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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1909
Page
8
A Chicago Journal editorial questions claims for female economic independence and asserts no inherent gender barrier to independence. It argues wage earners and homemakers alike lack inherent economic power and urges action if independence is the sole goal.
The country logged about 11,000 self destructive deaths, plus 8,952 other violence deaths and 100 lynchings, totaling 19,904. Legal hangings numbered 92 with 36 in the North and 56 in the South. Among cases, 31 involved business failures and brokers. physicians led among professionals in personal crisis reports.
The Philadelphia Record notes that a treaty negotiated by Secretary Root and Ambassador Bryce provides for abidable adjustment by a joint high commission to settle future waterway and boundary difficulties between the United States and Great Britain, ending a long era of disputes over navigable streams and power rights.
The article surveys the apple’s role in myth from Eve to Homer and beyond, noting its presence in Trojan War lore, the Paris judgment, Hercules tasks, and the race of Atalanta and Hippomenes, with Venus guiding the golden apples and divine interventions shaping destinies.
Medical scientists worldwide focus on Leon Albert Landone of Los Angeles as he demonstrates a nutritious vaise invention. The report notes his claims and the global scientific interest in the potential health benefits.
The article discusses experiments by Luther Burbank on spiny desert cacti and a Dr. Landone who promotes green leaf foods for tissue preservation. It notes gains in weight and strength, government skepticism about thornless cactus as food, and Landone’s plan to train twenty assistants to educate children. It also surveys related topics from global trade to a Dickens manuscript quill and caviar.
An aging station agent recounts a haunting true tale set near Verona. A couple named Alice Leigh and a baby die in a train wreck, a letter promises a future with grandchildren, and a willow tree grows above their grave. Years later an Englishman seeks Brackenboro and dies, his wish to reunite with Alice and the child fulfilled by a traveling Mormon.
The article describes Asiatic Turkey Gmyrna figs grown in Aijdin province from Ayassoluk to Ortachi. Figs ripen by August, are dried in the sun, and packed for shipping. Fig packing supports Smyrna’s major industry, employing thousands from late August through November with wages exceeding $500,000, and surging demand and prices in recent years.
A short humorous quip notes a man named Sirius Barker recounting a Christmas gift from his wife a necktie and jokes about making her Christmas merry. The Washington Star caption hints at light domestic humor from the era.
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