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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1915
Page
4
A fragmentary note from Steele City Nebraska references a March congressional bet or event amid local discussion. Details are incomplete but indicate civic engagement around a congressional matter in late winter.
Car shipment and visits dot the week with town residents reporting minor injuries and illnesses. Notables include Supt Abrams visiting the school, Mrs. Meyerhoff returning home after surgery, and several families relocating homes and farms amid winter weather and snow delays.
Coming Friday and Saturday March 12 13 McAllister Hall vaudeville presents four and five act shows with Bert B Hall singing and comedy. Admission 10 and 25 cents. Also note a mass meeting on municipal lighting bonds with electrical engineer Carl Norgren speaking and a village board meeting planned for April vote costs.
Last Tuesday Mr H Coons marketed about as fine a bunch of hogs as was ever brought to Steele City. These hogs thirty head were only ten months old their average weight being 3360 13 bs Chester White breed. kept in cement-floored pens and bedded with clean straw they were white and clean. G Taylor purchased them for shipment at six cents per th.
A literary society program at the opera house drew a large crowd Wednesday despite bad country roads. The event featured instrumental duets, vocal solos, a Dixie pantomime, recitation, vocal duets, a high school play That Rascal Pat, and a lively debate with judges split two against one.
An archival note traces the Red Cross origin to a German Cassel work predating the Geneva convention. It cites a 300 year old Rostcrucian order tale claiming Protestant roots and hidden knowledge two centuries before.
I W Stuart West Webster writes of using Chamberlain's Tablets for disorders of the stomach and liver off and on. He notes relief and continuous use to manage symptoms. The account reflects a wartime era home remedy perspective and promotes the product's digestive benefits.
A damaged fragment describes a German prince as a child visiting Queen Victoria. He dreams of owning ships like the British fleet and imagines a future German navy, with playful tales of ships and adventures amid references to ports and reflections on England.
Fragmented OCR text discusses religious puzzles and a young boy and girl with references to heaven and visiting a home. It mentions a translated line “Pity my sim- Dijcity” and a child asking what plicitys look like, framed as a curious memoir-like snippet.
The article reports on proposed limits in industry to curb the dangerous practice of “shuttle kissing” in looms. It cites Scientific American and U S Consul Ingram noting inhalation risks from lint and dust and cites woolen industry opinions on self threading shuttles as remedies. It also mentions a Port Clinton accident where Dave Bosler nearly burned, then fell into the river while lighting a pipe.
A representative office boy discussed as progressive and up to date places small coins on the head clerk's desk, illustrating early 20th century workplace dynamics and respect for rank in a satirical tone.
A fragment lists items such as boxed pickled vegetables chopsticks paper fapkina Bee bolted rice neat roerted Geh ginger chicken labeter boiled mushroom hashed bean and more as part of a luncheon description. The garbled text preserves few clear details but shows a mixed food assortment.
A man entered a restaurant and accidentally took the wrong hat, causing surprise when the true owner realized the mix up. The incident left both parties amused as the error was finally resolved.
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