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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1913
Page
3
A guest explains she cooks ham by the Jefferson family recipe handed down through generations. The ham simmers for about two hours but must not boil. A young colored woman from the mountains tends the stove and jokes that the ham is not to boil as she says it is simply simmering.
For Aching Perspiring Feet use Tyree's Antiseptic Powder sprinkled into shoes or used in solution. Never fails to relieve. 25 cents at all druggists or sample sent free by Tyree Washington DC. Also a motivational ad line and a light quotation about effort and warmth in the hot spell.
A cartoonish tale from Popular Magazine recounts President Taft declining a favor for a friend of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson. Taft’s note reads I cannot do anything today but on the reverse he adds I gave the fellow the job yesterday. The piece also includes a light humor exchange about a grandmother and a boy’s swimming.
A playful exchange from Pearson's Weekly shows Bertie telling a listener to hush while he digs a spoon into a jam pot pretending to be a thief, reflecting light humor about social pretenses.
A Michigan woman shares relief after adopting the Healthful Plan from The Road to Wellville. She avoided meat pastry and hot biscuits and used Grape Nuts with sugar and cream. She reports improved digestion, restored nerves, and a clear mind.
The article credits Col. W. C. Gorgas and his team for making the Panama Canal Zone highly healthful. It notes sacrifices by American Italian and English doctors and soldiers who fought yellow fever and malaria, culminating in modern sanitation, water systems, sewers, and fumigation that nearly eradicated the Stegomyia mosquito.
The text details a broad sanitation program in the Panama Isthmus zone including larvicidal spraying, draining swamps, waterway maintenance, and strict building screening to combat malaria. It notes hospital capacity at Ancon and Colon, care for horses and mules, waste collection, and a reopened Taboga sanitarium for white convalescents.
Morning scene shows Mr. Knox admiring two playful pups in Porter's yard then the next day he finds the same dogs tearing his newspaper to shreds. His cheer gives way to disappointment as the household digests the mischievous canine mischief.
A personal testimonial from F. J. Busher in Elyria Ohio recalls ten years of severe scalp disease with itching scales hair loss and embarrassment. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment twice daily his scales disappeared and he was cured in about two months.
The Stehr v State case reviews a father's conviction for manslaughter by criminal negligence after a blizzard left his family freezing. A child died from blood poisoning after sixteen days without medical care for frozen feet, with the court affirming that gross neglect by a parent with special charge can constitute manslaughter even without intent to kill.
A fair graduate chats with a young man after commence ment exercises. She asks about his degree and he explains he is only a BB, Bachelor. The humor turns on wordplay about degrees and finances, ending with a wry joke about creditors.
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