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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1920
Page
2
A reader from Casco Wisconsin reports strong improvement after using the medicine and urges others to try it. The letter notes prior weakness followed by steady recovery and recommends the product widely, ending with a testimonial signature.
An advertisement promotes Bayer as the world famous source of Aspirin tablets with the Bayer Cross on each tablet and package. It notes safe directions for colds headaches neuralgia toothache earache rheumatism and general pain and mentions 12 tablet tins and larger packages sold by druggists. The ad underscores the Bayer trademark and historic reliability.
Shabby faded garments become new with Diamond Dyes. The ad touts guaranteed rich color for wool silk linen feathers and draperies and promises a directions book with each package. It urges consulting a Diamond Dye Color Card to match materials and notes dealer demonstrations.
Samuel Gompers announces the American Federation of Labor will oppose pending anti sedition bills in Congress. He argues the measure would violate the constitution, strip free speech and assembly, and grant autocratic press censorship while harming labor and progressive groups seeking reform.
Washington report describes radical propagandists seizing the moment to film the Declaration and Constitution parchments removed from a steel safe in the State Department. The display lasted an hour with 10,000,000 viewers urged to fear red activities nationwide.
Washington reports United States Day of prohibition began at midnight January 16 with cheers from dry workers in many cities. An estimated 70 million gallons were on hand at wartime peak, much of it in bonded warehouses, with limited release for medicinal and scientific uses under strict internal revenue controls. Enforcement centers on the Bureau of Internal Revenue and Prohibition Commissioner John F Kramer, who mobilized about 7,500 agents and a 2 million dollar fund to oversee the transition and prosecutions.
A report describes two police officers killed during a confrontation at a building in Poteet. Gunmen attacked the officers as they entered a room, shooting both. One suspect fled, another was pursued but escaped. Chief Mc Comber led the response and authorities searched for the remaining assailants.
The Mitchell corn palace, famed as the world's only theater of corn for 27 years, was sold to a local wrecking firm for 2200 and will be razed before March 1. The palace originated with a 60 by 40 frame built around 1900, costing about 15000, and plans include a $200000 auditorium next spring to host the annual corn festival.
North Dakota Supreme Court split 4 to 1 to declare house bill No 60 from the recent special session effective immediately. The measure set ten day delays for acts of special sessions, with Justice J K Robinson dissenting. About half of the seventy two laws from the session are affected.
Washington reports the public health service states there is no cause for alarm about a flu outbreak in high schools. The agency notes no serious spread domestically and no troop disruption. only a few cases abroad and limited exported concerns through January.
Aberdeen may establish a municipal band funded by a tax levy if voters approve. The plan proposes the band provide free music during the summer and fall months.
Health officials report Pant Dethene and his wife Ubeyr plus two sons and a brother died from olives linked to a shipment from California. The Health Commissioner said forty eight cases were in the East Side store supply and some had been consumed without harm before the fatal effects were traced.
The supreme council has decided on reciprocal exchange of certain commodities including foodstuffs between the Russian people and allied and neutral countries.
Washington DC Prohibition Commissioner Kremer rules that fruit juices and ciders with more than one half of 1 percent alcohol fall under dry laws. The decision marks a broad enforcement interpretation as constitutional prohibition remains in effect since January 14. Violations carry the penalties of liquor infractions.
Omata Neb February editor Vieter renewatler announces Rosewater sold his interest in the Omaha Bee to Nelson Opdike a leading grain man. Rosewater will retire in a few weeks. Price undisclosed but believed between 250 000 and 300 000 dollars.
An appeal from a coalition of nations calls for one of the era's greatest international conferences to restore order to global commerce and finance after the war. The statement arrives amid a period of unsettled markets and economic strain worldwide.
Chief of Police Meromber and Patmitman GW Rogers were shot and killed in Nick Chires poet hall by two Mexicans resisting arrest. Suspects captured after a chaotic night as community reels from the fatal shooting and related unrest across the region.
Lincoln notes outline eleventh hour proposals at the constitutional convention. A public utilities commission may replace the state railway board, with ten proposed measures on public utility questions. Delegates discuss university regents control and tax increases limited to a small percentage, amid efforts to accelerate proceedings before adjournment.
An old advertisement touts Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a universal helper for kidney and liver troubles. It promises purity with every bottle and offers two sizes in drug stores or a ten cent trial from Dr Kilmer Co in Binghamton NY.
Mrs. MAL LONDE of 5108 N 34th St Omaha reports using Dr. Pierce’s Patent Preparation since girlhood to combat nervousness and rundown conditions. She says it has consistently helped and recommends it to other women seeking tonics.
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