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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1909
Page
3
A collection of quips in a medical college exam about Pompeii deaths and a lawyer joke at the Nebraska Bar meeting. It also includes a moral tale about a farmer and courtroom advice, plus a fishy dining recipe with peppers tomatoes onions and chicken served over buttered toast.
A practical chafing dish supper plan serving six for 92.80 features Spanish chicken and pre prepared accompaniments. The menu includes two kinds of sandwiches olives peanuts fruit and coffee with detailed cost breakdown and cooking tips for tender breast meat.
In a crowded shop the talk turns to New York as Mr. Thomas recalls city life, praising its grandeur yet condemning its cold, unfriendly manners. He shares an anecdote about rushing crowds near the Brooklyn Bridge proving strangers rarely acknowledge each other.
The London Chronicle recounts Lord Palmerston at a large public meeting facing a demand for reform support. He paused then refused to commit, drawing thunders of applause and laughter as the puzzled audience reacted to his tantalizing silence.
The article notes the 1855 US patent No 12612 to Abraham Gesner of Williamsburgh New York and assigned to the North American Kerosene Gas Light Company. It cites Gesner describing kerosene as a new liquod hydro carbon and states this may be the first use of the term as a trade name for rock oil per Scientific American.
A London Chronicle snippet recalls a four man fraud case where a map of England and initials T W K marked towns. Detectives trace a career of deception across towns and uncover that TWK meant too well known as a personal warning. The saying. the man who pays cash down is never asked to pay up.
Rail and farm properties suffer extensive damage across Guthrie Vinita Muskogee Tulsa Bartlesville Ca tale and surrounding areas as four days of rain culminate in a cloud burst. The dead include Mrs. W W Brown and her three children near Foraker, with bodies not recovered. Bridges fail and trains are disrupted while Grand River and other streams flood, submerging towns and washing out trestles.
North Platte imposes health rules including no public drinking and fly proof manure storage. Albion dam damaged by heavy rain prompts steam plant interim power. Merrick county youth Henry Bucholtz ruled insane and sent to Hastings. State v Tomka case in Madison ends with $100 fine and costs for injunctive violation. Nehawka rail derailment causes minor damage but no injuries. Albion district court backs strict handling of saloon indictments. Beveral fire tragedy at Beaver City leads to funeral in McCook for Kennedy couple. Geneva cafe altercation results in fines for Cromwell and Kennedy. Hebron gears up for state firemen tournament August 25–27.
Police and sheriffs scour the Omaha area after a Saturday night holdup on a Union Pacific train three miles west of the city. Two empty mail pouches found near Forty third and Jackson suggest the robbers fled toward the city. Witnesses describe masked men in long coats. an automobile or fast horse is suspected. A greasy glove found near the pouch site strengthens the auto capture theory.
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