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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1918
Page
3
The labor shortage may push many men who boast executive ability to take regular jobs. Soldiers are in the trenches. Officials worry about pro German sentiment and secret service agents locate sugar stocks while probing for hidden coal.
A collection of quips about Adam and Eve death, a pun on apple-plexy, and a running advert for Fletcher’s Castoria with signature bears. The items include a quip about Old Bostery’s supposed million dollar brain and a quick chalk talk on Percival’s math.
In a tense scene on Huntingdon's island, Lucile fears her mother’s murder while the narrator and allies seek the sheriff. A midnight visitor, a steel-eyed newspaper man, is restrained by the narrator who suspects a larger plot as the story heads toward a cliffhanger.
The article surveys strange sound phenomena called brontides heard in many regions. Locally named variants include mistpoeffers in Belgium and Barisal guns in the Ganges delta, with other terms in Italy Hayti and Australia. Scientists suggest subterranean origins and note some reports are misidentified as distant cannon blasts.
The Rocky Mountain News cites John Peter Zenger as the first to uphold liberty of the press in America. Zenger founded the New York Weekly Journal, faced libel charges, edited from prison, and died in 1746. The case boosted free speech and press principles. a Pearson’s Magazine quip also appears about a policeman’s son.
Green's August Flower described as a long standing household remedy for constipation and stomach woes. The ad claims it relieves indigestion nervous dyspepsia and liver trouble with a few doses and notes it as a gentle laxative sold by druggists in civilized countries. Also a London Punch quip about a doughnut ban and local unrest.
A vintage beauty tip blends juice from two fresh lemons with three ounces of orchard white to create a quarter pint lemon lotion. It promises to soften smooth and bleach skin while reducing freckles sallowness and tan and extends freshness for months when strained well and used daily on face neck arms and hands.
In London a bantam asks a guardsman about trench comfort during constant rain. The six footer replies the trenches are cushy but flooded, shallowly indicating depth with clay on his tunic. A bantam sighs that the cap badge will suffer. A separate joke notes Ethel could skate due to a correspondence diploma.
A historic note estimates that apart from the thousands of lives destroyed, the country suffers at least 300 million dollars in annual fire losses. The text frames fire as a major national hazard with wide economic impact.
A London tale depicts Robert a diligent officer who aspires to the title Chief Constable. He arrests a man on assault, volunteers the accuser’s identity to a magistrate, and salutes with flair, declaring himself “the alligator.” The fragment blends humor with police curiosity.
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