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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1912
Page
2
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt says he will accept the nomination if tendered and will adhere to the convention's expressed preference. The telegram comes as Roosevelt faces a request from seven Republican governors. A severe snow storm complicates politics in the Middle West. New York reports possibly rising tensions in the nomination process.
Senator Bankhead announced Oscar Underwood of Alabama as a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination and opened Underwood headquarters in the city. Bankhead will chair the movement and manage the campaign, stating Underwood is in the race to win the nomination and the November election.
An eight inch snow blanketed Missouri Kansas and parts of Oklahoma and Arkansas with sleet earlier. Train service deteriorated as tracks iced and plows struggled. Kansas City streets lost power in several districts due to broken lines from wet snow.
The bureau doubts the investigation will cover Indian affairs in Nebraska, suggesting a narrow scope and uncertainty about broader inquiries into tribal policy or regional actions. The remark signals potential limitations of the probe and avoids broader charges.
General Pedro Nel Ospino to be recalled by Colombia reports from Washington. Taft commemorates Washington’s birthday with a Mount Vernon wreath. Postage and parcels post expansions loom as Congress weighs general parcels post and rural provisions. China sends greetings as Washington Day celebrated in Mexico City. Moroco Franco Spanish negotiations face new hitch over territorial compensation. A $7 gold nugget found near Iowa City stirs local excitement. Roosevelt hints at 2024 ring as he says my hat is in the ring.
Reports from Texas describe a blizzard and freezing temperatures while San Francisco fears a renewed tong war. The Red Cross sends 2000 to China as Madison votes on a commission form of government and Italy considers annexing Pripoli.
The Lincoln Y M C A joins to create a state wide labor clearing house not charging employers and charging only a small fee to workers. Located at Thirteenth and P streets the building cost over 150000 funded by Lincoln citizens. The bureau serves many college students and temporary residents in the city and state.
At a Cotner University trustees meeting the campaign plan was set with five hundred church contributors to the current expense fund, fifty thousand dollars in annuities, fifty thousand dollars in bequests, a new library building with an assembly hall, and a girls dormitory costing at least twenty thousand dollars. Chancellor Oeschger and the Corner board will push the plan with full energy and no let up until achieved.
The secretary of war informs Adjutant General Phelps the Nebraska National Guard will not be sent to Fort Russell Wyoming. Nebraska guardsmen may go to Fort Riley Kansas or join a small joint state camp with regulars from Fort Crook. The war department seeks the guard's preference and the state military board's input.
The Nebraska state board of agriculture offers prizes for the largest corn yield on one acre by boys under eighteen in 1912. Top prizes in the state are 26, 20, 15, 10, and 5 to eighth place with further awards to twelfth and sixteenth. A western district competition west of several counties offers 25 for first, plus smaller sums to others.
The governor approved officer changes in the Nebraska National Guard. Sergeant F. B. Butt becomes captain of company C, second regiment, replacing McCormick promoted to major. Lieutenant Neil H. Mapes is named captain of company K, Schuyler, with C. A. Johnson promoted to major and Ira W. Punk to first lieutenant of the latter company.
Government sells Aneland land along the Platte river for 60 dollars per acre. The buyer plans to develop the property as a hunting lodge for a neighboring apartment club.
Short dispatches report March 22 23 teaching press event in Richar county progress on a laborer struck by a switch engine a death by apoplexy of William Ankrom in Shubert and other Nebraska items including church conference plans medical anniversary in West Point farm reclamation taxes and pending probate and charity actions.
A New York letter to the Cincinnati Times Star recounts confusion between Hugh Ford and Harry Ford at a new theater. Misaddressed letters trigger a jest about friendship as both men swap a bill marked due and payable, revealing rival dates and shared initials.
A brief exchange shows a husband urging expense cuts while a wife jokingly urges him to stop cutting himself, implying a dark humor on self harm. The line hints at strained finances and personal risk in a tense domestic moment.
A compact maxims piece contrasts patient waiting with self initiative suggesting better outcomes come to the person who acts rather than relies on others. It also makes a light remark about a confident traveler lacking knowledge of air navigation.
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