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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1915
Page
3
An advertisement touts Danderine as a quick cure for dandruff and falling hair. It claims immediate shine, volume, and new hair growth after a few weeks, urging readers to buy a 25 cent bottle and try the product. The piece also includes unrelated jokes and chatter about art and weather forecasts.
Louisville woman recounts refusing a surgical operation and credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with her healing. She states improved sleep, ability to work, and overall health, urging others to seek the remedy.
The Senate received 4 chairmanships for the Republican minority as the Democratic Committee on Committees announced detailed rostered assignments. Krumbach leads Accounts and Expenditures with Spencer and Mallory among others, while Beal heads Judiciary and Kohl chairs Finance. The list includes chairmanships in Agriculture, Education, Public Institutions, Highways, Insurance, Railroads, Revenue, School Lands and Funds, and more. A separate note cites Nebraska blue sky law evaluation and proposed enhancements. Members of the state legislature were informed of honorary Society memberships and a bill to bar lawmakers from state posts will be introduced soon. House will vote on Hitchcock munitions bill with little organized opposition.
Advertising blurb touts Cascarets as a 10 cent remedy to cleanse liver stomach and bowels cure constipation indigestion biliousness and headaches. Claims include quick relief and long lasting health with children also benefiting. Also mentions a political discussion at the Marshall home and a quip about voting power.
A feature urges women to check kidney and bladder health, promoting Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a remedy. It offers sample bottles by mail from Kilmer & Co. and notes regular sizes are available in drugstores. The piece ends with a light joke about slow department store delivery.
Quote from Hoschroeder of Red River Valley lauding John A Salter Seed Co. catalogue and advice for aspiring potato growers. Describes Schroeder as a self made potato king with a level head and active hand.
Do You Know Mr Farmer there is more money in five acres of potatoes year in and year out than in anything else. The ad touts potato growing with strong yields and offers catalogs from John A. Salter Seed Co. La Crosse Wis for twenty cents, promising samples and ten famous farms catalog.
The attorney general states that no state officer should accept a fee directly. A payer must give money to the state treasurer, receive a receipt, then present it to the receiving officer. Laws allowing officers to collect fees directly are void. Leo not yet ruling on appointive officers collecting fees.
In a biennial report to the governor Hla Caton, agent in charge of the state home for dependent children, urges a $40000 appropriation to replace private boarding with an institutional home. She proposes placing the new building at Tenth and South Streets on the site of the current home, with the board of control favoring the plan.
A petition calls the attorney general to examine the 1913 maintenance bill requiring $5 per drafted bill. Hoffmeister and others reflect on past payments and lobbyist Edmondson aiding chiropractic regulation. Debates cover yardage charges at South Omaha yards, state athletic commissions, and district judge participation in supreme court affairs.
Lieutenant Governor Pearson delivered a brief address urging reforms in state government and a nonpartisan ballot. The moment followed a Douglas Senator Howell motion to hear the lieutenant governor, as the Senate had held back after the inauguration.
The message from the president of the senate and lieutenant governor praised bipartisan duty and called for an aggressive publicity bureau a first class printing office and a focus on roads, water power and rural credit. Lawmakers adopted badges. bills include repeal of capital punishment and widening election ballots.
Fragmentary diary style notes describe a visitor, a baby’s grandmother, and a quarrel over a morning intrusion. Anecdotes touch on seating in theater boxes, women’s preferences for seats, and a friend named Jinks who bluntly recounts his health.
A fragment from a southern tale recalls Eben debating theology with a Georgia pastor. The old man argues the loaves and fishes as a greatest miracle, while Eben quips that it was notable the miracle never “busted,” preserving humor over faith. The snippet also notes a wife’s remark about her husband’s occupation as a horse trader.
A reader credits quitting coffee for stopping disturbing dreams and nervousness. After trying Postum per directions, sleep improved, nerves steadied, and the writer endorses Postum as a safer drink. The ad touts Regular and Instant Postum with prices and a slogan There’s a Reason.
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