses taking salts for bladder discomfort and describes kidney uric acid issues. It also notes Ecuador's Congress granting a steamship concession for a Guayaquil line, with vessels mostly Ecuadorian and service to begin within 18 months of signing.
The readable text is heavily garbled with random letters and incomplete phrases offering no clear names, places, dates, or events to summarize into a coherent news item.
A German Zeppelin is shot down by French antiaircraft fire near Brabantle Roi with likely crew fatalities. In Washington plans for federalization of the National Guard advance, proposing universal service, militia pay, no officer elections, en bloc federal drafting, militia officer training, and longer summer encampments.
Washington officials await Berlin response to the American demand for four definite assurances on submarine warfare. No new developments reported as Teutonic diplomacy lingers. Berlin's attitude on Roamn mde rerd advisces may differ from press indications that Germany will not modify its plan to sink all armed Entente merchant ships after February 29.
German publicist Maximilian Harden warns the United States and other neutrals that an Allied peace deal is near. He says Germany must disregard neutral rights in the fight for salvation and that no Stars and Stripes will shield ships in the war zone.
Reports from Gallup and Holbrook say Indian agent Leo Grane of Reams Canyon Arizona was killed by Indians last Friday. Confirmation is lacking. A friendly Indian from Keams Canyon warns the Navajo Apache and Yaqui plan to go on the warpath within three months and Mexicans would join them.
A royal proclamation calls class 1 recruits under the military service act to report before March 31. The youngest recruits are bachelors aged eighteen on August 15. It is believed most have now attained full readiness.
Nebraska Secretary of State pool weighs ballot form for primaries April 18. Some lawmakers urge old single column layout, others favor new three column general election style. State legal guidance expected to resolve conflict over primary ballot design.
Letter from Henry Lohmann of Effingham Illinois now in Willmont SaskatchewanTestimony from multiple farmers in Saskatchewan and Southern Alberta describing thriving homesteads 1915 crop yields and improved living conditions. Notable figures include Sam Morrow Jacob Goetz Horace Blake and I. H. Hooker among others with high Marquis wheat and oats yields and signs of rapid settlement.
A fragment references a competition or match where a participant described as having a "clear skin" defeats another describing themselves similarly. The text is garbled and lacks concrete details about people, places, or outcomes.
A report notes substantial new acreage entering the state tax base, potentially increasing revenues by over 1,000,000 dollars. Officials anticipate gains from the added property values as land parcels come under assessment.
A report from Nebraska lists new lands where final proofs were made at state land offices during the past year. The document, certified by State Auditor Smith, names counties for taxation this year and notes associations and individuals such as Crocker of Filley, a stockman and president of the State Gwine Breeders' association. It mentions the Winnebago Agency Indian Reservation and Santee through Governor Morehead, with financial tallies attached.
Thousands of women seek relief from ailments peculiar to women and are urged to obtain Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The temperance remedy made from roots and herbs is promoted to ease irregularities or catarrhal conditions and reduce pain, irritability, and weakness. Obtain liquid or tablet form today.
A brief courtroom exchange shows a father upset about paying income tax and another boy boasting his father owes none. The judge presides over a short, wry moment reflecting attitudes toward taxation.
An advertisement touts a hair product claiming to restore faded hair without coloring or transferring. The piece then profiles William J. Flynn, chief of the federal Secret Service, detailing his New York origins, early plumbing work, and rapid rise through interrogation and protective duties including safeguarding the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners at Portsmouth.
A quoted dispute centers on a man who asserts self made status while critics insist he is not the work of an expert. The remark triggers debate over expertise and authenticity in his achievements.
A quip about a new chair triggers a playful exchange in the home parlor. The speaker teases a nap for the carpet, noting ambition and civility in ordering daily deeds and personal ambitions.
Anuric claims rapid relief for rheumatism joints gravel gout by reducing uric acid. The ad notes swift pain and stiffness improvement with early use. Dr. Pierce is advertised with a 10c trial package and 60c full treatment, available at all druggists.
The piece notes that more women work in clothing manufacture in Pennsylvania than any other industry. It highlights the Duchess of Norfolk’s $2,500 parasol collection, 2000 Chicago election judges and clerks paid seven dollars daily, Massachusetts job losses from a minimum wage law, Priscilla Wakefield’s pioneering savings bank for children, and Margaret C Klingensmith’s fifteen year translation of Nichol as Statham's Abridgement of Law, to be published soon.
A humorous anecdote about an American settler buying an old hen and arguing with his wife over propriety and a townsman named Mr. B who planted the first corn in their town. The couple exchanges quips about aging fowl and patch farming. The narrator muses that a man can write a decent love letter yet never does.
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