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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1909
Page
2
A collage of dated quips and sketches features a jolly milkman spying doughnuts, a banter about a Maid of Athics and Grease, humorous lines about real estate profits, and short gags on vanity, honesty, and love letters. The snippets resemble a lighthearted village column with notices and punchlines.
Guidance warns against overbreeding and underfeeding chicks urging balanced care. It stresses damp weather affects hen condition and recommends a sash-covered window for ventilation to maintain flock health.
A sensational note proclaims deafness cured by constitutional remedies and promises a $100 reward for catarrh induced deafness not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Also reports four children born to Reuben Jones of Texas, all daughters, one living only five hours.
Guidance on early duckling diet including boiled food cornmeal and wheat middlings and occasional garden greens. Advice covers hen care during incubation, after hatch, and general poultry husbandry with warnings on extreme crowding and feeding variety.
The guidance advises seating so light falls over the left shoulder when reading writing or sewing. It emphasizes position to reduce glare and improve visibility during tasks.
A Washington stenographer describes gloomy mornings and heavy work before trying Grape-Nuts with milk. Within two weeks she reports noticeable improvement, regains energy, and enjoys her work with new vigor. The ad cites Postum Co. Battle Creek Michigan and promotes The Road to Wellville and a recurring shore letter.
A London Chronicle piece notes how table manners reveal nationality. It contrasts American, German, and English dining styles at Cafe Royal, praising restraint and knife use among Britons and predicting foreign behavior by knife and fork positions.
A compilation of curious census facts notes Kentucky housing 211,343 of 213,788 colonels in the nation and lists common surnames like O'Shaughnessy, wealth of the Senate at 800 trillion, and odd trivia about police, longevity, and occupations indicating wide dispersal of Americans across regions and ages.
A housekeeper bride keeps a vase with greens on the dining room table. A colored maid remarks she feared being late would forget greenery, so she set romaine salad leaves in the centerpiece, creating a striking display on the mahogany table.
A Washington Star snippet contrasts public service with personal image as Mrs Torkins jokes about officials resembling servants with market baskets. The remark prompts reflection on duty and appearances in public office.
The Cleveland Leader quotes the Philosopher of Folly noting push and pull ideas are shallow and the true secret is to dig. It adds a quip about a woman visiting a neighbor for a minute but staying an hour.
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