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Newspaper
Steele City Press
Location
Steele City, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1913
Page
2
A jumble of ads and a short comic line describe consumer offers and a man’s accident with a clothesline. The text mentions readings about tight shoes pain and a subscription style promotion for biscuits, with a domestic quarrel ending line.
The text notes that land is so poor it provides little feed yet the interest on investments in stock raising is said to be at least double the profit from stock raising.
A Tuesday dispatch reports twenty four identified dead and over three hundred injured as a violent tornado devastates Terre Haute and Vigo county. About 300 homes were leveled with Prairieton also destroyed. Indiana national guard deployed for relief while doctors struggle with crowded hospitals. Professors E H Barbotti and E F Sehramm depart Lincoln to study the storm from its Nebraska origin.
Mrs Mary Bushem aged sixty five drove 400 miles from Benson North Dakota to Norfolk Nebraska to care for grandchildren after her dying husband urged the journey. She endured two days without food and severe cold in a small covered wagon during a brutal blizzard.
A Easter evening storm crafted tornadoes across Omaha and surrounding areas. The death toll nears 262 with 152 in Omaha and others in Council Bluffs Yutan Valley and nearby towns. Thousands are homeless as 450 homes are wrecked and losses exceed 5 million dollars. Rescue trains and militia aid moved in as communications collapse and schools suffer heavy damage.
A massive cyclone tore through the Bemis park district along Lincoln boulevard destroying over 200 residences and igniting fires fed by furnace blasts. Ralston Florence Benson Dundee were reported destroyed with two deaths and about seventy five injured as flames and debris blocked streets and water mains failed.
A deadly Omaha storm collapses a house at 4224 Dewey Avenue killing Mrs. John Newman. Her daughter Mabel Newman recalls tearing through wreckage to reach her mother, as the child watched over the body while the institute became a makeshift mortuary with every room filled by the injured and dead.
Developments over the past week suggest a Balkan war conclusion is near. Lenden predicts a settlement within a year as tensions ease and negotiations advance.
Tankerly claims he drinks to save time by avoiding the need to dress and lace shoes after waking sober. He argues that going to bed drunk lets him skip preparations the next morning and simply wash his face.
Simple home regimen for pimples and blackheads using Cuticura Ointment applied gently, washed off after five minutes, with Cuticura Soap for daily bathing. The ad promotes Cuticura Soap and Ointment worldwide and offers a free sample with the Skin Book.
Two Cleveland lawyers meet on the street. One notes the other’s eloquence with a jury and criticizes an after dinner speech. The reply explains the dinner depends on the audience, with a punch line about having already had his dinner when addressing diners.
The article argues that the country can produce enough forage to feed all livestock and more, if forage is preserved. It highlights waste from the corn plant, especially in corn belt states where, about 80 percent of stalks and leaves are discarded annually, and promotes silos as essential for farms with ten or more cattle to store forage efficiently.
A fragmented text discussion presents envy and latent concern about feeding children. The readable portions suggest advice and critique, with references to knowledge and outcomes, but lack clear events or identities.
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