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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1910
Page
7
A long OCR fragment outlines a raisin roll cake recipe with lemon flavoring and boiling water, plus a beef and raisin dish, meat rolls, pumpkin pie, chicken soup with rice, and kitchen tips. It includes baking steps, ingredients, and methods for preserving color, flavor, and ease of cleanup.
The 20 year old Harry and 18 year old Isabella Allen, taken from Grand Island in 1897 after their father Silas Allen died, remain missing to their Oklahoma-based mother. The Nebraska Children's Home Society guards their whereabouts, with the superintendent refusing to reveal their location. Authorities urge the children to write their own address to U Box 98 Omaha Nebraska to aid the mother.
A collage of figures on corn value 1908 and lobster imports, plus medical ad blurbs for Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets and Hall’s Catarrh Cure. Mentions national canal traffic drop and a Swiss airship station project with a 700 000 franc house. Various misspelled names and legal phrases appear throughout.
A report claims about one million Egyptians cannot read or write. The statistic highlights widespread illiteracy amid education concerns in the country.
The article touts Central Canada comprising Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta as a land of high farming potential. It notes yields from 20 to 300 bushels per acre for wheat and 40 to 60 for oats, with reports of 100 bushels of oats and 40 to 50 bushels of wheat per acre. It describes railways schools churches towns and rapid growth along major lines like the Grand Trunk Pacific and urges readers to consider homesteads and investments to join the farming expansion.
In Ottawa court a prisoner yawned loudly during sentencing provoking outrage from the judge who added a month to the term. A Toronto paper mused that actors and clergymen may avoid such police power. The text also notes gardeners using electric lights at night to boost crop sizes, with cucumbers up 17 percent beets 30 percent and carrots 60 percent.
A countywide tally from rural carriers shows an average of 115 one cent coins per week per carrier. Extrapolated to all routes nationwide, this implies about 300 million pennies in circulation from patrons depositing for stamp purchases. A dated 1909 promotion notes Cuticura remedies for eczema with patient testimonials.
Johns Hopkins professor and Waterways Commission traffic expert in Europe argues U S rail cars are larger and cost effective, while continental services use smaller cars. He says German rates are higher, but large U S cars reduce unit costs, enabling high wages and low production costs. He warns continental sameness would suffocate big American firms.
A New York Telegram item recounts a prospector en route to Salt Lake City who had a tooth pulled by a mule rider using a string. The man rode five hundred miles to get the tooth removed and joked about lacking a string before starting.
A fragmented verse reminiscence describes a riverbank walk with intimate talk and a joking promise about a gift. The text blends regional spellings and stray lines, referencing a cautious romance, a future harvest, and a superstition about a gift knife.
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